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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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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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On Red Tape and Checklists

  • Posted on December 2, 2009 at 10:23 pm

A few weeks ago, Kyra 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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