Introducing the brand new #Ergobaby #ADAPT Cool Air Mesh Carrier in grey, black and blue colour! GIFTS to the ones who pre-order: a Juppy or a Thudguard product + FREE product demo in Sliema or Gozo. No infant insert is needed. Can be used from 3.2-20kg. Price 150 euro. Place your order till 04/07 to benefit from this offer! Send us an mail on liza@maltamum.com or PM us on Facebook!

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Being a mum can be a hard job at times. For all your effort, you’ll be rewarded with sleepless nights, an empty wallet and stretch marks. But all the challenges you face as a mum will be completely worth it, as long as your baby is happy and healthy. Choosing breastfeeding, when it is an option to choose in between breastfeeding and formula feeding, will get you closer to that ultimate goal.

To help mums make an informed decision about which method of feeding they’ll choose, MomLovesBest has created a list; The 111 Benefits of Breastfeeding – For Babies, Moms & Everyone Else

And here, the  team behind Babycared have put together a solid resource about the benefits
of breastfeeding that’s geared towards helping new mums overcome their breastfeeding struggles. There is a ton of information out there,
and this guide was designed to cut through the noise a bit. 

Should you stumble upon any other useful articles please let us know by leaving a comment below.

Thank you, Liza.

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If you bought the Times of Malta last Sunday, chances are you’ve read the interview I gave to PINK magazine, and know that a beautiful baby girl called Nelly has been welcomed to our family. It’s been a while since I last wrote a blog post on my website, and I had not mentioned anything so far about the second pregnancy.

There has literally been no time! Massive changes in our family, busy with work (www.maltamumshop.com) , and a brain fog that hasn’t allowed me to sit down, concentrate, and put my thoughts into comprehensible words. My thoughts have been -and still are- broken, so how I could I put this down on paper..? I blame everything to the pregnancy hormones and the sleep deprivation (I haven’t slept through the night since 2013 and the first pregnancy). But let me go back to where everything started – for a second time .

If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that our first child was conceived in the Maldives, during our engagement trip. The second one was also meant to be a ‘holidays’ baby, and was conceived during our 3 months stay in Thailand in the winter of 2016. We found out shortly after we came back to Malta in February.

I remember during the first trimester of the first pregnancy, I couldn’t keep my eyes open. All I wanted to do was sleep, eat, and sleep some more again. This time things were different. I wanted to sleep but I couldn’t. Our 2 1/2 (at the time) year old would wake me up at night and then I couldn’t go back to bed. I also struggled to fall asleep in the first place. As a result, I had 0 energy during the day. I couldn’t care properly for the needs of our toddler who didn’t go yet to a nursery and needed to be out and about doing stuff. I also didn’t manage to keep up with work and housework.

We needed help, urgently. As both my husband and I work from home, we took the decision to go to Greece and spend there the first trimester, close to my parents, and in the countryside, where Erik would have lots of opportunities to play outdoors and me to get ‘pampered’. We then moved to Norway just 5′ away from the paternal grandparents. Erik started going to a local kindergarten called Espira (pictures below) in August, where he thankfully settled fast. Our baby girl was born on the 11th October. The birth was natural, super fast and smooth, and left me with a positive impression as a compensation for the previous one. I recovered so fast that I was out of the hospital after just 1 day (I will write about this birth experience on another blog post ).

At the moment we’re still trying to adjust to the new family dynamics. As many had told me before Nelly was born, 1 kid = 1 kid whereas 2 kids = 10 kids. Our son reacted bad to the intrusion of the newcomer but finally things have started getting better. And our family of 4 now, feels complete. The highlight was just a few days ago when Erik asked me to bring his baby sister to his bed, he cuddled and caressed her, and gave her one of his favourite cars, a purple McQueen, as a gift. At that moment, I felt that the best gift we have ever given him, and ever will, is a sibling <3

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