A&D's Holiday Guide: Pre-Christmas Sale at Manila Baby Shop

Hop on over to Manila Baby Shop at enjoy great discounts on their best-selling bags, pencil cases and lunchboxes!

Offer good while supplies last!

Shop for your kids, nieces, nephews, neighbor's kids and the whole barangay! Choz. Hihi!

Awesome deals, right?

The Lunchboxes in super cute colors and designs! I want own one for Y!

The Toddler Backpacks come with a free pencil case that matches the bag! 

 The owl lunchbox can go with this toddler backpack!

 Pencil case is now Php99 from Php180!

To order, send them a PM on their Facebook Page, Manila Baby Shop or text them at 09175334209. You may also use their order form: http://manilababyshop.tumblr.com/order-form

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Instagram: @manilababyshop

Twitter: @manilababyshop

A&D's Cloth Diaper Challenge

When I was pregnant with R, I told the BOS I wanted to use cloth diaper on R and also try baby wearing (another post on that). Go lang daw! With Y, the challenge was to breastfeed and I DID! With R, cloth diapering and baby wearing will be my challenges(?).


I used cloth diapers with Y but only a few months. I only had 6 cloth diapers then and I didn't really took it seriously. But I realized I was spending so much money on disposables (even now! Potty training still not yet successful), I can buy a whole lots of cloth diapers with the money I was spending or buy myself a new pair of shoes!

This is Y in cloth diapers while she was a baby!

So this time I challenged myself to use cloth diaper full time or semi-full time. Now I have a total of 20 cloth diapers, 15 Next9s, Bamboo Dappies and 2 Bambumz, all are local brand diapers, all are one-sized cloth diapers. I find imported ones too expensive (read: barat), so I'm waiting for sales and deals before buying imported cloth diapers. And I'm buying more Bamboo Dappies!

Bamboo Dappy. Bought from Zalora

Inserts (L-R): Bamboo Dappy, Next9, Bambunz

My stash!

But before I plunged into this cloth diaper challenged, I had to read about the how-to and the kinds of cloth diapers. I also wanted to hear about real experiences from other moms. It was so timely that this year Jen Ong of Chronicles of Nursing Mom hosted a blog carnival "Real Diaper Week Carnival (read here), after reading every entry, I knew I can do it also! 


Plus I also bought a copy of Changing Diapers book. I love the book! Everything you need to know about cloth diapers is in the book!

Changing Diapers book which helped me a lot in understanding cloth diapers!

I also bought these Manila Baby Shop's wet bags in anticipation of this challenge. Haven't use them for its purpose yet, we're temporarily using it to put Y or R's extra clothes and diapers for when going out!

Here is how I'm using my wet bags as of the moment!

Also these liners so catch the poop! I didn't know they had this before when I was using cloth diapers with Y. I think the yaya before gave up on washing them because of the poop. Now, I asked the yaya to just use the washing machine. (Oh! Need to research more about what's the best detergent to use! Currently using Cycles.)

Bumkins Diaper Liners

Next9 Bamboo Liners (Photo from Mothering Earthlings)

Last Friday, I started using cloth diapering R! R is already 8 weeks. I only started him this week because the cloth diapers only fit him now at the smallest setting. So far, I'm getting the hang of it! It's easy and doable! I'm thinking "Why didn't I do it with Y?!" We're still using disposables at night and I'm still a bit scared to use cloth diapers. Still reading up and looking for a more absorbent insert. And I want to try this heavy wetter cloth diaper that I saw.

Next9 model

Bamboo Dappy, which I love!

Cloth diaper I bought at the last Expo Mom

I never thought that cloth diapering can be fun and addicting! I want more fun prints! Have yet to try cloth diapering when going out and at night! I'll blog more about my challenge and adventure with cloth diapers as we go along!

Mommy Finds: Cuzo Carla Foldable Tote

I've been looking for a nice bag that's roomy and fashionable that can double as a baby bag. I've been wanting a Dwell Studio Madison Bag but it's out of the budget right now so I have to find a more affordable one.

Sometimes, I use my Michael Kors canvas bag but it's a bit big and it has no shape. Sometimes it's hard to find what you need inside the bag.

I first saw this at Shop Crazy. I badly want a new bag so I went retail therapy at Zalora at bought this.

It is about the same size of a Longchamp medium sized tote. It's made of nylon with leather trims and straps and it's lightweight!

It has a top handle and a removable body strap! Mommy approved!

I used this the first time two weeks ago to a shoot (Naks! Will post more of that!) and since I'm bringing the baby with me and no yaya yet, I put his stuff in my bag. (Y's stuff is in her own diaper bag which the yaya carries).

What's inside: changing pad; Manila Baby Shop's wet bag where I put R's extra clothes, diapers, and wipes; notebook; Dwell Studio pouch for my wallet, phone, and keys 

See?! It's roomy enough to put more stuff in it! This is really a great buy! I can also use this for work or a day out with my friends. It's a very versatile bag and for only Php1,500.

I really really love my Cuzo bag!

For more of Cuzo bags, check their FB and Twitter!

https://www.facebook.com/cuzobags

http://twitter.com/cuzobags

*This is not a sponsored post

Lucky Buntis I Was

I never really believed the phrase "swerte ang buntis" until with this pregnancy.


I join blog giveaways only when I like/want/need/love the product being given away. I don't expect to win because I'm not really lucky in any kind raffles or contests... Until when I was pregnant with R!


First was I won a Manila Baby Shop's lunch box from Martine's giveaway! We have been using this for Y's food, milk and snacks for short trips to the mall.

Second was I won a pair of Jelly Nelly's from Mommy Pages giveaway! I'm excited to use this one! Third was an Aqueduck also from Martine's blog sponsored by Babies to Toddles online store! Yay! I'll use this one when Y's a little bit bigger or else she'll just play with water!

Last but certainly not the least, and the biggest contest and prize I've joined and won was My Zalora Wishlist! The prize was really great that I just tried my luck. I really really wanted to win, the shopping and the prizes really got me excited! So I was really ecstatic when I found out I won! Just 4 days before I gave birth! I would have jumped with joy if I can! Haha!

And so, Thank you to the people who sponsored the giveaways I've joined! Ü I was really a lucky buntis!


PS. I won another giveaway by Didi! So yay!