Wondering how your relationship will change when you have kids? Try playing with a doll, a research study suggests. Researchers observed 182 couples, in the third trimester of pregnancy, playing with ...

Ten weird and wonderful facts you might not have known about breastfeeding, to encourage all you yummy mummies to keep up the good work. Calorie burner Who needs the gym? The amount of metabolic ...

Since babies don’t begin talking until they’re at least 12 months old, it’s safe to assume that they can’t understand speech until that time. Right? Wrong. This study has shown that babies understand ...

Attachment parenting does exactly what the title suggests: promoting the bond between mother and baby through prolonged contact. This can be through co-sleeping, baby carriers, skin to skin contact ...

It’s difficult for us here at m&i to remember our lives without apps and smartphones. More difficult to image our children’s future when the technology is with them from the very beginning…and from ...

It’s no longer unexpected that your child will want to set up a social media account once they reach a certain age. But with so much danger of grooming, cyberbullying and the effects it can have on ...

The pollinators are out in abundance! And though this means our gardens are getting the best of the buzzy wuzzys, our sinuses, tear ducts and throats are suffering terribly with the effects of hay ...

Prenatal exercise There is much confusion amongst mums-to-be about exercising during pregnancy. Is it safe? What types are ...

When my son was a baby, he refused to eat chicken until I combined it with apple, which he loved. Sometimes babies need a little bit of sweetness to make their dinner go down a bit easier. The best ...

When the time comes to start bottlefeeding your baby, there are a few tips that will help make the process goo smoothly. We’ve talked to Tracey Lattimore to get some advice for mums looking for advice ...

As your baby turns into a toddler and goes through several developmental changes and milestones, you may find that their sleep pattern begins to change. LUCY WOLFE takes you through your toddler’s ...