Baby Food and SIDS

I can't believe I'm making baby food. First, it's a great money saver, and secondly, I want her to have more flavorful food. The baby food is like canned food...it's not bad but wouldn't you prefer a home cooked meal? I learnt how to mash, puree and freeze. The kitchen looked like it survived a tornado especially after doing my brown rice, peas, carrot with chicken broth recipe. Heh heh...do I sound like proud of myself or what! :)

I haven't taken any photos of the food making process coz I am so tired nowdays. I'm not used to carry a 17lb wriggling baby up and down the stairs. And she's been fussy and waking up every 2-3 hours so I was exhausted! Kevin then really helped out and he took over her when she wakes up so that she learns not to nurse in the middle of the night. If she looks thirsty, he will give some water. After about 4 nights of this, yesterday, she seemed to learn that she can sleep right through. I'm praying that will be the case. :)

We're getting ready to place her in the nursery at night now so I made some research on that. I found out about this study from New Zealand about toxic fumes from mattresses and that might be the cause of SIDS. I heard the radio interview and read up on it, it's pretty compelling stuff. Here's a couple of links :

1) Third party article : http://www.johnleemd.com/store/more_crib_sids.html

2) Radio Interview (48 minutes) : http://www.babysnugglebugs.com/catalog/tjinterview.mp3

3) The researcher's website : http://www.cotlife2000.com/

I decide to be better safe than sorry and purchase a BabeSafe mattress cover to wrap it as per instructions. It's not expensive at all. Later on, when we get a new mattress, I want to wrap that too coz the fumes are in every mattress according to the reasoning, it could even be in the organic mattress. That's why one of the top organic mattress maker wraps their mattress already.

I just want to share it with you all in case you haven't heard of this.

Later!

Haniza