People told me that second births are fast but I never expected that my second baby, Alfie, would be born in one hour and forty minutes. They also told me that second babies are early but he proved them wrong and arrived seven days late. It wasn’t smooth sailing...
When we booked this holiday, I thought maybe we were mad. Twelve hours on a plane with them both?! But then I figured that as of next summer, we’d be stuck in the school holiday cycle forever more(with holidays at 3x the price) so we may as well take the chance to go...
Hello and Happy New Year – oh, and welcome to the fancy new This Is Mothership website!! Hurrah! Our (other) baby has had a makeover of its own. As well as looking fancy, it’s far easier to navigate now. When we first launched, our two main pillars were...
Back in September we decided we needed as escape and to have one last holiday before the summer was officially over. We have never done the ‘kiddy resort’ holiday and so thought it was worth giving it a whirl to see if it really was as easy a holiday as...
It’s safe to say we go away A LOT with our families. We both have done so since our eldest were babies. Belle came on her first holiday at 10 weeks old and I think it’s made it so much easier for us that we did it with her from so young, rather than...
First things first, we have had this blog in our drafts ever since December 20th 2017. It is now August 2018. That is how long we have been meaning to finish this post. But ya know. Life. Babies. Yadda yadda. Anyway, we’ve been meaning to get this up for...
We promised that we would do this post for you. We get asked so often how we get around London with Ace and Alfie so here are our top tips. Practise makes perfect. The first time will feel like such a mission, but the more often you do it the easier it gets.We only go...
With four babies between us, we feel perfectly qualified to give good pram advice. Our top tip is (surprisingly) substance over style when it comes to prams. Yes, you could go for the one that is the most popular, the one that looks super chic or the one that...
Micro breaks are for people like us. People who don’t have time to go on a mini break, or who don’t want to (or can’t) leave their kids for longer. To celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary, Nick and I booked a last minute micro-break to Paris. The...
We all know the basics when it comes to having a baby – babygrows, bottles, bibs blah blah but there are some larger pieces of equipment that we couldn’t have made it through the last five months without. Most of these we used for both babies 1 and 2, but...
We both majorly nested before our first babies arrived: everything had to be organised and in it’s place before we gave birth. Second time around, not so much! Ace & Alfie only recently had their bedrooms completed, and we’ve had ‘stuff’...
We often get asked about how we feed our babies and if we have any advice to pass on and the truth is, we aren’t experts, we are totally winging it and luckily managed to work out fairly quickly what was best for us and our babes. Here are our stories: Sam I...
The whole world has wedding fever – us included – and we can’t wait to watch Harry and Meghan get married on May 19th, but while the rest of the worlds media is focusing on wedding guest dressing, we thought we’d pool our recent experiences and give you a mini...
When I was pregnant with Belle I knew exactly how I wanted her room to be and spend so much of my pregnancy getting it perfect so that it was all ready for her arrival. With Ace, my poor neglected second child, his room has only just been finished and he is the ripe...
Along with the rest of the world, we are waiting with baited breath for the birth of the third baby of the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge. But what everyone is also so looking forward to, are the outfits that the new baby will be wearing.If they are anything to go...
