ABC Music And Me

Missy has been attending the ABC Music and Me by Kindermusic for the second month now.

Last month the theme was about "Let's play" wth songs and activities on play, playground, sounds, train, jumping, running, hopping, what you can do with your hands..The story is about Golden Bear

This month, the theme is about "Out and About", pretend play on picnic, sounds of birds, encourage us to bring children to picnic (which coincidently, missy school is organising a picnic to botanic garden next week), the story this week is about Froggy going out.



Quite fun session, as the children are having so much fun and laughters during the class while playing while learning with teacher Angel, from Kindermusic, she really can sing, i heard her during first lesson when i sit in..

Great to see missy having fun !

ELC shopping

today ELC having 20% sales for all ELC items in united Square branch. from 9am till 2pm only.







so, about 10am, i went down to United Square (first time i was here), usually i went to Paragon branch. look for the items i wanted, like ready mix colour, brush, wanted to buy one more giant puzzle but the theme not so attractive, what princess world, market place which i dun really fancy, i prefer one theme puzzle like tractor and the farmer or farm animals or houses.. blahh.. so i din get any giant puzzle today.

bought 3 bottles of ready mix colour, green blue, purple and i realised i forgot the primary colour, yellow.. shit !.. then i bought one set of colouring brush, and i bough one huge bottle of ready to use bubble, which i can refill into missy's smaller bubble bottle.

i bought one canvas painting set for missy too, butterfly, she can use all the gadget and colours in that set to paint on the canvas.

and i also bought a medical case for missy.. opps.. we already have one which we bought from Melaka, but i find this have more tools and the quality of course way better than the one we already have.. heee.. im splurging again.. must control.. next time..

after i was done in ELC, i saw Les Enphants on sales too, so i bought one sweater fro missy, one shirt, one set of Pjs. bought one pair of training shoes for bb, one shirt, two under pants. and i also bought one minnie watch for missy.. opps.. again im buying wayin advance..

well..happy shopping today for my kids.. hee

Mother's Day wishes

Been helping my boss with his document last week, till i feel lazy to blog(write).. but i want to remember this year's mother's day as missy gave me a flower made from her class with her handprint and she tells me "Happy Mother's Day" for the very first time,, which i feel so warming to the heart and feel proud for her as she , at such tender age is able to express her love to her mummy..

My love, thank you :)



She actually told me " Happy Birthday Mummy".. but corrected to "Happy Mother's Day" heee.. cute

Lil Boy @ 11th week old

Try to capture lil bb making cooing sound and playing on his own .. he is quite sensitive to my phone, whenever i come near him, he will follow my phone and stop making sound. so, only manage to capture the video below, the rest all no sound cos he is curious with this pink thing keep looking at him.. haa

Missy @ BBQ

Sunday, we went over to Aunt's house for BBQ, missy is the happiest girl there.
She plays with cats, chase the cats, being entertained by all her uncles, aunties..gets to eat new food like satay, bbq chicken wings.


bb brother is enjoying being carried by different people.. haa..




we adult, enjoy eating the food.

Missy & Maths

Last week, we did some maths with missy. using her ducky and the number puzzle, which she did quite well for number zero to four. as she got almost all correct. with some hints, she finally got all right. shall practise more, and add five to nine this week.

She is not interested in dots cards, so i guess this will make do.




now, to practise her letters, i will write A, B,C,D,randomly on her easel, ask her circle the letter i say. so far, she did fantastic job, got all right. shall add E,F,G,H this week.

Since this term no linking memory, i did flash memory with missy instead as home practise, about 4 to 5 cards. adding new cards each day. when she is paying attention, she usually canget all correct. but when she is restless, she will be insisting to get the cards from me and flash to me instead.. sigh. shall work on this more.

Lil boy @ 10 week old

It's been 10 weeks since we have our boy.. not sure his weight yet as we have yet to visit doc for jabs.

He sleeps longer when he is on his tummy, which we only do that during the day, as night i will still let him sleep on his back. he likes people to carry him around in this position (photo below), like "tao ke" .. he will keep quiet and enjoy the walk, as he wants us to carry him this way and walk about. if we stop, he will wiggle his body and make noise, once we stand up and walk, he will keep quiet again. OMG. he is exactly the same like his sister. *shake head*.. imagine our arm muscle getting bigger..



during day time, when missy is in school, we will let lil boy playing on the playmat, so that he can get some stimulation by the sound of the rattle, the mobiles , the colours.. he enjoys it but usually not too long, as he still prefer us to talk to him than all these still stuff.. haaa




Weekends, usually i will ask his daddy to bath him, let him enjoy bathing his son. he did it for missy last time too. This weekend, we had our first whole family outing to the supermarket, bb boy on carrier, he is sleeping through the whole 1 hour of our journey there, back and also the marketing. missy is so adoring her brother, that she always wants to "sayang" him and kiss him. so we say lil boy is lucky as he has a very loving sister. hee

Chocolate crumble top muffins

I love muffin and i love chocolate.. once i see this recipe i cant resist it.And i did not regret making them. so good. fluffy and the chocolate chips just melt in my mouth. yum.

again, recipe adatped from Home baking mum.




