Family Outing to The Mines Shopping Center

The smiles on the faces of my little boy and my parents-in-law are priceless! I am so glad that he has the opportunity to spend some fun time during the school holidays with his grandparents and be spoilt by them.

Having a splashing time at the Splash Park

Dim Sum for lunch

Fun boat ride with grandpa!

Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri!

Wishing all my Muslim friends Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri. Maaf Zahir & Batin. 

Have an amazing and great time during the Raya Holidays catching up with family and loved ones.


For those who are travelling back to their hometown today, drive safely and have an enjoyable journey!

I Just Receive My Post-Natal Care Set!

Tropical Herbs Post-Natal Care Set

I have very fond memories of this post-natal care product...

When I was pregnant with my first baby 6 years ago, my beloved aunt gave me this post-natal care set. I was really happy to receive this gift because my baby was due just before the Chinese New Year celebrations.

As we all know, everything costs twice as much during the festive seasons. To hire the services of a confinement lady is not only difficult but will also cost me a bomb! I was planning to do my own D-I-Y confinement and was not sure where to buy the quality herbal products needed for my baby and me.

To my pleasant surprise, this product is not only convenient to use but also very reasonably priced compared to other post-natal care products in the market. All I needed to do was just to follow the simple instructions given. 

The complete set consists of:

- Herbal tea and After-birth herbal supplements to help revitalise the body, improve lactation, warm the body and to accelerate healing

- Herbal douche and Herbal bath to cleanse and refresh my body

- Herbal massage oil and Firming herbal blend to firm and tone my body and also to dispel wind 

- Warming herbal blend and Calming herbal blend to soothe and warm my body

- A Post-Natal binder

- Baby oil for my baby (I can't tell you how many times this baby oil saved the day when my baby had bad tummy aches and wind in his stomach. So this is my "must-have" product for my baby.)

During the 30 days confinement period, I was only allowed to take herbal baths and cleansed my hair using dry talcum powder. 

To prepare for my bath, I just put a neatly packed sachet of herbal bath into a pot of boiling water for 20 minutes and pour the extract into a pail! Just add water till the water feels warm and then bath. The herbs smells very pleasant and I felt very warm and relaxed after my bath. 

I also love the herbal douche! It is so easy to prepare and does not make my wound sting, unlike the cleansing solution provided by my doctor. Another plus point is that I felt very clean and smell good (if you know how bad the smell of lochia can get). Just soak a packet of the herbal douche in hot water and let it cool before washing or immersing in it.  

The massage oil and herbal blends are just as easy to use. Just use the massage oil to massage away the aches and pains after the herbal bath. After that, prepare the herbal blends to be applied on the stomach area. Just add some hot water to the herbal powder and mix it into a paste! How easy can it get?! After that, you might need to ask your husband to help you put on the post-natal binder.

This is why, for my second pregnancy, I am really looking forward to use this product again for my D-I-Y confinement again. 

Now...all I need buy are the herbs needed to prepare my confinement meals... 

How Do I Know if a Food is Organic?

Before you buy organic products, you need to know whether they are genuinely organic. 

One of the best ways to find out is to look for the organic certification logos and the word "organic" on product labels. 

Here are some guidelines on how to differentiate the labels according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) standards.

100% Organic:

The product has been made using pure organic ingredients. The manufacturer has also processed, packed, handled and transported the product in full compliance with the USDA standards for organic agriculture.

Organic:

This product contains at least 95 % organic ingredients (excluding water or salt). It is eligible for the organic label provided the remaining 5% of the ingredients are not commercially available in organic form, and not produced using specifically prohibited methods (i.e. irradiation).

Made with Organic Ingredients:

The product labeled "Made with organic ingredients" must contain between 70% - 95% organic ingredients, excluding water and salt. As many as three of the organic ingredients in the content may be listed on the front of the package

Product with less than 70% organic ingredients:

The label on this product will be allowed to list the organic items in the "ingredients" panel only, and the term "organic" may not be used anywhere else on the package.

One common misconception is that "natural" equals "organic". While "natural" usually indicates foods that have been minimally processed or without added artificial ingredients, it does not address the way that food is grown.

Organic Facts

Here's more organic facts and what other terms mean legally:

Organic fruits and vegetables were grown without synthetic pesticides, synthetic fertilizers or sewage slude and haven't been genetically engineered and irradiated.

Organic beef and chicken come from animals that weren't the offspring of cloned animals. They were raised on 100% organic feed, were never given growth hormones, antibiotics or other drugs and their meat was never irradiated.

Organic milk comes from animals that, for at least the past 12 months, were fed 100% organic feed and weren't given antibiotics or growth homones like rBST. This organic fact alone gets me to drink organic milk.

Organic eggs come from hens that were fed 100% organic feed and were never given growth hormones or antibiotics.

Organic seafood doesn't mean a thing, since USDA hasn't defined the term.

Cage-free eggs come from hens that were not confined to cages and that may or may not have had access to the outdoors. They're not necessarily organic.

Free range or free roaming poultry have access to the outdoors, but for no minimum time. They're not necessarily organic. Cage-free poultry doesn't mean anything, since most chickens grown for meat are kept indoors (but cage-free) until they're transported to slaughter.

No hormones administered can appear on beef labels if the producer can document that the animals were raised without hormones.

Hormone-free is an illegal claim, since all animals produce their own hormones.

No antibiotics added can appear on a label if the producer can document that the animals were raised without antibiotics.

Natural (or All Natural) meat or poultry products contain "no artificial ingredients and are no more than minimally processed." They're not necessarily organic, though some supermarkets try to make them appear to be.

Source: www.live-the-organic-life.com