Contented Calf Media Coverage: March 2014
Please check out our March 2014 Contented Calf media coverage: March 2014 : TIPS Unlimited: The Contented Calf – Nourishing recipes for breastfeeding mums As a passionate supporter of all things...
View ArticleBreastfeeding, Low Milk Supply & Formula Feeding: ‘Spotty Baby’ Guest Post
Our breastfeeding formula There are a number of themes that tend to reoccur on this blog and on our Facebook pages: health, nutrition, breastfeeding (naturally), how what we eat can affect our health,...
View ArticleContented Calf Media Coverage: April 2014
Please check out our April 2014 Contented Calf media coverage: April 2014 : Absolutely Richmond: The Contented Calf – Mother’s Milk Richmond mum Elena Cimelli has released her award-winning recipe book...
View ArticleTop 10 lactogenic foods: Apricots – helping with a low milk supply
As well as tasting great, apricots are the friend of breastfeeding mums. They are one of our top ten lactogenic foods and can aid with a low milk supply, so let’s find out a bit more about them....
View ArticleMy ‘Mummy Health’: Time Out
Time out. Two words that strike not fear as such, but complete frustration into the heart of my 4YO. (It’s still very much a fun game for 2YO, so not as effective.) Time out for 4YO is one of the worst...
View ArticleContented Calf Media Coverage: May 2014
Please check out our May 2014 Contented Calf media coverage: May 2014 : Baby & Me : At your fingertips It’s now easier than ever to cook-up an array of deliciously nutritious dishes for nursing...
View ArticleMums Love The Contented Calf Cookbook (Mumpreneur UK & Babyworld.co.uk Awards)
Ever since we first launched The Contented Calf Cookbook at the end of 2011, people have loved it, especially mums – which is good, as that’s who it’s for! And it seems that the more people who know...
View ArticleContented Calf Media Coverage: June 2014
Please check out our June 2014 Contented Calf media coverage: June 2014 : Women’s Fitness : Easy as A, B, C New mum? The Contented Calf Cookbook is packed with recipe ideas for breastfeeding mums that...
View ArticleVote for Contented Calf in the Loved By Parents Awards 2014
We are thrilled to announce that The Contented Calf Cookbook has been short-listed for Best Product For Breastfeeding AND Best Innovative Gift Under £50 in the Loved By Parents Awards 2014. Hundreds...
View ArticleThe Contented Calf Cookbook is Loved By Parents
We are thrilled to announce that The Contented Calf Cookbook is the Silver Winner of Best Innovative Gift Under £50 in the Loved By Parents Awards 2014. Hundreds of brands from all over the world...
View ArticleFall into Autumn, with 20% discount from Contented Calf!
Leaves are falling With the Indian Summer seemingly now over and storms predicted for the coming week, it looks like the seasons are changing, and Autumn is well and truly upon us. (The good news...
View ArticleTop 10 lactogenic foods: Barley – for breastfeeding mums
As a child of the 70s, 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...
View ArticleTop 10 lactogenic food: Dates, food for breastfeeding
The history of dates as a top 10 lactogenic food The date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) is a tree of western Asia and northern Africa that is cultivated also in the United States, South Asia, and...
View ArticleLiving clean and green – 12 ways I succeed; 10 ways I don’t
One of my lasting memories of growing up is rushing home from school on a Friday, running into the kitchen, throwing open the cupboard and hearing that satisfying ‘pffssst..’ as I opened a bottle of...
View ArticleCombining Breast And Bottle Feeding: when you want to do both
When I was pregnant and then a very new mum, I heard time and time again: “it’s so important to establish breastfeeding well in the early days”. Aside from not really knowing exactly how (other than a...
View Article17 Things I now do in, on or around the loo
I realised something the other day (whilst sitting on the loo): before I had kids, I never really thought about what I did in, on or around the loo. I don’t think anyone does to be fair. All that...
View ArticleCalifornia Dreaming: Hello from the other side* (of the Atlantic)
* credit Adele. As my lovely co-author, Jassy Davis of Gin & Crumpets fame, recently reminded me, it’s five years since we got our hands on the first sample copies of The Contented Calf Cookbook....
View ArticleFriday Night: Parent-style
Friday Night: Going Out From sixth-form though to my mid-twenties, Friday night would mean only one thing: Going Out. Oooh, how I loved it! It wasn’t just the going out part. It was the Getting Ready....
View ArticleSometimes… But today…
Sometimes Sometimes the girls go to bed easily. Teeth, stories, songs, reading, lights out, sleep. Sometimes we then have the energy and time to tidy round the downstairs fully. And make their pack...
View ArticleThe Accidental 1950s Housewife
“Oooh, I could quite get used to this” I thought as I knelt on the lawn, trowel in handing ‘doing some gardening’ and alternating between listening to Radio Four and One. “I quite like being a...
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