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Start your own business

What do Apple, Hershey Chocolate, and the Ford Motor Company have in common? They all started out as home-based businesses.

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What works best on the homefront?

Many people, women especially, whose work-life balance needs are unmet by their employer, tend to consider two key options when weighing up job choices - working from home and self employment.

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Noni Hazlehurst, mum of 2

Noni Hazlehurst chats with Essential Baby about the daily juggle of being a working mother and what her sons have taught her about herself.

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Mums returning to work

From baby to boardroom

Help is at hand for mothers who want to get back to the office, writes Kim Kind.

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Women stretched to snapping point

The government's family policies left a legacy of stressed, overworked parents and set gender equity back a decade, a new study shows.

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Ex-Otto chef, Wendy Thomson now makes wedding cakes with her daughter Holly Thomson 10 months.

Mother's choice

Four women find new culinary ventures to make a crust after motherhood.

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Oobi Baby founder, Alexandra Riggs, and her three-year-old wheaten terrier, Toast.

Sewing up the baby business

It wasn't that long ago that women had to resign from their jobs when they became pregnant to stay at home and look after the children. How times have changed.

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BABEAZE - Tracey & Ann-Marie Laverick

Babeaze - Tracey & Ann-Marie Laverick

Babeaze specialises in baby and children's products that are unique, practical and often parent invented. Offering many products that were once not available in Australia and New Zealand.

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Mandi Gunsberger, Founder and Managing Editor of Babyology.com.au

Babyology - Mandi Gunsberger

Babyology is a parent and baby lifestyle website updated daily with cool finds and ideas for babies, toddlers, children and their parents from well-known and independent designers and sources here in Australia and around the globe.

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A selection of Clare Crespo's cupcake designs

Hey cupcake!

Clare Crespo is a legend in cupcake circles. Her book 'Hey There, Cupcake! 35 Yummy Fun Cupcake Recipes for All Occasions' is a bestseller. In it, there's delicious cupcakes decorated as everything from hamburgers to balls of wool.

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Bèbè Photography

Bèbè Photography

Bèbè Photography is a boutique photography studio, specialising in pregnancy, newborn, children and family photography. Children and family photography sessions are held on location so the kids can have fun and show me their real personalities.

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