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#tbt One from the Archive: The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Mummies Often Go Awry!
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(First published on The Contented Calf website on Monday 18th July 2011.) It was all planned. IT WAS ALL PLANNED!! I wasn’t going to attempt potty/toilet training until BF was nearing three. I’d heard and read so much about leaving it as long as possible and not pushing it, that in my mind, as long as she was out of nappies by the time she went to primary school, I wasn’t going to worry. One major attraction I could see over potty training a three year old rather than a toddler was that their communication, understanding, co-operation would be so...
The Strategy(?!?) of the #MumHustle
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Many years ago, when 9YO was still very small, I was lamenting to a (male, without kids) friend of mine about how one of the things I really missed about work was being strategic. In response, he asked me the seemingly simple, innocent question, designed to make me miss my work life less: "Why can't you be strategic in how you're raising your kids?" He wasn't being facetious, or uncaring. It was a genuine question. I can't remember exactly what my response was. I wasn't rude. I didn't smirk, or rant. I think I just said something short about 'fire-fighting'...
#tbt One from the Archive: Top 10 Lactogenic Foods for Breastfeeding Mums: Barley
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(First published on The Contented Calf website on 23rd October 2014.) As a child of the 70s & 80s, say the word Barley and I think ‘Water’ (Mallet’s Mallet style) – the image that pops into my head is that of Robinson’s Barley Water. And perhaps summer. And tennis. The other thing that comes to mind, as someone whose mum is a coeliac, is “wheat, rye, barley, oats”, as her major glutinous no-no list. However, until recently, I would not have thought ‘breastfeeding’ or ‘lactogenic food’. Yet it is one of the Top Ten lactogenic foods that can help with a...
NEW PRODUCTS!! 100% Organic and Caffeine Free Herbal Tea Blends (From Fertility, to Pregnancy, to Post-Birth)
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Another week, another new product! (Well, new productS this time... ;-))
2019 is proving to be such an exciting year for The Contented Company - and it's only just started!!
So let me dive right in, and introduce you to our TEN MaterniTea Tea Blends, which will sit within our Contented Calf range:
#tbt One from the Archive: Home Alone
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(First published on The Contented Calf website on Monday 6th June 2011.) It was with an immense sense of trepidation that I approached this weekend just gone. With Hubby working away during the weeks, I’m a pseudo single mum on weekdays and used to it, but it does means BF and I relish the weekends even more, when there’s the three of us. This weekend Hubby was away on a stag do, going straight there and straight back, so we wouldn’t see him for two whole weeks. As I work Monday to Wednesday, it was the four day stretch from Thursday...
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