Wellness & Vitality
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The Real Truths about Breastfeeding
I’ve decided to write this article on The Real Truths about Breastfeeding from my personal experience of doing it for the last 22 months after realising that there are too many articles out there that are not based on the truth. After all, the truth sets you free. I believe learning these hard truths early on for any parent will prepare them better on the journey of breastfeeding. Glorifying and sugarcoating breastfeeding and omitting all the hard details only makes it harder to be accomplished, so here you go. The 1st Truth Breastfeeding is A PAINFUL HARD WORK. When I first read about breastfeeding, I knew it would be inconvenient,…
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iTreadmill iPhone app
I’ve decided to start off a series of iPhone app recommendations, apps that I love and find really useful here. For some of us with small homes, it’s not possible to have a real treadmill in the house for indoor exercise. Yet, we want to be able to track our active we are on a daily basis, eg, the number of steps we take in a day. It is said that we should walk at least 10k steps a day to maintain good health. Well, do we have any idea how many steps we took a day? With the iPhone we can actually track that. Sure, the iPhone has native…
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When to wean from pumping at work?
I have officially stopped pumping milk at work! It had been 15 months of hard work (minus first 2 months of confinement). Josiah turns 18 months in a couple of days, and 18 for me is like a milestone in itself, when a child becomes more independent and starts to test your will. Anyways, I did not come to this decision easily. I must say, the feeling of weaning from pumping as very similar to weaning from breastfeeding altogether. I get so confused and worried as well, with many thoughts of whether I can still nurse at night if I do not pump during the day. After many consultation with…
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Mother and Baby Room at KLIA
On our last flight that landed in KLIA from Kuching last month, I had a chance to visit the mother’s room which was just at the terminal that we exited. It is actually one of those ‘toilet looking’ mother’s room, but it’s pretty neat at the same time. In it, there’s a diaper changing area that you can ‘lock’ you baby in, coz it’s like a metal crib. The colour theme is mostly pink, and there’s a cute pink bench for other parents to wait, if any. Or for nursing mothers to use as well… So anyways, it’s good that our KLIA airport has a nice room dedicated for mothers.…
