Banner
Banner
Banner

Forum Activity

MIS Partners

Banner
Banner
Banner
Banner

Shopping Basket

Your cart is empty
Home Articles

button2a

Mums in Spain brings you articles covering a wide range of topics relevent to all mums living throughout Spain. Whether you have just found you are pregnant with your first baby and have lived in Spain for years, or you are a more experienced mother of many but have just moved to the country, we hope that you will find this section of the site very useful!

If you would like to submit an article to the site or share an experience that you think other mums might find helpful please contact us, we would love to hear from you!

 
Tips for the Travelling Mum

palmtreesAs soon as you board a plane you are very restricted when it comes to space. Remember when you used to travel alone, busy getting comfy in your seat only to realise that you would need your wallet for when you would be asked you if you wanted refreshments, you could simply stand up and nimbly extract your purse from your bag and sit back down all in the blink of an eye.

Read more...
 
Acupuncture & relief of morning sickness during pregnancy

fertility2 resize100 Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, also known as “morning sickness,” may occur at any time, day or night. These symptoms can be experienced as early as the first missed period and typically disappears at the end of the first trimester, although for some it may last longer. For some women morning sickness is not an issue, while for others it can be quite debilitating. 

Read more...
 
Natural & Healthy Pregnancy with Acupuncture

These days more and more women turn to complementary therapies to help boosting their fertility and go through pregnancy as well as possible.  One of these therapies is acupuncture, a branch of Chinese Medicine, which has stood the test of time and is still very much used today in the East, and increasingly so in the West, to help achieve naturally a healthy pregnancy.

Read more...
 
Exercise and your Child

When most adults think about exercise, they imagine working out in the gym on a treadmill or lifting weights. But for kids, exercise means playing and being physically active. Kids exercise when they have gym class at school, soccer practice, or dance class.

Read more...
 
How much salt can a baby have?

weaning There have been many comments made by Mums in Spain about how high in salt and sugar Spanish foods can be, but just how much salt is it safe for our children to comsume? Babies require far less salt in their diet than adults do.

Read more...
 
Identifying Different sorts of Cry

baby6 Your baby cries to communicate messages to you. Attending to your baby straight away when he cries has been proven to increase confidence in children when they are older and it is not recommended to leave your baby crying.

Read more...
 
A Step too Far?

A businessman is suing British Airways over a policy that bans male passengers from sitting next to children they don't know  -  even if the child's parents are on the same flight.

Read more...
 
Family Rows 'Major Source' Of Misery

Around 300,000 children are "significantly" unhappy with their life, according to a new survey by the Children's Society. The research suggests that 7% of youngsters in Britain aged between 10 and 15 are not happy, with family arguments a major source of their misery. It also indicates that children from broken homes can be happier than if their parents stay together. Children are, on average, 20% happier if their families "get along well", regardless of whether they live with a single parent, step-family or both parents, the survey found.

Read more...
 
MIS Recommends - BabyLegs

We are really very enthusiastic to be introducing this great product to all of our Mums in Spain members! Such a simple idea yet so practical and stylish! Looking through their product gallery we think that all the babies and children look fantastic and BabyLegs are ideal for the Spanish climate. I remember I used to put my little boy in tights when he was a baby (!) when we visited the UK as his little legs used to get so cold just sat in his pram with trousers and socks on, but if I had known about these I would have bought a few pairs.

Read more...