Baby Feeding Bottle Tips

There are two things that make a baby. The first is sleeping, and the second is feeding. In baby’s life, sleeping is as important as feeding. On the same hand, both of them are also complicated. However, feeding baby can be considered as more complicated than to make the baby sleeping. That is somehow true, for sometimes a mother just can’t breastfeed their baby because of many reason that the baby should feed from the bottle. Baby Feeding Bottle is what I am going to talk about here, and I think I have several tips in Baby Feeding Bottle which may bring benefits to you, as parents.

In you want to feed your baby, the very first thing that you have to do it to sit your baby up, or cradled them in your arms. According to the NICU, if you are baby feeding bottle, the baby’s position depends on the time the baby born. If you are bottle feeding a preemie, you should sit them up, for preemie babies tend to be very sleepy when feeding. So, sit your baby on your lap, use your hand to support their head and shoulders. On the other hand, the babies born at term are okay to feed in your arms. While you are feeding the baby, make sure you’re the other hand id holding the bottle and supporting the chin and cheeks to make the baby get good seal on the nipple.

Baby Feeding Bottles

Secondly, when you want to Baby Feeding Bottle your baby, make sure you do mouth exercise for that you can perform to your baby to help them get prepared for feeding. You are recommended to circle their lips with your fingers and let them move their lips. You can also stoke their chin to get the same effect. Moreover, you can also squeeze the baby’s cheeks gently together.

Then, another thing which is also important both in Baby Feeding Bottle as well as breastfeeding it to keep the pace of the baby. Thus, make sure you pause feeding them for moment to let them breath freely. Sometimes, your baby will gags, and find trouble in breathing as well.

Besides knowing how to bottle feeding your baby appropriately, you should also keep their bottle and nipples clean. Cleanliness is indeed important. And to keep it clean, do not forget to wash them in hot or warm water to clean the bacteria and to remove the dirt as well. You can brush smoothly the baby bottle with baby bottle brushes

Baby Feeding Bottles Brushes

Lastly, those several tips that you may take for bottle feeding your baby. Good luck with that.

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What Would You Do with Chemical Compound in Food Additives?

Everyone needs food, that is just the fact and let just face it bravely. The problem is this: most of your, probably even favorite, foods come from the industry. This means, many of them have been manufactured with any chemical compound that often acts as additive. From the point of view of the industry, this additive compound is everything that is necessary. They need something to make the food last longer just to get them sold, and chemically manufactured compound which could make the products stay a few days longer, at least longer enough for the customers’ hands to reach or grab them before putting them in their shopping cart, touches the basic problem of their survival and collapse, as an industry.

Little wonder then that most of food industries are more than ready to do as what seem as blatant lies by saying their products carry no such thing as chemical additive compound or that all of their canned products are as natural as nature herself! Yet, despite the obvious lies and persistent campaigns to tell the lies through many advertisements, that is just how the food industry could ever survive.

And of these lies, the food additive compound which has been inserted into the food products, is not without the consumers not knowing anything about it too. Just ask every single adult consumer who happens to be in any store and shop for any food product: all of them would have been aware about the presence of chemical compound, or even compounds really, that they also buyalong with the food products they put in the cart. And thus, yes, the problem seems to round back to you all over again: would you still buy such products or you would care enough to look for much natural or organic products, albeit the rareness such latter products can be found in the market?

The Maillard Reaction

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I just watched Julie & Julia the other night. Such a delightful movie, it surely is! Someone once said cooking is chemistry in action. Well, cooking is chemistry indeed! We have acids and bases (e.g., vinegar and lye), we have phase changes (ice freezing, butter melting—oooh butter! You can never have too much butter!), we have stirring, mixing, whipping, you name it. Cooking IS chemistry. And what is cooking without fire? It’s like bread without butter, Coke without spirit, white cheese without, oh well, white cheese is so good even on its own anyway. But the point is, the application of heat has always been the most basic rudiment of cooking ever since the caveman had discovered fire. Anyway, one recipe from the movie that stuck to me the most was this dish Julie prepared the night Julia’s editor was supposed to come over at their humble place above the pizzeria: beef bourguignon. And I immediately thought: Maillard reaction! Okay, maybe not really immediately but just before I was writing this entry. It’s the complicated reaction responsible for the browning of meat and for the meaty taste of meat, that distinct umami flavor we all crave for when we dig into a big slab of marvelous steak. And you thought the meat turning brown during cooking was the simplest example of things on their way to utter incineration, didn’t you?


Why we just absolutely adore MSG on our dishes is that monosodium glutamate is essentially glutamate, an amino acid naturally present in meat. Add to that all imaginable sugars present in the pan and some nice temperature workup and we got all the things we need for the Maillard reaction to occur. Get ready for some serious killer dish baby! Talk about an explosion of sensory delights! No wonder the Chinese inundate their recipes with MSG!


P.S. I can say I am really inspired by this Julie & Julia movie. Cooking (chemistry!) and blogging. Oh dear. I think I’m gonna have a heart attack. Enjoy your steaks, my fellow readers!