Keeping your baby's safe is the most important thing for any mother. Most babies loves to crawl and get into everything, and keeping them away from all harmful products is very simple. Nowadays they have many product to help baby proof your house. One of the most popular brand is Safety 1st. Safety 1st provides all the essential to baby proofing your home. I have come up with a top 5 list of the most important products that a parent may need. Safety 1st is an expensive, I recommend purchase from reputable companies and whatever is the cheapest.
1.Baby Gates
Baby gates help keep your child from climbing up the stairs and falling they may also help blocking the kitchen when cooking or anywhere else you may deem dangerous for your child
2.Outlet Covers
Outlet covers are essentially a protective casing on plugs all over the house. They prevent children form getting electric shocks or having them stick something in the plugs that may cause them to get hurt
3.Door handle covers
These covers help you keep your child from being able to open doors to rooms that you may not want them to get into. The front door is another place you may want to use this cover on. This prevents the child from being able to go outside and depending on where you live, prevent them from getting to the main road and possibly cause them to get severely injured
4.Cupboard and Drawer locks
Kids like to open up cupboards and explore. Some of our cupboards or drawers have chemicals and or sharp objects that can hurt the child. Having those locks help prevent your child to ingest anything that can cause bodily harm or hurt them.
5. Toilet seat locks
The bathroom contains the most bacteria and kids love to put their hands in the toilet its the easiest thing to reach and in their perspective the most intriguing. By having a lock on the toilet it prevents them from getting their hand in there and kids are notorious for throwing various objects in the toilet which could cause a major plumbing problem.
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Thursday, 20 March 2014
Thursday, 20 February 2014
Store Bought Food vs. Home Made
We live in a very busy world, where were constantly on the go. Moms these days are constantly juggling between going to school, work and raising their little ones. Healthy choices are always a concern for any new parent, but when your on the go what can you do? Grocery stores and super stores make it quite easy for parents on the go, to purchase bottled food for there growing little ones. With a variety of vegetables such as peas, carrots, sweet potatoes and a very reasonable price 60-80 cents per bottle, it allows mass purchasing at a given time. Parents who choose this route can ensure that their little one is getting the recommended amount of vegetable intake. To keep these products as fresh, companies such as Gerber and Heinz have to add preservatives to their product. How can you really know if its the type of food or the add-preservatives your baby may be allergic too? You really don't know! Snacks such as rice cakes/husks, rice puffs, and bottled fruit can be purchase. Just make sure to read the label and purchase stage appropriate foods for your little one, as choking is a big concern.
Not all moms are living the fast-paced life of juggling work or school and raise their child. Moms who have time may want to make their own baby foods. Ensuring that there are not any additional stuff added to the food they choose to introduce. There are many easy ways to puree and prepare baby food. Most people tend to boil the vegetables until they become a mushy state, and then strain it and put in in a blender or magic bullet to get it to the consistency they want. Foods prepared at home, tend to be bland, but you can jazz it up with just a little bit of butter. Fruits and meats can be prepared the same way. You can keep track of when you prepared the food, but I would recommend only to make a few servings at a time to avoid wasteful dumping.
In my case, I just found that was not enough time in the day to make my own food, and relied on purchasing bottled baby food. As Serena grew, her taste in the baby food declined as she was more interested in what I was eating. As she progressed, she ate fresh fruits daily, the only store bought items were her DHA yogurt( Stimulates brain development)rice puff snacks and baby cereal. She is 14 months now and eats whatever I or her grandparents cook. At this stage, it is very cost-efficient, but I still have to slowly introduce new foods just to make sure there is not an allergic reaction.
If you do choose to purchase bottle food, make sure you read the ingredients. Don't buy too much at one time, to avoid expiration, and watch to see if they go on sale, they will probably drop by 10 cents if theys do go on sale.
Happy Feeding :)
Not all moms are living the fast-paced life of juggling work or school and raise their child. Moms who have time may want to make their own baby foods. Ensuring that there are not any additional stuff added to the food they choose to introduce. There are many easy ways to puree and prepare baby food. Most people tend to boil the vegetables until they become a mushy state, and then strain it and put in in a blender or magic bullet to get it to the consistency they want. Foods prepared at home, tend to be bland, but you can jazz it up with just a little bit of butter. Fruits and meats can be prepared the same way. You can keep track of when you prepared the food, but I would recommend only to make a few servings at a time to avoid wasteful dumping.
