Baby's first spa experience in a box makes a great gift for a new arrival – or even an older infant – suggests Anne Coates. Tiddly Pom Organic Baby Spa was created by a parent for parents of infants with sensitive skin.
Taking an infant to the pool is so much easier with Huggies Little Swimmers nappies. Olivia Coates has been using them for some time for Harriet and rates them very highly.
So many new babies suffer from and sometimes it seems to new parents that the drying and discomfort will never end. We've put together a few helpful tips including, to mark National Baby Massage Week, a video sponsored by Colief.
Talking, listening and responding to a baby is vital to give her the stimulation needed for her development. Using books is an excellent way for an adult to achieve this.
Your baby's exposure to a wide range of tastes during weaning shapes their food preferences and predicts their food acceptance in later life, according to TASTE, a new booklet by Organix. See the top tips from the TASTE experts.
Developed by Dr Robert Titzer the Your Baby Can Read! infant reading programme provides parents with an exciting new way to interact with their babies. Parenting Without Tears has teamed up with Your Baby Can (UK) Ltd to offer readers the chance to win the complete deluxe version of the progamme worth £125.
One of the most important things to get right in the early stages of baby swimming lessons is breath holding. Here expert baby swimming teacher Anne Hawley describes her pioneering "breath holding" technique so parents can practise it at home during baby's bath time in preparation for swimming lessons.
Award-winning Totseat is fantastic for holidays and visiting friends and family who don't have a highchair to hand plus it's compact, washable and easy to use, writes Olivia Coates.
With a very cold spell set to last, Olivia Coates was delighted to try out the PurFlo® SleepSac for Harriet who has looked cosy and warm when she is wearing it.
Not all swimming pools are heated to a temperature comfortable for babies. Swimbabes stocks wetsuits for babies to keep them warm in cooler water. Harriet Coates seems happy in her Extra Warm Baby Wetsuit by Splash About.
The days of struggling to lift a slippery baby out of the bath and into a towel are over thanks to the Cuddledry baby apron towel as Olivia Coates discovered when she tried one out on baby Harriet.
We all know that breast is best but what if you are going back to work or in the case of Olivia Coates, full-time study? The Lansinoh Electric Breast Pump comes into its own for working mums who want to continue with breastfeeding and supplying breast milk in a bottle.
A doorway bouncer was one of Olivia's favourite toys and the Tippitoes version has been a great success for her daughter Harriet as Anne Coates reports.
Breast is best and Medela have come up with a solution for breastfeeding mothers who need to leave a bottle of expressed milk: Calma the bottle with a teat which makes a baby replicate the action of breastfeeding. Anne Coates was impressed when she fed Harriet using the Calma bottle while Olivia was working.
For children who are too young to count sheep to get off to sleep, easidream has the answer: ewan™ the dream sheep. Olivia Coates put his expertise to the test.
