The dramatic check-in
After nine months of waiting, the mini traveller – aka Minnie* – decided to make her rather dramatic arrival. Having cunningly fooled a string of midwives and doctors over the past few months, she unexpectedly turned out…
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Baby-friendly Belfast – exploring Northern Ireland
City breaks might not be the obvious getaway to spring to mind with either a bump or a baby, but having spent a long weekend in Belfast when I was five months pregnant, it’s rocketed up my…
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Travel before baby vaccinations – do or don’t?
How did I feel, asked my mum, about a trip to Lanzarote with the baby in September or October? Well, it’s not a tricky question. I’m a big fan of the volcano-blasted landscapes of the Canary Island,…
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Travel during pregnancy – lessons learned
When I started this blog, it was at least partly in response to people telling me what I wouldn’t be able to do – pregnancy and motherhood would mark the end of travel as I knew it….
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Travel tips: a car seat for travel
It’s one of the few items parents are told not to buy second-hand, and one of the few that even the hospital insists you have before the birth – a car seat. So, the chances are that…
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My Azores babymoon: The bump and the volcano
I’ve got a sneaking fondness for volcanoes – from a respectful distance, at least. Not the ones belching huge clouds of ash into the air and grounding planes worldwide but show me a tortured black lava field,…