In my case, I just found that was not enough time in the day to make my own food, and relied on purchasing bottled baby food. As Serena grew, her taste in the baby food declined as she was more interested in what I was eating. As she progressed, she ate fresh fruits daily, the only store bought items were her DHA yogurt( Stimulates brain development)rice puff snacks and baby cereal. She is 14 months now and eats whatever I or her grandparents cook. At this stage, it is very cost-efficient, but I still have to slowly introduce new foods just to make sure there is not an allergic reaction.
If you do choose to purchase bottle food, make sure you read the ingredients. Don't buy too much at one time, to avoid expiration, and watch to see if they go on sale, they will probably drop by 10 cents if theys do go on sale.
Happy Feeding :)
Thursday, 6 February 2014
Disposable Diapers vs Cloth Diapers
When it comes to being a new mom, especially a young mom you have a lot of concerns for your little one. You want to provide the best for your child, but also being bombarded with everyone's opinions and advice. Every young mom wants to provide the world to their child and do it reasonably priced.
Whether one chooses disposable diapers instead of cloth is a very personal choice. A woman might choose disposable diapers instead of cloth because it is convenient; easily available; there are no extra loads of laundry; no additional laundry costs and, it can be disposed of with the weekly garbage collection. However it is also very costly. In addition to the diapers, the costs of the diaper genie, diaper genie refills and disposable wipes must also be considered. Eventually all this diaper garbage goes to a landfill and, the cost to the environment cannot be ignored since it takes years for these diapers to decompose.
On the other hand a woman might choose cloth diapers because her infant is allergic to all disposable diapers; cloth diapers are cheaper; less garbage is created; but you have to wash them yourselves.
When it comes to disposable diapers the market is monopolized by two large companies
Pampers- is a diaper brand that is the most widely known. It was introduced by Procter & Gamble back in 1961 and paved the way for a whole new category of baby products.
Huggies-is the second leading diaper brand and is a market innovator as well. Over the years, they have continuously evolved with new diaper products to meet the changing needs.
There are other brands of diapers, but in Canada most people buy either Pampers or Huggies.
Each brand of diapers have a wide aray of lines, that fit each stage of your childs growth. They come in BIG giant boxes or packages. Dispoable diapers are very pricey, if you subscribe to Pampers or Huggies as a memner you are able to order free manufacture coupons. Only catch is you can not use more than one coupon per transaction.
There are alot of great reptuable companies out their that provide cloth diapers at a reasonable price. A few sites are:
www.diapersupply.ca
www.happybabycompany.com
I would recommend if you are going to be going through this route to do your research.
Whether one chooses disposable diapers instead of cloth is a very personal choice. A woman might choose disposable diapers instead of cloth because it is convenient; easily available; there are no extra loads of laundry; no additional laundry costs and, it can be disposed of with the weekly garbage collection. However it is also very costly. In addition to the diapers, the costs of the diaper genie, diaper genie refills and disposable wipes must also be considered. Eventually all this diaper garbage goes to a landfill and, the cost to the environment cannot be ignored since it takes years for these diapers to decompose.
On the other hand a woman might choose cloth diapers because her infant is allergic to all disposable diapers; cloth diapers are cheaper; less garbage is created; but you have to wash them yourselves.
When it comes to disposable diapers the market is monopolized by two large companies
Pampers- is a diaper brand that is the most widely known. It was introduced by Procter & Gamble back in 1961 and paved the way for a whole new category of baby products.
Huggies-is the second leading diaper brand and is a market innovator as well. Over the years, they have continuously evolved with new diaper products to meet the changing needs.
There are other brands of diapers, but in Canada most people buy either Pampers or Huggies.
Each brand of diapers have a wide aray of lines, that fit each stage of your childs growth. They come in BIG giant boxes or packages. Dispoable diapers are very pricey, if you subscribe to Pampers or Huggies as a memner you are able to order free manufacture coupons. Only catch is you can not use more than one coupon per transaction.
There are alot of great reptuable companies out their that provide cloth diapers at a reasonable price. A few sites are:
www.diapersupply.ca
www.happybabycompany.com
I would recommend if you are going to be going through this route to do your research.
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