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A Calpol Alternative?

  • Posted on May 27, 2010 at 3:27 pm

A while ago I wrote a post about Calpol and why I don’t like it and don’t use it. Since then, I have been asked numerous times what the alternative is. If your child has a fever or febrile convulsions, what should you do? Surely a few e-numbers are a small price to pay?

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Calpol – What Every Parent Should Know

  • Posted on April 20, 2010 at 8:30 am

I can safely say I have a hate-hate relationship with Calpol. It works like this: I hate it… and on the other hand I hate it. I have no objections to paracetamol on its own, even though I rarely use medicine, and I absolutely agree that it should have its place on our shelves, as it does serve a valuable purpose. However, in my opinion Calpol does not, and shouldn’t be on the shelves at all.

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A Sling is a Wonderful Thing

  • Posted on March 22, 2010 at 6:13 pm

Before I became pregnant, I had never given a moment’s thought to the transportation of babies. They go in push chairs, and that’s where they go. Or so I thought.  It was only on walking into a popular baby shop that I became aware of the range of options, and found that none were going to work for us.

Not only would it be impossible to get most of the tank-with-tractor-wheel travel systems up our staircase (we live on the first floor), but we didn’t have anywhere to store it even if we could. And that’s assuming we could even afford one in the first place.

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Teething Trauma

  • Posted on January 20, 2010 at 10:36 pm

A few weeks, or months ago, I wrote that Kyra was starting to teethe.  At the time I, stupidly, naively, thought people were right to groan when it came to teething. It really is a miserable time. Look at Kyra. She wasn‘t eating well or sleeping well.  Phew. Was that a false reality. On a scale of 1 to 10 of horrible times, I thought it was a 7. In light of the last few days, I’m regrading then down to a three!

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A Bad Day’s Mothering

  • Posted on January 6, 2010 at 6:07 pm

I know everyone has them. Those days where you just feel like nothing youre doing is right. When you suspect, in the back of your frazzled mind, that you might be ruining your poor, sweet, crying child, for ever.

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Teething Time?

  • Posted on December 4, 2009 at 4:43 am

We’ve had what is officially the worst night of Kyra’s life. In fact, we’re still in the middle of it.

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