Starting tomorrow, Monday 25th May, it’s National Family Week. It’s the first year of this week long celebration of you and your family, and the aim is to encourage families to play, learn, eat, read, compete and – most importantly – spend quality time together. With sponsors, schools, community organisations, government bodies, charities, local councils, [...]

As reported in The Telegraph yesterday, this is the picture that has come under heavy critism after it was displayed in a Rochdale hospital. It shows a littl girl of about 2 or 3 years pretending to breastfeed her dolly. It is, of course, perfectly natural for little girls to copy their mummy, and many [...]

Thank you to Claire at for inviting me to write an article as guest blogger. Myself and husband Dan are in the children’s toy business near Axminster in East Devon. We have sold beautiful wooden and traditional toys for babies and young children via www.tishtashtoys.com for four years now. We also run a team of [...]

What a find! IkeyDoodles is a fabulous, new, web-based company that hand-make personalised nursery furnishings and keepsakes – bunting with a baby’s name on, or a cushion for a chair make fabulous presents for babies and bigger kids alike. Everything is made to order in your choice of fabrics or colours, so you will be [...]

Last bank holiday weekend, we took a family mini-holiday to the beautiful Wiltshire/Somerset countryside. With the current credit crunching times, the SnugBaby family were keen to find high standard yet good value accomodation, and it’s safe to say with By The Byre Cottages, we found it! The cottage we stayed in offered everything you would [...]

***Breaking news!*** We mentioned recently that we were very excited about attending the Issyboo Baby Fair in Hull on 16th May, and as always, SnugBaby will be offering babywearing advice and demonstrations with SnugBaby slings. However – we’ve also announced that we will also be offering the opportunity to see just how comfortable a SnugBaby [...]