A few nice whole foods baby formula images I found:
Sawyer is 6 months OLD!!!!!!!
Image by Pfau
I eat all number 1 baby foods and i have just tried juice. I have also slept through the whole night (just three times though, the weekend after i turned 6 months). I just began trying number 2 foods and I finally rolled over 3 days after I turned 6 months. I love sitting up using a tripod hold. I like going to my daycare but I still have trouble napping for long periods of time. I sleep so well in the crib in my parents room, too. any time I am grumpy, I just have to look at my brother. Watching him play anything relaxes me. I like to look at my sister, too. She is so pretty!!!!! I love my jumperoo and I try jumping even when i am just sitting in someone’s lap. I am beginning to cry at daycare when I see my momma come to get me. She just cannot grab me fast enough. I finally take a bottle of formula when I have to at daycare, but I just am not a big fan. Give me my momma’s milk in a bottle though and I go to town! I look for Daddy when you ask me where Dada or Daddy is, but he is the only one. My doctor keeps commenting on how happy I am. Yes it is unusual. I am so cute. I love to visit my momma on Mondays when my gramma takes me to her work for nursing time at her school. I am loving life. One more month until my momma is off of work for the summer! Whoohoo! I am getting ready to eat yogurt and finger food this month. I will update you soon. See you next month.
Meet 1st grader Srey Touch and already an inspiration
Image by cambodia4kidsorg
Srey Touch’s Story
When Srey Touch she was 17 months old, her mother appeared at the gate of the Sharing Foundation’s Roteang Orphange with her starving daughter. Lao Pov said that she had just buried Touch’s twin sister underneath their thatch hut out in back of Roteang Village. The baby had died of malnutrition and she feared Srey Touch would too. Srey Touch was in very bad condition, and she was admitted to our orphanage “hospital room” with her mom and gradually fed back to health. Her mom received lots of support and counseling from our head nanny, Dany. After a few months, mom and baby went back home with weekly formula and rice supplied.
Srey Touch, 6,is a happy, energetic little girl who is in her second year at the Sharing Foundation’s Khmer Literacy School in Roteang Village. This year, given her improved literacy skills, she is also attending Grade 1 at the Village School. Her mother, Lao Pov, who is totally illiterate, is very proud of her daughter’s education and plans to keep her in school indefinitely. Her mom works on the Sharing Foundation’s farm project, and the income she earns is enough that she doesn’t need her daughter to work. Frequently, children in very poor families work in order to bolster the family’s income, and this prevents them from attending school.
Both Bora and Nhuong, young people from Cambodia, who are donors to this cause, know this story all too well:
As Bora says, "I don’t know what I can do as a single Cambodian citizen to help next generation of my country. But I know for sure that all of our contributions will make different. Our donation can help one child to go to school for the whole month.
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Nhung says,"I understand how difficult it is to obtain an education when you have no money and more importantly when food and clothing are scarce. For most children in Cambodia this is a story that is all too common. Most children are illiterate and work on the family farm. As the country industrializes and leaves behind the agrarian lifestyle, these children grow up to be migrant workers with nowhere to go. Unlike those children, I was lucky enough to come to America and receive an education. This is why this cause is important to me.
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365:2:3 Mommy Milk.
Image by dormousie
My little baby, the reason I started my first 365 project, will be a year old next Tuesday. To be completely clichéd, I can’t believe the year went so quickly.
So for almost a year now, my little tiny boy (now a big boy!) has had Mommy Milk every day. We’ve been lucky to be breast-only for milk and I’ve been lucky to be a good pumper at work. (In the early days, those bottles were full at the end of the day.)
Someone asked me once if breastfeeding was demeaning; I think they meant it in a genuinely concerned way, concerned about the whole body-sharing and dependency. My answer then, as it is now, is that breastfeeding has been incredibly empowering. (Again with the clichés.) For at least six months I was my baby’s entire food source, sustaining him and helping him grow, keeping him healthy. Now that he eats solid food, too, it’s a wonderful way to complete his nutrition and reconnect with him after a long day away from him.
Giving your baby healthy nutrition, whether it be formula or breast milk, is crucial. You bond with your child no matter how you deliver that nutrition, and the cuddling with your child connects you to him or her. Breastfeeding worked well for us, and I am so glad.
Happy Breastfeeding Week and Month!
