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				<title>I'm Leaning In -  to work, and motherhood.</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ It's funny how in life sometimes things come together at the same time isn't it? For me this has come in the form of reading Sheryl Sandberg's excellent book, Lean In, and attending the first ever Mumsnet Workfest this weekend. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:01:41 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>The Childcare Conundrum</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Look up 'conundrum' and this is one of the definitions you get. 1. A confusing and difficult problem or question.  2. A question asked for amusement, typically one with a pun in its answer; a riddle. It also conjures up images of that clock ticking away for 30 seconds on Countdown. And whilst I maybe being am being over-dramatic, this is what sorting out 3YO's 'wrap-around childcare' (recently learned phrase) for when she starts school in September feels like.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:57:08 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>And the award goes to.....</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ .... us!!!  Well, what an exciting week or so for Contented Calf!! First of all we are VERY excited to announce that The Contented Calf Cookbook has been shortlisted for The Best Innovative Gift under £50 in the Lovedbyparents Awards 2013. But that wasn't the only piece of good news we received. We just heard today that the Contented Calf website has won a Mumpreneur UK Silver Website Award!! ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 14:30:22 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Cranial Osteopathy: Guest blog from Nargis Ahmad</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Within minutes of being born our first daughter latched on to feed beautifully. After the shock of the initial soreness of having your nipples sucked the whole time (plus having to recover from a Day One nip), within a few weeks my nipples had gotten used to it and I was able to feed in comfort. (Until teeth and biting become an issue that is!) So when our second daughter was born, I expected things to go the same way. They more or less did. But that ‘initial soreness’ didn’t seem to go away as quickly – especially on my right side. She was five weeks old and I was still in a fair amount of pain when I was feeding.  I took her to see Nargis to see what she thought. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:00:42 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Dear 11MO.....</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Dear 11MO, very very soon you're not going to be a 'MO' any longer, but a big, grown-up 'YO'. You'll be 1YO. Wow. How time flies. I know it's what every parent says. But it's true. Over the last week or so I seem to keep having moments when I think "this time last year...." And I know on your actual birthday those thoughts will be even stronger. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Boxing Boot Camp: Days Four &amp; Five</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Day Four was tough. For some reason I'd woken up at 3:40am and could not go back to sleep. Then 11MO woke at 5am, needing a change, feed and settle, and then 3YO woke around 5:20 with a bad dream, needing a hug, song and settle. By the time all that was done, it was very very tempting to creep back into bed. But I decided to push on through, and was very pleased I did. On days four and five, having learnt the standard punches, and three-punch combinations, we moved on to more difficult four, five and six punch combinations. Thankfully for my tired brain seemingly unable to count to five consistently, we no longer did five repetitions of a combination and five jumps/squats.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Boxing Boot Camp: Day Three</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Day Three and I'm starting to get into my stride. Woke at 5:29, grabbed remote, turned the power off as soon as I heard the *pubp*, grabbed phone AND hair band and normal clips and snuck downstairs. Freshened up, clothes on, fruit juice drunk and I was out the door at 5:45. AND I'd finally found the yoga mat. I am in the zone! ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Boxing Boot Camp: Day Two</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ As I start to type it's 8:15am and my arms feel a little bit weak and shaky. Yes, it was Day Two of Boxing Boot Camp this morning. So how is it going so far? Well, the last 36 hours or so have had an incredible dream-like quality to them. On Sunday night I headed upstairs about 9:30pm and was in bed by 10ish. I fell asleep fairly easily, as is my norm post-children. But I did keep waking to check the time, worrying that my alarm wouldn't go off in time and I would over-sleep. And when I did sleep I had very strange dreams. It was very much like when you have to get up at ridiculous-o'clock to catch an early flight to go holiday, but without the holiday!  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Boxing Boot Camp: Day One</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ *pubp* My radio alarm powers up. I lean over, grab the remote and turn it off before it actually starts. I gently push back the covers and tiptoe out of bed. I un-plug my phone and use the light to find my hair brush and a hair band and creep out of the room, softly pulling the bedroom door to. It's 5:30am and I'm awake. Out of choice. What the **** am I doing?? Today is the first day of my Boxing Boot Camp with Deb Townsend. I have four more to go. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Contented Cow, Contented Calf? I hope so.</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ For a website that sells a cookbook containing 'Nourishing recipes for breastfeeding mums', you might have noticed a low level, in particular on the blog, of breastfeeding information, news and opinion.  