Ingredients

1. 250g self-raising flour
2. 1 teaspoon baking powder
3. a pinch of salt
4. 50g butter
5. 100g soft light brown sugar
6. 100g chocolate chips
7. 2 eggs, lightly beaten
8. 225ml milk
9. 1 teaspoons vanilla extract

Chocolate Crumble Topping:
1. 50g plain flour
2. 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
3. 40g butter
4. 2 tablespoons caster sugar


Method

1.For the chocolate crumble topping, sift flour and cocoa powder into a bowl. Mix in the sugar and rub in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Set aside.

2. Mix flour, baking powder and salt in a mixing bowl. Rub in the butter until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar and the peanut butter chips.

2. In another bowl, mix eggs, milk and vanilla extract. Pour the liquid mixture all at once into the dry ingredients. With a wooden spoon or spatula, mix until just combined. Do Not Over Mix. The batter should remain lumpy.

3. Fill paper muffin cups with batter sprinkle with the crumble toppings. Bake in a preheated oven at 200degC for 18-20mins, or until well risen and firm to the touch.

4. A skewer inserted into the centre should come out clean. Let cool completely.
Recipe source: adapted from Muffins Galore, Catherine Atkinson

Missy going to library Again

two days back, i brought missy to library, again. Trying to borrow some books to
occupy my time during day time when missy in school and bb boy sleeping. Found this book "Taking Medicine" mm.. good one, we've been looking for such book to tell missy when sick must take medicine to get well.

We have hard time getting her to eat flu syrup each time she is having fever, ended up, we have to use suppository (put through backside).

so, hopefully with the book (just like i let her read the toilet book last time), she can understand and willing to eat medicine when sick.




Missy and her new hair band which i bought on our way to the library, she is posing for me.. cant stand her, looks so vain..

Flash Card @ 2 month old

I started to flash the RBW cards for lil boy, he seems interested now compare to two weeks back. one reason being, he can see clearer now. RWB means Red, White Black cards, which are colours that can be seen clearer by baby of below 3 months old.

I did the same for missy last time, but i think i only started after 3 months or something.

Since i know how flash cards work for bb right brain, i shall do more of the speed card flashing to him so that he too can benefit from it.



Happy Ealry educating our child !

lil boy & his smiles

Lil master likes few things:

1. Bathing, till now, he has never cry during bathing, but smileee..

2. likes people talking to him.. he will make cooing sound as if he is answering us and smiles when we talk to him

3. milk, he wants mean he wants. no waiting time allowed.



these type of pictures, we only manage to capture when missy is 3 months plus. but lil master, we can see him at smiling mode when he is one month plus. amazing. maybe he is a more cheerful boy ?

bb Boy hair cutting

Forgot to record the hair cutting and eye brow shaving for my bb.

Mum started by shortening bb's frindge, then the back of his hair, which is growing fast.




bb is sleeping through the whole process, just like his sister last time. Missy is also sleeping through when we cut her hair and shave her brow last time.. hee



After we were done, we found the hair's lenghth not equal, so i help to trim a bit,. wow..first time i cut anyone's hair.. hee.. and missy is so happy posing for his daddy..



After bb's hair cut, clean and fresh, with his green bodysuit, he looks so fresh



so, he looks more like me or his daddy ? hee

Missy & her painting

Missy loves to do painting.. she always requesy " mummy, i want to do painting.." so i have to take out her colouring materials and let her have fun..

she will darw something and tell me , mummy see.. see.. this is big fish, this is small fish.. which is correct, she draws something fish-liked shapes, one bigger than another..wow.. impressive.



then she will draw her banana again, and tell me, mummy, i draw banana.. and just past few days, she drew rain drop thing with broken lines from top to bottom, which she descibed it as raining.. and she drew many dots from top to bottom, which she described it as rain drops.. mm.. my girl can relate things she sees into her painting more vividly now..

usually, i will help her to add more things into her painting like i will add some cloud, and add lighting (zig zag ).. she will then ask me to draw more things.. haa.. we now will draw house, with triangle as roof and rectange/square as house..

it's getting fun to get missy into doing her painting/drawing, we started with finger paint, now, it evolves into more actual drawing and painting.. cool !

she also can recognise more colours now.. primary colour like red/yellow/blue, secondary colour like green/purple/orange.. she still mix up sometimes, but i m sure she will get them right in no time.

she can recognise A, B, C, D (caps) and also their sounds, she knows other letter's sound, but not the letter itself, so i, still trying to teach her as she sometimes mix up like E & F, she always say E is F..haa..

After that, shall let her try on numbers 1 to 10. SM suppose to know all these, but missy hates her dots cards. wonder why..hope she wont hate maths.

Mum's birthday

we celebrated mum's bday at home last Friday,with my home baked cake.. heee.. which turn out not so delicious, n=but it's the thoughts that count la.. heee

Happy Birthday Mum !

