{Enjoying my (week-long) long weekend x the view from today's morning walk} #TheSimpleLifeinSamar #absolutelynofilterneeded #Samar #LaVieAuxPhilippines
{Le week-end pour la famille❤️} #TheWeekendThatWas #LaVieAuxPhilippines #Tagaytay
{Always Antonio's❤️} #TheWeekendThatWas #LaVieAuxPhilippines #Tagaytay
{Japan encore} #Spring
{When you wake up and she makes these faces in the morning... Makes the night before (when you were used as a pacifier so she can go back to sleep) all worth it. Proper sleep training can, as always, begin tomorrow!}#BreastfeedingJourney #sleepwhatsleep #MotherhoodAlive #happybaby
Magic hour❤️ #LaVieEstBelle #SeraphinainSamar #TheSimpleLifeinSamar #absolutelynofilterneeded
{It's been a week but still feeling refreshed and grateful to have spent a few days in Samar. It was Séraphina's first trip to this place where we hope she will also feel at home in, wherever in the world she may grow up. She has experienced her first noisy boat ride, danced with her cousins (and met her nephew who's 3 years older than her!), pulled apart her Lolo's plants, and took her promenade by the river---already a taste of the simple but magical experience of holidays in the province. She may grow up in the city but we want the wonders of nature and the sense of community of our little town to be a part of her childhood, just like it was in mine. As for me, there's been so many changes in my life but to come home again after all this time, and to see how a lot are still the way they were when I left---I guess that's what's so comforting about coming home. If everything had changed, then it won't be home anymore. #LaVieEstBelle #MagicisMyWordoftheYear #mamanature #PinayMaman #FrenchFilipinoFamille #seektheuniq, #TheSimpleLifeinSamar
{things that make me happy: freshly picked malunggay from Tatay's farm. Guin sahog ha tinola nga isda basi dumamo pa an gatas😘😘😘} #TheSimpleLifeinSamar #BreastfeedingJourney #mamanature
The only thing harder than being apart from my baby for the first time was pumping breastmilk during my several days away in Japan. Pumping and washing pump parts at night instead of resting, sneaking pumping sessions between sightseeings, requesting hotel staff about needing to use their freezer. Plus the extra effort of explaining to Japanese airport ground crew why I'm traveling with liquid milk when my baby is not with me (apparently, in Japanese culture pumping is not so common since only few women work outside the home during the first year after their babies are born), and the challenges of how to travel with breastmilk (frozen vs chilled, to handcarry or to check in, making sure the milk is well insulated). I was looking around wondering what pasalubong to buy for Séraphina and I realized the breastmilk I was bringing home was the best gift I could ever give her from this trip. Nearly 9 months on and our breastfeeding journey still continues. I don't really have a side in the so-called mommy wars between breast is best advocates and fed is best group. I chose to breastfeed, I'm lucky I have milk, and I've used formula to supplement when needed (such as when I had to stash breastmilk before my trip). I will breastfeed as much as I can for as long as I can, but I won't shame or pressure other women to do it. And I still refuse to call it my liquid gold.😋 #BalanceNotPerfection #BreastfeedingJourney #MotherhoodAlive
{Haven't been back to Japan since my first trip when I was fifteen. Now enjoying some me time❤️} #Jafun #lavieestbelle
