Posts Tagged by frustration

A Calpol Alternative?

May 27, 2010 Posted by Luschka under Alternative Medicines and Remedies, Attachment Parenting, Child Health
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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? more

Teething Trauma

January 20, 2010 Posted by Luschka under Alternative Medicines and Remedies, Attachment Parenting, Child Health
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A few weeks, or months ago, I wrote that Ameli 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 Ameli. She wasn‘t eating well or sleeping well.  Phew. Was that a false reality. On a… more

A Bad Day’s Mothering

January 6, 2010 Posted by Luschka under Alternative Medicines and Remedies, Attachment Parenting, Motherhood, Night Time Parenting, On Mama's Mind
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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. more

On Red Tape and Checklists

December 2, 2009 Posted by Luschka under Milestone Moments, On Mama's Mind
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A few weeks ago, Ameli and I returned to our embassy to register her birth and request her passport. After the madness of our first trip, I was well prepared for this one. Forms completed and signed, photographs taken, passports, birth certificates, marriage certificate, a bottle of expressed milk, nappies, a book to read… what… more


A few weeks ago, Ameli and I returned to our embassy to register her birth and request her passport. After the madness of our first trip, I was well prepared for this one. Forms completed and signed, photographs taken, passports, birth certificates, marriage certificate, a bottle of expressed milk, nappies, a book to read… what could possibly go wrong?

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