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Author: Maria Martin Job Title: Online Editor
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Maria is the Online Editor for Mother&Baby. She is a biker, mama-of-one who enjoys baking and taking her little one to messy play. Maria's focus is around breastfeeding, post-partum depression and weaning. She aspires to help fellow mums through pregnancy, motherhood and beyond by discussing issues such as mental health and self-care. You can find Maria on Instagram and LinkedIn. Maria has won Bauer Media Awards for 2018 Digital Editor Of The Year and 2017 Digital Talent Of The Year.

Author: Stephanie Anthony Job Title: Digital Writer
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Having worked across a variety of magazines, on topics from food to travel to horses, Stephanie is now Deputy Digital Editor for Mother&Baby. She's an auntie to four aged 7 to 5 months old. With a particular interest in health, she loves discovering products that make parent’s lives easier.

Emily GIlbert
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Emily Gilbert is the Features & Reviews Editor for Mother&Baby and has written for the website and previously the magazine for six years. Specialising in travel and product reviews, Emily is the first to know about all the exciting new releases in the parenting industry.

Author: Lorna White Job Title: Digital Writer
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[_Lorna White](https://www.motherandbaby.com/author/lorna-white/){:target=blank :rel=noreferrer noopener} _is the Senior Digital Writer and has written for Mother&Baby since 2020. After running the Yours magazine website which specialises in content about caring for kids and grandchildren, she has now brought her expertise to the UK's #1 leading pregnancy and parenting website. Lorna specialises on a range of topics from potty training and nutrition, to everything and anything that will keep your tot occupied!_

Author: Samantha Ball Job Title: Freelance writer
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Samantha is a Product & Lifestyle Writer and freelanced for the Mother&Baby website for two years before joining the team full time. She's a mum of two and loves browsing for the best products and cute outfits. After having her first child while studying a degree in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University in 2017, Samantha graduated with a First Class honour in 2019 alongside her son, who joined her for many lectures and assessed magazine pitches. Samantha and her partner then welcomed their daughter in 2021. After freelancing as a content writer for Mother&Baby from 2018 to 2020, Samantha decided to explore other creative work and began freelancing as a newborn photographer and worked as an Ads Manager, running Facebook and Instagram campaigns for small businesses. During her maternity leave, missed the writing lifestyle and she decided she wanted to get back into writing and joined the Family Life team at Bauer, and now writes for Mother&Baby and Yours. You can find her on Instagram and LinkedIn.

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Arabella Horspool is a Commercial Content Writer for Mother&Baby. Having previously been a part of the On-Site Publishing and Content Optimisation teams, she has written and worked on articles for various Bauer Media brands.
She's a bookworm who loves to bake and spend time with her pets.

Adejumoke Ilori
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Mummy to a little girl, Adejumoke Ilori is Commercial Content Writer for Mother&Baby. With a BA hon in Creative Writing, she has worked for digital platforms, where she has empowered women from the inside and out, by sharing real life stories based on relationships, loving yourself and mummyhood.

Author: Sophie Knight Job Title: Contributing Editor
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Sophie is a journalist and mum of one, and previously edited motherandbaby.com before moving on to write about family cars for Parkers.co.uk - Sophie was Commercial Content Editor for M&B, CloserHeatEmpireYoursGarden News, and WhatsTheBest.co.uk before deciding to go freelance so she could spend more time with her family.
She is passionate about raising awareness around postnatal depression and is a Mental Health First Aider.
Sophie studied History at the University of Sheffield and has been in journalism for 16 years.

Author: Annabel Karmel Job Title: Children's Food Expert
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M&B's resident weaning expert Annabel Karmel has over 25 years of experience in children's nutrition and is a best-selling author... 45 cookbooks and counting! 
She even received an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for her outstanding work in the field of child nutrition. 
Watch Annabel Karmel's easy recipe videos on our YouTube channel, here.

