Jae turns 15 months old and has been keeping me real busy… Health, Diet & Feeding I gradually weaned him off breastfeeding after he turned one. After several tries, he accepted organic goat’s milk formula. Phew! We dropped 1 day feed each week. Recently at 14+ months, night-weaning was finally successful. This means after his last …
In Which Milk is Better? (Part 1), I decided on the ideal alternative milk for Vee: Regular pasteurised whole organic milk from grass-fed cows and/or homemade yoghurt made from organic milk from grass-fed cows 500 to 600ml (or mg) per day plus a multi-vitamin (Vee’s diet is primarily vegetarian, with one serving of fish about …
When Vee was about 14 months old, I decided to start weaning him off breastmilk — the perfect and best milk for human beings. The main reason is that his regular suckling day AND night is doing too well in child-spacing. I hope to have a second baby by the end of next year so …
My search for the ideal open cup for Baby V has finally ended with the purchase of Combi Mug (Step 4 – Standard Mug)! I found the last piece at Isetan (KLCC) at a listed price of RM59.90. This is a 200ml (6.8oz) cup with two handles, a snap-tight lid and a inner lid that …
Although Baby V has been drinking well from the Medela Disposable Baby Cup Feeder, I searched for a cup which has a handle and lid so that he can learn to drink by himself. It was a futile effort as all the ‘training cups’ we came across have either a soft spout, hard spout or straw. It …
When Baby V was five months old, he rejected the bottle teat. There was more than a month of unsuccessful attempts to feed him using a soft spout. Over one weekend in August, I chanced upon an article entitled “What to Feed the Baby When the Mother is Working Outside the Home” by Dr. Jack Newman, …
Baby V has been exclusively breastfed since birth; as a Stay-At-Home-Mum, I enjoy the convenience of direct feeding. I gave him a bottle-feed 1-2 times a week so that he would get used to the bottle teat. When I observed that he LOVED the bottle teat, complacency set in and I stopped offering him expressed …
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