Jessica Bosco

Not only good for the body but also the mind, Pilates helps give your body strength, energy and confidence and can help you prepare your body for pregnancy and childbirth, as well as help maintain your pelvic floor strength to aid recovery and re-strengthen your core that becomes weakened during pregnancy.

Along with all of those gorgeous snuggles, gummy smiles and each ‘first’ that melts your heart — come some of those other less-talked-about parts of life with little ones… Yep, we’re talking about the mess! Because life with babies is amazing – but it’s also really, really messy.

By the time you’re thinking about having kids, you probably consider yourself a bit of a cleaning pro. You’ve got your life and cleaning routine mostly under control — or so you think.

Once you’ve decided to bottle-feed your baby, there are many different elements to consider and plan for. If you are breastfeeding and plan to express your milk to feed your baby via a bottle you will need to decide how you would like to express it, with either a manual or electric pump.

There are so many parts of this parenthood game that no one warns you about. Breastfeeding – ‘whyyy is this so hard?’ Sex after baby… WTF! And then along comes daycare.

Asking questions plays a crucial role in your child’s development and how they learn and make sense of the world. And while it can be a bit overwhelming when our little ones come to us with a big question, (hello the dreaded ‘where do babies come from?’) we should avoid the temptation to give them all the answers right off the bat – or worse, to deflect and say you’ll tell them...