Homemade baby food

It has been a longtime since my last post!

My baby is already 7 months old, and he still sticks to his mamma's milk! Well I started giving him rice cereal when he was 6 months old. 

Since then every day he sits on his high chair around 11am. Today finally for a first time I could give him all the amount I made (1/4 bowl), and he didn't refuse at all! 

I started giving him fruit almost same time as I started cereal. He loves banana, papaya, pear, apple, watermelon in another hand he likes fruit. I suppose most of the babies like them. 

Well I was totally scared when he poop banana! and I had to stop it till I asked his doctor if it is ok. It is OK! He poop anything I give to him almost the same shape. 

I decided to be a good mom and make him a fresh homemade food.

I did made some dishes already. I'll post the recepies of them next time when I make again. 

Today I made sweet broccoli dish. 

It is a fast and super easy dish to make!

Broccoli is a good source of vitamins and minerals:

 BROCCOLI: (1 cup - steamed)

VITAMINS: Vitamin A - 2415 iu  Vitamin C - 101.2 mg  Niacin - .86 mg  Folate - 168 mcg  Vitamin E - 2.26 mg  Vitamin K - 220 mg  Contains some other vitamins in small amounts.

MINERALS: Potassium - 457 mg  Phosphorus - 105 mg  Magnesium - 33 mg  Calcium - 62 mg  Sodium - 64 mg  Selenium - 5.7 mg  Iron - 5.5 mg  Contains zinc, manganese and others

Ingredients:

1- 3 to4 stalk of broccoli

2- a medium size carrot 

3- a slice of papaya 

Wash broccoli under cool water. Chop stems and florets into small pieces; using just the florets will many times yield a smoother puree. Steam until tender.  

Add a steam and soft carrot and a raw slice of papaya, place into your choice of appliance for pureeing and begin pureeing. 
Add water as necessary to achieve a smooth, thin consistency. 

       

My baby loves it !!! 

My Baby's 5 months old !

It was my baby fifth months birthday, and I wanted to make it special to my little darling. What would be good celebration for him to enjoy? For sure cake and mummy's friends is a way but I decided to spend time with him in the toy shop and pick up a few suitable toys for his age!

Well I searched in google for a 4-6months old's toy, and I knew exactly what are the interesting things to him. 

As he has a fisher-Price gym and he enjoyes it for a little while I was looking for other products of Fisher-Price company, and bouncer was the one in my mind!

Well I let him to sit in it at shop, but I didn't like it because of the way he stand in it, (somehow ban infront) 

Actually I tried to correct him but I couldn't, and why I was concern is because his head almost hit the toys infront of his eyes. 

Any way I gaveup on this one, even though his neck and back are quite stable! 

As i was showing the toys to him and they really were interesting to me, he refuses to look at them. He has a sound to make for I'm bord ! Here it comes, and he wanted to move.

Well I pick up a few small toys, and lets go! 

He loves to be held and walk around.

At home he wants me to hold him otherwise he just follows every movement of me with his eyes. 

In my case 5 months old's toy is his mom! And all what I read earlier about toys of his age, he is not interested for more than a minute . 

Anyway still he is not able to sit, and I hope he will change when he can sit ;) 

Annoying sickly Malaysians

Unfortunately my baby caught a cold, and it was a few very difficult days for me and him.

He started to cough followed by fever and ended up with antibiotics !

Well the sick boy and I couldn't sleep at night as every cough would wake us up and by the time the first sign of going back to sleep came, the second cough would attack!

I could blame everyone as I was too angry that my baby is in pain.

I'm still unhappy over some of the people I encountered over here!!! 

There is a group of these people who think that if they pass the virus to someone else they will get well as they have PASSed on the virus!!!

I learnt this sad fact when I was pregnant and I was trying to avoid getting sick, I remember once I entered a Guardian pharmacy shop and a lady with flu started following me. First I thought she was trying to do her job as she was a sales person, so I told her I knew exactly what I was looking for and I didn't need her help since she was sick! But  she ignored my request and stood next to me, and coughed almost straight into my face! I left the shop immediately! 

My hubby later explained that some people believe on passing on the sickness. This is a first reason for my anger.

There we go, people cover your mouth when you cough!!!

90% of people over here don't cover their   mouth when they cough. Really!!! No one taught them? 

Well my baby's pediatrician told me to avoid shopping malls, and have a morning walk and evening walk in the street! For the reason that sick people still want to shop without wearing a mask, not just that they don't cover their mouths when they cough, with some going there to pass on the sickness !!!

Well I don't want to walk my baby in the park or even on the street because of Dengue! 

I wish those Malaysians that read my post rather than getting angry or thinking about responding with the usual rude statement of "if you are unhappy go back to your country! " would think over the solution for this problem, that could make living here even more beautiful! 

