New parents react in different ways when a new baby comes into the house.

There is still a misconception that once children are born normal life stops. The family has to change to fit around all the new baby’s needs because the baby is both precious and delicate.

Well precious they may be, but delicate never. Baby’s survive and thrive some of the most inhospitable places on the planet, and wrapping them up in cotton wool and tip-toeing around the house when they sleep is doing them no favours at all.

When our daughter had reached the ripe old age of four months we popped her into a baby backpack, bought our nearly three year old son a small backpack of his own to fill with his ruggie, teddy and a few toy cars and caught a bus to Perth airport to catch a flight to Europe. Read more »