Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Bamboo Wear


I just received the baby bamboo wear manufactured in China and it look very promising! The texture is really super soft, softer than cotton and par with the soy fiber.
Although the colors are very basic, this collection is good for now. I do hope to source for cuter bamboo clothing for babies and mothers alike.

Celebrity Blankets


The buzz on celebrity baby on what they are wearing, always set the trend. Baby Suri Cruise was seen often toting Little Giraffe's Blankie. Robbie Adrian is touted as the Baby Gear the Stars Love by Instyle magazine.
Little Giraffe - really really soft and comfy. They have a range of cute colors
Robbie Adrian - very pretty with the trimmings and is certified organic.

Blooming Hats


I love seeing flowers baby J (no thats not my baby J shown on the pic). Jamie Rae hats are soft and they make baby J look so cute! I like how the flowers are big and obvious enough so I don't get questions about baby J's gender.
Look at the flower and the pink color clothes - she's a girl!

Our Gift Boxes


We try to be as eco-friendly as possible. Our gift boxes use recycled materials on the hard board box but since we would like it to be luxe, we opt to use fancy paper (that is not recycled) to cover the box. Hopefully we can source for recycled paper to make fully eco-friendly boxes in future...

Our gift cards are made with 100% recycled paper. Recycled paper in Indonesia is considerably more expensive than most fancy paper and they are usually imported.

8pc Organic Set


This make such a wonderful gift for baby showers! Clean Globe's organic cotton set is very soft and safe on tender newborn skin.

This 8pc set is great to pack into the hospital bag to let baby wear during day out.

Safe Baby Skin Care II


Another great skincare brand is Earth Mama Angel Baby (EMAB). Tried, tested and agreeing is the high quality products. They have an award winning nipple butter and Gweneth Palthrow used their stretch oil.

The body butter has a nice fragrance, it's not greasy and the smooth skin texture stays for hours! My skin feels buttery soft.
The nipple butter helps a lot during feeding when baby J doesn't latch on my nipple properly.
My friends love me more when they receive EMAB gift sets from me. It contain very useful stuff in one gift box!

Adiri Vs Born Free


Born Free is supposedly the replaced brand for Bfree, and Born Free is patented in US so they don't distribute their baby bottles outside of US. I had purchased Born Free and Adiri from US online store before I thought of doing Graha Baby.

Here's the home grown review of the two great bottles - Born Free (or Bfree) and Adiri.
Adiri is considerably more expensive than BornFree due to the fact that once the bottle is mishandled or the nipples are torn, you have to replace with a new bottle; there is no spare parts for Adiri.
Adiri design is cooler than Born Free.
Born Free teats are good and the flow is great for newborn. Adiri is designed to look and feel like mothers breast so there was no feeding problems and transition back to breast went smoothly.
Born Free has many parts to be cleaned and sterilized.

Safe Baby Skin Care

First many protested why they have to purchase BPA free bottles when the bottles in the mass market are more than fine and they don't cost as much as BPA-free bottles.
Then came why not mass market skin care, afterall they have been using some of the mass big brands for generations. Well, from research shows than artificially fragranced body products are just not good. A good source to know more about what is in your baby's baby products is Safe Mama.

There are so many organic skin care out in the market and it is confusing to defer the brands. Graha Baby pick California Baby and Earth Mama Angel Baby.
California Baby has a wide range of baby products that can also be used on adults.

For myself, I use California Baby's Super Sensitive Lotion for daily use. I have skin problem and it blew up during my pregnant hormonal change. It soothes and moisturizes my skin for hours without any greasy feel.

Safe Baby Feeding Products


BPA news finally reached Jakarta. When I was pregnant with baby J early this year, the only BPA-free bottle found locally is BornFree, selling in premium baby stores such as The Childrens Store and Ibaby.
I was planning to breastfeed my baby and have heard how babies prefer bottle feeding to breast feeding after being introduced the bottle. Thus, Adiri become a good choice for me to buy for baby J.
Natursutten pacifiers also is another great item to bring in as it is not only made with natural safe material but also is orthodontic, meaning baby's teeth will not be altered from sucking on Natursutten pacifiers.

Baby Soy


A personal fave! Baby Soy is as soft as was described by the brand and other reviews. I prefer baby J to wear her button-down kimonos rather than those wide-neck onesies.

Baby J just celebrated her one-month, and we shaved her baby hair. To cover her bald head, she wears hats everyday. Many of the infant hats that was given by friends came to be either too tight or was rough on the inner part. Baby Soy's double knot hat doesn't leave mark on baby J's head and the double knots is so cute on her! She look like a mini cute juggler!

Graha Baby Going Online

Graha Baby was launched before my delivery of my first baby. During my pregnancy with Baby J, I was researching for baby stuffs to buy for her. Many of the products and brands I wanted to buy was not in the local market and that's when I thought of bringing the products in.
After months of reviewing products, designing catalog and web, finally grahababy.com was launched in July.
In this blog, I will review the products that we carry online.