Your baby will need lots of sleep, but they also need to eat frequently. So, they’ll sleep in bursts ranging from about 20 minutes to 4 hours before they’re ready to eat again. Their awake windows (time spent awake between sleeps) will be quite short, less than an hour in a lot of cases. Most of this time will be spent feeding and changing their nappy/diaper, so don’t worry about keeping them up for “play”time. This will naturally start to occur as they get older and can tolerate being awake for longer. Babies are born with immature sleep/wake cycles. This means they don’t know day from night, so it might feel like your little one is nocturnal 🌙 sleeping most of the day and up more at night 🥱 Your baby is adjusting to life outside the womb, so you might also find that they are happier and sleep longer when on you 🤗 These early weeks are exhausting, yes. But, it doesn’t last forever 💕 How old is your little one? Or are you expecting in the new year?

I think 11 months has hit me harder than any month. Because time really did fly. Because that means we’re 1 month away from 1. Because you look like a toddler and less of a baby every day. Because you’ve outlived your time in the womb and our 4th trimester cocoon. Because every day you need me less than you did the day before and I now understand the true meaning of bittersweet. Because the beginning of a new development is the end of a previous milestone. Because now you can crawl where you want. Stand on your own. Walk with your own two feet. Go up and down the stairs. Hold, open, pick up, throw things. Figure out challenging toys and tasks. Your free will is growing each day. You are exploring choice like the little warrior I knew you’d be. The dependence on me is depleting. And it only took 11 months? Today I think you knew I was feeling it. You nuzzled me, demanded a contact nap and then, you paused nursing to give me a very intentional kiss. I sobbed. Even our nursing journey will end before I know it. So I hold you a little closer and remind myself: No matter how independent you are, that will never change our bond. You may not need me in the same ways, but I’ll always show up for however you need me. You may not be the little 6lb 12 oz 21 inch newborn cooing in my arms - but you will always be my baby. And my arms will always be big enough to hold you.

If you have been prescribed hormonal birth control, were you told it was completely safe? The pill was the first medicine made for healthy people, and on top of that, it was made to take every day. The first human trials of the pill began in Boston in 1954, but these trials were stopped because research subjects were experiencing negative side effects and refused to continue. Physicians monitoring side effects in Puerto Rico noted that there were too many side effects for the pill to be acceptable, such as cardiac events, strokes, and at least 1 woman died. Despite this, about 1 year later, the FDA approved the combined oral contraceptive pill and by 1963, 2.3 million people in the US were taking the pill. People were still experiencing side effects, and in 1970, the senate had hearings on the dangers of the pill such as blood clots, strokes, depression, and heart attacks, which lead to warning inserts being included in pill packaging.

Here we busted some popular myths regarding building muscle. 1. You should eat protein throughout your day to help your muscles repair and recover best. 2. Supplements can certainly help you and we advise you take some such as (protein powder, creatine, etc) but they are totally nonessential. You should focus on diet, exercise and recovery first! 3. Many say that cardio is killing your gains but this is totally not true. Although cardio burns more calories it has no negative impact on gaining muscle mass. Actually it can help you build muscle you don’t over do it.

Sugar is a delicious but addictive drug. I’ve had people tell me they had an easier time quitting alcohol and tobacco then sugar. And if you think you’re not addicted to sugar, but you “can’t live without” bread or any starchy food, that’s still 100% sugar when it’s digested. There is nothing to be ashamed of. Most of us have or had that problem at some point. What matters is what we do with this problem. If sugar was harmless, I’d be the first to eat it regularly, but sugar is sweet and deadly, but it kills you slowly. We are hard wired evolutionary to seek out sweet food in nature because it used to be very rare, so getting access to such excess energy, meant the difference between surviving winters or risking dying from starvation. Our modern food is loaded with sugar. Food companies took advantage of the addictive nature of sugar to drive profit selling us nothing but addictive junk that you can’t stop eating. Where do you start? 1. You have to admit to yourself that you have a problem with sugar and that your health is suffering because of it. 2. You decide that you WILL quit sugar. 3. You design your life to minimize exposure to it in your home environment. You have to abstain to have a chance. 4. When you relapse, you have to try again and again. For some, including myself, once we kick the addiction and our body heals and tastebuds reset, sugar stops having a hold on us. I can now have something sweet on occasions and never overdo it. I feel in control to stop after a few bites and getting satisfied before I pay the price. You CAN quit sugar! You MUST quit sugar if you have any metabolic health issues.

Creativity emerges when you begin to create something from what you absorb on a regular basis.

When it comes to cooking grilled cheese, most people instinctively reach for butter, but is that really the best? I experimented with many different ways to see which one created the ultimate grilled cheese — crispy, salty, melty, gooey, and cheesy

✨HONEY & SWEET CHILLI STEAK SALAD✨ The most delicious salad ever 😍 steak could’ve been done a little less longer but it was still tasted perfect 🙌🏻 • sirloin steak, fat removed • handful colourful tomatoes, chopped • 1/2 white onion, chopped • handful coriander, chopped • juice of 1 lime • peppers, chopped • salad leaves (chard, lettuce etc.) • 130g sticky rice (1/2 syn) i mix the onion, tomatoes, lime juice & coriander together 🌿 Dressing: • 1 tbsp honey (2 syns) • 1 tbsp reduced sugar sweet chilli sauce (1 syn) 3.5 syns for this beauty in a bowl 🤍