10 Steps to Sushi Success
My daughter’s very good friend is half Japanese and my daughter is half Chinese. I’m fond of Asian cuisine and especially being a Chinese medicine practitioner, I’m extra keen on food from Asia. My daughter loves sushi and so I mentioned one day how I’d love to learn to make it. My daughter’s friend’s mum […]
Breastmilk-Making Fish Soup for Postnatal Care
This is a very traditional breastmilk-making fish soup that Chinese women make for their daughters or daughters-in-law to encourage breastmilk production in the early weeks of establishing breastfeeding. My mother-in-law swears by this recipe. This is her recipe – she made it for me when my children were babies and now she is passing it […]
Traditional Chinese Postnatal Soup
To congratulate Naomi on the birth of gorgeous baby Koben, I wanted to make this traditional Chinese postnatal soup with the help of my mother-in-law Kim. It’s packed full of protein and warming food properties that are so good for a mother’s milk, energy and blood. It will help her to recover and replenish […]
The Lunchbox – Finding the Balance
Packing their school lunchbox can be hard can’t it… you start out with really good intentions in kindy, you’ve got what you think they should be eating down pat. But they’re so busy with school five days a week, they sometimes forget to eat. Your child who once devoured all her food is now not! […]
My Beautiful Natural Labour
Our client Charlene Shenton tells the story of her beautiful natural labour. We decided to start trying to conceive whilst on a wonderful family holiday to Ibiza in the June. Within 3 months and within my first ovulation we conceived and were absolutely over the moon. I was so excited that I was pregnant after being […]
Lana’s Birth Story
I had always been a big believer in alternative and natural therapies to support my health and wellbeing, and so when it came to my pregnancy, there was no exception. I have a thirst for knowledge in this area, and read up on everything humanly possible. The Birth Plan I hadn’t grown up thinking […]
How Babies Can Change Your Marriage
Babies. They’re like a sledgehammer and the greatest joy you could ever imagine – all wrapped into one. They are so life-changing: they turn life as we know it completely on its head. And babies can change your marriage in ways you can never imagine. My Dad kept saying to me with a chuckle, “Bec, […]
Postnatal Blues: You Are Not Alone
This Too Shall Pass – an honest animation for new, struggling mums Kristen Palana sent me this video the other day. She created it in 2012 in a postnatal funk and I have to say… it took me back, especially to the months after my first baby. For me that was the most difficult time […]
8 Things No One Tells You About Having A Baby
If you are getting ready to give birth, here are a few words of wisdom from someone who’s been there. 1. Take dark underwear to hospital. You will be bleeding afterwards and you don’t want to have to wash any more clothes. That also goes for what you wear on your legs – just make […]