Better4Baby: We're going Live!

Better4Baby: We're going Live!: "We are very excited to announce that Better4Baby.com went live today! Please send a link to your friends and family and remember we will be..."

We're going Live!

We are very excited to announce that Better4Baby.com went live today!

Please send a link to your friends and family and remember we will be giving away a special gift to one of our users one we reach 100 active users on our forum! As always we appreciate your support.

The Better4Baby.com store is currently in the process of product selection. We appreciate your patience on this matter and of course we will let you know when the store is active and ready for business.

Thank you all once again for your support!

Breastfeeding and choices before going to formula

Most people can breastfeed and we here at Better4Baby think that’s wonderful.  :D  But there are a few people who can not for one reason or another and most skip straight to formula. I want to tell you about some choices you can consider before making that bottle of formula.

First and foremost Breastfeeding from ones’ own breast is best.  But if that’s not possible because of latch or other similar issues, seek help for this; most of these problems can be corrected.  Contact the La Leache League and Lactation consultants they started doing this kind of thing to help people just like you.  Even if your milk has dried up you can try to relactate.

 Pumped milk from the mother is your second choice.  Pumping is hard work but is worth it to most moms who are dedicated to doing it.

Milk from another nursing mother directly from the breast is third.  If you have a friend or person you trust that can do this it is a wonderfully helpful thing for your baby.

Fourth milk pumped from another mother.  There are places to find people who will do this for you.  Milkshare and Eats on Feets (recently renamed Human Milk 4 Human Babies) is two great organizations dedicated to helping moms feed breast milk to their babies.

Fifth milk banks sell breast milk to mothers and hospitals that can not get breastfeeding to work or get breast milk any other way.

So I encourage you to consider these options before going straight to formula.

Better4Baby: On Babywearing

Better4Baby: On Babywearing: "Some people hate that term others don’t care what it’s called. I am in the “I don’t care call it what ever you want” camp. And w..."

On Babywearing

Some people hate that term others don’t care what it’s called.  I am in the “I don’t care call it what ever you want” camp.  And while I am not a hard core baby wearer who would never be caught dead pushing a stroller but I see some great advantages to using these carriers.

I own a SSC (Soft Structured Carrier); Mia Thai, an ABC (Asian Baby Carrier); a wrap and two different types of slings (a ring sling and a pouch sling).  My favorite is my SSC, but when my little one was a new born I loved my wrap.  As he got bigger my preexisting shoulder pain became a problem and that’s why the SSC is now my favorite.  If not for that I would have stayed with the wrap forever, I’m sure.  :) 

Strollers have great features now a days, cup holders, snap and go car seat adapters, storage baskets, places for a second child to stand or sit, and I love my stroller for days when I need a place for all my stuff.  LOL Sometimes it’s great to walk though the mall with my drink in the cup holder my sons drink in his cup holder my diaper bag hanging off the side of the stroller and my purchases stuffed under.  But some places I love my carrier are:

A crowded theme park.  I have done both a stroller and a carrier.  In a stroller my son would get fussy around nap time and want to be held and nursed.  Nothings wrong with that but it’s hard to find a great place to stop when you’re in a crowd.  Not to mention trying to maneuver the thing around people who can see you and don’t care enough to let you by.  In my carrier he wants to nurse too when he gets tired and I had no trouble at all moving around to find a place to sit down and nurse.  Often times if my son is in his carrier he doesn’t even need to nurse to get to sleep and will just fall asleep on my back and when he wakes up is ready to nurse. 

At the aquarium one time, I brought my pouch sling and my stroller.  I started with him in the stroller and he was not interested in any of the exhibits, even though he had been before with daddy (and no stroller) and loved them.  Once I put him in the sling he became very animated and was pointing and “talking” about everything, I realized something then.  The stroller made him lower and he couldn’t see as well as when he had been up in daddy’s arms.  Once he was up a nearly my eye level he could see. 

Nature preserves.   Unless you have a heavy duty big wheeled stroller the dirt and/or uneven paths are going to be tricky to navigate.  Same goes for hiking on or off trails.

When walking the dogs. Have you ever tried to hold two leashes and a baby stroller at the same time?  Not fun.  And if you get a hook and hook the leashes on the stroller like I did, I had a hard time keeping the stroller going straight (because the dogs are always going in a different direction) and also keeping the stroller from bumping into the dogs.  

At the mall.  Yeah I know I said I like the stroller at the mall but I like the carrier at the mall too.  :)  When I’m not planning on buying much and when I do plan to let the little man play in the play area I love my carrier.  I don’t have to worry about finding an elevator to go to the other floors, and I don’t have to worry about leaving my stroller outside the play area to be messed with or stolen.  And if it’s crowded it’s much easier to get around with out the stroller.

There are many other times and places I prefer my carrier to my stroller, but now I want to hear form you.  Where are your favorite places to use your carrier?

Better4Baby: First Give Away

Better4Baby: First Give Away: "We will be randomly giving away a special surprise when we reach 100 active users on our forum. To be entered all you have to do is like us..."

First Give Away

We will be randomly giving away a special surprise when we reach 100 active users on our forum. To be entered all you have to do is like us on Facebook (Here) and then sign up for our forum (Here) and then use it. :D It's that simple.