manilamommy.com

Motherhood is one adventure after another. I live, I learn, I write.

A Non-Breastfeeding Story for Breastfeeding Week

By 19 Comments

In a parenting forum I'm a member of, there was a huge discussion that went on about a supposed "breastfeeding" hater who's a mom herself and who was said to be very discouraging and negative about breastfeeding. The one who wrote about the hater is a mom who's currently breastfeeding. It was a hot topic and moms made sure their thoughts were known. I joined the discussion but I kept my email brief and told the concerned mom that just as breastfeeding moms want to be understood so do moms who … [Continue reading]

Saturday Scare

By 8 Comments

Last Saturday started out normally. We woke up, had breakfast then we all trooped to to DW's Kindermusik class and then to a good friend's party for his daughter's first birthday. It was all good save for the fact that DW had rashes that started out last Friday. Early Saturday morning DW woke up saying "kati,kati".  So, BDW applied VMV's Boo Boo Balm (see my review here) and DW went back to sleep right after that. He was relieved from the itchies and we all thought that was the end of … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: DW Tagged With:

Belated Happy Birthday

By 5 Comments

vintage birthday card

This blog turned a year old and I forgot about it!! What kind of a mom am I????? Anyway, happy birthday to my little blog that could :D I am always in a thankful spirit when big occasions come around so here goes: A big thanks to YOU! Most especially to my regular readers, RSS feed and email subscribers and twitter friends. My first blog post is this one, a love letter to DW. I'm happy to report that  DW agreed to our little secret :D Thanks to all the cool people who sponsored my … [Continue reading]

PNoy SONA Speech 2010

By 10 Comments

Dear Pnoy, Please meet DW, my son. He came to know you from all the commercials you aired last campaign season. Now everytime he sees you, he would shout  "NoyNoy!!" and would do the Laban sign. Sometimes he would even call you when he does a roll call of the people in our house. Para ka ng kasama namin sa bahay. I think it's cool that my kid knows his president. You are his president PNoy.  I hope that my son grows up knowing that his president was honorable, honest and gave Pinoys a … [Continue reading]