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    15 Jun

    Want to be on TV?

    By Mum-in-Charge!

    WANTED! Mums-to-be having a Baby Shower party in the next few weeks!!! We have received a call from Samantha Carty a Producer at FireCracker Films, she is working on a brand new observational Documentary which she hopes you may be able to help with. Firecracker films are making a new Observational Documentary series for Watch [...]


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    30 Mar

    The Most Amazing Place…

    By Mum-in-Charge!

    I just wanted to tell you all about an amazing place that we recently had the privilage to come across. Our little girl was recently admitted to Birmingham Children’s Hospital for surgery. As we live over an hour away and she was going to be in for 10 days, we were concerned about where we’d [...]


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    7 Mar

    Yummy Mummy Week 26th March – 3rd April 2011

    By Mum-in-Charge!

    We’re delighted to be promoting Yummy Mummy Week from 26th March – 3rd April 2011. What is Yummy Mummy Week? Yummy Mummy Week is a great opportunity to get together with other mums and children, have fun, celebrate all the great things about being a mum, and support CLIC Sargent. It’s about having a brilliant [...]


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    2 Mar

    Baby Gaga Seized….

    By Mum-in-Charge!

    For those of you fascinated by the ‘Breast milk ice cream’ story, you may like to know that the next installment involves Westminster Council confiscating the ice cream due to concerns it may pose a health hazard. According to This is London, Brian Connell, Westminster’s cabinet member for business, said: “Following two complaints from members [...]


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    25 Feb

    Baby Gaga Breast Milk Ice Cream – Fancy a Scoop?

    By Mum-in-Charge!

    Breast milk ice cream has gone on sale in a Covent Garden restaurant…. served with a rusk and an optional shot of calpol or bonjela… This is not a joke – honest! Each serving of the breastmilk ice cream costs £14 at The Icecreamists and contains breast milk churned churned with Madagascan vanilla pods and [...]


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    9 Dec

    Familes are Shrinking…

    By Mum-in-Charge!

    The traditional notion of families having 2.4 children has now been replaced with the average being 1.9 according to the Office of National Statistics. Researchers looked at women born in England and Wales in 1964 and compared them with their mother’s generation, represented by women born in 1937. By 2009, they had on average 1.9 [...]


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    19 Oct

    Where there’s a Will…

    By Mum-in-Charge!

    Ok, so getting a Will organised may not be top of your priority list but especially if you’ve got kids it is something to think about. Who would look after them if the worse happened? Would they be provide for? If you don’t have kids, having a Will is still very important – A Will [...]


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    13 Oct

    The Apprentice… letting women down…

    By Mum-in-Charge!

    Just sat watching tonight’s ‘Apprentice’ on BBC One and I’m compelled to say how appalled I am. I have never ever seen women behave as appallingly as those caterwauling ‘ladies’. Karen Brady was right when she said it let down women in business. In my humble opinion – the women should ALL be fired! :-)


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    25 Sep

    Downing Street Baby in Box…

    By Mum-in-Charge!

    What a lovely lighthearted news story for a change. Today, David Cameron told the world how his new born baby, Florence, sleeps not in a cot, but in a cardboard box made by her six year old sister! I wonder what the courier vans will be full of at Number 10 on Monday?????!


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    15 Sep

    Pregnant Nun Banned

    By Mum-in-Charge!

    Well…. an ice cream company was banned from using an advert displaying a pregnant nun has vowed to position similar posters in London in time for the Pope’s visit.    Antonio Federici’s advert showed a pregnant nun eating ice cream in a church, together with the strap line “immaculately conceived”….. The company said the idea of [...]


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