Here is my hospital checklist to help prepare for the arrival of your little one. This detailed checklist for both mum and baby is everything I found helpful after the birth of my first baby. Hope you find it useful too.
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My advice if you’re interested in trialling cloth nappies, is to start part-time. Buy 4-5 cloth nappies, trial different brands, purchase second-hand and see how you go! Even with part-time cloth nappy use you’re still doing your bit for the environment, and for your wallet.
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We are at the beginning of our second lockdown here in Melbourne and every day has begun to roll into one. Home is our base for work, play and everything in between so it’s important we compartmentalise life... if we can.
Here are some tips to help give you the (mental) space you might need.
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I have always been one for positive thinking and optimism in creating a happy life. Luck, hard work and good timing has worked in getting me to the places I have wanted to go but I also have followed the steps below which all have contributed in making my life a very happy one. I hope these points might help you too.
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It’s exciting when you’re on the brink of something. The idea has been there all along but it just takes noticing it and grabbing it by the horns to allow it to take off.
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My motivation ebbs and flows with each day that passes. Today I’m particularly motivated but yesterday, I couldn’t bring myself to do much at all. On my ‘on’ days I use the time to learn new skills and work on my photography business or write a blog post as I believe now is a time to create opportunities if opportunity is what you’re seeking.
Here are a few things I’ve been doing in #iso which may inspire you as well.
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I receive a lot of questions about how I shoot my lifestyle shots so I thought I’d put together some tips to help you up your photography game especially while in isolation at home. Here are my 7 photography tips to ace your at home beauty shoot.
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On Sunday, 29 March 2020, before the first stage of Covid-19 lockdown in Melbourne, I ventured into the CBD to capture what it was like. The city was deserted except for a few people. It was strange seeing it so empty. On a normal Sunday afternoon it would be teeming with people but not that day.
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Here are a list of national and state-wide charities and organisations needing our help.
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I have been sharing The Clean Collective’s 12 Days of Conscious Christmas tips on my Instagram and a lot of you have been sharing the posts which I love! It made me want to write this post about sustainable Christmas gifting and include gifts I’m thinking of giving this year.
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Australian swimwear brand, The Fold's new street poster campaign is out in Melbourne and Sydney. I am proud to be one of the ‘real women’ featured in with baby Harrison.
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We are bombarded with traumatic pregnancy and birth stories, especially when we’re pregnant. Rarely do you hear about positive experiences. These stories, also portrayed in films, give one the impression that giving birth is always extremely long, arduous and painful. This make us fear pregnancy, labour and birth.
I want to share my birth story with the hope that it may help to bring a positive light on the experience for others.
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Here is my low intervention birth plan which I handed to the midwives when I arrived at the hospital. This was my wish for labour and birth but of course as births go it didn’t follow exactly to plan.
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When ‘nesting’ mode began during my pregnancy around the 35 weeks mark, I went about setting up the nursery for bub’s arrival. Find out what I put in my nursery.
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One thing I told to myself when falling pregnant was that I didn’t want to change my style just because of my growing bump. Instead I set-out to embrace my changing shape and I ended up loving the challenge of “shopping my own wardrobe” to see if and how my existing pieces would fit.
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