Year: 2012

MCC Mama & Baby Room

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I’m breast feeding Chloe full time and while I don’t really mind feeding her anywhere it would be nice to know that lactation rooms are available for Mama’s to use when inside a mall. On a recent trip to Mirdiff City Centre (MCC) I discovered a comfortable room  located on the south food court for Mom & Kids to use. Once you get inside the ladies room you will see a Mama & Baby sign press on the button to open the door you will find a spacious room, an advantage for Mom’s with strollers. Inside they have 2 changing area, play area for your toddlers.   3 rooms which opens when you press the button.   I only got to check 2 rooms one of which is a changing and feeding room.   the other room provides a Mom & Baby toilet seat as well as sink.   Also available in the room are bottle heaters and microwave oven. a big THANK YOU to MCC for providing us Mom’s a special room to go …

20th World Breastfeeding Week

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  August marks breastfeeding month. Aug 1-7 is 20th World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) with the theme “Understanding the Past – Planning the Future: Celebrating 10 years of WHO/UNICEF’s Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding.”     UAE on the other hand celebrates WBW in November each year as decided by the Ministry of Health. I don’t have any information of any activities happening on November just yet, I will surely write about it once I get some information. What I can share with you is the wonderful helpful and supportive group here in UAE – Breastfeeding Q&A Dubai UAE. “A non-profit Dubai base support group to help mothers to breastfeed through mother to mother support. The admin are volunteers trained in breastfeeding management and support.” If you are in the UAE and would like to know more about breastfeeding and want to have a support group away from home click on the link above. Plenty of moms will be available to answer your questions or just listen to your worries.   To end this post I’m sharing …

2000 Restaurant

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My MIL is in town and we initially planned to go around the city and try all sorts of cuisine. On her first week we had dinner at a Ahl AlMandi Restaurant but the food well was not pleasing to her taste. Each time we ask her what food she want’s her only reply – no local food 😦 we always end up eating at a Chinese restaurant.   Last year while waiting for Vierte’s laboratory results and very hungry we managed to get a table at 2000 Restaurant which was packed with Chinese expats celebrating the Chinese New Year. We were sure glad to have accidentally dined here because we had one of the freshest and yummy dumplings.     You get to choose between chicken, beef or seafood filling and whether you want it steamed or fried. We had a  steamed seafood dumpling (DHS 18) each amazing bite with the hints of fish, shrimps, and spring onions that you need not dip it soy sauce.  Two ladies standing behind a clear glass manually roll …

Ladybug Cake

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Ma, how old is my baby sister?  Vierte always ask me this question, after getting a reply he would get one of my cake books and start to plan a party for Chloe. When I told him that Chloe is turning a month old he already had a cake in mind. Vierte grab my 50 Easy Party Cake by Debbie Brown book and showed me the design (and he does insist that it’s a ladybug not ladybird) with instructions that it should be a chocolate cake with dark chocolate icing. LittleMan V also deserve a thank you cake. He got a mini bug cake. I love you Kuya Vierte and Baby Chloe! Both of you make Mommy and Daddy happy.

Chloe Isabelle is 1 month

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Chloe is a month old! C and I have been talking about the night we went to the hospital and if it weren’t for the 2 emergency CS who came after us Chloe should have been born on the 24th. All those seem just like it happened yesterday. During our hospital stay we struggled with breastfeeding that I almost resorted to formula good thing the nurses around me was encouraging that I was feeding her just fine. Here we are a month after happy to say that I have established a good  breast milk supply. Oh sleep..well I’m lucky if I get a good 3 hours and that only happens if she sleeps beside me in bed with her Kuya Vierte. The first week we came home I let her sleep in the crib but that didn’t work for us, I kept checking if she was ok and by the time I’m sure that she is breathing well and I’m about to sleep Chloe wakes up hungry. In the morning though she sleeps long hours …

Sponsored Video: Domestos for UNICEF

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      As parents we work hard to be able to provide our children with a safe and clean environment. Safe and Clean! A community free of violence. A community with abundance of food. A community with access to electricity. A community with access to clean water. A community with proper sanitation.  A community knowledgeable of proper hygiene. Unfortunately this are also some of the things that we take for granted. What is sanitation? Sanitation is the hygienic means of promoting health through prevention of human contact with the hazards of wastes. What is proper hygiene? Hygiene refers to the practice of cleanliness and also refers to the preservation of health. Did you know that an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world who do not have access to basic sanitation. Sadly most of them are children.   Domestos and the Unilever Foundation have joined forces with UNICEF to help improve access to basic sanitation for hundereds of thousands of people by supporting UNICEF’s Community Approaches to Total Sanitation (CATS) programme. The CATS programme …

Baby Bump Update: 36 Weeks & countdown begins

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  As I’ve said on the previous post we are now doing a scheduled C-Section on the 26th of June. That’s exactly 14 days from now.   I’m moving slow as a turtle this days and occasionally experience nausea and migraines but of course I still have active days where I get a lot of things done in the house. I’ve had the urge to scrub every knob and corner of our flat, it’s I think what they call nesting.   Our (baby and I) hospital bag is ready, prepared it weeks ago but I have to repack again after reading some tips on packing a practical hospital bag. I’ll share it here soon.   Breads yes bread, I’ve been craving for home baked ones and since most of my mom-friends aren’t fond of making one I decided to make some for us. Last week I made Sticky Cinnamon Rolls from the FoodNetwork website and oh boy was it yummy! You can get the recipe here.   V has been really clingy, he kept on …