Au revoir Adiri...

Adiri is no more!

Bebeccino will no longer stock this great and innovative baby bottle. The manufacturer went out of business a little while ago!

Like you, I am perplexed as to what happened. I first discovered Adiri in Los Angeles, in a great store called The Right Start.
At the time, Gabriel was 10 months old and I was trying to get him to take a bottle.

I loved the look and Gabriel took to it right away. When I decided to launch bebeccino, Adiri was the first product I purchased. It was a great seller from the beginning. I was overjoyed. It gave me that extra push that I needed to expand the products I had and get into bebeccino full time. As full time as I could be with a child that has a bleeding disorder.

No matter what, I could always rely on Adiri. We sold stock after stock and I never thought that we would stop selling it. Until one day, I got an email from the manufacturer saying they were ceasing production on the bottles and that they would close.

Within a day they were gone, a terrible victim of the US financial fiasco that is happening at the moment.

We sold our last few bottles this week and it was sad to box up my last bottle and ship it off.

I would like to thank all the wonderful clients that bought the bottles and that supported bebeccino over the last year and a half.

I am grateful to you all for helping me as I continue to work from home and support my son.

So, I say Au revoir to Adiri and a BIG thank you to you all for all the continuous encouragement that you give when you read my blog and surf bebeccino.

HOWEVER, I say a BIG bonjour to all our other great products, such as Think Baby bottles, Organic Kidz stainless steel baby bottles, Born Free and other wonderful sippy cups.

Check them out when you have a chance, you will not be disappointed.

Enjoy!

things learned over the last couple of years...

I have an audience! I would like to thank my audience of one for supporting me and not being porn spam!
It made me happy to know that there is actually someone out there reading what I have to say! So, again, my heartfelt thanks!
Whether you have kids with disabilities or not, you still go through the regular hustle and bustle of having a family.
The disability is a just a little added bonus to enhance your already action filled life!
In this blog, you’ll see what I have learned over the last couple of years as a mom and as a mom of a child with a bleeding disorder!
Here goes…

• It now takes me an hour and a half to get out of the house and that does not include me brushing my hair or my teeth!!

• Not everyone takes pleasure out of seeing all 500 pictures of your children…damn those digital cameras!

• Dishes and laundry don’t do themselves.

• Apparently if your husband is holding the baby, he is unable to do anything else, because he is holding the baby and THAT is doing something! I, on the other hand, can, make dinner, pay bills, fold laundry, pack the diaper bag AND hold the baby…but I digress..

• If something smells funny around you, it’s probably you because you haven’t showered in days!

• Going to the bathroom is now referred to as ‘making poopies’

• Most people babyproof their homes by adding locks to their cupboards and cover their outlets, I, on the other hand, being the mom of a child with a bleeding disorder, get rid of my coffee tables, pad most of my floors, drill all my furniture into the walls and put bumper pads on the remaining furniture.

• You now take a shower with the curtain open and sing kiddie songs to your screaming kids as you soak up the bathroom floor

• Going to the pharmacy to pick up diapers and other baby items is considered an evening out

• As soon as the baby starts to crawl, I put knee pads and a helmet on him. Is that going overboard?

• Your husband can never pack the diaper bag properly

• While other children play with rubber duckies in the tub, my kids play use syringes as squirt guns to desensitize them to needles

• No matter how well you baby proof the house, your baby will always find something dangerous to play with!

• Getting 4 hours of sleep in a row makes you feel refreshed and alive!

• Guilt and fear become your greatest emotions

• Your house seems to always look like a tornado hit it

• Complete strangers don’t have a problem asking personal questions especially about breastfeeding!

• Making dinner takes a minimum of 2 hours to make as you have to stop every 2 minutes to either yell at your child, get your child out from the cupboard/under the table/closet or nurse a bump!

• You have lost all people skills and now talk to everyone in a baby’s voice

• You’re known as Gabriel and Robert’s mommy and you introduce yourself as such!

• You wonder how many times you can watch Finding Nemo before you are put off fish forever

• You spend more time than you would like at the hospital due to your son’s hemophilia

• Your child’s favorite words are ‘No’ and ‘Mine’

• You now have to deal with kicking, biting, screaming and tantrums, usually done in public places

• You’ve lost your sanity somewhere between the time the first one was born and when he started eating solids

• You realize that you are always doing laundry!

• Quality time with your husband is paying bills together, folding laundry together and falling asleep early

• Christmas gifts in my household (again with the bleeding disorders!) include medical kits and band aids!

• My freezer overflows with a variety of ice packs for my son’s bumps and bruises

• You can’t remember your life before them and can’t imagine your life without them

I would not be where I am today, had Gabriel not been diagnosed with Hemophilia.
As I sit here writing, Gabriel is giving his plush monkey a treatment. According to my son, the monkey hurt himself and needs to be treated. The toy medical kit is out, the syringe is out and the band aids are out. I am smiling to myself and well, maybe the thing I learned the most over the last couple of years is that in the eyes of a child, even a treatment can be made into a game.

kids, helmets and, well, neurosis!

Can you sell your children on E-Bay? Sometimes you feel like you want to do that. Especially in the morning, when you are trying to get out of the house.

Nothing says losing your mind like leaving the house and realizing that you forgot to put trousers on! That happened to me last week. I had the kids all ready to go. Grabbed my bag and went to put my boots on when I realized I forgot to put my jeans on!

You know you need a break or a drink when…

There are days when you want to fling yourself from your balcony and then there are other days when your heart just bursts from all the love that you feel for your kids.

I know that I am blessed, I feel so lucky to have my kids. They are both so wonderful. I feel divided at times, like I give Gabriel more attention because he has Hemophilia. The other day, Robert bumped his head and I did not panic as I would have for Gabriel. I automatically felt guilty for not doing so.

Will I make him wear knee pads? Will I make him wear the Thudguard helmet when the time comes? I don’t think I will.

Speaking of the Thudguard, most of my sales are not from parents with kids who have disabilities but from parents who have healthy kids with no ‘issues’ if you will.

Would you make your child wear a helmet as they learn to walk?

Birthday parties are coming up and I can feel my stress level rise. Gabriel chances of getting hurt are about 99% when he goes to birthday parties. I can’t risk that and so we decline most of the birthday parties. I feel like I am depriving him of fun, but at the same time, there is no fun in heading to the ER on a weekend.

Are people understanding? I hope so. Would you understand?