Welcome to Mums in Spain! We are really excited to be re-launching the site once again and hope you will enjoy the many new features that you will find, including brand new sections "Experts" and "Blogs". The heart of Mums in Spain has always been the information and experiences that our members share and we hope that these new sections will encourage you to share even more! Enjoy exploring the new site and if you have any feedback or suggestions we would love to hear from you! If you have any information about your area of Spain please do send it in to us so that we can work at building up the regional sections of the site.
As with any new site, I hope that it will run smoothly for everyone, but if you do run into any problems or minor bugs please do let us know and we will do our best to fix the problem as soon as possible.
Claire
Site Founder
Light exercise during pregnancy may improve the future health of a child by controlling weight in the womb, New Zealand and US researchers say. Overweight or obese mums are more likely to have larger babies which could be at higher risk of health problems later in life.
The first direct evidence of a genetic link to attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder has been found, a study says. Scientists from Cardiff University, writing in The Lancet, said the disorder was a brain problem like autism - not due to bad parenting. They analysed stretches of DNA from 366 children who had been diagnosed with the disorder.
Almost a third of children regularly go without breakfast before school and are more likely than classmates to be inactive, unfit and obese, research shows. The European Journal of Clinical Nutrition studied 4,326 children aged 10-16 in England. They found that 26.6% of boys and 38.6% of girls skipped breakfast some or all of the time.
Mums in Spain has recently launched an online marketplace where you can sell any second-hand or nearly-new baby, children and maternity items. It is completely FREE, so you can add as many things as you like with an image and description, etc.
