Celebrations
Planning a Toddler’s Birthday Party: Tips & Checklist
When your baby gets to an age where they can appreciate the excitement of a birthday party, it’s easy to end up having a mini meltdown wondering ho...
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Teething
A Parent’s Guide to Safe Baby Teething Toys
When your baby is teething it can be hard to know what to do. You’re trying to find the best solution to make it better because the thought of your...
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Lifestyle & Everyday Tips
Our Favourite Popular (and unusual) Baby Names in 2019
Choosing a name for your baby can be pretty difficult. Even after much thought and debate, once your baby is born, you may suddenly feel they don’t...
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Lifestyle & Everyday Tips
New Mothers Tell us What Most Surprised them About Motherhood
Becoming a new mother (or parent for that matter) can be one of simultaneously the most amazing, scary, rewarding, intimidating things that ever ha...
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Interview Series
Motherhood Minis: Bitesize Interviews with Real Mums - Keeping it real with Hannah.
Hey everyone and welcome to our October edition of Motherhood Minis, featuring bitesize interviews with real mums. A quick unfiltered glimpse into ...
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MM News
Meet Our New Nordic Matchstick Monkey’s!
It has been wonderful to watch Matchstick Monkey grow over the years, from the initial concept drawing I did back in 2015, to us now becoming an aw...
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MM News
We’re Launching our first ever Matchstick Monkey children's book!
“Mum?” Minnie asked me one day, “are all the Matchstick Monkeys friends?”. “Of course they are” I answered, “they all live in the jungle together, ...
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Baby Development & Health
Keeping Your Family Healthy This Winter: What You Can Do
Winter is coming! Tralala. Crisp winter afternoons, snuggly jumpers and pumpkin lattes, blah blah. What I’m actually thinking about is what could b...
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Baby Development & Health
Keeping Your Baby Warm: Common Questions & Answers
Whilst we were researching our last post, we realised that a lot of you have questions about keeping your baby warm in winter. Although we did give...
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Lifestyle & Everyday Tips
Back to School! Juggling Your Young Baby with Your School-Age Child
When you’re trying to meet the needs of a young baby as well as your now school-age child, it can be difficult at times. There are so many things y...
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Baby Development & Health
Is Natural Material Best For Your Baby?
Many mum’s, including me, instinctively turn to natural materials when it comes to finding clothing, bedding, toys or anything that’s going to come...
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Lifestyle & Everyday Tips
How to Introduce a Dog or Puppy to Your New Baby
Preparing for the arrival of a baby is always an exciting time with lots of things to do, organise and look forward to. If you have a pet dog, this...
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Lifestyle & Everyday Tips
International Book Day 2019 Our Favourite Books for Parents & Toddlers
Last International Book Day we published an article recommending the best books for parents and their toddlers. This year, we’re going to do the sa...
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