A couple of months ago, I started scouting for a toddler diaper, not something really common here, but I thought I saw it somewhere before. After searching online, I was led to this website, Everythingbabything.com ran by a mom called Joanne. I thought I had gone to nearly all online baby things shops, but this was the first time I heard about it. Li from Tiny Tapir introduced me to Joanne, and Joanne told me about the Poverty Janes diapers. These are hand woven really thick wool diapers of many layers, and they are not water proof. They do not have a PUL waterproof layer, thus they are not warm…

Josiah has been sick for more than a week now, started with flu and cough. It was so bad, with him crying and unable to sleep last Monday night, that we had to bring him to those 24 hour clinic, and they loaded him with big bottles of medicine. A week later he still wasn’t doing any better, in fact exactly one week after, he started to get pretty high fever at 39 degrees. This is probably the worst he got it, as he was not only hot but he was coughing and couldn’t breath well when nursing. Thus, started my many sleepless nights. Last Sunday night, he somehow didn’t…

When I was 3 years old, I was still so attached to my milk bottle. I still remember taking my bottle each time I want to drink milk, and then making my own milk, prop myself up on a pillow on the couch and drinking my milk that way. And then I had to go to school, so my mum was so impatient she simply threw my bottle away. Needless to say, I cried for quite a bit. Due to this experience, I was adamant to wean Josiah from the bottle as early as possible. Josiah started using the bottle for milk at 2 weeks old, when I mixed breastfeeding…