Birthday cakes are a 粉砕する 攻撃する,衝突する: Taking pictures of toddlers 存在 抑えるのをやめるs on their first cake is 最新の 傾向

  • Parents upload images and ビデオs of the 破壊 on social マスコミ 場所/位置s
  • Birthing playlists are also becoming ますます popular
  • Eight out of ten mothers now breastfeed their child
  • Some parents schedule sex, with some only managing once a month

Once upon a time, first birthday pictures were of candles and 反対/詐欺-形態/調整d cardboard hats. Now new mums are more into something called cake 粉砕するing.

For the uninitiated, this means taking photographs while toddlers are 抑えるのをやめるd on their first cake ? preferably with disastrously messy results.

The practice (機の)カム 最高の,を越す of a 名簿(に載せる)/表(にあげる) of 傾向s put together by parenting website Netmums. Its social マスコミ 経営者/支配人 Nicola Lamond explained: ‘Whether the child eats the slice delicately or 急落(する),激減(する)s its 手渡すs and 直面する into the cake, the images are always adorable.

大きくする ?
Prince Philippe and Princess Mathilde of Belgium celebrate the first birthday of the little crown Princess Elisabeth of Belgium
, who presumably, didn't smash the cake

Prince Philippe and Princess Mathilde of Belgium celebrate the first birthday of the little 栄冠を与える Princess Elisabeth of Belgium, who 推定では, didn't 粉砕する the cake

‘Mums are ますます 株ing cake 粉砕する snaps on social マスコミ as a way of showing how their baby has grown in his or her first year.’

One of the other most popular 傾向s was listening to a ‘birthing playlist’ during 労働. Up to 16 per cent of mothers now do so, with popular 選択s 含むing ‘押し進める It’ by Salt-n-Pepa ? with the lyric ‘押し進める it real good’ ? and, just as aptly, REM’s song ‘Everybody 傷つけるs’.

Tech savvy mothers are also 株ing the playlists online, with 最高の,を越す relaxing 跡をつけるs 含むing 19 by Adele and Beautiful Day by 肘.

With eight out of 10 mothers now breastfeeding their child, there has been a にわか景気 in wacky mementos, with Brits taking an icky leaf out the American jewellery market and solidifying a 減少(する) of milk into a pendant or (犯罪の)一味.

If 冒険的な a breast milk (犯罪の)一味 isn’t to a mother’s taste, they could receive a 押し進める 現在の from their partner after giving birth, with one in five getting one and 27 per cent planning a gift for their next child.

Caring dads have given three 4半期/4分の1s of new mums jewellery - 爆撃する out £100 on 普通の/平均(する) - but other gifts 含む spa days, chocolate, 着せる/賦与するing and expensive arm candy.

Baby with First Birthday Cake, in simpler times where the act of smashing a cake was not documented and posted on social media

Baby with First Birthday Cake, in simpler times where the 行為/法令/行動する of 粉砕するing a cake was not 文書d and 地位,任命するd on social マスコミ

Parents have also 溝へはまらせる/不時着するd date night in favour of scheduled sex, with three in five having to pencil in their 約束/交戦s.

However, a third only manage to have sex once a week, while a 4半期/4分の1 of 粉々にするd parents do it once a month or いっそう少なく.

As 嵐/襲撃するs have 乱打するd Britain recently, 用心深い parents have gone 支援する to the 70s and 用意が出来ている 力/強力にする 削減(する) 道具s (one in eight) filled with 一面に覆う/毛布s, tea lights and たいまつs, while a その上の one in ten have created a 名簿(に載せる)/表(にあげる) of games if the telly 削減(する)s out.

And with energy costs more than 二塁打ing over the last 10年間, a thrifty one in ten families now use candles to 削減(する) 支援する on their 法案s.

But while 財政/金融s may be tight, a whoppi ng 95 per cent of mums are going without 着せる/賦与するs, (不足などを)補う or even food to make sure their little ones are taken care of.

The pricey 傾向 has led to an 拡大 in sales of children’s 着せる/賦与するs, apps and days out dubbed the ‘KiddyConomy’, Netmums say.

As 科学(工学)技術 前進するs, parents are 現実に 溝へはまらせる/不時着するing Facebook this year, with 62 per cent 減ずるing the time they spend on the social 網状組織ing 場所/位置 and seven per cent logged off 完全に.

Another 傾向 for the new year is extreme 教えるing, with parents heaping more 圧力 on their kids to 熟考する/考慮する as 競争 for the 最高の,を越す 明言する/公表する school places rises.

Half of parents have considered 私的な tuition and 15 per cent are already 支払う/賃金ing for it, while shockingly 16 per cent get their kids tutoured before they even begin school.

一連の会議、交渉/完成する up the 最高の,を越す ten 傾向s is sibling birthday gifts, where more than a 4半期/4分の1 of mums splash out on 現在のs for the whole family on a child’s special day to stop everyone feeling left out - and to teach kids not every event is about them.


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