Heinz baby food

For 6 months my baby was on milk only. And when I was a pro at producing and feeding milk, changes take place. Time for solid as additional to the milk intake.

So I started with homemade puree.

Then I came across Heinz at one of the baby fair. All the baby food brands are new to me, except that whenever I see Heinz (even b4 I have a baby), my impression is that it is a good baby food brand. Somehow.. I don't know why.. just a feeling, and I've never surveyed their products.

And so since it left a lasting impression in my mind, I picked a few things from the booth (as I was in a rush), to try out. These will be used when I have no time to do puree. They even let me tried on the Splat - strawberry + apple flavour.... and it was NICE! However this will be for lo's consumption after 8-9months old.

Friends did introduce other brands like Happy Baby. So I further did a quick online research and found out that Heinz was founded in 1869 and the products are made in Australia, where else Happy Baby was founded in 2006. No wonder Heinz has a lasting impression on me, perhaps I've seen them from baby time? .. my assumption as I did not further verify with my mom.

The jar baby food from Heinz I was told it has to be consumed within 48 hours after opening due to it does not have preservative. The jar food to be kept in fridge after opening and the Splat can be chilled or frozen before consuming so when you take it out and eat it will be cold and nice.

Heinz still have other products which I have yet to explore. Still I will try my best to produce homemade food for lo and learning new things from time to time.

Boba 3g carrier review

This is the Montenegro Boba 3g that was bought and excited to do the review after testing it out.

Nowadays we bring this together with the stroller when doing weekend family shopping and last weekend I got to test it out without the stroller, just me and lo shopping at JB Premium outlet.

I was there for about 4.5hours with about 45minutes break for food. The whole time, was carrying lo in this except for the break time.

I was wearing flats, carrying a backpack which contained diaper, wet tissue, nappy cream, a bottle of water, ebm and bottles and after the shopping, I did not feel any pain or tiredness on my shoulder nor my back.

Lo seems comfortable in this and slept soundly while I shopped or looking around when awake and getting much attention from the sales person of each shop.

At the bottom of this carrier around the hip strap in front (below lo's butt), there are some compartments (open and zipped), where I can slot my handphone and credit card (so save the trouble of taking your wallet/wristlet/purse in and out).

When lo is asleep, sun shinning down, I used the head cover, other times I left it open.

Totally worth the RM349 (BB expo discounted price, retail at RM388) for I can travel light and lo feels secure. Thumbs up for this product. Loving it.

My comparisons on other carriers before getting this can be found here.

Persimmon Puree

Persimmon Puree is pretty easy to make, make sure you choose the one that is ripe (a little soft when pressed).

1. Peel the skin of the Persimmon
2. Cut the fruit and put it on a siever
3. Sieve it
4. Ready to be served / Put in storage container to freeze it

Lo loves this one.

When can my baby drink water?

When my baby was born, pediatrician and hospital said babies do not need to be fed with water until 6 months. Then I had a good CL (good in cooking/clean, love babies, etc) but little did I knew that lo was fed with water when had hiccups. I immediately told CL that lo does not need water for 6 months. My mistake for not informing beforehand.

On the first week my hb came back after taking bb for jaundice test, he was mumbling and said need to feed baby with water (according to a friend or someone, I forgot what he was saying) and said SDMC paed bluff him, said no need give water for 6 months. I forgot what he was relating to, but I said it's true. BB do not need water for 6 months as I read in the article and forward the article to him. So he understood thereafter.

My aunt told me that both her grandchildren was trained by her CL to drink water. Even in their sleep after finishing one bottle of formula milk, they will automatically grabbed another bottle of water next to it (I assumed they would have been a grown up that time since can get another bottle on their own). However I do not think this is applicable to newborn as babies have small tummy and drinking a bottle of water may cause 'water intoxication'.

As my lo hiccup-ed quite often (even in tummy), my mum has been hinting to me to give him some water to stop the hiccup and when weather is hot to give him some water to drench the thirst despite knowing that I would object furiously but she was trying her luck. (I fully bf lo already that time). Eventually I think she googled up the info herself (yes she does that alot) and did not bring up this again until after 6 months. Haha...

I was once a new mother whom lack of info and was half hearted whether to follow ped's advice or the elderly. I choose the real expert instead of self expert.

Another reason and believe from the elderly (or even younger mom), if you do not train early aka from birth, they will not drink water later.

If you would have accessed to these info in advance, would you still give lo below 6months water? It's up to individual really as this is not a law. Afterall, everyone strive to give their child the best.... in different ways.

You may read the article from experts.:
http://www.babycenter.com/408_when-can-my-baby-drink-water_1368488.bc

Enjoying the luxury of DL

When I had objective (to produce milk) to meet for my previous 2 trips, I was over supply. For my 2nd trip to Bandung preparation, I aimed for 1 pack of 6oz to store every alternate days, but I almost have storage daily sometimes up to 2 packs. And before I left for Bandung, I have 11 bottles in the fridge enough for 1.5 days consumption before starting to use the frozen ones.

Upon coming back from Bandung, I was utmost relax. Especially when I have no preplanned trip ahead and still have fbm in the freezer. So I started cutting down pumping and DL whenever possible. Was enjoying the less washing of bottles and pump parts from days to months. For 6 weeks I pumped averagely twice a day and sometimes once a day. I have enough to rotate till that one day it meets only the daily consumption.

Did not panicked as I have fbm to support but I started to manage the supply so it is still enough for daily and not use the fbm. Because if I rely on the fbm and not push up my supply, it will be lesser and lesser. And I gave away 10 packs of 6oz to my friend. Actually for all mothers with enough daily supply knows that the fbm will eventually be given away or milk spa, etc. It is merely for emergency backup or when lo is not with you.

From my experience, once I DL long term, the body adjusted to baby's actual needs. I'm really enjoying DL as it is easier and less work. If I DL whenever I'm back from work, there is practically NO BOTTLES TO WASH and NO PUMPING after work on weekdays. This is truly luxury for FTWM and we can spend more time with baby.

But also monitoring the supply so that have 1 bottle of min 3oz to spare daily. Used to pump average of 4 times when oversupply but now mostly twice or when in need of more then 3 times. My friend said as long as you continue to DL and pump, the supply will be there.

Still drinking red dates water on most days (hardly plain water).
Lo is almost 7 months now.