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Family life as Carrie Symonds and Boris Johnson welcome new baby

As Carrie Symonds welcomes son, how to manage the first days as a mum in lockdown

The first few days as a new parent are always a huge shift – to say the least! And during lockdown, things are even stranger, as the normal routine of visitors is flipped on its head.

That’s the situation now for Carrie Symonds, partner of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who gave birth to a baby boy on April 29. The baby arrived just a few days after Johnson returned to work...

Ten ways to help get your baby to sleep

Most exhausted parents are desperate to get their bundle of joy off to sleep at night, and will try anything from rocking and swaddling to singing lullabies.

Baby sleep expert Andrea Grace says: “It goes with the territory that when you have a new baby, you have sleepless nights, and while we see some unusual methods to get babies to sleep, like parents walking the streets at night...