Flicks and Red Lips

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Five tips for caring for a baby with hip dysplasia in a pavlik harness

I didn’t think I’d be writing another post on our pavlik harness, hip dysplasia journey, before Ace’s two year check up next month. But, thanks to Millie Mackintosh opening up the conversation by revealing her daughters diagnosis, my little corner of the internet has had an influx of visitors. So I thought I’d created a quick post with lots of links to more information if needed.

Here are my…

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Quick and Simple Tuff Tray Play

Quick and Simple Tuff Tray Play

The end of lockdown appears to the nearing and our new normal is just around the corner. 13 weeks of full time parenting, and I still have a child addicted to CBeebies 😂 (Numberblocks over Peppa anytime though…)

As the naps shorten and even periodically disappear, I’ve taken to setting up super quick and ridiculously simple play ideas to keep him occupied and his brain ticking. Usually…

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Isolate and Decorate- The Playroom Makeover

Isolate and Decorate- The Playroom Makeover

Lockdown is finally easing here in England, and there’s many things I have cherished during this difficult time. Precious time with Ace as he grows from a babe to a boy and finally turning our house into more of a home.

The playroomwas always up there as a space I was desperate to decorate. Well, desperate for someone else to decorate actually. I didn’t trust myself or my shoddy rushed skills…

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Newborn Essentials- what do they really need?

Newborn Essentials- what do they really need?

I have a few friends who are blooming right now, flourishing in pregnancy during such confusing times. Not really knowing what’s ahead for their scans, birth plan and maternity leave. Antenatal classes, baby groups and introducing baby to the wider family, all in jeopardy.

But yet there is still so much to excitedly plan for. Albeit from your sofa, surfing the web for nursery essentials and…

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At Home Play with a Toddler- Five Ideas for Lockdown 4

At Home Play with a Toddler- Five Ideas for Lockdown 4

The days are long but the weeks are flying by. I can’t believe it’s a month into our official UK lockdown. I feels like forever on one hand and mere moments in the other.

But one thing is certain, it’s getting harder and harder to create play away from a screen. Don’t get be wrong, I’m not against screen time at all- it certainly has its needs and it can give us that time to work/ clean / eat…

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At Home Play with a Toddler- Five Play Ideas for Lockdown 3

Week three and our first (or hopefully only?!) lockdown bank holiday complete. It’s been a different sort of Easter, but a lovely one all the same. A family roast in our newly decorated (thanks to the time off!) dining room and lots and lots of chocolate! How was yours?

I’ve got this weeks top 5 play ideasthat have kept our tantruming toddler entertained for you again. I hope you are finding…

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At Home Play with a Toddler- Five Play Ideas for Lockdown 2

Another week complete. Two weeks of lockdown for us all in the UK amidst the COVID-19 crisis. How are we all finding it? I’m still trying to seek the positives and enjoying spending quality time with Ace for a change.

It seems funny to only leave the house for our weekly shop however- it’s almost become the most exciting thing to plan for- the unknown of what will actually be in stock and…

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At Home Play with a Toddler- Five Play Ideas for Lockdown 1

It’s officially one week into lockdown. That’s a sentence I didn’t think I’d ever say.

I’ve spent more hours with Ace this week than I have since my mat leave ended just under a year ago, and it’s the biggest positive I’m finding in this unique situation.

But my god, toddlers are tiring. Stay at home parents- you are absolute rockstars.

I’d originally planned for this post to be my future ideas…

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At Home Play with a Toddler- How to do a Toy Rotation

It’s been a week we simply couldn’t of imagined, hasn’t it?

I don’t know about you, but mustering the courage to sit and document this time, either on a blog or via a  social media platform, has been quite challenging. The coronavirus / COVID-19 crisis is now affecting us all, and it’s turned each and every one of lives on its head.

But, to keep my anxiety for both my loved ones health and the…

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Family Friendly Lunch at Leaf West Kirby

Finding a family (read- toddler) friendly lunch spot these days is proving tricky. If it doesn’t have a soft space for him to run around or WiFi to hook him up with Peppa (let’s not judge now guys.. we’ve ALL been there) then we might as well stay home and save my sanity.

But when I heard Liverpool’s favourite ‘tea-bar’ brand, Leafwhere opening up on the Wirral, I was counting down the days…

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Family Friendly Days Out in Merseyside, Wirral and Cheshire

The days have long gone where Ace would happily sit in his pram playing with his toy arch or trusty steering wheel. Instead we have tantrums when he’s bored and desperate to get out to run around (I never thought I’d say it, but thank god for reins!!) So the days we spend together now are all designed around keeping him entertained and as toddler tantrum free as possible.

But it can be hard…

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Restaurant Review- Pickled Walnut, Wirral

Restaurant Review- Pickled Walnut, Wirral

Back in 2013 by partner business Robyn, and I , were lucky enough to attend an event called ‘Taste of the North’. And it must have been pretty smashing night because we still bang on about it 7 years later. With around 8 courses and 8 matching wines, our mouths still drool over the crab bisque and Hamhock terrine. So of course we could never forgot the brand who provided that unforgettable…

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Keeping it local with Merseymade

Keeping it local with Merseymade

I don’t often make new years resolutions, but one change I’m trying to stick to this year is buying from my local independent businesses. As one of said businesses, it’s important I give back.

When PinkMedia asked if I’d like to join them at their first Bloggers Social of the year I jumped (and screamed with excitement)at the chance. I haven’t attended a bloggers event since the good old beauty…

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Baby Probiotics- do they live up to the hype?

Baby Probiotics- do they live up to the hype?

Throw it back 14 months and you’d find me hooked up to a hospital grade breast pump desperately hoping a sudden influx of milk would arrive so I could feed my child what I believed to be best. And when it didn’t happen, I beat myself up that that was the reason he had colic, chest infections and tummy bugs.

But a year on and a course of probiotics later, I’m starting to feel at ease with our feed…

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Our Hip Dysplasia journey- One Year On, from double nappies to the Pavlik Harness

Our Hip Dysplasia journey- One Year On, from double nappies to the Pavlik Harness

We’ve hit the first anniversary. It’s now 370 days since I became all consumed with DDH (Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip/ Hip Dysplasia) and life with a baby in a pavlik harness.

And I can remember that day like it was yesterday.

Double Nappies to Pavlik Harness

Our 6 weeks of double nappies had made zero improvement, and before I could catch my breath, my pride and joy was fitted with a…

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Downsizing and decorating the nursery

Downsizing and decorating the nursery

Happy New Year, and new decade!

The first post of 2020 and the first of many home posts this year, I hope– if budgets allow!

We’ve now been in our new home for over three months and we’ve FINALLY put the finishing touches to Aces bedroom.

Downsizing from his huge nursery in the flat (which you can see more of here) was no easy task, but we are lucky enough to have a separate play room. I can’t…

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Taste Together- Festive Wine Tasting with Friends

Taste Together- Festive Wine Tasting with Friends

You know you’ve struck gold on the mum mate front when one announces they are launching a wine tasting company.

I mean, if there’s ever a time in your life you need a mate and a bottle of wine, it’s leap 8 ( ‘a la The Wonder Weeks). Trust me.

So, when Mary-Kateasked if I’d be up for having some mates round over the festive period to trial one of her tasting sessions before her business, Taste…

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