“Each ‘Coffee with Piolo’ video bears a message specifically tailored to the user’s financial needs. We’re very excited about this because it allows us to communicate with our clients in a digital manner, without losing the personal touch that is part of the Sun Life brand of service,” said Sun life Chief Marketing Officer Mylene Lopa.

After generating the video, the user may share it on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram to qualify for the raffle, where 20 Sun Life Prosperity Cards worth Php 5,000 each and a trip for two to Dubai are up for grabs.

“This is just one example of how Sun Life always strives to be creative in the way it communicates the importance of having money for every stage of their life to ensure financial security. We hope that this will inspire more Filipinos assess their financial goals,” Lopa said. “At the same time, we wish to remind them that this is a journey they need not pursue alone. Sun Life is here to guide them every step of the way.”

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About Sun Life Financial

Sun Life Financial is a leading international financial services organization providing a diverse range of insurance, wealth and asset management solutions to individuals and corporate Clients. Sun Life Financial has operations in a number of markets worldwide, including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, India, China, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and Bermuda. As of December 31, 2016, Sun Life Financial had total assets under management of $903 billion. For more information please visit www.sunlife.com.

Sun Life Financial Inc. trades on the Toronto (TSX), New York (NYSE) and Philippine (PSE) stock exchanges under the ticker symbol SLF.

After my long hiatus, finally I got time (and enough sleep) to start writing again. I haven't posted in a while, you can probably guess that SHE FINALLY CAME! First of all, I can totally testify that every pregnancy is different. With my first born, I didn't experience any serious problems during my pregnancy. While on our second baby, I had recurrent urinary track infection, preterm labor (Read: Surviving Preterm) and false labor. As you can remember, I wrote about my experience with preterm labor when I was still 31 weeks pregnant. Since then I've been taking medicine and was advised to a complete bed rest. We also found out that she has a cord coil around her neck. Despite of my situation, I've always imagined that my birth plan will be followed. I stated there that I wanted to have an unmedicated childbirth, delayed cord clamping and breastfeeding right after baby was out just like what we did with my firstborn. But we went through few bumps along the road. Without further ado ...

Margaux's first photo

hooked up to oxytocin and waiting for regular contractions

5 cm and just right before we went to the labor room. Look how low my tummy is!

8 p.m - I am already in the delivery room. The contractions are coming at 2-3 minute interval. They got crazy strong. Soon, my clenched teeth turned into open-mouthed moans, and eventually just full-blown yells. I found myself squatting, bending over, lying down, and in all sorts of different positions to ease the pain. Before I knew I was 8 cm dilated. The pain was unbearable. We didn't experience delayed cord clamping because baby's cord tightens around here neck whenever I tried to push her shoulders out. So just right after her head popped out they need to immediately cut the cord. And after 30 minutes of hard, determined, but controlled pushing with the support of my amazing ob-gyne and nurses, my baby girl was born at 8:55 p.m., weighing 2.9 kilos thru Normal Spontaneous Delivery. We immediately perform Unang Yakap at Unang Hakab. Holding and feeding her for the first time is indeed a very magical moment. It was equally the most intense, beautiful and surreal experience I’ve ever gone through, especially getting to experience it with Keith.