Slightly strange, yes. But deliberate. My aim has always been for a website and product with the tone of "We're here if you want us".  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Will work have to wait?</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The next hour will decide whether 3YO goes in to nursery this afternoon or not, depending on whether she's managed to sleep and how the cough is. If she does go in, then I'll get about 1.5-2 hours where I can sit in a cafe somewhere and literally dip my little toe into the world of work. If not, then the next 30 minutes is my lot for the week. And the question I'm left asking myself is: will work just have to wait? Not only this week. But in general. Do I have to change my mindset? ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>To sleep: perchance to dream? To sleep: perchance to sleep, please.</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ To be honest, all I really want to do when I go to sleep is sleep. For the whole night. And wake up naturally. If I could do this for a whole seven nights in a row, I would be in heaven. I would be a new woman. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>3 Simple Steps to a Greener Bottom</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Ever since I can remember, I’ve been aware of the environment, all things ‘Green’ and wanting to do my bit. One of my favourite childhood activities was taking the boxes of glass bottles to the bottle bank with my mum, throwing them in and hearing them smash - brilliant! When I was at school I was a fully fledged member of ‘Earth Action’. Our activity was painting cardboard boxes green and distributing them throughout the school to collect waste paper. And now I’m a mum, I’m also keen to do what I can - let me share with you my 3 Simple Steps to a Greener Bottom. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>“And what’s your occupation?”</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ I’ve noticed recently that I’ve had to answer this question a fair amount recently – various registration forms for either of my girls, a market researcher I spoke to yesterday at the station and notably when Contented Hubby registered 9MO’s birth. He decided for me that if I’d written a book I was an Author, so that’s what I am on 9MO’s birth certificate!!  Pre the birth of 3YO, it was easy I was a ‘Marketing Communications Manager’. Simple.  Straight-forward. Now, I tend just to go for ‘self-employed’ and not to go into any further detail than that. But in reality I guess I see myself as a ‘Self-Employed Part-Time Working Mumpreneur’. My life is no longer simple and straight-forward. It isn’t in any way as compartmentalised as it once was.  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Second Time Mum</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Last night I sat in semi darkness, holding a sleeping 7MO in my arms. I took a deep breath and acknowledged how grateful I am to have her. It’s not only that we’re blessed that she’s here, healthy and (generally) happy. It’s that by her being our ‘Number Two Child’, she’s really cemented me into my role as a mum. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>New Girl on the job</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ The time is 09:23. I’m sitting at my desk and the house is quiet. Hubby took the girls off to nursery nearly two hours ago. Since then I’ve had breakfast, tidied the kitchen, put the washing on, unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher and put that on too, gone round in circles as to what swimming lesson we should book 3YO on, had a browse through accommodation and dates at Centre Parcs. But now it’s time to work. The problem is: where do I start? After 8 months or so ‘off’ work, how do I build up momentum again? ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>A Good Morning all round</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ After a happy drop-off at nursery with all smiles, no tears, as I headed back home on the bus, I realised that today was turning out to be a good day. It may have only been 8:35am, but already I was ready to brand it a success!  And here’s why: ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:35:32 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>&quot;Three.... is the magic number&quot;</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Yesterday was BF1's third birthday. We had a lovely day, we really did. (We'll forget about the massive tantrum she had just before bed because she didn't want her teeth brushed. I guess it was her party, so she could scream the house down cry if she wanted to.) ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:42:02 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Now, what did I forget...??</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ I forget things all the time: what I went upstairs to get, what’s in the diary for the next week, that I’ve actually come to pick up BF from nursery in the car so we shouldn’t get on the bus, how to speak.... (I forget the most simple of words ALL the time.) I put this down to being a busy, sleep-deprived mummy. Though, after many conversations with my non-mummy friend Leonard, it seems that she experiences all my ‘tired mummy’ symptoms too, so perhaps it’s just all down to us getting older... What a depressing thought as it’ll only get worse from here on! ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:22:38 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Read all about it!! More Contented Calf in the press and online</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ Excitingly, the spreading of the Contented Calf word continues apace, with a review of The Contented Calf Cookbook, guest blogging on Mumpreneur UK and featuring in Baby & Me magazine. ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
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