Breast feeding is a gift for both mother and baby. Sometimes, it is necessary to bottle feed. And if you do need to bottle feed, the Adiri Natural Nurser Ultimate Bottle could be a perfect solution.
When feeding, your breasts don’t feel like hard plastic, so why should the bottle? With this in mind the creators of the Adiri Natural Nurser Ultimate Bottle designed and made a bottle which is 100% polycarbonate-free and bisphenol-A free. When filled with warm milk, this bottle feels warm and supple against the child’s cheek, closely mimicking the feel of your breast.
Its patented nipple design helps minimise nipple confusion whilst encouraging a similar feeding style to breastfeeding; making it a good bottle option for those who are combining breast and bottle feeding.
The Adiri Natural Nurser is available in three stages each with different flow rates – slow for newborns, medium for 3-6 months old babies and fast for babies older than 6 months. Each bottle holds 240ml of fluid and is able to be boiled, sterilised in a basic sterlisier and is also dishwasher safe.
Each bottle is $19.95 and is available in Australia through EcoChild.
If
you’re a regular babyology reader, you’ll know we are fans already of
the innovative and funky designs that Boon produce – we recently
featured their Flair highchairs. Well, you can start drooling all over again because Boon released their new line of feeding products in October and they have just arrived in Asutralia.
One of my favourites in the range is the Catch Bowl with the built-in food catcher that extends towards your child. This helps funnel food back into the bowl. The suction cup on the bottom of the bowl also helps stability of the bowl to avoid spills. This morning's breakfast was a treat to watch as my toddler ate her Weetbix and yoghurt and I didn't have to clean down her entire torso once she was finished. She did think the bowl resembled a hat and put it on her head once I unsuctioned it from the high chair but that's another issue altogether.
Like nothing you have seen before, take a look at the food dispensing spoon, Squirt.
Not only does it look great, but an innovation in design, especially
useful when you are out and about with your baby. No more packing up
food, spoon and bowl separately – it’s literally all in one with the
food packed into the handle and dispensed directly onto the spoon
itself. I tried using it to feed my 6 month old, which was great as it gave me a spare hand to hold down little arms that tend to go everywhere at that age.
Everything matches in the range so the Groovy and the ModWear would look great next to each other, or the Catch Bowl and Benders are a perfect match... Okay, it’s getting obvious I would love to have the whole
range, it’s just so beautifully designed!
The range is very affordable with the RRP on each item being Squirt ($14.99), Fluid ($14.99), Benders ($9.99), Catch Bowl ($14.99), Snack Ball ($14.99), ModWare ($9.99) and Groovy Plate($24.99).
The good news is the Boon range is now available from Urban Baby locally.
For nutrition and taste innovation in baby food, look to Ella's Kitchen. Providing organic goodness for the most precious people in your
lives, these snaffle-able meals contain nothing but pure, unadulterated
food. No water, no thickeners, no additives, just delicious
blends of fruits and vegetables in transportable and resealable pouches with no need for cutlery, messy bowls or clogged
up spoons. Just squeeze into baby's mouth.
There are three kinds of fruit smoothies as well as vegetable-fruit blends
like "carrot, apple and parsnip" and "sweet potato, pumpkin,
apples and blueberries". Pretty wild! My youngest is coming up to 6
months of age in April, so I've started stocking up on these
already. With a shelf life of 1 year, they'll last the distance should
one get lost at the back of the pantry.
The fruit ones can
also be used in baking, so they're great for those emergencies when there's
no fruit in the fridge. Delicious fruit muffins are made
at least once a week in our house, with my toddler participating every
step of the way. He's going to love squeezing the pouch and
no doubt sampling its contents!
The company has a child-centered philosophy which espouses passing
on good eating habits to children as part of a sound value system.
With growing obesity and disease rates among the young, this is well worth acting on in our own homes. Sometimes, with the
daily stresses of family life, food is the first thing to suffer.
Parents need to be able to fall back on a convenience product that
isn't going to compromise the health of their children, or indeed the
tastebuds you've spent months cultivating with lovely meals.
Get these yummy scrummy, super healthy organic delights for your baby for $3.50-$4.50, from Ecochild.
We mentioned these very cool bottles back in September last year when they had just launched in the USA. We have had so many emails about them and we can let you know they will be available here by May this year. In the meantime I tracked down an online store, The Soft Landing, that will ship them to Australia if you can't wait that long.
We all want what’s best for our child and it seems based on recent US research, that some plastics used in the manufacture of baby bottles contains bisphenol-A which could be harmful to your child. As such, the people over at babylife have developed the wee·go glass bottle that will not leach harmful chemicals into your baby’s milk.
A sleek design with funky silicon cover to assist with grip ensures that there is nothing old-fashioned about the look of this bottle. The sleeve cover comes in a variety of colours (pink, raspberry, orange, yellow, sky and ocean) and helps keep the bottle in both big and little hands and protects the glass – great when throwing into the nappy bag on outings.
The bottle ring and cap are also polycarbonate free and the teat itself is latex free and non toxic. While the bottle and sleeve are fine to be boiled or steamed, they recommend hand washing the nipple in warm water and detergent only.
Wee·go was released in the US at the end of October, and as yet there are no stockists in Australia, but we will keep you posted as to their availability.
The groovy stroller bags will keep baby warm this winter. Check out the
'Rockabilly Dot' and 'Blossom Birds'. There's even a stroller bag
to match the 'Retro Revolution' dummy and dummy clip. How amazingly
co-ordinated! The security blankets are also eyecatching
- the cross-eyed skull design being a humourous variant on the usual.
This is edgy flair designed to put the bang in baby's style. Rid yourself of spiritless sippy
cups, boring bibs and plain pacifiers. Elodie's dummies can be used from 3 months, so even little bubs can sport these rocking
accessories. There's a silver and gold edition for babies who love bling!