Sahar.H

My Pregnancy Facts

I'm going to share with you my 10 facts about my pregnancy, I was asked by one of my lovely friend who is going to be a mom soon

Actually it was a while before I get pregnant. I was thinking about it, and 

1- It was a kind of planned pregnancy 

2- I had morning sickness in late evening

3-I had a craving for pork, cheese and nuts, and  chocolate was my best friend 

4- I had to travel 2 times during my second   trimester which I wasn't really happy about it

5- I really was excited to know the baby gender, and I had a sense that it is a boy.

6- I didn't like the pregnancy experience 

7- I changed at least 5 doctors, and finally felt in love with the last one 

8- I had a planned C-section 

9- I didn't like to wear a pregnancy outfit so I didn't wear any 

And my selection made people not to see that I am pregnant during the entire pregnancy

10- I didn't have any baby shower and any pregnancy gifts

Diet

The old and boring topic! But not to our body. 

First thing comes to mind about diet is not eating enogh or eating what you don't like. 

In my case diet is a beautiful start of a new lifestyle. 

There is a fact that we live one time, so we should enjoy our life! 

Well are you in the group of people that you enjoy food a lot more than anything else?... You should leave what ever is against eating...

But if you care how you look more than eating or you like a healthy long life go for your special diet. 

I get diet to stay slim, and healthy. My diet is always full of eating break!  

Thanks to Internet which let us to gain just in time knowledge about everything. With a simple search you can find out what nutrition and how much a body needs to stay healthy! 

Pick a notebook and start writing what ever you are eating in one day in it! At the end of day calculate the total calories you had! If you are not sure about the calories, or you cook some food mixed with many things, just google them, one by one and add them together. Depends on what is your favorite weight to be, you will have diffrent calories need a day. On average body needs 2000 calories a day. You can use the following website http://nutritiondata.self.com/tools/calories-burned to find out your personal needs.

Cut off your intake of what is on your list that you don't need and you can skip it easy! The next day try to cut them. If you think you want everything then you can use plan 2 which is burning it up. Again with googling you can find out how much calorie you can burn with different tasks and exercises! For example, breastfeeding is a way to have extra 500calories a day !!!

Good luck 

Sahar.H

Happy Mommies/ Stay young

Have you ever wondered if I put on my night cream, apply my face mask, go for a facial, dress up, put on my make up, and so on, will i be the same as those days everyone were saying you look amazing!!!  

Sure you'll look the same if you are taking care of yourself.

Once I read Chad Sugg's beautiful quote which I have enjoyed many many times : 

   "enjoy your youth, you'll never be younger than you are at this moment" 

I'm gonna write a list of what does matter for a mommy to stay beautiful:

#1. Diet, of course as our bodies built a storage of fat just in case of famine!!!

#2. Exercise, to get back on track again

#3.Day/Night skin care products

#4.Nutrition and vitamins 

#5.Dressing up

#6. Stay in touch with old friends

#7. Shopping, to encourage ourselves to look in the mirror more often

#8.Manicure &Pedicure 

#9. Face and body Massage

#10. Do not let anything stop you from being happy 

#11. Avoid stress 

#12. Drinking water

Please share with me if you know other ways to stay young !!! And I love to hear your opinion on them.

I'll go through some of them in a separate post soon. 

Sahar.H

First time I went out with my baby

Let's start over again, being a mother is a lot more than doing the chores at home, it also means you cannot go anywhere that is not baby friendly !

Let me see newborn friendly! I remember my baby's pediatrician said no outdoors or crowded places such as shopping malls as far as possible for the first month. Well as I mentioned before my hubby is not a doctor but he is as good as one in enforcing the quarantine.

For the first month I stayed home 24/7! Though I was overjoyed for having my baby, but that month, our satellite broke down, the home Internet was cut and the whole day was spent with just me, hungry baby and my smartphone (luckily still had Internet access).

I was counting the days to baby's first month celebration, I went out finally for an evening tea! 

<br>Alexis Bangsar 

Everything looked new, I mean it, everything!!! My feeling was like a person that left a cave after years. I was too excited, well it didn't take long before my baby cried for milk. Although I was wearing my nursing cloth at the restaurant, unfortunately a waiter pretended to work close by to peek at me, I felt totally uncomfortable!!! 

So I started making myself a small notebook to write down details of places where I have visited and their baby friendly ranking on a scale of 1 to 10, based on my reasons!

It has grown to be a big directory today!

Firstly the good thing about it is that I have a record of places with my own review based on my personal preferences. For me, this works better than online reviews ! 

For example, I have tried many of the baby rooms in shopping malls. I'll share with you about them soon. 

Ladies, if any of you open a baby friendly tea shop which allows breastfeeding, let me know I'll be your loyal customer. 

Sahar.H