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Enjoy one of the best cookie recipes the we've seen. @mxriyum --- The Best chocolate chip cookies * I deconstructed my old recipe and adjusted the measurements so that the cookies would bake down a little bit more & also have a chewier texture on the inside, while still maintaining a wonderful crispy exterior - [...]
According to the NSPCC Coronavirus (Covid-19) restrictions mean many women have had to give birth alone and new parents have been cut off from their support network of family and friends. This makes health visitors more important than ever. But the pandemic has also meant restrictions to the service and redeployment of health visitors, meaning [...]
HOSPITALS across Scotland are dealing with a highly unusual surge in illness among pre-school children, with thousands more under-fives than normal presenting at A&E departments. Hospitals across Scotland are dealing with a highly unusual surge in illness among pre-school children, with thousands more under-fives than normal attending to A&E departments. It is unclear exactly what is driving [...]
Official figures reveal that 21 infants died during September within 28 days of birth, causing the neonatal mortality rate to breach an upper warning threshold known as the 'control limit' for the first time in at least four years. INVESTIGATION LAUNCHED write your detail or leave blank Control and warning limits are designed to flag up [...]
Jenny Best mum of three was wide awake at 2.45am in the morning It was 2:45am scouring the Internet for information on how to introduce real food to her babies. As we've all done, she turned to Google for the answer to basic questions like, “When can my babies eat eggs?” and “Can a baby eat [...]
I am taking a break from writing about 2020 for a few days because somehow talking about my divorce and mental health is less depressing than that cod bollocks (that’s the saying, right?) of a year. So what shall we talk about? Lets spin the wheel and find out. [If you could briefly imagine a […]
Moving towards tomorrow mornings Lunar Eclipse and Full Moon……… A lot of energies bouncing around this week and as we move ever closer to tomorrow mornings Eclipse and the longest Eclipse for several centuries, we need to find ways to keep calm And carry on amongst all the potential craziness that this Full Moon and [...]
Thousands of severely obese children will be sent to NHS 'fat camps' in England They will treat children aged between two and eighteen, at risk of deadly complications Childhood obesity is associated with various health conditions, including asthma, early onset type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular risk factors. Children who are obese are also more likely to [...]
Rosemary for Remembrance As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust, As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, To the end, to the end, they remain. This week we have remembered; we have remembered all those people and places and things that we have loved and lost, [...]
Parents hit back at a survey question asking schoolchildren to describe their body image branding it "crude and disrespectful". Survey options include "much too fat", "much too thin" or "about the right size". Janna Taylor, 23, who developed an eating disorder when she was 9, said: "This is really disgusting, growing up as a child [...]
Call for Removal of Misleading Sugar Claims on Baby & Toddler Sweet Snacks such as Biscuits and Rusks A few months before giving birth we all start thinking about what our baby will eat, in fact, many of us start thinking about this as early as 12 weeks because we want the best for our [...]
Boots, Aldi and Tesco are among the shops that stock the pills which state the wrong dosage for 12-15 year olds. Eleven retailers including Aldi, Boots, Superdrug and Tesco have been told to urgently recall several batches of cold and flu capsules due to a labelling error which gives the wrong dose for children. The [...]
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