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Yesterday Isabel achieved her biggest milestone…

On Thursday she was still not able to walk even a step by herself (still needed to hold hands). But then, yesterday - Friday 29th June 2007, she let go of our hands, without holding on to anything, she walked by herself!

From just 1 or 2 steps at a time, within the same day she was able to walk quite a distance, from one end of the house to the other end!

She was very excited about it as well. On her way walking, she clapped her hands, as if thinking that she did very well and deserved an applause. And of course, we all gave her ours! Very adorable…

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Hehe, since joining LoudLaunch so many months, I’ve only taken 1 posts. After so long, I’m going to do my 2nd one… about breast augmentation. Why I chose this topic? Ahem! Let me explain…

Before pregnancy, I used to have flat/small breasts. I was quite jealou seeing others with large breasts. But then, breast augmentation is never in my consideration.

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I’ve been breastfeeding Isabel all these while, 13 months already passed. Since before I started working, we tried to give her bottles with no avail.

Until now she still rejects milk bottles. When I am away for business trips, she’d rather starve. Now that she is on solid, she won’t really starve, but she’d rather not drink any milk - at least for the first 24 hours. Only after a day passed, she’d compromise and drinks a reasonable amount of milk from bottle.

When I’m around, bottle is not an option for her! So choosy.

Sometimes, when I reached home from the office, instead of calling me ‘Mama’, she’d call me ‘Nen Nen’ (milk-milk)!

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Busy Bee informed me in one of her comments here that she bought some audio books for Ryan, and her audio books are from MPH.

I took a trip last Friday wanted to get some for Ian too. A little disappointed as there aren’t many choices. Bookshops here do not carry many audio books. There are only one rack to choose from, and only two types/publisher, others are mostly nursery rhymes etc.

I picked one title from each, just to test out the quality first, and of course - to see if Ian accepts this or not. They are “Little Red Riding Hood”, and “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”.

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After seeing so many recalls of products in US, I think it is good to subscribe to the recall notices from the reliable sources like CPSC and ECSA. Our government don’t protect us this way, we have to learn and alert ourselves, thanks to the technology nowadays, with speedy internet and emails, etc!

CPSC (US Consumer Product Safety Comission) is an Independent Federal Regulatory Agency, created in 1972 to protect the public “against unreasonable risks of injuries associated with consumer products”.

CPSC announces recalls of products that present a significant risk to consumers either because the product may be defective or violates a mandatory standard issued by CPSC.

You can subscribe to the recall notices from CPSC here, or visit the site for the previous recalls, including the one in my previous post about Thomas Train.

My friend told me to also look at the European standard (ECSA), as it is believed to be more stringent. The ECSA (European Child Safety Alliance) is a subset of the Eurosafe association. I tried to look for product recalls, couldn’t find. So I will stick with CPSC, which is more consumer friendly. I think ECSA is more for trades?!