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Making the change to cloth diapers

After much research – reading reviews, forums, checking prices – I’ve finally purchased some cloth diapers to try out!

I first read lots of reviews…

…then I listed down the brands that I wanted to try, as well as the types (AIO & pocket – easier as my mom helps me to change Elena’s diapers as well)…

…then opened several tabs on Firefox to the shops that I was planning to buy from:
1. Mybabypitstop
2. Lil’ Danzell
3. Ezmotherhood
4. Tiny Tapir
5. Mia Bambina
…and compared all the prices…

…and shopped and shopped and shopped!

3 Blueberry Minky Bamboo Velour

3 Bitti D’lish AI2

2 Cushie Tushies AIO

2 BumGenius 3.0

1 Organic BumGenius AIO

1 Grobaby Shell Set

1 Rumparooz G2

1 Dream Eze AIO

1 Large and 1 Regular Wahmies wetbag, some inserts and boosters and wipes and 12 raw silk liners later, my bank account started to take on the appearance of one chicken egg…

OK, perhaps I didn’t purchase ‘some’, I purchased ‘quite a lot’…haha! But compared to the stash that some cloth mamas have, this is nothing (consoling myself and my bank account)!

My Bitti D’lish CDs arrived in the post today, and the rest of the diapers should be coming in the next two days or so. Will post pictures once all the diapers have arrived.

Next…to wash them for the first time, then my darling girl can have her little tushie covered in organic cotton and minky!

My goodness…has it been 20 weeks already?!?

Achievement of the week
Elena flipped from back to front! I put her on her tummy on the bed, and all of a sudden, she just rocked herself a little bit and plop…she was back on her back! She still hasn’t quite gotten the hang of it yet and has since done it only two more times, but boy…was I the proud mama!

Funny story of the week
My mom and I left Elena in the room, asleep, and we went to the kitchen to take our lunch. We lingered over lunch, having a good chat before I went to wash Elena’s bottles and my mom went back to her room to check on Elena (we assumed that she was still asleep as there wasn’t a single peep from her). When I finished, I went over to my mom’s room, only to see her carrying Elena in her arms. When I asked, “Eh, what happened? I thought she was asleep?”, my mom told me that when she peeked through the slightly opened door, the little princess was not only awake, but had her head turned towards the door, her eyes opened wide…with a single tear trickling down the side of her face!!! My mom said she felt soooooo bad she immediately picked her up and carried her. My goodness, when I heard that, even though I didn’t witness it in person, I too felt my throat tighten and my heart break!!!

Feeding
As Elena is now fully on formula, we’ve started giving her a bit of water in between feeds. Considering that she’s usually adverse to new stuff (she can even tell when the bottle teat is new even though it’s the same brand, go figure!), I was surprised to see that she took to drinking plain water really well! Maybe she thinks it’s milk when we offer it to her… ! I don’t give her much, around 2oz throughout the whole day, and I use distilled water (I also use distilled water to make her milk).

As she seems to be on the verge of being able to drink 6oz, I purchased 6 new Evenflo bottles to replace the 5oz Medela ones (along with some other toys, hehe! My excuse was that I needed to make up the RM200 for free shipping… ). However, the medium flow teats that I purchased ended up to be too fast for her, so I’m still searching for Medela slow-flow teats to replace the ones that she’s currently using.

Mommy?
Mommy went a little bit crazy shopping for clothes for…who else? My little princess, of course! Gap & 1Utama had a sale thingy going on where everything in Gap had a 30% discount between 6pm-10pm. I bought several gorgeous dresses for her (some are actually tops for bigger babies but it fits her nicely as a dress, plus, it’s cheaper too!).

And to end this week’s post? How bout a little 18SX photo?

TAU FOO FA!!!

Omg, I can’t believe I’ve abstained from eating my favourite dessert for nearly 9 months. I was told to avoid eating it due to the gypsum powder that’s used in the process of making tau foo fa. I know that there are many other unhealthy food out there that contains preservatives, colouring, etc. that would make eating a bowl of tau foo fa safe in comparison…but for some reason, my brain decided that tau foo fa would be the one thing that I would definitely give up for the sake of baby’s health. Yes, I’m rather weird, I know that already thank you very much.

And in no particular order once I’ve satiated myself with bowls and bowls of TFF…

King Crab’s salted egg squid. Squid was another thing that I’ve avoided eating throughout my pregnancy…more for pantang reasons that anything. Funny thing is, I’m not really a big fan of squid…but I do like King Crab’s salted egg squid!

Toast dipped in half-boiled eggs with a smidgen of soya sauce. Yup, another dish that I’ve avoided since I found out about my pregnancy. Again, it’s not something that I really really love…it’s just that when you know you’re not supposed to eat it, it becomes the one thing that you keep thinking of…

Prosciutto. By itself. With melon balls. In a salad. I want.

And surprisingly, that’s about it. Just these few things.

Oh, my beloved Funny Mountain Tau Foo Fa…*drools*

w00t!

I finally finished the last two lessons of Level 3 yesterday! Six months behind schedule , but completed nevertheless! *pats self on back*

Another class on weaving using nylon thread. This time, instead of using a metal loop to thread the pendant through the cord, we used crystals instead…kinda nice for a change…

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