A suitcase with...

Cloth Diapers!!!

This was taken when mummy was packing for 1 month holiday in Alor Star with En En and Zheng.

But our little Tarzan was trying to be adventurous IN the suitcase too~~

Flu went off... finally

Mummy was battling with flu for almost 2 weeks plus and now finally can declare for the victory! Yeah!!! Was worry that baby Z got flu from mumy too but luckily he's only discovered with a little coughing 2 days ago when mummy was getting well. That's the wonders of breastfeeding!

So, from the previous post, this is the so-called "Ang-Moh" mint. Pardon as the leaves are supposed to be all green but the one in the pic were taken out from the fridge after 2 days... therefore already layu lah... It's very big compare with the normal mint leaves that we used in cooking and it has some fur-like feeling when touching. Surprisingly, it's quite tasty as a drink after cooked with rock sugar but it also can be chewed raw. Immediate soothing for the throat irritation.

Just for a record of medication that mummy got from Dr.Zovi's prescription... in case in need for future while still breastfeeding (CHOY! CHOY! CHOY! touch wood...)

Cough - DURO-TUSS FORTE 0.3% SYRUP / PHOLCODINE

Antibitotic - AUGMENTIN 1g (amoxycillin + clavulanate potassium)

Baby Z's had flaming red "little bird" since last week but now it's under monitor and proper care with frequent changing of nappy, use lampin instead of modern cloth diapers. Visited paed and most probably the cause of it was too humid and didn't clean properly. In fact, it's just a mild case and paed only gave LACTACYD to be used in bath and nappy change. Well, sometimes he was soaking wet espcially using cloth nappies overnight... maybe need to add another layer of microfleece to wick the moisture away.

Oh... if you are new to modern cloth diapers, do drop by my diapering blog. Moment like this it always give mummy a mix feeling to use disposable and cloth diapers when you are so in love with the modern cloth nappies. No doubt disposable never gives any skin problem to both mummy's little ones but the impact of the environment... well, it's just feeling so waste to use and throw... Anyway, right now mummy needs to take more precaution at this moment for baby Z's little bird as mummy discovered there's some peeling of skin happening... Poor baby Z... Guess mummy will resume in full time cloth diapering soon.

First knitted baby long pants

It's a wool pants... another interest I got after addicted to cloth diapering. More details here.

New stash of cloth diapers again...

So colourful, aren't they?

This time En En become the inspector for QA! Haha...

Lovely December

Mummy was overjoy with freebies received during this month. Mummy got surprises from winning a RAK from a scrapbooking challenge of the month...



12 pattern papers, 1 set of rubber stamp and a handmade card from Wati! Surprise! Thank you very much... Just in time for my ATC Swap.

This is the Layout that I submitted for the scrapbooking challenge:-



Next,


Trial kit of Scarlet Secret (detergent with natural ingredients for cloth menstrual pad) from Sandra. Thank you and I shall provide my report soon... :)




A free complimentary gift from femchoices... another surprise of mine as I never know by providing a link I wil get surprise too!

Cloth Diaper E-store

Clockwise from top: drybees light blue fleece pocket diaper, bum genius OS (onesize) pocket diaper, hemp OS fitted diaper, sherpa sized L fitted diaper & drybees OS bamboo fitted diaper.
In the middle: Bummis PUL diaper cover

I was really amazed in less than a year, there are so many e-stores that carry modern cloth diapers rooted in Malaysia. There is really a great demand from parents and we have 10 malaysian based cloth diaper e-stores located in north, south and east of Malaysia! Suddenly mummies turned to be WAHM and modern cloth diaper is really a Hot Cakes in Malaysia!!!

En En in handknitted wool diaper cover

Cheeky En En in handknitted wool diaper cover!

Mummy snapped this pic right after En En woke up one morning before mummy changed her from her pyjamas. Well, ok mummy just pulled off her pants and ta-daa... the blue knitted soaker was shown!

Mummy never wear En En in wool cover during daytime but probably if the room is 24 hours with air-con still on, it's alright and don't think it is hot. Wool in fact is very breathable and it treated with lanolin is water resistant, air permeable, and slightly antibacterial, so it resists the buildup of odor.

Go Green Mama - Review

I have some update on the cloth menstrual pad. Hop over to find out if you are interested. I just love to share this with all the ladies who visit to my blog.

http://journeywifnappy.blogspot.com/2007/10/go-green-mama.html

Thanks alot for reading.

My Birthday Gifts

This is a very backdated post, my Bday is in the early of Oct. This is the year that I rewarded myself alot... maybe too much according to DH.

So these are the gift I ordered for my own, DH helped me to bring back from US!

100% pure wool and 100% cotton knitting yarn! They are total 22 balls with each ball from USD1.99 - USD2.49, but they don't do international shipping. So, I'm lucky to have DH travel to US. Will knit for years with them since I'm a slow knitter... haha!

