Website shutdown (www.babiesconsult.com)

Dear everyone,

It is with a heavy heart that I am letting you know that I will be shutting down my website, www.babiesconsult.com. This is because I will be retiring at the end of June, and cannot afford to maintain the website. However, I know that many of you still look forward to reading the articles, so don't worry, I will be transferring the articles to my existing blog, http://babiesconsult.blogspot.com.

Thank you for your support all these years.

Warmest regards,

Cecilia

Rat Lungworm disease

If you have small children be careful when they are playing in the garden and please wash your veggies and fruits thoroughly before eating as accidental ingestion of slugs can lead to a serious infection called rat lungworm. It is best to soak green leafy vegetables in salt water for about 10 mins as salt will kill the slugs or snails. Please view the video for how the infection can happen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrRIu0qY444&sns=em

My book is in Popular bookstore in Singapore!!

I never knew that it takes so long for a new book to be featured and sold in a book store. Anyway, it is finally in a booksore albeit in Singapore. Still waiting for news from Malaysian bookstores.

Review of my book

I am on top of the world because of the excellent review of my book from the Star news paper’s website



The best book on feeding for Asian parents

17 October 2011

Review by BRIGITTE ROZARIO

“This is not a dolled up book. At first glance, you might not even want to pick it up. The cover is not particularly attractive and the pages do not look impressive.

However, not picking it up would be the worst decision you make if you're a new mother.

Pick it up, for although there aren't beautiful studio photos inside and the layout of the pages looks a bit textbook-like, the content is irreplaceable and indeed a gem.”

Go to the links below to read the rest of the review



http://parenthots.com/parents_corner/book_reviews/The-best-book-on-feeding-for-Asian-parents.aspx

http://parenthots.com/features/Tips-from-a-Malaysian-midwife.aspx


The book is not available in bookshops yet but you can purchase it from my website

http://www.babiesconsult.com/book-sale.php

If you are in the Klang Valley, you can purchase it from

The retail pharmacy
Sime Darby Medical Centre in Subang Jaya

Uniq Full Moon Speciality Shop
No: 4 Jalan Kenari 11, Bandar Puchong Jaya.
Tel: 03-8070 0686

Klinik kanak kanak Oh
SS2 Petaling Jaya

Klinik kanak kanak Koe
Overseas Union Garden – Old Klang Road

Dr Kim Wong Women’s clinic
Centrepoint – Bandar Utama

Sally at Dr Wong Wai Peng’s clinic
Pantai Medical Centre

A reminder that 50% of the sales proceeds will go to 5 children’s charities so, if you purchase the book you will be helping some unfortunate children.

My book is ready!!!

Well, I made it to being a published author!! But, the most important thing is that now there is a book to help new parents on how to best feed their baby using both western and asian practices. I have used a lot of pictures to illustrate the techniques and procedures so that the information is light and easy to remember. Below you can see what the book looks like and also what the contents are.
















CONTENTS

Section One – Feeding Your Newborn Baby

Chapter 1: Breast or Bottle


Chapter 2: Antenatal Preparations
A
- Preparing for Breast-feeding
- Mental preparations
- Physical preparations
B
- Preparing for Bottle-feeding
- What to buy for bottle-feeding
- Choosing a formula

Chapter 3: Getting Started
A
- Management of Breast-feeding
- supply and demand
- steps for successful breast-feeding
- Expressing breast-feeding
B
- Management of Bottle-feeding
- Sterilising bottles
- Making up a feed

Chapter 4: Baby Feeding Techniques
A
- Positions for Breast-feeding
B
– Positions for Bottle-feeding
- Burping your Baby

Chapter 5: Feeding Problems
A
- Breast-feeding problems
- Sore or cracked nipples
- Fungal Infection
- Painful lumps
- Engorged breasts
- Diminishing milk supply
B
- Bottle-feeding problems
- Some technical problems and what to do

Chapter 6: Looking after yourself
- Eating the Right Food
- Traditional Chinese confinement food
- Eating fruits and vegetables
- Recipes for making confinement teas and papaya soup


Section Two – All About Solid Food

Chapter 7: Weaning your baby
- Weaning schedule
- Preparing the porridge
- What to put in the porridge

Chapter 8 : Introducing fruits to small children
- When to start giving fruits
- Schedule for giving fruits

Chapter 9: Feeding your toddler
- Different eating styles
- Teaching your toddler to feed himself

Chapter 10: Food Facts
- Western Food Classification
- Asian Food Classification

Chapter 11: Cooking for your toddler and family
- Fish recipes
- Chicken recipes
- Pork recipes
- Vegetable recipes
- Soup recipes
- Pasta recipes

Chapter 12: Food Related Problems
- Colic
- Constipation
- Diarrhoea
- Allergic reactions
- Choking
- How to do CPR

The book is priced at RM 38.00 per copy. Currently, the book is not available in the book stores so if you are interested in purchasing a copy please check on my website for postal rates and how to order.
50% of the sales proceeds will go to 5 children's charities so if you buy the book, you will also be helping needy children. I look forward to your support. Thank you

Additions to some families

My goodness, I did not realise that it is so long since I wrote anything. Anyway, I am excited to let you know that some families who use my childcare centre have had new additions. They are:


Zhi Xuan’s little sister Zhi Qing










Juen Yip’s little brother Joe Yip










Elena’s little sister Evangel










Jade’s little brother Kieren










They are so gorgeous and so different from their older siblings.

Dangerous light bulbs

I just received this email from a friend in the USA so I thought I'll share it with anyone who uses this type of bulbs.

Below is a picture of a CFL light bulb from my bathroom. I turned it on the other day and then smelled smoke after a few minutes. Four inch flames were spewing out of the side of the ballast like a blow torch!

I immediately turned off the lights. But I’m sure it would have caused a fire if I was not right there. Imagine if the kids had left the lights on as usual when they were not in the room.

I took the bulb to the Fire Department today to report the incident. The Fireman wasn’t at all surprised and said that it was not an uncommon occurrence. Apparently, sometimes when the bulb burns out there is a chance that the ballast can start a fire. He told me that the Fire Marshall had issued reports about the dangers of these bulbs.

Upon doing some Internet research, it seems that bulbs made by “Globe” in China seem to have the lion’s share of problems. Lots of fires have been blamed on misuse of CFL bulbs, like using them in recessed lighting, pot lights, dimmers or in track lighting. Mine was not in any of those. It was a normal light socket. I bought these at Wal-Mart. I will be removing all the Globe bulbs from my house. I have not decided yet if we are going back to incandescent bulbs at this point.
Just thought you should know.