Defne is enjoying the early summer.
16 months old:
Hello from a very sunny and hot England!
It's Breastfeeding Awareness Week here and I thought I'd like to tell you about an amazing mum whom I have met recently.
This mum had given birth to a gorgeous baby girl in mid Jan.They had problems establishing the breastfeeding.Little one was very sleepy and severely jaundiced.The mother used to pump her milk and fed her baby by tube.She then began to use a lactation aid.
I had read about "lactation aid" before but didn't see it.
What is a lactation aid?
A lactation aid is a device that allows a breastfeeding mother to supplement her baby with expressed breastmilk, formula, glucose water with added colostrum or glucose water without using an artificial nipple. It consists of a container for the supplement—usually a feeding bottle with an enlarged nipple hole—and a long, thin tube leading from this container.
Source:Kelly Mom
It has been quite a time since I last posted.
The weather has been really pleasant in this part of the world.Trying to make the most of it,we have been spending many hours,walking,jumping,looking at flowers,feeding ducks and stroking puppies.
Here are a few photos:
You know,kids love playing with sand.We don't have a garden so here Defne is playing with oatmeal instead of sand.Very messy but provides lots of fun!
If you're a regular reader,you might remember that Defne skipped crawling.
She started to walk at 12 months.When she fell down,she used to get up on all fours and start walking again.Last weekend,at 16 months she started to crawl.Not as a means of transportation,just for the fun of it.
At these times last year,Defne was a young baby.We had to obey her sleeping schedule and spent much of the time at our town.This year she's a big girl who loves travelling.
A new art exhibition, Get Britain Breastfeeding, is soon opening in London to encourage breastfeeding.
One of the posters was published in the newspaper yesterday.I find it lovely.Visitors to hospitals and health centres across Britain will see the this image as it is rolled out this summer. Isn't it beautiful?
Read more here.
A few months ago I had written that I wanted to include more raw foods in our diet.
We were considering whether or not to invest in a dehydrator.Then Lucy at By other means posted some food pictures which helped me make my mind.She was also very kind to answer my questions and even gave me a few good tips.
So I ordered a dehydrator,2 books,Raw Living by Kate Wood and Detox Your World by Shazzie.Then it was time to put on the apron and get adventurous.
For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the concept of raw(living foods),here is a short explanation: It's proved that cooking not only destroys nutrition and enzymes, but chemically changes foods from the substances needed for health into free-radicals and poisons that destroy our health!
By using a dehydrator,you heat up the food to 38 degrees so the enzymes will not destroy. (Having said that a dehydrator is not a must for a raw kitchen,you can also use your oven leaving it ajar.We bought one since we have an open plan kitchen and a toddler!)Dehydrators are useful for making raw crackers,breads and drying fruit and veggies.
Before our trip to Turkey,I made some nice carob flapjacks (they didn't photograph well) and on Monday I made these tomato crackers from Raw Living.They are very crispy and quite nutritious.Defne loves them,too which is good as they are chock full of flax seeds.
I can't wait to try the other recipes ;)