Acrylic stamp for my scrapbooking project! Still keeping them as I do not purchase any inkpad but I think this is going to be fun!

The next one is the gift from DH which I long to have and he supported me to go green!

It's a set of cloth menstrual pad!!! Made of bamboo velour and love them so much... extremely soft and luxurious to touch! En En got modern cloth diaper and mummy now also got modern cloth mentrual pad, how nice! Want to know more about cloth mama pad, stay tune for my update on my diapering blog.

So, I'm officially broke now since the gifts for myself were all in USD... *sigh*

Knitted Wool Soaker

Ta-daaaa... so here is the product from the wool yarn I bought from Aussie last month. Don't praise me as I'm not the one who complete the knitting, credits to MIL. She is now hook back knitting after so many years never knit. She even completed a few handphone covers too. I just did maybe 20% only... my progress is very slow. New knitter but gaining experience.

This is a diaper cover for fitted diaper (another modern cloth diaper). Fitted diaper is made from cotton, hemp or bamboo. It's a soft diaper with snaps or velcro to wear on baby or toddler. Once it get wet, the outside of the diaper also will be damp. That's why it needs a cover and I chose to use wool as the cover. Ok, the hot issue... I only use this at night in air-con room.

I never wear this on En En yet as it need to be lanolized. I'm waiting for hubby to get me a tube of Lansinoh lanolin from US. So, you might wonder how it works, huh? Too long for me to explain here.

I'll try to knit a smaller size wool diaper cover for my future baby as I still have leftover yarn. Wish me luck this time!

Finally...

After waiting for 1 week plus... I got my parcels from US and Aussie:


My parcels....


My wool!

The wool from Australia's wool mill for my knitting project - wool soaker and the customised wool soaker from Shannon! Can't wait to start my knitting session asap and tonight am going to try the wool soaker as diaper cover for En En's fitted diaper. My inspiration of knitting came from when I become a cloth diaper addict!

Dreaming about cloth diaper

Oh my goodness! I was awake at 3.45am this morning, realizing my daughter was turning while sleeping. Guess she must be hungry since the last feed was 9.30pm last night. Made her the milk, yes in bottle as I do not have supply anymore and she finished in her dream.

While I was about to sleep at 4.30am, couldn't so. Unconciously, cloth nappy suddenly filled up my mind. Fitted diaper, I'm going to get Baby Beehind and Tot-Bot bamboo.... maybe get another one from Bambineo? Or Happy Hempy? Hmm.... Motherease Sandy's also a nice one for heavy wetter. Nappy cover should try wool or fleece? Shall I pick Lovelybum or Stacinator? Tot-Bot fleece in Stripe is cute for its colours...want to know where I can get all this? Order from overseas, but I never do so but locally we have Mia Bambina.

Within seconds, I already doozed off and guess what! I was dreaming already started off to knit the soaker! OMG! Can't imagine how I knit since I never knit and never know how to knit I day dream too much and really can't get my head off about being crazy with cloth diaper/nappy.... whatever you name it.

Yes, since July I started to study and research about fabric and yarn for knitting too. Pulled out MIL's 70s book about needlework (published in Australia) and there are so many types of cloths that use in today cloth diaper/nappy were never exist in the 1970s. No wonder the older generation has no idea about what I'm talking about the modern cloth diaper. You can see a few that I tested on En En from my link here:
http://awakenspring.blogspot.com/2007/06/en-en-in-cloth-diaper.html

Isn't they looks cute and nice on little bum? They are washable, reusable, gentle to baby skin and there are so many types out there. Read up at Diaperpin if want to know more. Well, can't really describe my feeling but I'm simply in love with Cloth Diapering!

En En in cloth diaper!

The colours are so nice and delicious, yummier than I saw online. A lot of mummies now aware of the benefit of cloth diapering, I don't have to explain here again. Been waiting for the suitable cloth diaper for En En quite a while and finally.... they are here.

Just to show off a few (in fact that's the only I got... hehe..) diaper in action today!


BUMGENIUS in Butternut
Fitted just nice but will outgrown very soon... *Sigh*


White-Pink GAD
This one is bulky coz in size L, diaper stay dry but leaked outside and outer diaper was wet. Still very roomy...


Aqua-Light Blue GAD
Fit like a glove but leg casing abit tight, can't use thicker insert.

Need more information, do visit Mia Bambina!

Pre-wash for Cloth Diaper

Well, I was quite doubt about the pre-wash for hemp insert for cloth diaper. I was told by Sandra to wash & rinse hemp item at least 3 times before can combine and wash with other cloth diapers item. So, as a beginner in cloth diapering I just follow the instruction... Yes m'dame!

This is the reason behind:

1st Wash


2nd Wash


3rd Wash


See the difference?? That's the so-called layer of oil covering hemp. The normal inserts when wash looks like below:



Still can see through the water...