Author: Louella Berryman Job Title: Audience Development Executive
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After training as a journalist at Cardiff University and winning the BBC Best New Brand of the Year Award for her plastic-free magazine, Louella now works in Audience Development across Bauer’s lifestyle brands.
She has also written for The Sunday Times Travel, Grazia, heatworld, Closer Online and her food blog, Louella’s Kitchen. She's interested in writing about food, culture and women's health.

Author: Aimee Jakes Job Title: Shopping and Community Editor
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Aimee is the Shopping and Community Editor at Bauer Media where she works on fitness, fashion and beauty content across a number of titles such as heat, Closer and Grazia.
Her hobbies include truffle mac and cheese, Class Pass and relentlessly checking (and scolding!) the weather app.

Author: Chaneen Saliee Job Title: Author, Business Owner and Social Media Influencer
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Chaneen is an author and scoial media influencer, who also won The Mum List 2020. Chaneen also owns her affordable breastfeeding clothing line, Chic and Discreet.

Author: Rachel Fitz-Desorgher Job Title: Baby and Parenting Expert & Mother's Mentor
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Rachel Fitz-D is a baby and parenting expert and mother’s mentor. She has four grown-up sons and two grandchildren. 
Rachel hosts a Facebook Live on the M&B Facebook page,every third Monday of the month at 8pm. Make sure you've liked our page so you don't miss a notification! 
Rachel wrote a book called Your Baby Skin to Skin which you can buy on Amazon, now.

Author: Keith Jones Job Title: Managing Editor, automotive hub
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Keith Jones is Managing Editor, automotive hub for Parkers.co.uk and Carmagazine.co.uk. He's here to help you and your family out when picking the best cars, in particular the best family SUVs.

Author: Kat de Naoum Job Title: Freelance Writer
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Kat is a freelance writer based in the UK and Greece. She has written for many publications, and, as an advocate for female empowerment, loves to write about women’s issues, and helping fellow mothers feel supported and less alone.
She has birthed one child and written two books. She can read and write and tends to spend most of her (non-parenting) time doing that, as well as taking care of her several pets.

Author: Fi Star-Stone Job Title: Childcare expert
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Fi’s qualifications include a Degree in Childhood and Youth studies, an NNEB diploma in Nursery nursing, and a Diploma in Childhood studies. She’s been working with children and families for 25 years.
Fi’s likes kitchen dancing, Moomins and cake. She also, recently joined the fire-service as an on-call firefighter. (True story!)

Author: Lily Anderson Job Title: Commercial Content Writer
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Lily Anderson is a Commercial Content Writer at Bauer Media, where she writes about and reviews products for titles like Mother&Baby, Heat, Closer, What’s the Best and Yours. After earning a BA (Hons) in Magazine Journalism and Feature Writing at Southampton Solent University, Lily has specialised in lifestyle and shopping content.

Author: Giovanna Fletcher Job Title: Author, blogger and podcaster
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Giovanna Fletcher is a Sunday Times bestselling author, actress, blogger and presenter who also writes a monthly column for Mother&Baby. She has a podcast called Happy Mum Happy Baby in which she has interviewed everyone from Fearne Cotton to Emma Willis around the highs (and sometimes lows) of parenthood. 
She is a mum to three boys, Buzz Buddy and Max who she shares with husband Tom Fletcher.

Author: Charlotte Duck Job Title: Freelance writer
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Charlotte is an award-winning journalist who's interviewed six Oscar winners, a Greek princess and a Cbeebies presenter.
She's written for GLAMOUR, Vogue, Stylist and The Independent during her career, and, though she writes about beautiful children's clothes, her own two children refuse to wear them.
She likes sunshine and log burners but not at the same time.

Author: Joanna Dunbar Job Title: Contributing writer
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As a freelance writer, Jo covers parenting, health and lifestyle with the odd opinion-based rant and celebrity interview thrown in.
Before freelancing (and juggling journalism with two young sons), Jo was on staff at Good Housekeeping, Bella, Woman and The Mail on Sunday. When not typing furiously or refereeing the kids, Jo can be found pulling on her trainers for a gentle run or baking up a storm in her quest to produce the perfect brownie batch.