I'm stingy, but I couldn't bear to let my kids put this on anymore!

I couldn't believe it at first... Malaysia's most favourite baby lotion (J&J) is a safety hazzard product. (link1)-dated 28/5/2013  (link2)-dated 13/8/2013 And most of us bought it to use on our newborn's delicate skins..

Annabell pretty much finished TWO LARGE bottles... and a few more bottles of those travel sized...
Thank goodness Annabell's skin didnt have any reaction to them.. Because Annabell have no reactions, so I got the same brand for Alivia and started using it since she got back from the hospital (Annabell started using J&J like around 5-6mths as I got 2 bottles of organic lotions on sale during mother expo.. it was good, but expensive, so I switch!)  

But due to Alivia's body more prone to sensivity/redness, she tends to have red patches around her body... We thought it was ezcema.. and very hardworking-ly slab on a lot of those ezcema creams.. sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't.. and I heard (not yet done my own research ) those ezcema creams doctor gave HAVE Steroids too! and then from red it became white patches.. We still think it was ezcema, and doctor said it will go off later..

Then.. J&J lotion finished, and I didnt have time to buy another bottle (if you know my story) I managed to find some leftover bottles of organic lotions (no idea who gave or left it at home, not expired yet, probably left by MIL day-care babies) and used it on Alivia. The first tube was Sebamed. But I hated its thick consistency. My hand could never "slide" over my baby's body.. felt like Im rubbing her instead =_="

So I tried the Bud Everyday cream and yes, smells nice, smooth and guess what? Alivia's body have lesser and lesser red pathces!   What else? Maybe Alivia is sensitive to some ingredients in J&J lotion.. So I got myself another tube of Bud's Everyday Organics Baby Cream. Waaaaaay more expensive than J&J (J&J retails RM20~ for 500ml then, Buds RM35.9 for 150ml on a discounted online website and RM50++ on baby shop...) but what to do right?

Anyway.. Since Annabell started daycare(another story, another time), I thought she need lotions after her bath there (I've stopped applying lotion to Annabell since she is around 2years old, MIL said she apply it once in a while, but since somebody is applying her lotion, why not? heheh..) and there isn't any J&J lotions at home anymore, I went out to get a tube. The pharmacy have a varieties of normal lotions, so I thought I check out their ingredients and see which is the best..

To my HORROR... they all contain cetyl alcohol, stearyl alcohol (ain't alcohol evaporates and leaves your skin even drier????) fragrance(it is fine, but link1 said J&J had a lot of fragrance in it that it scales a dangerous no8 (1 is the safetest), Dimethicone(What? Link said danger level 3 and " a silicone-derived emollient, is that its occlusive nature (meaning that it coats the skin with an impenetrable layer) can cause irritation when sweat gets trapped underneath. Not only are synthetic silicones non-biodegradable, but they also may accumulate in the liver and lymph nodes, where they may foster the growth of tumors." TUMORS?? OMG Mother F! ), Methylparaben, ethylparaben! propylparaben! (PARABEN!) OMG I dont even..! , Titanium Dioxide!? Aluminium Hydroxide?? ALUMINIUM in BABY'S LOTION???  Acetate??? I use acetate to remove nail polish!

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!
 

Not advertising (I dont get money from them anyway, I PAY them for their lotions) but do you know what's in Buds Everyday Organics Baby Cream?

"aqua/water,
aloe barbadensis leaf juice*, -aloevera
simmondsia chinensis (jojoba) oil*,
butyrospermum parkii (shea butter) fruit*,
olea europaea (olive) oil*,
cetearyl olivate,
sorbitan olivate,
portulaca oleracea extract,
fructan,
tocopherol,
helianthus annuus (sunflower) seed oil,
olea europea (olive) leaf extract,
lavandula angustifolia (lavender) oil*,
pelargonium (geranium) graveolens oil*,
parfum/perfume,
phytic acid,
sodium benzoate,
potassium sorbate.

parfum made from essential oils
*ingredients from organic farming
99.6% of the total ingredients are from natural origin
20.0% of the total ingredients are from organic farming
99.3% of the plant ingredients are from organic farming"

In the online shop I shop, Buds is the most economy organic lotion for babies.

