EDITOR’S NOTE Welcome to the December/January issue of Palmy Parent! This issue has a theme of the Christmas season as well as a look into another culture’s celebration Diwali. We also have articles on the important subject of postnatal mental health, when you can start exercising after having a baby, feeding your pēpi brain and the benefits of volunteering. My whanau will be enjoying a quite Christmas (we hope) with family we don’t see as often as we should. We are looking forward to sun, sand and surf and slowing right down for a few days and maybe some camping at Totora reserve with some blueberry picking too! From my whanau to yours we wish you a fabulous Christmas and an amazing New Year. Due to having an acting Editor this edition has again been lovingly edited by the entire Palmerston North Parents Team. We are still on the lookout for our next Editor, so if you’re interested please do get in touch. As always, we are always looking for contributors! If you or anyone you know would like to share your empowering birth (or adoption) story, please get in touch at palmyparenteditor@gmail.com - you don’t need to be a great writer, we can work with you to get your story told.
Saritta and the Parents Centre Team
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In addition to our outstanding rates, we offer you a FREE advertorial on your business if you commit to either four or six half or full-page adverts per annum ISSUE 303 . October | November 2021
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