Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Event: March 7: Breastfeeding Talk - What Parents Need to Know


On March 7, I will be giving a breastfeeding talk, which will address most concerns or questions most new parents will have. If you are expecting or trying to breastfeed your child, please come and join me to receive the right information about breastfeeding. :-)

My mini profile as below:

Vivian Foo, is a certified lactation counsellor attached to University Malaya Medical Centre and Jabatan Kesihatan Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur. She has completed her professional breastfeeding counselling course in UMMC in year 2004. She has dedicated herself to providing breastfeeding counselling to mothers on a voluntary basis since then.

She is a proud mother of 2, Eugene (5) and Eu Anne (3). Both her kids are breastfed. Eugene was breastfed until the age of 4 and Eu Anne is currently still nursing. She was working full time for 15 months after she delivered Eugene and was selected as Today’s Parent’s Working and Breastfeeding Mom of the year 2003. She is also the founder and one of the directors of Fabulous Mom Sdn Bhd.


After the talk, we will enjoy a cup of drink in the breastfeeding cafe while socialising with other parents! :-) Parents who do not register for the talk may join us for this get together session. :-)

Fee is RM5 per person for the talk inclusive of 1 free drink.

Time: 3pm to 4.30pm

Map to our showroom and cafe:

http://www.fabulousmom.com/catalog/showroom.php

Please email orders@fabulousmom.com to register and payment must be made upon confirmation of registration to our Maybank account as the details below:

Account Name: FM ONLINE

Account Number: 514271256321

Fee paid is not refundable if the cancellation is made within the last 48 hours of the event's date. Fee will be refundable in the form of store credit.

See you then!

Event: March 21: Preview Session of Communicating with Your Babies (Language: English)


Ever wonder what your baby is thinking? Or why your baby is crying?

Very soon your baby will be looking for ways to share his or her thoughts, feelings, and new discoveries with you. However, trying to communicate without words can be very frustrating!

Using the Baby Signs® Program gives babies a way to “talk” with their parents, before they can talk. Babies can communicate about the world around them, long before they have mastered their verbal speaking skills!

Babies and their parents can use simple signs to communicate important things – like being hungry or thirsty, hot or cold, afraid or sad – often a full year before babies could otherwise speak.

Research has proven that using the Baby Signs® Program with babies has dramatic benefits, including decreasing frustration for babies and parents, enriching the parent-child bond, boosting emotional development, helping babies talk sooner – even raising IQ.

Speaker's Profile:
A simple profile of Jamie, as follows:

Jamie Solomon, began her journey with the Baby Signs® Program with her son Shawn when he was 10-months old. The experience of signing with her son was so rewarding, that it inspired Jamie to share this with other parents/grandparents/caregivers right here in Malaysia.


Jamie is the first International Independent Certified Instructor for the Baby Signs® Program in Malaysia and Jamie is now the Director of Baby Signs Malaysia. Jamie’s aim is to share this invaluable Program with parents/grandparents/caregivers who are keen to speak to their children and have their children ‘speak’ to them.
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Come join us at The Breastfeeding Cafe on 21st March at 3p.m. to find out more about this interesting program. Address and location map as per link below:

http://www.fabulousmom.com/catalog/showroom.php

It's free of charge. Pre-register is however required. Please do so by emailing orders@fabulousmom.com Babies and toddlers are welcome.

Event: 28 March: Preparing for a Gentle Birth


On the 28th of March, we are most honoured to have Wai Han to share on Preparing for a Gentle Birth - a topic which will interet all expectant moms - first timers or moms who had unpleasant birth experience.

Wai Han is a certified HypnoBirthing® Childbirth Educator, accredited and affliated with the HypnoBirthing Institute. She received her training from the founder, Marie Mongan, and is among the first batch of certified practitioners in Malaysia and Asia.

She has started embracing and sharing HypnoBirthing since 2003, after the empowering hypnobirth of her first child -- long before there was any practitioner here in Malaysia. Following her training and accreditation in 2005, she passionately brings HypnoBirthing formally into Malaysia. As an experienced HypnoBirthing Childbirth Educator, she has helped many couples dispel their fears and birth their babies gently, peacefully and joyfully into the world.

Wai Han is also a proud HypnoBirthing mother of two. Both her births had been natural, gentle and peaceful, totally free of drugs and discomfort. Her first amazing painless drug-free HypnoBirthing experience led her to her career. With another miraculous HypnoBirthing experience of labouring and receiving her baby lovingly by herself at home, she is even more convicted in helping all mothers to develop the art and joy of rediscovering their natural birthing instinct.

Besides managing a busy family and career, she also selflessly contributes in local parenting forums, sharing her wealth of knowledge and compassion in gentle birthing, breastfeeding, tandem nursing and attachment parenting. Her website is http://www.hypnobirthing.com.my/

In this session, we will explore all the birth questions all of us will have. So, please come prepared with questions... e.g. Why go through the 'hard' way of labour? What's the fuss with natural birth? How to birth? How to push? How to breathe? What is the best pain relief? Episiotomy or tear? What if baby is too big? What should the Dad do?What is HypnoBirthing? etc.. etc.. etc.. We'll enjoy some birth affirmations and a nice relaxation session together.

This session will be held at our very own The Breastfeeding Cafe on the 28th of March, Saturday, from 3pm to 4.30pm. Address and location map as per link below:

http://www.fabulousmom.com/catalog/showroom.php

Fee is RM5 per parent inclusive of 1 free drink.

Please email orders@fabulousmom.com to register and payment must be made upon confirmation of registration to our Maybank account as the details below:

Account Name: FM ONLINE

Account Number: 514271256321

Fee paid is not refundable if the cancellation is made within the last 48 hours of the event's date. Fee will be refundable in the form of store credit.