Im so spending more $$ on Organic lotions for my babies T_T Sorry Annabell mummy put poison on you for such a long time TT____TT

Please let me know if you can find even better and cheaper organic lotions  (apart from making it myself -_-")

Update of my life

Now that I discovered I can blog from iphone (cannot upload photo to where I wanted. Only at the bottom )I shall update what's happening I'm my life that's been absent here WAY LONG!! Ok here goes a long long post!

So I got pregnant in June last year (or May if counted from LMP) and I manage to visit Universal Studios Singapore and PLAYED THEIR ROLLER COASTER.. With a fetus inside me *insert scary face* Ok I planned the trip already, bought tickets and only noticed my period is late in Singapore... So I just went ahead... :P


Ultrasound @ 6th week

If Hubbs knew I'm pregnant he wouldn't even let me go Singapore!

Anyway.. Due to previous bad experience, I was in a "not sure" and "wait-and-see" status.. I took my SWEET time after getting back from my trip before I got myself a pregnancy tester.. And another sweet time to meet the doc (6th week) after that.. Didn't want to get all excited yet... At the same time hoping all goes well..

You know what's Hubbs reaction when I showed him my positive tester? Only an acknowledgement.. =_=" I believed he too not giving so much hope, afraid it becomes another dissapointment... :( he too did not rush me to see doc..

But this time apart from first visit to the previous doc, we went to a specialist in Pantai Cheras after Hubbs uncle found out I'm pregnant and suggested his doctor.. (Shall talk about doc in another long post)



Bumps getting bigger as months passes by... ^^

Well time passed.. And my baby seems to grow healthily.. My Tummy getting bigger and bigger as months passed by. While Hubbs made sure I'm at all time safe.. And do less heavy work.. And very sensitive to things I do or going to do too.. *roll eyes*

No sex for the whole of pregnancy, no cold drinks, no coffee, no tea.. Drink red dates tea boiled by mother in law (MIL) alternate day, and occasionally homemade chicken essence with ginseng slice... Twice a day intake of Annum (he even make it for me as I tend to "forget" things) daily reminder to take my calcium, vitamins, acid folics... And frowns when I told him I forgot.. ( so I tend to say I've taken it although I didn't... And secretly take when he didn't see :P )

Well couldn't blame him, as I bleeded in the early pregnancy, fell down on my 7th month.. Each monthly visit to the doc I go with a anxious heart.. Hoping to know my baby is healthy.. And ever since I can feel baby's kick I made sure I can feel it a few times a day.. Felt strange and wish to rush to doc when baby kicks less.. But anyway my baby seems to know mummy's anxious.. She made sure I felt some kick or movements when mummy's worried ^^

Hubbs is generous enough to paid for some expensive birdnest that I started to take after 7th month weekly too *grins*

and on 3rd February 2013....

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baby Annabell is born!!

3.35Kg 51cm in height. Baby is normal and healthy~

Induced.. :) Well Mummy is kiasu and wanna have a dragon baby.. so die die also convince doc to induce. 3rd Feb is like the last day of Dragon year... (according to chinese calender)

So start a life where I will have no life and evolves around baby baby and baby.. and there goes my journey of breastfeeding, mid night waking, lack or sleep, no more sleeping late... etc..

Would like to talk about breastfeeding journey.. but I think I have pretty much forgotten most.. Summary is I bf for 3 months and its a mixed feeding cos milk just seems not enough for my baby.. had my depressed time but its over.... oh well :)

Formula is not that bad.. I grew up on formula too! And Im as healthy as can be. I seldom fall sick also what!

Anyway I had an extra "maternity" leave.. and its unpaid lar~ due to I insist to at least bf baby until 3 months old even though she is mixed fed... (wanna feed till 6th month but had some arguements with hubbs and managed to bargain for 3) as office is an open concept and every corners have cctv apart from the toilet. (and hell no, im not pumping milk in toilet!)

Hmmm.. anyway, Annabell is now 3 month old.. and Im officialy back to work on 2nd May 2013.. same as Hubbs (he had since quit Pensonic and full time in TTS )



@11 weeks old

 Thats the latest picture of my Bell in my laptop.. others in iPhone and its late now I kinda lazy to upload it.. will update later in another post..

So thats it.. will update more when I have time! I have so much things I wish to do sometimes I just dont know where to start!