With my schedule as a working mother and my desire to eat home cooked meal, preparing batches of meal-sized, cooked ground beef is my life saver. We call this "base dish" in Turkish. You can cook any type of vegetables and prepare pasta, wraps, taco or burrito with it. Ingredients: Lean ground beef Yellow Onions Tomato or Red Pepper … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2006
Homemade knee pads for crawling babies
If you worry about your crawling baby's knees, you can make your own DIY knee pads with existing materials that you have at home. Materials you need A pair of old socks. Preferably elastic, ankle-hi, sports socks for ladies, because they are smaller.Two nursing pads with adhesive bandsDouble-sided tape if needed Instructions Cut … [Read more...]
Sleep music for baby’s bedtime
Sleep music is an important part of my baby's bedtime routine. After I recorded my own lullaby and soothing sounds album, I set up a CD/mp3 player and mini speaker system by my son's crib. I use music to help him fall asleep and stay asleep. I use my old portable CD player and ancient mini PC speakers. Now there are many products that play CD, … [Read more...]
Record your own Lullaby CD for your baby
Before my son started falling asleep by himself, I used to shush and sing lullabies to calm him down and help transition to sleep for longer periods of time. Sometimes it would take him such a long time to wind down and fall asleep that I started to develop wrinkles around my lips from shushing for more than half an hour. As a solution, I decided … [Read more...]
Oral Thrush in Babies
Oral thrush is one of those motherhood experiences, where I thought I knew what I was doing but eventually had to accept my mom was right and she told me so. My son had oral thrush on his tongue when he was about 2 months old. Thrush is a common infection in the mouth caused by the candida fungus, also known as yeast. A common sign of thrush is … [Read more...]