Raine's Baptism: Part 4 Details

Raine's Baptism Part 3: Pinoy Fiesta Decor

Raine's fiesta baptism decor, all DIY..more soon!

Raine's Baptism Part 2: Baptismal Dress

For our baby's special day we asked Ms.V to make a dress for him, we are a Veluz' couple when we got married and so we wanted Raine to wear Veluz dress too.

Raine's Baptism Part 1: Cake and Invitation

Wanted to share this for months now, but couldn't find time, im a busy momma now! Anyway, before we left the Philippines we had a celebration, yeah as the title says, Raine's baptism. Take a peek at his cake and invitation and you'll know what theme we had. We opt to have an unusual theme for baptism,we wanted to have something that is colorful and fun, so yes, we had a fiesta themed party!  We'll be sharing other pics on the next few days.. gotta go now need to clean the dishes!

cake from little angel cakes

invitation by cuteprints, wordings and sealed stamp by yours truly!

Sharing the cake with foodtrip friday bloggers!

Happy foodtrip friday everyone!

The Breastfeeding Family

                               supplier, consumer and the cheerleader or let me say the supporter..

Breastfeeding, a journey, an everyday learning process, a sacrifice for both parents but most especially to the mom, but all in all its a priceless gift wrapped with love and joy.

Before getting the hang of it, its a challenge for me every day, every hour and every demand of lil boy. And yes for the first 2 weeks I pumped till my hands get numbed, just to make sure i have enough supply for the next hour or so, he's still learning to latch at that time. And to increase and established my milk supply i ate lots of soup and pump pump pump, from half oz, to 1 oz till i got that 4 oz per pump was really one of the blessed moments in my life. Raine learned to latch properly at 3 weeks, from then on till today I exclusively direct feed him.

I also experience an oversupply of milk and an almost empty breast for the hungry baby, the sore nipples, and the pain that goes with it that makes me shed a tear for the first two months of breastfeeding, thinking this too shall pass. Sleepless nights, feeding every hour or every 30 mins without the burping time, all in, there's no more time to sleep, again this to shall pass. The truth is, it's not easy to breastfeed but its all worth it.

Our breastfeeding journey continues with the support of my family, my husband and of course the free milk supply as a blessing from the Lord. And through this everyday journey I learned not only to value each drop of milk but breastfeeding is not only a choice but an obligation not only for the mom but for the dad also. Without my husband support and cheer, I wouldn't withstand those painful, no sleep and no rest days/nights. Taking breastfeeding as an obligation we (hubby and I) make sure we supply enough milk for Raine, with that comes lactation massage, vitamins, healthy food and reading researches, and yes who says it's simple and easy. and so, kudos to all the breastfeeding couples

What makes it worthy? its priceless (yeah free milk supply=savings) kidding aside its really priceless = healthy and happy baby= happy mom and dad= happy and blessed family! I guess I'll have another post about the joy of breastfeeding...

P.S I'm breastfeeding Raine while typing this..

Happy Baby.. Happy Mommy and Daddy!

Raine just woke up and as always he smiles at us... yeah first thing he does after opening his eyes..

what's new? we're back in Japan and a lot of blogging to do but I'm a busy mom and wife, hope to be back soon....

Our Patutty- Raine

Hi everyone my name is Raine Keistofer (from katherine mei and christopher). Mom and Dad is too busy taking care of me..I was born last June 29 at 11:44am via cesarean section, dad was there to witness it all (yeah, every process you couldnt imagine, dad was brave enough to capture it all).. Mom will do another post for our birthing story.. and oh..I'm a breastfed baby, yum yum!