In just 4 days, Little Miss Samseng will turn 19-month. We brought her to get her last immunization jab earlier this month (which was overdue) when we got back from our US trip.
She is growing normally but her weight is not gaining much. At last checked, she only weight a miserable 8.5kg only (Darrius was [...]

I am in the midst of weaning Baby G off breast milk and thus has been scouting around for the right formula milk for her. She has been rejecting almost all the milk I have introduced so far. There are so many brands and so many types! All claimed that they have the best nutrition [...]

Yikes! It is 5am and I am here blogging!
Well, I was woken up by Ms Samseng about 3 hours ago and since then I can’t fall back to sleep. After tossing and turning I decided to come down and do some work instead rather than waste time starring into the darkness in the [...]

I love to read such articles:
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MONTREAL, CANADA – MOTHERS who breastfeed their children can expect them to grow up smarter than their formula-fed peers, say Canadian researchers in the largest ever study of lactation, released on Monday.
The study published in this month’s issue of Archives of General Psychiatry found that breastfeeding raises a child’s IQ [...]

It’s the time of the year again and as a huge supporter and advocator for breastfeeding, I would want to celebrate and highlight this year WABA’s World Breastfeeding Week 2007 – The 1st hour Save ONE Million Babies. The event runs from 1st to 7th August 2007.
The message for this year event is:
  
Initiation of breastfeeding within the 1st [...]

Most of you knew that we have been trying to work on #2 a couple of months back. Though I thought I was ’successful’ a month ago but it turned out to be false alarm as Aunty Flow visited me soon after… Well, it was too late now as PiggyBeng only wanted a [...]

To all mommies and daddies if your babies are using pacifiers, please read the following piece of news….
     
JOHOR BARU: A 14-month-old baby boy suffered for almost 90 minutes before dying, after he accidentally swallowed his pacifier at his babysitter’s house. 
The victim, Lam Chee Hol, whose parents work as factory operators in Singapore, was sent [...]

As PiggyBeng has to go on business trips to US and Brazil these 2 weeks, I brought Darrius to KL with me after we celebrated his 1st birthday the previous weekend in Penang as my parents came up for the party.
Ever since I started this blog, I’ve made quite a few blogging mommies friends and [...]

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! 3 cheers for all breastfeeding moomies!
A recent news report by The Associated Press on ‘Weight Gained Between Pregnancies Risky’ revealed that mothers who gained more than 7 pound between their pregnancies could put themselves and their babies at medical risks such as diabetes or high blood pressure in their next pregnancies.
To read [...]

Every year from 1-7th of August we (the moomies) will celebrate the World Breastfeeding Week. World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) will organise various outreaching activities to commemorate this day and important information such as supporting, protecting and promoting breastfeeding will be disseminated. The theme for this year is Code Watch – 25 Years of Protecting Breastfeeding.
In Penang, the [...]