A Date with the Hubby!

While its important to spend quality time with the children, it’s definitely as important to spend time with the husband! One Saturday night, Hubby and I decided to have a date!  We were supposed to watch the Sarah G and JLC movie, It takes a Man and a Woman, at the Robinson’s Magnolia.  But tickets

Overpumping, is there such a thing?

Lately, I have been pumping as often as I could. I will be going back to work in a few days and I want to stash as much breastmilk as I could so that my baby will have enough supply while I’m gone. Also, this is my way of establishing my supply, aside from direct

78 days Maternity Leave – its Importance!

In this post, I want to talk about the importance of the maternity leave SSS provides for its female members after giving birth.  60 days for normal delivery and 78 days for C-Section. For both baby number 1 and number 2, I had a C-Section, so that automatically gave me 78 calendar days of maternity

My Breastfeeding Essentials!

When I became pregnant with my second daughter Denise, I told myself that I will try my best to exclusively breastfeed her this time.  You see, my 1st born Daphne was mixed fed with breastmilk and formula until she was 18 months old.  That’s no easy feat, I know, I am proud of my achievement

Expressing milk at work!

Returning to work is one thing. But continuing breastfeeding and expressing milk for my baby are just as hard. It has been 10 days since I returned to work. So that means I had expressed milk 50 times at an interval of 3 hours 5 times a day. My schedule is at 3 in the

Breastfeeding Advocate

At a friend’s wedding last night, I was seated beside a pregnant friend. For the whole evening, we just talked about baby stuff. Like me, she would be breastfeeding her baby. I just can’t stop babbling about breastfeeding, my experiences and the mistakes I committed because I wasn’t well informed. I don’t want her to commit

My Breastfeeding Story

When I was still pregnant with Daphne, I never really thought about breastfeeding that much, though it was talked about, and my mother in law kept on retelling how she breastfed my husband until he was about 3 or 4 years old. Talk about pressuring me！I thought it was going to be a walk in

ayala and sm – united?

For the good of people and the community, these 2 corporate bigwigs decided to join and unite. Ayala Land Inc first donated a few hectares of land to Xavier School.  The land is located in Nuvali, an eco-community project of ALI, which is located in Sta Rosa Laguna. And now, I just found out that SM

of weddings and commitment

my blog is about these couples who want to commit themselves to their loved ones and get married and eventually start their own family… there are actually 2 things you need to consider and surpass if you want to get married… commitment and wedding preparation commitment (as defined in wikipedia) means to duty or to pledge to some