I have two questions, the first; did they need a survey for that? Haven’t they ever been with baby and toddlers? Haven’t they seen those ESDs (energy sucking devices AKA your children) to know it killing any chance of spending quality time with your spouse?

The second question is, 15 minutes, that long? And quality? Usually it is just letting out steam at each other.

Now seriously, I love my girls, they are the most amazing things on the face of this earth, really are. However, they are ESD, energy sucking devices, they want all of you, all of the time, and that can be very taxing, personally and also on you and your partner, as a couple.

That way, maintaining a relatively strict sleeping routine is important, both for parents and children. The bottom line is that children need there 11 – 12 hours a night. The bottom line is that parents need their time off. Those two can work perfectly together.

Here is how things work at the Pollak household:

17.30 Supper time
18.15 Bath time
18.45 TV / Book reading time
19.30 – 20.00 Bedtime.
20.01 Bottle of wine is opened.
20.02 Parents chilling out.

We tried to implement this routine since the girls were born, must say it wasn’t as smooth as it is now, but from relatively early age (around 7 month) we, as parents had our quiet time, having dinner together, watching TV and basically slowly fading out.
So, if you having trouble with your little ESD‘s sleep routine, try following the advice of Andrea Grace, our sleep expert, we have, and it worked for us.

But being a father of two amazing girls changed all of that, I have realized that being healthy and leading a healthy life style is important and essential, and that it is one of the most important values I can install to my children. I assume that for each of us there is a different trigger to the change of perspective. For me it was my desire to be fit, so I can be active (mainly skiing) with my daughters in 20 years time, once the fitness kicked in, I became aware of what I eat and consume and how does it influence my health.

Then, (what a surprise) the penny dropped and I understood that it is important for that my family is healthy, that we eat good, healthy, nutritious and mainly organic food and that we do not consume too many chemicals or food additives. I also believe that if your children see that exercise and sport is part of their parent’s routine, they will grow up to be active individuals.

Being aware is 50% of the whole thing, you don’t have to be a fanatic, just think before giving your children any junk food, or eating it yourself, as it always happen, they do not finish the bag of crisps, chocolate, whatever and you end up eating it…

As always, I am being late and behind the curve… it seems to be that health and life style are the hottest topics in the world today, Newsweek magazine just did a cover story about fertility and health, following a comprehensive research by researchers from Harvard University.

This is an excellent opportunity to recommend the blog of Melinda Nicci, our antenatal and post natal fitness and nutrition expert. Melinda is passionate about the subject, and in her blog she will cover a wide verity of issues concerning health, fitness and life style.

I was more interested in looking into all the small gadget people invent around the baby industry. We are passionate about our children, and I think a lot of people, through the process of being a parent are coming up with different business ideas, I know I came up with one, this website.

For me, the coolest device I saw was this formula dispenser, still to be distributed in the UK. I always got confused when counting the spoons, preparing the bottles or filling the divider, and further more, always felt like a drug dealer, cutting up the cocaine for distribution (always thinking of Ray Liotta in “Goodfellas”). so here come this device, similar to the kind you see in coffee shop, where they use to dispense the coffee into the espresso machines. you simply decide how much formula you want to prepare and the machine dispense the correct amount. very handy, no more recounting of spoons and so on.

Wait, it gets better, Babywell, an Australian company (was not the show) have taken it one step further, they have created the ultimate “baby milk” espresso machine! Not only that it dispense the correct amount of formula powder and prepares the milk with the correct amount of bioled water, it is also a sterilizer for bottles and breast pump and a dispenser of clean boiled water, amazing! too bad it won’t feed the baby as well in the middle of the night.

I don’t if they plan to bring it to the UK, but if and when we are having another baby this is one gadget I am going to get.

Monday morning she had a slight fever, 37.5, we gave her some Ibuprofen and sent her to nursery. This morning, at our local coffee shop I’ve bumped into a mum from nursery, she said she thinks her son got the virus that been going around the nursery, which made me think, how many parents sends their kids to nursery with a slight fever and a hidden virus…..

I set out on building Babyfy.com about a year ago when looking for a double buggy. I was sure, that on the web I would find an online resource that will list, review and shed some light on all the available products out there,. Well, I was wrong.

There are lots of great parenting websites out there, lots of active and helpful message boards, but I couldn’t find a website that would help me, as a novice parent or any other parent and parent to be, understand which are the best products and services for you and your baby. So I decided to try and do it myself, and be the ultimate online resource for parents and parents to be.

I think the key thing about Babyfy is that we let parents review, grade and share information about products and services, allowing other parents to benefit form their experiences and thus help them attain a more educated decision when purchasing baby related products or services. We are not trying to sell anything, we are not affiliated with any retailer or manufacturer, we are here for parents and parents to be.

So, this blog will be about my experiences as a father, as an entrepreneur and as Babyfy’s Chief Baby Officer. The most important thing for me is your feedback. I encourage you to take an active part and share your reviews on products and services you have used. Please always feel free to contact me (ido dot pollak at babyfy dot com) with any comment or suggestion you may have. I hope you will share the enthusiasm of Babyfy with me.