Author: jbooothby

Hi! My name is Jodine Boothby and I am the founder of Gummee Ltd, UK baby teething product brand. Gummee originally launched as Gummee glove, when our first product launched. When my first born was only 9 weeks old, he was always chewing on his hand but could not hold a teething toy. After some initial research, I discovered that hand chewing was a common symptom of teething, and also just the start of baby discovering their own senses. It made sense to me to buy a mitten with teethers on it, and I was shocked to find they did not exist. The idea for Gummee glove was born and in March 2012, it became the World's very FIRST teething mitten designed solely for babies to wear. I needed a place to come and share idea's, stories about me and my family and how we run our business around our busy family life. Juggling a business with a family is hard work, and requires dedication and a lot of self motivation. We have really hard days, and really amazing days. We've seen a lot of success for our brand, and that hasn't happened out of luck. I'm using this blog to give you a deeper insight into the actual reality of starting a business like Gummee and running it from home and around family life. I hope you enjoy reading it :)

Day Out At Badgers Holt, Devon

If you’re going on holiday in Devon or Cornwall this summer and you’re looking for a cheap and cheerful day out, we can not recommend Badgers Holt in Yelverton highly enough. The scenery on Dartmoor on the drive there is absolutely breathtaking, and will have you feeling relaxed and excited by the time you reach […]

Bakerdays Photo Cake Review

Imagine being a bit hormonal and then bakerdays.co.uk get in touch to ask if I would like to work with them on a little collaboration…….. promoting CAKE! I mean, shark week was around the corner and in comes this message on Instagram from the lovely folk at bakerdays asking if I’d like to help them promote […]

Growing your Facebook Business Page with great Content

I recently started posting more content to my facebook business page. Around a year and a half ago, I made a schedule for the page and consistently started posting a minimum of 6 posts per day to the page, at specific times depending on how many users are online at certain times and what types […]

Honour Your Flow

Ever since I can remember, I have had to use panty liners. (Men/Boys – you may want to leave the blog at this point…..I’m going into detail about all things menstrual and lady bits!) I have always HATED the wet feeling, even just the slightest, tiniest dribble. From being a young girl and having just […]

Dear Imposter Syndrome

Hi you. Please could you stop…… Stop encouraging me to think about why so & so hasn’t replied to my message yet, instead, I’m choosing to tell myself that they’re busy. That the fact they have not replied is because I am not their number one priority – and that is OKAY! Stop encouraging me […]

Entrefluencer…..Influpreneur…?

We made a huge decision 2 weeks ago and now I’m just wishing we’d started sooo much sooner! Let me explain…. When we first launched Gummee, the vision we had was quite simple. Create a brand, be internationally successful. I shared every step of the journey on my personal facebook page and looking back now, […]

Changing Times

What is your favourite social media platform? Sorry – it’s been a while! We have been so busy over the last year working hard to save our business that it took priority and all of my time. I don’t want to go into why, I’m very into focusing on positivity at the moment, it’s much […]