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Thursday 29 October 2015
Free Halloween Fun
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Spooky goings on in Basingstoke
In and around Baskngstoke this weekend? Stuck for ideas to keep the kids entertained??
Festival Place is your place for a spooktacular Halloween this year with their two-day long Halloween extravaganza.
Taking place from Friday October 30th to Saturday October 31st, the fiendish family fun event will have a range of eerie entertainment, 12-6pm, to get customers set for the scary season.
Porchester Square will be transformed into the centre’s very own Spooky Hollow, raising money for Ark Cancer Centre Charity, with scary face painting and a Shear Beauty nail artstand for kids – big kids welcome too!
Customers will then have the chance to win a variety of great prizes from Festival Place’s retailers simply by taking a photo in the centre’s custom-built photo booth (including scaryprops!) and sharing it on social media with the hashtag #spookyfp.
Prizes will go to the spookiest photos, so customers are encouraged to come along in their creepiest costumes and ghoulish gear.
To keep up to date with details of these and other upcoming events at Festival Place visit www.festivalplace.co.uk or find them on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Tuesday 27 October 2015
The House of Twits App • Review •
Introducing Little Bear Bots!
Little Bear Bots is Amy's brain child, it's a fantastic children's clothes range!
Instagram / LittleBearBots
Twitter - LittleBearBots
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Sunday 25 October 2015
Divine Chocolate
Cocoa from Ghana is of a high quality and trades at a premium on the world market. Kuapa Kokoo's motto is pa pa paa - which means the best of the best in the local Twi language. Kuapa's premium quality cocoa is now sold to chocolate companies around the world.
Divine Fairtrade milk chocolate, made from Kuapa's best of the best fairly traded cocoa beans was launched in October 1998 and by Christmas 1998, had made it onto the supermarket shelves . .
You can read more about the Divine story here - divine-story
You can buy some bars for yourself here - www.divinechocolate.com/uk/shop
To find out all the good stuff click here - www.divinechocolate.com/uk/good-stuff
If you haven't tried Divine Chocolate yet, I order you to go out and treat yourself to a bar .....NOW!!!!
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Thursday 22 October 2015
Eye popping oddities with Ripley's Believe it or Not! 2016 • Review •
Wednesday 21 October 2015
A mother's secret weapon!!
Tuesday 20 October 2015
Mini Halloween Haul - From Poundland!
Monday 19 October 2015
Guest post from Aimee Foster :: Two important ways to give your baby's heart a better start!
We all worry about our babies and how we can help them to be healthy and safe!
That worry starts almost instantly from the moment that we conceive our precious little bundles of joy.
This is an important read for every mother / mothers to be out there!!
Two Important Ways to Give Your Baby's Heart a Better Start
The 15th October is recognised worldwide as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. My husband and I added our candle to the global wave of light, remembering our baby girl Grace who we lost to a congenital heart defect.
Last week was about commemorating those who were taken too soon. This week, I’d like to talk about the steps we can take to prevent some of those deaths. Specifically, how we can prevent deaths caused by one of the most common birth defects – congenital heart defects (CHD).
Heart defects affect 1 out of every 125 babies, making them the most common cause of birth defect related deaths in the UK.
Shockingly, only 1 in 3 babies affected by CHD have their condition detected during pregnancy.
Early detection of CHD saves lives. That’s an undeniable fact. However, at present, the 2 out of 3 babies whose heart defects are not detected during pregnancy have to take their chances.
I am very proud to volunteer for a wonderful charity called Tiny Tickers, which aims is to improve the detection of CHD during pregnancy and give heart babies a better start in life. Tiny Tickers’ mission is entirely achievable and their methods work.
At present, Tiny Tickers are training sonographers to be better equippedto spot heart defects at the 20 week scan. Statistics show that the training works – in the regions where it has already been carried outthere are significantly higher detection rates of CHD. Tiny Tickers is a small charity with huge ambitions – to train sonographers all over the UK so that every baby with CHD has the best start in life. But they are not quite there – yet.
With this in mind, there are two very important steps you can take to ensure that, if your baby does have CHD, it is detected and treated as soon as possible:
Tiny Tickers have created a Big Tick card, which you can take alongwith you to your 20 week scan. It contains questions you can ask your sonographer to enable you to confidently discuss your baby’s heart health together. The Big Tick Card is completely free and can be ordered from visiting the Big Tick website here . It only takes a few seconds to order and doing so means that you will be well prepared with the questions you need to ask about how your baby’s heart is developing.
In the vast majority of cases, babies’ hearts are perfectly healthy. But if there is a problem, spotting it at the 20 week scan will give him or herthe support and medical care they need straight away. This means a better chance of survival.
During my time as a volunteer with Tiny Tickers, I have heard many stories from new parents whose instinct told them that something was seriously wrong with their baby but who were dismissed by health professionals.
For example, Grace Brown had voiced her concerns overdaughter Honey’s health many times before her heart problem was finally picked up. By the time Honey arrived at hospital she had already gone into heart failure. Luckily, her story has a happy ending (you can read it here).
Part of Tiny Tickers’ work includes spreading a very important awareness message called Think Heart. If a baby is not thriving and does not seem to have an infection, jaundice or any other common cause, parents should ask a health professional to check the following 5 signs of a heart problem:
For more information on recognising the signs of CHD, please visit the Think Heart web page.
My daughter, Grace, had a heart defect called Ebstein’s Anomaly, which was detected at my 20 week scan. In most cases, early detection of CHD gives babies a better chance of survival. Unfortunately Grace’s heart defect was so serious that, even with the most expert medical care, she didn’t make it. But, early detection meant that she received the best treatment available. At least when I look back now, I know that everything possible was done for her.
Without the eagle-eye of the sonographer at my 20 week scan, it is highly likely that we would never have met Grace alive. She would almost certainly have been stillborn if my pregnancy had continued unassisted.
Instead, we had a precious few hours with her before she passed away. Those memories mean the world to us.
Tiny Tickers receives no government funding and is entirely reliant on the generous help of supporters to carry on with their life saving work. Regular gifts from their Heart Champions allow them to plan for the future and train more sonographers.
£5 SENDS A NEW DIAGNOSIS PACK WITH SUPPORT AND INFORMATION TO TWO FAMILIES WHO HAVE JUST FOUND OUT THEIR BABY HAS A HEART DEFECT. £10 A MONTH TO TRAIN ONE SONOGRAPHER ANNUALLY WHO WILL BE BETTER ABLE TO DETECT CHD IN THE 300 SCANS THEY CONDUCT EVERY YEAR.
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1 in 3 babies with CHD are discharged from hospital with no one knowing about their life-threatening conditions. Tiny Tickers needs as much help as possible to change this frightening statistic.
If you would like to become a Heart Champion and help Tiny Tickers continue their vital work assisting heart babies before birth, please click here to find out more.
Please remember these two positive actions you can take to be aware of your baby’s heart health. By sharing these tips with as many fellow parents as possible and assisting Tiny Tickers to achieve their aims, we can all play our part ingiving heart babies the best start in life.
Written by Aimee Foster, 12th October 2015
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