10 Habits of Happy Moms

Here are 10 things happy moms do--so remember these tips in your day-to-day life!

1. Find time for yourself
Happy moms know they deserve a little time to themselves. When you know you're going to have a little room to breathe later on in the day, it's easier to take on everything that's in front of you. Our formula? Take 2 hours out for yourself every 3 days.

2. Don't make a happy baby, happier!
We all do it...you see your baby's head at what you're sure is an unnatural angle snoozing in their car seat. You just know they'll be happier if their head was straight.  So you move them. And they wake up. Then they scream. Or, you see them playing happily in the sand. You just know they'll be happier if they played on the slide. So you interrupt them and move them to the slide.  And they're angry. And they let you know they're REALLY angry.  Here's the thing, they were happy. It can be hard to do, but if your kid's not complaining, leave them be!  Happy baby = Happy Mommy.

3. Embrace the mess
So your house doesn’t look like something out of a magazine. That just means it’s cozy! Your children have hands coated in dirt from the playground and faces coated in spaghetti from dinner. It’s not gross—it’s an adorable photo op! Life is about how you look at things. Next time that pile of laundry that’s been sitting on the chair for three days starts to get you down, just remember… it’s probably feng shui.

4. Make time for your friends
Your family can survive without you while you make time to see friends. You are a woman with your own identity and its imperative that you and that identity go out for some margaritas once in awhile!

5.  Stop blowing yourself off
While you may be the one taking care of everyone, it doesn't mean you can't also get what you want. Help your family realize your needs are as important as theirs and when mom is happy, everyone is happy, but when mom is not....

6.  Get in the zone Take 10 minutes to do absolutely nothing but rest. Take a break from your day, close your eyes, breath in slowly and deeply through your nose and exhale through your mouth.  Repeat several times. Think about a place you love that is relaxing, spend 10 minutes there in your mind.

7.  Remember your dreams and goals
 Everyday we are encouraging our children to reach their full potential. But sometimes in the midst of being a parent we forget about our own dreams and goals. The best thing you can do to encourage a child is to lead by example –happy moms hold on to their dreams and goals and don’t let go.

8.  Be lighthearted
Don't be the uptight mom. Be silly and dance with your kids to their music or tv show tunes. Be romantic and pull your partner into a waltz. Dance in slippery socks in your kitchen while making dinner.

9.  Bend the Rules
One of the best parts of making the rules is occasionally breaking them. Maybe it’s taking your child out of school for half a day on their birthday, or waking them up in the middle of the night to see a sky of shooting stars.  Happy moms know how to turn the mundane into fun.

10.  Mind your own business
Concentrate on creating your life the way you want it. Take care of you and your family. Don’t get overly concerned with what other people are doing or saying. Don’t get caught up with gossip or name calling. Stop seeking the validation of others and be confident in yourself.

Top 3 parenting tips for new moms

1. Spend quality time with your child even if your busy.
2. Ask and learn from other moms experience.
3.Just be a hot cool momma.

My top 3 wishes of my Anaks:

1. That they will be healthy and have best future.
2. That they will have their own happy family in the future.
3. That they will turnout to be beautiful person inside and out.

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Maicko's first roll over at 3 months

Maicko's first roll ver was last November 7, 2010 at 8:27 pm.

This video was taken November 8, 2010.This was his third time to do roll over.

He also sneeze at this moment.

Enjoy the video!

Share , share, share!!

While I am having my afternoon sleep, my son Evan suddenly go to my room.He said "Ate close your eyes". He give me the V-cut..

Baby Maicko's first step on the floor

Kakai carry my 2 month old baby..:) and he stand on the floor and nodding his head while standing ..:)

Share ng anak ko...ano kaya yun???..

Sabi ng anak ko.."Ate I have a surprise for you.Get a plate." At dala dala niya yung surprise niya pero di ko pa nakita kasi nagluluto ako...

Hahaha ! chippy lang pala at ang dami pa...haha..I said.".wow thank you anak..." At sabi niya "you're welcome"

A Child's Prayer

My son Evan memorizes this prayer ..

A child's Prayer

 Angel of God 

My Guardian dear

To whom His love 

Commits me here

Everyday, be at my side

To light and guide 

To rule and guard

Amen! 

Hope Baby Maicko  can memorize too.

Successful breastfeeding in just 10 steps - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

Iwanna share this information to all.. 

Successful breastfeeding in just 10 steps - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

INQUIRER.net
First Posted 12:03:00 08/01/2010

Filed Under: Health, Children

MANILA, Philippines—The world celebrates this year’s breastfeeding Month by recognizing the vital role health facilities play to help improve the rate of breastfeeding in the community. Research shows that hospitals and maternity units can greatly influence a mother’s decision on whether or not to breastfeed her child.

