Hi! I’m Hannah…
I’m an award-winning blogger and photographer, and I live in the East Riding of Yorkshire with my husband, our three children and cockapoo Bertie.
Make, Do & Push! has evolved and grown, as we have as a family, over the past six years.
I initially started writing as a way to document my journey into the wilderness of Motherhood when I was pregnant with my daughter ‘Busby’ in 2012. Since then we have added another two human family members into the mix (‘H-Bear’; born 2015 and ‘Tabby’; born 2018) and a furry family member (Bertie; born 2017).
On the blog, you’ll find everything from posts about parenting, kids style, recipes (a lot of these are allergy recipes as H-Bear suffers from a dairy and soya allergy), miscarriage, trying to conceive, home birth and many MANY adventures. We love to travel and explore - especially in the UK - and enjoy nothing more than pursuing adventure.
So, whether you’re expecting your first child, or you’re old hat at parenting, I hope you’ll find something here that’s relatable and that keeps you reading.
More about my gang
‘Busby’
‘Busby’ is our creative, feisty school girl, born in December 2012. Chocolate ice cream, drawing and unicorns are her favourite things.
Also known as ‘Grape’ or ‘Bump’ before birth. Busby is the reason I started the blog.
You can read all about her pregnancy here.
‘H-Bear’
H-Bear (previously known as ‘Indy’) is our resident explorer, born June 2015. Numberblocks, LEGO and sausages are his favourite things, and he can usually be found counting the numbers on everything.
You can read all about his pregnancy here. You can find his amazing, positive home water birth story here. H-Bear suffers from CMPA and soya allergy, which I have written about here.
‘Tabby’
Tabby is our newest family member, born December 2018. Cuddles, strawberries and avocado are her favourite things.
You can read all about her pregnancy here. Her awesome home water birth story is here, and everything else Tabby-related is here.
Bertie Custard the cockapoo
Bertie joined the Make, Do & Push! family mid-November 2017. He has his own Instagram account: @bertiecockapoo
Nick
Physicist, Husband, Father and gin-enthusiast. You will see Nick occasionally pop up on the blog. He’s currently in training to be an Instagram Husband…
Want to know more about Hannah?
Although we currently live in East Yorkshire, I’m actually a born and bred Sussex girl - having grown up in Brighton and rural Sussex.
I love the colour yellow, an oat milk latte, wine, dystopian novels, Cath Kidston, musicals, yellow roses, and spending my days taking photographs. I use emojis as punctation, and frequently put my foot in it during already awkward situations. I also pretty much live in my wellies and can’t stop buying mugs.
My blog has been featured in various places, such as Etc Magazine, Blogosphere Magazine and BBC Radio Humberside… as well as being chosen as Mumsnet Blog of the Day a number of times.
In 2017, I won a Northern Blog Award for ‘Best Instagram Photography’ (September 2017) and was a finalist in the ‘Parenting Blogger’ category. I was also a finalist in the ‘Photography’ category at the National Brilliance in Blogging awards in 2017.
In 2018, I was a finalist in the ‘Parent Influencer’ category in the Northern Blog Awards, and a finalist in the ‘Photography’ category in the National Brilliance in Blogging awards again.
If you’d love to work together, you can find out more here… or just fancy a chat? Then pop me an email.
