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It’s not every week that your trailblazing Prime Minister gives birth to her baby girl while in her first year running the country. Impossible for me not to be moved to write about it. Just the day prior I was also asked to give a speech to our university degree students on their last assessment day – literally where I sat 12.5 years ago. If someone told me then that I would be where I am today about to send my second published book off to the printers that people have pre-ordered NINE MONTHS OUT I would not have believed them. When you are in the grind and hustle you just don’t have time to cast your mind back to where you started. This week forced me to stop and think back. I shared with the graduating students the choices I had to make in having a family, setting up a business, starting and finishing a PhD –giving birth to two children along the way, all with no family support. I shared with them how I made the choice – yes choice- to take one week off after having Sahan in order to...

I have been struggling. It is time minus 12 days until the deadline of book #2. I have been working on my next book for 18 months now. Yes started writing this before I even finished The Nourished Baby – before I knew if anyone would like my first book, let alone buy it! 18 months of work which I am bringing all together on a tight deadline – which came a bit sooner than expected. Welcome to the tough as nails world of publishing. It is tight but doable. I am actually not worried about getting it done. The writing is not the hard part and I am right on track. It is juggling all the puzzles pieces outside of my writing that is hard. The boys, the house, the work, the other deadlines, the finances, the never-ending to-do list and my hundreds of tabs open. Make that the finances times a million. There is no book advance. There is no bank of mummy and daddy (never has been, never will). But I am also struggling in another way. Not with the writing. But with me. I am struggling with me. Se...

The Fever Smart Temperature Monitor is a revolutionary new product which will be life changing for parents. Having a sick child is an extremely stressful time and this technology is going to significantly help to ease the worry when a child has a fever. I do not think I will ever forget how worrying and exhausting the first year of Arjun (our first son) life was. Right through winter he was very sick and even hospitalised a couple of times - the FeverSmart Temperature Monitor is something that would have been fantastic had it been around then. How Fever Smart Works The ease of the FeverSmart Temperature Monitor, is one of its standout features. You simply place the thermometer under your baby’s arm which sticks with a non-allergenic pad and then pair the monitor to a simple phone app. This literally allows you to safely monitor their baby’s temperature at all times without having to wake the baby! You can see just how easy this really is on our vlog where we demonstrate the new technol...

I type this following yet another morning of tug and war with my heart. It was not an unsusual morning. Rather typical to be honest. But oh how I wish, as I have done for many, many years now it was easier – and wonder if and when it will actually get easier? The mornings are my best work time. Always have been. I produce three times the volume of work to a higher standard than I do in the evenings. That should not be a surprise right? Come evening I have done a 12 hour shift one way or another. Be it all day mum-duty, half and half mum-duty and work or work and then mum duty – hell sometimes it is even just straight work. Ok you get my drift....so doing any work after this when the kids go down is hard, doable but not effective especially for writing a book! So yes, mornings are my best time, fuelled by not so secret coffee addiction too. BUT How do you get morning work time with children? That my fellow mamas bears has been the problem I have been trying to solve for a while (like ye...

I have had this blog sitting here for….well nearly four months now! When I say ‘sitting’ I mean the title written, a few sentences roughly jotted down on a word document and the rest sitting in my head. I guess I originally wanted this blog to be quite inspirational. Like bring on 2018. But I have not found it easy to get my head space right for the year and felt like you do when you first start heading off for a run when you have not been for a while. Like my arms and legs are going but just not very smoothly at all and everything has felt out of rhythm. This year I am taking a lot on - I am finishing my next book due out in August, have established Dr Julie’s Kitchen which is still in it’s initial launch phase, preparing for a new tour season while also continuing with lecturing and researching. The big unknown however is planning for baby number three. We would like to try for a third baby and are starting the process of looking at different fertility options and the hard conversat...

Easter, dark chocolate, peanut butter and the goodness of coconut oil....to be honest I think I had you at the title! I am quite delighted in how my new Easter treats have turned out and how easy they are too (cue two little people in the kitchen with me). Using my H omemade Chocolate recipe as a base I created a peanut buttery middle inspired by my Christmas fudge and using my favorite Pics Peanut Butter . These just use a bit of honey for sweetness which can be adjusted according to taste and a free of refined sugar and are also dairy free! Ingredients: Dr Julie’s Chocolate  (slightly adapted) 4 Tb of Coconut Oil (heaped) 3 Tb of Coco Powder 1 Tb of honey Dash of vanilla essence Peanut Butter Filling: 2 Tb coconut oil 2 Tb smooth peanut butter 1 Tb honey Directions: 1. Make Dr Julie’s Healthy Chocolate -Melt coconut oil on low heat and quickly mix in other ingredients. You may find you can take it off the heat to mix in the other ingredients, the less temperature the better! This h...

Sometimes I surprise myself with my creations! Or it just happens that Saturday nights - the only chilled time in the kitchen - happens to be my magic time. Either way these chocolatey, coconut, raspberry morsels come with a warning of 'highly addictive'. Oh and they are dairy-free and gluten-free! You can also check out the video for this on my you-tube channel! Ingredients: Dr Julie's Chocolate (slightly adapted) 5 Tb of Coconut Oil (heaped) 1/2 C of Coco Powder 1 Tb of honey Dash of vanilla essence Filling: 1 Cup of frozen raspberries 2 Tb coconut oil ½ cup of shredded coconut 1 Tb honey 1 Tb coconut milk Directions: 1. Make Dr Julie's Healthy Chocolate -Melt coconut oil on low heat and quickly mix in other ingredients. You may find you can take it off the heat to mix in the other ingredients, the less temperature the better! This has slightly less honey than my original recipe due to the sweetness of the filling...but you could add a bit extra if you wanted!  Pour ...