You Know You're a Mom When...

I saw this post on my cousin-in-law's blog - Hope Springs Eternal and I had to give it a try!

You Know You're a Mom When...

1. You realize the worrying you did while pregnant, can not compare to the worrying you do once your little one arrives!

2. You look, poke and talk about your babies poop on a regular bases.

3. You take your babies temperature way too often!

4. You disinfect everything when you go out to eat - table, high chair, etc...

5. Your out and about for the day and your baby has to eat - you jam yourself, your baby, the stroller, diaper bag, and purse all into a small changing room, in order to breastfeed your baby.

6.You don't care about modesty any more because it's way easier to breastfeed without a hooter hider. 

7. Your baby sleeps through the night but you don't - because you still check on her way too often.

8. Your favorite store becomes BRU

9. You spend your Christmas or Birthday gift cards on your baby instead of yourself.

10. You forget what these words mean: shower, shaved legs, washed hair, makeup, hair dryer...

11. You feel like you accomplished a huge quest when you finally get boogers out of your babies nose!

12. You can type, eat and talk on the phone one handed, while breastfeeding. 

13. You can get your baby to smile and laugh at something you do.

14. Your camera & video camera is always within arms reach!
 
15. Your house has been taken over by baby items!

16. Comfy clothes are your primary wardrobe for most of the week.

17. Baby spit up doesn't even faze you. 

18. Watching your baby sleep becomes one of your favorite past times!

You Know You're a Mom When...What moments make you feel like a true mommy??

Organic Baby Food Pouches

Two words: Convenient and Organic.

What mom doesn't like to hear those two words when it comes to something for your baby. Plum Organic Baby Food (and Ella's Kitchen Organic Baby Food) is the best invention since cloth diapers.  I am absolutely in love with these brands of organic baby food.

Let's start with the word convenient:
a. The pouches are easy to take with you when you are going out - no need to worry about a lid popping off and baby food getting all over your diaper bag.
b.  No matter if you're feeding your baby at the mall at lunch time, at Chili's during dinner, or in the car on a road trip. Your little one can eat all of it and you just throw the pouch away (or recycle if available!) or they eat half of it and you screw the cap back on, throw it in the diaper bag and stick it in the fridge until tomorrow (or later on).
c. The baby food itself is not runny; it's nice and creamy. When you squeeze the pouch the food comes out, sticks on the spoon without any mess what so ever.
d. For older babies or toddlers - you can just hand them the pouch and they can literally suck the fruit/veggie puree out of the pouch, no spoon needed. (Don't worry the pouch is BPA free)

Let's talk about the word organic:
a. This is what the back of Ella's Kitchen Organic Baby Food says:

• No added sugar, salt, or water
• No preservatives or thickeners
• No E numbers or GM
• No high fructose corn syrup
• No dairy, egg, or wheat
• No lactose or gluten
• No lumps or bits and nothing artificial.
• Just yummy organic food for babies

For first stage foods, both brands offer single foods ( just peaches, just, peas, etc...!) When all the first stage foods have been introduced, you can move on to all the other yummy pouches they offer. Like: Plum's Spinach, Peas, & Pears and Ella's Sweet Potatoes, Pumpkin, Apples, & Blueberries. It's pretty cool, when you are using a pouch, you can squeeze it at one point at get a purplish color and the next minute you get orange. This just reassures us that there is actually each of the foods in the pouch that they say there is.

If you are interested, give them a try! They really are worth trying at least once. You never know, you may just fall in love. You can find them in the baby food aisle at your local Babies'R'Us or Whole Foods.