Easy-Palit with #HuggiesPantsUp

We first came across Huggies during my baby shower and one of our good friends gave us loads of newborn Huggies diapers.  It was one of the most useful and appreciated gifts then. We were able to use it right away as I gave birth after 4 days.  Since Gavin was a preemie, it fit perfectly after a few days. It was also very good for sensitive bums.

We were able to jump from the newborn size to small to medium and now to large as the little man is now a toddler.  However, as we went through crawling, cruising and now as an avid walker, putting on a diaper is a challenging task.  My son would always try to wiggle his legs and not stay put, wanting to always move around.  Ang gulo talaga!  One of our most trying diaper experience was changing nappies on a long haul 15 hour flight to London.  He pooped 2x and filled his diaper with a lot of pee too.  Any mom of an active boy can imagine how hard it is to change diapers in a very small airplane toilet...it is not for the faint hearted :)

After that incident, I tried to use Huggies Dry Pants.  It is like a brief or pants wherein you just shoot it in your son's legs and, tadaaaah, just pull it up and you are done changing nappies.  You don't have to keep him still for a few minutes because you have to fix the stickers on the sides.  Wih the Dry Pants of Huggies, you say goodbye to doing that.  You save on time and energy :) 

Easy Palit talaga!  

The price of Huggies Dry Pants is also very competitive.  It is below Php10 and it's very much worth it because it makes your life a lot easier and it makes your baby happier.  

As they say, happy baby is equal to a happy mommy!!!

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Mind Museum

With nothing to do on a Saturday afternoon, I found a Dealgrocer coupon for Mind Museum.

Got two coupons for me and yaya.  I thought Gavin will be free because he was just one year old, but apparently, once your kid reaches two feet, he needs to pay the usual entrance fee.

Okay lang, worth it naman.  We had fun...I don't know who had more fun, the yaya or Gavin :)

Gavin had a great time seeing lots of colors, touching different surfaces, seeing different movements and most of all, seeing different children walking around.  

The Mind Museum is really for more grown kids who can do the experiments themselves or read the interesting factoids, but for a small toddler, it was also a very good sensory exercise.

I really hope Manila will have more kiddie educational museums!

    Life is like a room full of chocolates *

     Bookworm*

Weekend Fun in the Sun

Several weeks ago, we spent a lazy Saturday morning with the Russell's to swim on their village pool.

The kiddos had a lot of props in the pool, complete with a floating sofa, haha.

How I wish I had these things before when I was small :)

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On a sunny long weekend holiday in August, we went on a staycation at a local hotel.

Before having a child, I didn't realize that they had a pretty cool kiddie water area, complete with a slide free floor, water fountains and a playground on top of the water play area. How cool is that?

Gavin had fun...nagka-pneumonia lang nga after a week ...but I'll reserve that in another post.

Beach Bums

Gavin's first time at the beach was at Alona, Beach in Bohol last August.

It was our Christmas trip gift to our parents, but due to scheduling conflicts, we had to schedule on an August weekend.  Glad to have stayed at the wonderful Amorita :)

     Short plane rides are the best!

    Someone is checking out the room.

    The beautiful parentals and beautiful Alona beach.

     With Ninang and Tito Erwin

    My one and only :)

    Maliit na bata * 

     Pagoda

I will always remember the little boy's laughter as he first touched the ocean with his bare hands and his wide eyed surprise when the waves hit his little body.

     Lolo's Sidekick

     Our little sweetie pie <3

Hope to be back soon!!!

16 Months Check up

We had his 16th month check up last August and it was the first time that Lolo went with us.

Dra. Carmela reminded us not to let Gavin have his way and to instill discipline by making the parent, the boss. It is never too early to instill discipline, so she says.

Gavin is now 31 inches, 22lbs.  He walks and walks and does not talk still.  He can say mom sometimes, he can say wow, car, ate sometimes, ba for bye sometimes and uh. Our homework is still to talk to him more often and not to watch tv (uh oh). 

His injections are now done while sitting down...biggie boy na talaga, huhuhuhu :(

3 women vs a little boy holding him down during injection.

Singapore Breastfeeding Station

With my past visits to Singapore, my days have been devoted to shopping and eating while traveling via their MRT.  As I am visiting Singapore with a toddler on a stroller, I initially planned on just taking the cab most of the time.  Glad to discover that Singapore is a baby friendly country for traveling with infants on public transportation. 

London was traumatic because it had a lot of old tube stations without escalators and elevators which are hard to find. Thus, we had to resort to carrying the stroller by hand through flights of stairs.

In Singapore, we never experienced that.  Almost all pavements have ramps for strollers.  The MRT stations had special entrances for strollers and the likes.  They also had elevators to each and every floor.  It was located usually as you enter the station.  Most had step free platforms too.

Also, almost all malls and shops had elevators because most escalators do not allow buggies. 

This feeding station was actually at the Gardens By The Bay, but pretty much all malls had very decent changing stations with feeding stations...most are just located beside or inside the toilet.

The End Of Being A Milk Mama

The past few months, I have been noticing that my milk supply has been decreasing steadily.

From pumping 4x a day mid year to just 3x a day (one in the morning before work, once at work and one before sleeping), to just expressing when I wake up and before I sleep.  That meant not bringing my extra Medela Bag at work and I can now wear straight up dresses without buttons.  

It went down to just once a day in the mornings, but I was still able to express 5 oz, them it went down to 4oz then 3 0z.  Afterwhich, I just pumped very other day and then the milk supply really became close to nothing.  

That's it, I guess, 17 months of being able to feed my son.  Ten of which exclusively and seven months mix feeding.  I'm grateful for having had a chance to do so.  Quite sad about stopping.

I will miss the complexities of expressing breastmilk as a working mom.

I will miss being his main source of nutrients.  I will miss that it's actually free :)

I still can't believe I managed to do it during work, during my travels, during important meetings, during shopping sprees and yes, even while driving. I will somewhat miss my breast friend Medela Freestyle who has been my constant daily companion aside from my son.  It has reached Tagaytay, Baguio, Bohol, Hongkong, Tokyo, Korea, Scotland, London and Singapore. 

Thank you God for enabling me to be able to feed the little boy.

Glad I sticked to my decision on providing him with the best :)