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Giving birth in Japan
When you find out you’re having a baby in another country, far away from home and without a decent grasp of the language, a lot of things cross your mind: Will we cope here? Should we go home? What if we don’t agree with the local way of doing things? Nicola describes how having her first baby in Japan…
Raising a baby in Japan
Nicola had her first baby in Japan and is now settling into raising her son. Here she brings us a unique and personal account of grappling with the new-mother and health customs in Osaka where she lives with her family. Postnatal customs Japanese-style We brought John home when he was 5 days old, having been told by the midwives…
Posted in Baby
Tagged City Hall I, family travel advice, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, John, Osaka
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Change is the name of the game
‘Change is the name of the game’ <<<continued from page 1 Gabby admits that parenthood has been an even bigger life-changing experience than she and husband Kenny expected. “To say life frequently resembles a whirlwind would be something of an understatement”, was how the glamorous face of ITV soccer put it.” But no matter how…
Posted in Charity
Tagged Brazil, Champions League, Christmas, David Beckham, Gabby, hire car, ITV, ITV Plc, Japan, John Terry, Kenny, Korea, Lois, Michael Owen, Reuben, Rio Ferdinand, Sol Campbell, the Champions League, the World Cup, Wayne Rooney, World Cup
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Cartoon danger
23 February THE everyday activities of watching cartoons and having a bath have been found to cause seizures in susceptible children in two separate studies. The BBC reports that an Italian study discovered that children prone to photosensitive epilepsy nearly all had reactions due to flickering of the screen. The study followed problems in Japan…
Love, love, love and clothes for Lennon
3 March 2000 Love, love, love and clothes for Lennon OASIS star Liam Gallagher has revealed that his baby son, named after John Lennon, was sent a gift of clothes by Yoko Ono, the music legend’s widow. It seems she was so touched that Liam and his wife Patsy Kensit named the infant after her…
Posted in News
Tagged Japan, John Lennon, Lennon, Lennon Francis Gallagher, Liam Gallagher, Meg Mathews, Mother, Music, Patsy Kensit, The Beatles, Yoko Ono
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getting older all the time
10 November 1999 The average age for having a baby is now over 30. Figures from the Office of National Statistics this week show that, in the three months leading up to the end of June 1999, the average first-time mum was 30.1 years old, which was up from 28.9 in the previous quarter and for…
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Tagged Geography, Japan, Office of National Statistics, Political philosophy
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Smartening up your image
Mums looking good when returning to work Pregnancy and the subsequent sleepless nights have taken their toll on your figure, face and fashion sense. For many mums, the anxiety about returning to work is as much about how you look, as how you feel. We have asked several experts to advise you on how to…
Posted in Work Postnatal
Tagged Bo, cosmetic surgery, Japan, Judy DiFiore, Lianne Kolirin, natural remedies, Rachel Morris, specialist consultant
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Win one of fifteen copies of The Baby Diaries by Tess Daly
“The journey from finding out you are pregnant to becoming a mum for the first time is one of the most exhilarating, nerve-racking and downright exhausting things we can ever experience. Of course, everyone seems to have lots of advice about their own pregnancy and time bringing up babies but there are no hard and…
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Tagged Films, Japan, Karen, morning sickness, Paris, Phoebe, Strictly Come Dancing, Tess, Tess Daly, Tokyo, Vernon Kay
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Happy Halloween
The spookiest night of the year is fast approaching and, although we haven’t got to the level of commercialism in the same way as our transatlantic neighbours, over recent years the UK has started to adopt some of the events associated with Halloween such as trick or treating and dressing up in scary costumes. Whilst most people believe that…
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Tagged Barmbrack, burns, choking, Christmas, church services, cuts, Easter, Emerald Isle, fainting, fireman, Halloween, Halloween around the world, headache, heart attacks, Independent films, Ireland, Irish folklore, Jack-O, Japan, Mexico, Oxfordshire, policeman, Samhain, Shirley Parker, Trick-or-treating, USD, Valentine's Day
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Win a copy of Trying to Conceive
Being as desperate as I was for a baby, I thought I was completely open and ready for motherhood. But I look back and realise that I was putting up a lot of resistance on an emotional level. So it turns out I was my own worst enemy. I knew instinctively that my attitude had…
