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Preparing for your child’s Baptism in Dubai

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*Please visit St. Mary’s Catholic Church website for any changes. September 6 marked one of the important event in our lives, our daughter Chloe Isabelle received the Sacrament of Baptism at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. We were absolutely clueless on what are the procedures in having our daughter baptized here. Basic information on what you need to do is available here but I wanted to talk to someone who actually had it done here. Luckily my friend Lanie had their daughter Elise baptized here, so there I was bugging her everyday. Today I’m sharing with you what procedures/steps we did to have our child Baptized here in Dubai. 1) Attend Baptism preparation seminar. Visit church website for any changes. The Baptism preparation seminar is held on the Second Friday of every month from 8.30 am till 10.00 am in the mini hall. Parents and God-parents MUST attend this seminar before requesting Baptism for their child. It is recommended that parents attend the seminar before the birth of their child. (as of June 2014) You don’t need to get prior registration …

Chloe Isabelle is 3 months

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Our Princess you’re growing up fast. You have rewarded Mommy with 3-4 hours of sleep at night and unlike your Kuya you sleep in your crib. Swaddling helped you sleep from my arms to crib and you can even sooth yourself to sleep.  For morning naps you either sleep on your bouncer our flat on your tummy. Just recently you discovered your hands and feet. You would stare at them cute fingers and laugh when you get to lift your feet up. Daddy is having fun watching you lift your head while you hold on to his fingers.

Chloe Isabelle is 2 months

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We welcomed baby Chloe’s 2nd month with a visit to her Pedia for her scheduled vaccines. She had 3, one injection in each thigh and the last one taken orally. I was breastfeeding her during the vaccination hoping she won’t feel the pain but boy did she cry while looking at me as if saying “It hurts mama.” Days before her baby wellness check we had vomiting incident of more than a cup full which made me worry. According to her Pedia as long as she doesn’t get any fever her spitting out after feed or during burp time is normal and even commented that she could be overfed. I was advised to feed her every 3 hours and burp her really well. Kuya V was quite sad that I didn’t bake any cake for Chloe’s 2nd month. The reason why we didn’t have any cake was fever, baby girl had fever for 2 days after her vaccine and she demanded to always be carried and won’t even settle even when I carry her in …

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 …

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 …

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 …