Although you want to spend every precious minute with your baby, sooner or later, you’ll have to send your child to school and go back to your day-to-day routine. This usually entails going back to work. Of course, doing this requires you to bring your baby to a nursery for …
Read More »Crèche Syndrome, Breaking The Cycle Naturally
You won’t find it in the medical textbooks, but if you’re a parent boomeranging in and out of your paediatrician’s rooms with an endlessly sniffling baby or toddler, chances are you’ve heard of ‘crèche syndrome’. It’s a colloquial term referring to a cycle of infections, usually upper respiratory, that unfortunately, …
Read More »Child Care Options in South Africa
Choosing child care for your baby can be daunting and scary, especially for the first time mommy. Each option has its advantages and disadvantages. See below the types of child care available and a short description of each: 1 Day Care Centre A centre that looks after your child. This …
Read More »The Childcare Dilemma
In theory childcare is an easy thing to take care off. When I was pregnant the thought of childcare wasn’t a problem. Just have the baby, work from home with the baby for as long as possible and then send her to day care, easy right? No, not really. Putting …
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