“This year, we are commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Innocenti Declaration on the Protection, Promotion, and Support of Breastfeeding,” said Vanessa Tobin, country representative of the UN children’s agency Unicef.

Unicef advocates for a breastfeeding culture in the Philippines. Together with other child rights actors, it pushes for exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of life. Exclusive breastfeeding means feeding the child with only mother’s milk and nothing else, not even water.

Soft, semi-solid, and solid food is ideal for babies six months and beyond, while the mother continues breastfeeding. This is called complementary feeding. Complementary feeding gives children the variety of nutrients that they need for their age, and will help them to develop fully into healthy and active individuals.

In response to one of the operational targets of the Innocenti Declaration, Unicef and the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) in 1991. The BFHI ensures that all free standing and hospital maternities become centers of breastfeeding support.

A maternity facility is considered “baby-friendly” when it does not accept free or low-cost breast milk substitutes, feeding bottles or teats, and has implemented these 10 steps to support successful breastfeeding:

1. Have a written breastfeeding policy that is routinely communicated to all health care staff. The 10 steps call for health facilities to have written policies that are displayed for all to read, indicating that staff is committed to implementing them.

2. Train all health care staff in skills necessary to implement this policy. Training at all levels should address the 10 steps, breastfeeding, counselling, and the International Code.

3. Inform all pregnant women about the benefits and management of breastfeeding. By the time a baby is born, the new mother must be comfortable about breastfeeding, understand its benefits, and what she has to do.

4. Help mothers initiate breastfeeding within one half-hour of birth. This step now means, for all healthy newborns, skin-to-skin contact from immediately after delivery for at least one hour or until the baby has attached and fed at the breast if this takes longer.

5. Show mothers how to breastfeed and maintain lactation, even if they should be separated from their infants. Helping mothers to breastfeed effectively with a good technique is a vital step. If infants are separated from their mothers, or are unable to suckle, their mothers need to express their milk. Health workers need skills to help mothers do these things.

6. Give newborn infants no food or drink other than breast milk, unless medically indicated. Families and health workers may believe that infants need pre-lacteal feeds of formula or glucose water or other drinks before their mother’s milk “comes in.” This may lead to failure to breastfeed. Infant formula and advertisements in maternities can mislead people on this important point. Breast milk is pure and complete, while giving babies water or other liquids can pose risks due to contaminated water.

7. Practice rooming-in—that is, allow mothers and infants to remain together 24 hours a day. In many hospitals, newborns are kept in nurseries after delivery. Rooming-in allows mothers and their babies to stay together day and night to bond and to establish breastfeeding.

8. Encourage breastfeeding on demand. Babies should feed according to their needs, not a schedule decided by the hospital or mother. Understanding her infant’s feeding cues improved breastfeeding and the mother-child relationship.

9. Give no artificial teats or pacifiers (also called dummies or soothers) to breastfeeding infants. During the early weeks, the baby’s need to suckle should be satisfied at the breast. Using teats or pacifiers may interfere with suckling and the adjustment of the breast milk supply to the baby’s requirements.

10. Foster the establishment of breastfeeding support groups and refer mothers to them on discharge from the hospital or clinic. Breastfeeding support groups are often part of a community nutrition strategy. Peer counsellors are women from the community who receive training in breastfeeding support. They often contact mothers in their homes. They are very effective in increasing exclusive breastfeeding.

Drawing attention to these 10 steps is critical in improving breastfeeding rates. More than 15,000 facilities in 134 countries have been awarded baby-friendly status since BFHI began almost 20 years ago. In many areas where hospitals have been designated baby-friendly, more mothers are breastfeeding their infants, and child health has improved.

BFHI is gaining ground in Asia, with Thailand being one of 12 developing countries taking the lead in instituting the 10 steps of baby-friendly practice in as many hospitals as possible. China now has more than 6,000 baby-friendly Hospitals and exclusive breastfeeding rose dramatically in the early 90s from 29 percent to 68 percent in the mid 90s.

“It’s a totally different scenario in the Philippines where exclusive breastfeeding for infants decreased from 37 percent in 1998 to 34 percent in 2003. Use of milk formula and feeding bottles is still a problem. There is much to be done to reverse the effect of bottle feeding and intensive work is necessary to make exclusive breastfeeding the norm in the society,” said Tobin.

Health systems, health care providers, and communities must act to make breastfeeding the easy choice for women. Breastfeeding is indeed the best start to life and mothers need everyone’s support to fully enjoy and appreciate their breastfeeding experience.



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