Baby & Toddler Christmas Gift Guide

With Christmas on the horizon here are a few of our favourite gifts for babies and toddlers -

JOHNSON’S® Tonight We Sleep™ Challenge Results.

About two weeks ago I wrote about how we would be trying the JOHNSON’S® Tonight We Sleep™ Challenge to see whether we can improve bedtimes in our house.

For a while now Jelly Bean has not been settling to sleep that well, waking a few times before finding a content, deep sleep which has had a knock on effect on the bedtime routine and one-to-one time with Bug.

In the hope of making bedtimes blissful once again I jumped at the chance of taking part in the JOHNSON’S® Tonight We Sleep™ Challenge where we would follow the clinically proven JOHNSON’S® 3-step bedtime routine*.

JOHNSON’S® Tonight We Sleep™ Challenge - 3 Step Bedtime Routine.

The preciousness of sleep was not something we truly understood until we became parents. Sleep was something we took for granted, and then we had a baby and didn’t get any. Any decent sleep we managed to get was rejoiced and treasured, and bad night’s sleep - or should I say nights without sleep - were moaned about and took their toll on our energy levels and sanity.

Those who say ‘I slept like a baby’ obviously have never had a baby!

Whilst I am a believer that babies need to wake in the night for feeds, and can handle middle of the night feeds, there is a difference between a baby waking for a feed and then settling back to sleep relatively peacefully and quickly, to a baby who screams, wakes often or does not sleep at all regardless of being well fed, burped and with a clean nappy. With Bug we had the latter type of baby.

Baby bath time and baby massage with JOHNSON’S® for bonding and happy, healthy baby development.

When I was pregnant with Jelly Bean when I would lay down to have a little rest feeling him kick and wriggle inside of me I would find myself thinking about all the things I could not wait to do with my little bundle of love. My thoughts would turn to when Bug was a baby and of all the precious moments we shared together, creating cherished memories and a beautiful bond. Being especially fond of the first few precious baby months, as Jelly Bean grew inside of me I had the those special baby bonding moments to look forward to once again.

Whilst I have treasured memories of many wonderful moments with Bug and enjoyed so many things with him as a baby, one of the things I especially loved were bath times.

Bug’s love of baths was sparked when he was a baby where he would enjoy bath times followed by a pampering baby massage. I believe our bath time routine with baby massage not only helped care for Bug’s delicate skin but also ignited Bug’s love of baths, strengthened our bond and supported happy, healthy baby development. As I saw the benefits of bath time and baby massage with Bug I was keen to have a good bath time routine and plenty of baby massage with Jelly Bean from very early on.