Baby Sleepytime Bath Review and Giveaway!

I am always on the lookout for good quality, natural bath products that are easy to find. The Brauers Naturals Baby range of products is fantastic and it’s all available at my local supermarket, so I’m one happy mummy!

We've been test driving the Baby Sleepytime Bath for the last month and I’m really happy with it. The kids are noticeably calmer when we’ve used it, going to bed is a lot smoother and the solid sleep has definitely improved. Mister 10 months loves his baths and when I use the Baby Sleepytime Bath product he has a great night sleep … so I’ve started using it every night, who wouldn’t!

What I personally love the most about this product is that it cleanses and moisturisers and is gently on Miss 2’s skin. She suffers from Eczema and before I would have to bath her in just plain water, now she is happy for me to use the Baby Sleepytime Bath and it doesn't affect her skin.  

What Miss2 loves most about this product – the bonus rubber duckie that comes with it of course.

About this product:

• No nasties: free of petrochemicals
• Soap free
• Only pure, natural ingredients
• Gentle on sensitive skin
• Eczma-friendly
• Softly scented

You can view the whole Brauer Naturals Baby Bath and Skin Care Range here. They list the entire range, directions, pricing and ingredients.

This product is a dream come true to for us. We love it, we'd love you to give it a try. It would also make a great gift for someone having a baby (as all mothers know how sleep depriving that first year+ can be).

Brauer is giving 3 of our lucky readers the chance to win a full sized Sleepytime Bath product worth $11.49! It includes the bonus rubber duckie.

All you have to do is enter via the box below. 

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Homemade Baby Rusks Recipe

Homemade Baby Rusks

Baby rusks annoy me.
I hate paying for food that goes straight to the floor.
I hate paying for food that is really average and i know i could cook better.
Rusks are boring!  There is not a lot of flavour, smell, textures - nothing.
So I made my own :)

1 cup Quick Oats
1 cup Almond Meal
1 cup Mashed Banana
3 tbl spoons Olive Oil (or something else)
1 tbl spoon Self Raising flour
1/2 tbl spoon Brown Sugar
1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/4 tsp Cinnamon Ground
1/4 tsp Mixed Spice

Mix all up and pour into baking paper lined slice tin.  Bake for 1 hr at 180 degrees celcius
Lift out baking paper from slice tin and cut the slice in rusk size fingers.  Put the baking paper on a cookie tray and lay the fingers on leaving spaces between them.  Put them back in the oven for another 45mins or so pending on how thick you cut them.  The middle of the rusks should be cooked.
Take them out and lay on cooling racks, they will go hard once cooled.
Pop into snap lock bags and keep in the freezer until needed.


As with other Rusks and Biscuits these do break down so don't leave your baby unattended with one as it may be a choking hazard.

Top 5 - How NOT to lose those maternity kilos

So i have been 'atempting' to lose the couple of extra maternity kilos that are preventing me from fitting into my normal clothes. If i don't lose them very soon i will be wearing nothing at all this Summer because i refuse to buy any larger size clothing.  

However upon reflection of my week i may have hindered this goal, yes i did all these things. 

Here is my top five of how not to lose weight.

1. Even though all the top Chefs say to "taste your food" whilst cooking this does not apply when nibbling continuously on the same batch of raw cookie dough. 

2. Celery and carrot sticks make fantastic snacks for busy mums on the run.  Cut them up in advance and store in containers in the fridge.  Great idea, however probably shouldn't eat a Freddo whilst chopping up your veg.

3. At 10am on the way home from the school drop and morning walk around the sports ground, stopping at the Servo and picking up a Coke defeats the purpose of walking for half an hour with two kids in five degrees - dummy.   (I'd been up since 4am - i was desperate)

4. Sneaking a cookie in the kitchen as your making a coffee to take back into a room full of kids going crazy does not give you any more sanity.

5. When at the Shopping Centre - walk.   Do not go back down to the car park and drive from the  BigW entrance down about 800m to Woolies.  Even if you have a trolley load of groceries and its 10pm and your tired.

I have failed this week I am sure but i can't tell because the scales in our bathroom were broken whilst i was in hospital having my daughter and i keep ummm forgetting (?)  to get new ones.


By Bel