I'm a full-time mummy

As a SAHM, I often heard from my friends who joke about using their vehicles to earn money as well while they are driving around, going from one place to another. There's also the idea being mentioned amongst friends and ex-colleagues about making use of our own car to fetch other children in the same neighbourhood as well since we have to drive them to school and places anyway.

Other than chauffeuring children around, do you know that we can also earn some side income by doing courier jobs such as delivering/picking up parcels, documents, equipments, everything! Of course the bigger the vehicle you have, the more items you can allow to deliver or ship along!

I came across this website that offers services to all parties: the carriers, the brokers and the shippers. The amazing thing with this company is it allows you as the carrier to search and connect to both customer and brokered loads, then negotiate and manage the brokers and shippers online and also get payment fast.

Now isn't that amazing to be able to fully utilise your vehicle to earn money since you are going to use it anyway?

If only they implement this in my country. Now imagine one day when my kids are ready to go to school and I have to chauffeur them around, why not do so and earn some side income as well right? Awesome...!

What are your thoughts about this concept?

** Disclosure: This is a sponsored post. All thoughts, opinions and words are 100 % my own.

I am so happy to be able to review this product as it arrives just a day before we are due for our short 3D 2N family trip up north recently. Here goes my review for the "BabyDan Bathmat":

The Bath Mat designed by BabyDan is very useful in preventing your child from slipping accidently and is soft, textured and very comfy!

Mat features: 
* Easily cleaned.
* It features suction cups, making it easily repositionable.
* Can be used both in shower and bath. 
* Size: 42 centimeters x 25 centimeters (oval shape)

The BabyDan Bathmat is available from the online nursery shop Hello Baby.  Hello Baby also sells a wide range of other baby and nursery stuff including Baby Toys, nursery furniture, baby travel and baby safety products.

Just look at my little Miss Inspector! The moment I put the packaging on the bed, she immediately crawled over to inspect what's inside! Anyway, the bathmat came in a transparent plastic bag which can be reuse as the cover/carrier for outings.

Then I took out the bathmat and Alyson got more excited! She bends it, and inspects every nook and corner! She plays around with the suction caps for a while to satisfy her curiosity.

The reason why I requested to review this bathmat is because of its portability feature. The bath tub we have currently does have a small area (like 6 inch width) at the bottom which is anti-slip but it cannot be removed at all. Which pretty much sucks unless we carry the bath tub along for our family trip. 

I also thought of the times I had to be super cautious when it comes to water pool time which my kids both love to do almost everyday! Now I can be assured that she will not slipped accidentally while she is seated in the water area.

Picture taken above shown Alyson sitting on the BabyDan Bathmat in the bath tub during our recent family trip and also top right picture showing her sitting on the bathmat again in our mini water pool.

What I love about this bathmat is it is so easy to carry along, it doesn't take up much space at all and while it is very easy to put on and remove, I'm happy to say that the bathmat remains strongly secured! 

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the product by Hello Baby in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine.

The last time I wrote about my girl's prolonging case was back in mid November last year, about her 2 months prolonged jaundice ending.

And now, another prolonged case... this time, prolonged NO pooping. Yep... 2 weeks.. well, almost...

At the time I write this post (which is yesterday), she has just pooped! Finally! After almost 2 weeks without pooping! She pooped about 5 times, pebble (chewing gum ball) sized poops. The biggest one was about twice the size of my thumbs stacked together. Sorry for being too graphic here.

To be honest, throughout the almost 2 weeks of no pooping, of course I'm worried. I mean, I cannot imagine how painful it might be for her to poop when the time comes. I started praying after 1 week, telling God about our situation and that I will not mind the mess when it comes. Just let her poop with as less pain as possible.

On the other hand, I was not worried that she might be constipated as exclusively breastfed babies are not at high risks of constipation (confirmed this with our pediatrician via phone call just few hours before she finally pooped). I did checked out websites on the Internet which all confirmed that unless my child is on formula milk (risks are higher as formula milk are harder to digest and can't be fully digested) or in pain, then I should be worried.

Problem is my girl is not in pain. She's her usual chirpy self.

What I did to help move things along are:

- Pray!

- Increased breastfeeding as breastmilk is a great laxative!

- Give more water throughout the day to hydrate my girl.

- Apply more nappy cream on her anus area to lubricate it when she poops (helps avoid straining the area in case the poop is too big).

- Feed more banana (pead's advice) between feedings to help move the poop along (*Note: We didn't get to try this method since my girl pooped before we managed to buy the banana)

My girl cried for the first few seconds when the poops came out but otherwise was back to her chirpy self and once the poop is out, you can see her happy face as if nothing happened at all!

So there you go, another prolonged case which you can now tell people 'It can happen!'

I just want to tell you guys, especially breastfeeding mothers, if your child is in the same situation as mine, fully breastfed, alert and active as usual, then don't get too panicky.

Try the natural ways first before resorting to using medicine or ointment to force the poop out as it might not help your child next time! (think the dependency towards the medicine and ointment for pooping as in they might end up relying on medicine and ointment to poop next time!)

So have your child ever encountered this before? How long can they go without pooping?

* Update on 4th June 2012: I noticed that when I give my girl banana mashed, she will poop. Do take note of the article I mentioned in my comment section below about bananas (it can help in pooping but it can also cause constipation!)