Looking back I guess there was always an entrepreneur in me. One of the more embarrassing stories my mom likes to tell about my childhood is when I was around seven years old, I put my ballet skills to good use and put on a one-woman ballet performance in my grandmother's compound, charging our relatives 25 cents each to attend. But after that I found more conventional ways to earn a little on the side. During summers, I would make iced candy and sell them to our neighbors. Later on, I began selling other products as well: eggs, breakfast food.

As I became an adolescent, though, my interests shifted, and the extent of my ventures was limited to the annual garage sale I would hold when it was time to clean out my closet.

When I became a mom, though, I realized that a lot of new moms' needs and wants were not being met by the businesses that were out there. And that's how the Pinoybaby Store was born. It started with diaper covers, but since then, we've grown to offer the widest range of cloth diapering products one can find in the Philippines, along with other natural parenting products as well.

Being a mompreneur has been a wonderful journey. It has allowed me to stay at home more so I can be with my son. It has allowed me to meet wonderful people--customers, associates--mostly women who are also going through the wonderful experience of motherhood just as I am. It has pushed me to keep abreast with information relating to motherhood.

It's been a little more than a year since the Pinoybaby Store launched, and since then, we've grown from being an online store to having a brick-and-mortar presence. A few months ago, we started showcasing our cloth diapering products at Spoiled! Store in Ortigas Center.

Expectant moms and new moms will be happy to know that Spoiled! Store is holding its grand opening tomorrow, Saturday, February 6. Activities will be ongoing the whole day: hourly raffles, arts and crafts activities for the kids, pre- and post-natal massages by MomMassage, and a lot more. Raffle prizes will be given hourly. A lot of items will be on sale.

Aside from Pinoybaby products, Spoiled! Store also carries a lot of other must-haves for new moms. As far as I know, they have the widest range of nursing wear, with brands like Plume, Spoiled!, Mamaway, and Mommy Matters. They carry baby clothes from Babinski Baby, Motion Wear, and Funky Feet, and bath and body products from IndigoBaby.

We hope to see you there tomorrow!

Spoiled! Store is on the Mezzanine Floor of Goldland Millenia Suites, Escriva Drive, Ortigas Center, Pasig.
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