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- How to get your body confidence back after a baby
- New-mum stress and how to cope with it
- Indulgences: how parents stay sane
- 50 reasons why it's fun to be a parent
- Mums' tips: how to meet other new mums
- Real lives: Two children by the age of 20
- Real lives: I had a baby when I was 16
- Mums' tips: keeping friends after a baby
- 20 things that change when you have a baby
- BabyCentre mums' tips: how to be a greener parent
- Capturing milestones
- Cheap fun for kids: simple ways to make your child's day
- Preparing for your adopted baby's arrival
- What I wish I'd known about life with a newborn
- Laugh and learn: new parents share their most embarrassing mistakes
- You know you're a mum when...
- Is screen time good or bad for babies and children?
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- 11 great things about having just one child
- 10 times motherhood made me cry like a baby
- 18 first world problems mums will relate to
- 10 boring things I love so much more now I'm a mum
- Things that no longer gross me out now I'm a mum
- Eight mums you should never judge
- 11 things I've done since having baby brain
- Signs it's going to be a long day
- It's OK not to love every bit of motherhood
- I feel judged for being a young mum
- I felt lost when I became a mum
- 18 things I took for granted before becoming a mum
- Yes, I'm an older mum - so what?
- 17 Things You Instantly Forget After You Have a Baby
- 19 things mums swore they'd never do, but did anyway
- 11 things you should never do to someone else's child
- 10 Times Motherhood Turned Me into a Total Loser
- 17 things mums are judged for
- 18 gross things only parents do
- You need time for yourself, as a mother. Here's how to get it
- Babies, toddlers, preschoolers... does it get easier, or is it just different?
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- Being the other mother
- Why 3 kids are the magic number
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