Sister Lillian Remedies

I am so excited about this range! At last - some great holistic products especially for Mum and baby! With over thirty years’ experience as a highly respected nurse and midwife, Sister Lilian has become a household name synonymous with child and baby care. From her vision of a better world composed of healthy, contented babies that grow up into vibrantly healthy adults, the comprehensive “Sister Lilian Range of Remedies” was born. Consisting of twenty-seven specially-formulated products, the range comprises of the following categories: Care, Rescue, Single Remedy (Calendula, Chamomile and Arnica), Vitamins & Cough Syrup, and Tissue Salts for ideal mineral supplementation. The remedies can be used to assist with anxiety, aches and pains during pregnancy, labour coping during childbirth and maternal tension. They also help prevent or combat an array of ailments and conditions such as restless sleep, teething, colic, coughs, crying, digestive discomfort, earache, poor immunity, excessive mucus, skin rashes, bumps and bruises, sore throat and nausea.
“Colic occurs in twenty percent of babies”, says Sister Lilian, “... particularly firstborns, for instance if a baby cries uncontrollably for a couple of hours over a three day period, the child may be suffering from Colic. Often infants suffer severe pain and the soothing effects of a combination of homeopathy and tissues salts such as ColicCare may calm the child”, she adds.

Unlike conventional medicine, homeopathy treats the person and not the symptoms or disease. Given that the person (and body) is a balanced, intricate system, with levels disrupted by illness or “dis-ease”, homeopathy seeks to balance this through administered quantities of medicinal agents prepared from source materials. It’s a powerful means of self-medication that’s a by-product of modern thinking and living, focusing on nature and health as the core to any successful treatment and maintenance.

This is a really empowering brand of products that enables new mums to be able to manage their own and babies health in an effective and natural way...to get more information - please contact Andrea on 021 900 2510

Looking to reduce nappy costs?

Why are Bio-Babas the best value for money nappy around?

When looking for a good nappy system – very often cost is an incredibly important factor to consider, especially since nappies are the single biggest cost factor in bringing a baby into this world and may be equal to your hospital bill! In other words – if you go the full-on disposable nappy route, you are looking to spend around R12-R15 000 on nappies before your child is potty trained! (Even more if your child does not potty train at 2½ years as toddlers in disposables often do not associate weeing with being wet since they are always bone dry in a disposable because of the chemicals. We have many clients with 4 or 5 year olds who still wear night nappies because of this!). With a Complete Bio-Baba System you are looking at spending less than R5000 including laundry costs in that time…a R10 000 saving is not to be sniffed at!
Bio-Baba nappies are one of THE MOST economical of the cloth nappy options for the following reasons:
• they are the most versatile: ie. they can be used effectively for day,
night, swimming AND potty training - all other systems would require buying
more swim and training nappies... - the nappies still work at R153 each in a Complete System which includes a 20litre lidded bucket (R79), (Organic Nappy soak (R39) and a free South African Child Friendly Directory valued at R120 = total additional saving of R238
• once the hemp has been washed for a few times it is much more absorbent
than cotton and therefore you are only looking at changing the nappy 5 times
a day (same as a disposable)
• less changes mean less washing which means that you are only effectively
doing 3/4 more extra washes a week.
• we always receive comments from people using separates that they never have
enough waterproofs as even a little poo or wee on the waterproof means that
you need a new one...if you have only 3-5 waterproofs per system of a certain size then you are likely to run out - this is never the case with a Bio-Baba
• Fit Pregnancy said the Bio-Babas were the 'most convenient', 'easiest to
use' and one of the 'nicest looking' cloth nappies in South Africa...I think
that fact that they can be used as a garment in our lovely South African
weather goes a long way as they have a very durable outer (new
medium nappies will all be soft and baby pink and blue and white - large
still the durable fabric) - which means that they still look nice after
first baby has used them...this really can not be said of any other nappy.
• OSFA (one size fits all) are great - but I often feel that people are mislead into thinking that they will be suitable for all occassions from day one until potty
trained and they 'tick off' nappies in their brain, whereas in reality they
will probably not be able to use the OSFA until at least 6 weeks old due to
leaks on the small babies (not to mention explosive poos!) - which is why we
took our small nappy off the market as we often saw new parents struggle to
keep up with the routine at this stage and overwhelmed by it all...IN
THEORY - the OSFA seems a good idea for newborns - but in reality is not
often practical both from the effectiveness point of view and also from a
'can mum cope' point of view. I think that it is important that people do
realise this rather than think that you are getting less somehow because
Bio-Babas are only suitable from 6kg? Also - I know that not all OSFA are
suitable for potty training; from a size perspective they often do not fit
as well on the older children who do not respond as well to them, especially
since they are a nappy type nappy with outers and inners so not as easy and
cool to fit as an AIO and certainly do not look as groovy. (Important factor
in potty training!)
• Bio-Baba nappies all come with super-absorbent hemp boosters…these do all on the hard work of the nappy, so as well as getting the waterproof included in the price of your nappy, you will also be getting a hemp booster – a good deal!

Bio-Baba wins Green Innovation Award!

We are very proud to annouce that we have won the Real Simple Magazine's GREEN INNOVATION AWARD in the household category...it is especially meaningful in this category since many people STILL think that it is Okay to do the occassional bit of recycling and that disposable nappies are a necessary evil...this is absolutely not the case!

If you have a baby in your home, your household waste will double! By the time your baby has potty trained, he/she will created up to 1 tonne of landfill space and you will have left approx. 6000 little time-capsules of non-biodegradable poo-filled plastic for whoever is around 500 years from hence! It certainly won't be us if we continue to think that this is fine...parents who think it is not their responsibility to make sustainable choices for their children are ensuring that there is no future for their precious offspring.

Our planet can not sustain this amount of waste; there is an island of plastic floating around in the sea between Hawaai and Japan - I suppose since governments have run out of landspace and now just dump in the sea...Did you know that 90% of the world's oxygen comes from the ocean?

The time to act is NOW! Do not wait until baby is a toddler or potty trained and say "I was GOING to do the 'cloth thing' but never got around to it" - you will only have ensured that your child's eco-footprint is massive before they can make choices for themselves...will they thank us for not bothering I wonder?