Breastfeeding jouney

I have breastfed my bb boy for two months now.. i almost cant believe it. I really feel good each time i bf him. as im thinking, im giving him the best food.

so, yesterday we went to buy the coler bag, which will enable me to store expressed bm when i go back to work. When i was having missy, i wanted to buy the bag too, but, ,my determination was not that strong then, due to sore nipples and all, thus i gave up after merely 1 month, so did not get to buy the bag for the purpose.

so, now after 2 months, my milk still coming, now is supply more than demand, as bb is not taking so much. if i express after 3 hours, i can get 250 ml.. my boy only drink 150ml the most each time.

so, i guess i will be able to continue, mum is cooking papaya soup or trotter peanuts soup for me eveyday. hee.. thanks to her really.


so, with the right gadget, right flow, we shall continue as long as we can , for u my dear baby.

lil missy @ library

Sunday, we went to libary to register for membershop for lil brother, so i ask missy to look for books and find a seat and wait for mummy while mummy do some things, she said "mm".. so i left her.

when i was back , after less tnan 5 min, i saw her bringing two books, climb up the train seat and flipping books.. wow.. my girl is really growing up, doesn;t she ? her action seems so mature

then, she come down again, looking for more books, oh.. well, i guess she find this "fun" instead of really looking through the books, she brought back Thunderstorm book, questions children ask.. mm.. not bad, so i borrowed these books instead.

Muak, my lil missy will be 31 months this weekend. cheers !

missy sick last week - April 10

lil missy is so sick last week with high fever making us all so nervous and panicky. usually her fever will go down after 1 day.. but this round, it lasted 2days and with highest 39.9 deg cel. scared the hell out of us..

went to KKh A&E, test urine, confirm not UTI, not HFMD, doc just say viral infection and will go down after few days. missy's mouth has ulcer, which doc said was wound from her own biting, maybe her gum a bit swollen, due to heatiness.

and true enough, after third day, her fever just gone like that.. and things all back to normal, she requested for her milk again, her mouth ulcer gone too. children really left us adults puzzled sometimes..

so, one more episode of fever since the last one in Jan 10.

Missy and her Painting

Missy started to play her finger paint last weekend, look at how she enjoys it, i let her play with the ready mix colour too. she really have a goof time !

Missy new school

Missy is happy with her new school, she likes her Ouyang Lao shi 9who is just 21 yo) and her teacher Washida (who is getting married Dec) i have a good chat with teacher Washida yesterday while waiting for missy when she is in her Kindermusic class

Some photos taken from outside when i peep at her.. she is having her meal. the one with her eating was taken by her teacher, as the teacher saw me taking, so she said ' i help you" then bring the phone in to snap at missy, missy immediately said ' ei ei, mummy's phone".. haaa.. teacher said " no, this is my phone" .. missy insisted, " No, mummy's phone".. haaa but she did not see me, as teacher bring the phone out to pass to me.



So far, teacher commented that missy is doing great, she is very participative and she is a vey passionate girl, she will hug, and when one of her classmate crying (separation anxiety), she will go forward ad give him a hug ans tell him " Dun cry dun cry, later your mummy come" .. teacher told me candidly, haaa..

School organise music class with Kinder music, ABCmusic and Me from April, missy started her lesson yesterday, it's quite fun, the 9 children all having great fun, the teacher from Kindermusic can really sing. They listen to music/sound and try to identify the items, play with musical instrument, hand actions..

Shall see what they do next week :0)

But, since last Thursday (her first day in new childcare), she refuse to drink her Gain IQ milk. until today she is still not drinking, we all scratch head, she is someone who lovesss her milk and suddenly just said the milk not nice and refuse to drink. so i ask the school what milk they give them during breaksfast (with cereal/ bread0, they said Nespray. so i bought Nespray for her, surprisingly, last night when i made one cup for her, she finish it all. OMG.. what happen ?

Well, LGG and i just let her be, since she likes Nespray, we just let her have Nespray Full Cream milk. No point forcing her drinking her Gain IQ, cos she will even throw up when we keep asking her to drink.

Children's behaviour really hard to understand sometimes..maybe she just out-grow her toddler milk ???

6 weeks going to 7 weeks

Time flies.. bb will be 7 week old this weekend.

ok, his progress. he is pooing lesser now, still loose yellowish stool cos of bfeeding. he is drinking 110 ml to 120ml now. stretching from 2 hour to 3 hours each interval.

He is able to lift his head up when lying on our chest, able to turn his head from left to right when lifting his head. he is able to kick until his body shifted to left to right (or vice versa) position, thus, we decided not to leave him on sofa or bed too near the edge alone..

He is smiling now, big smile, i caught him doing that more and more since two weeks back. am trying to snap of of his photo when he is smiling. He is looking at things and move with them from left to right.

We introduce pacifier to him, but he is not so keen, but sometimes can stop him from looking for teats..

We found that some of his bodysuit and shirt too tight already.. his face also like rounder now.. haa..my cutey baby..

Farewell for Missy

Missy reaches 30 month old 2 weeks back and she can come to the playgroup below our home. SOOSoo convenient.

so on her lst day in her childcare, i take some pictures with her teacher and her friends.. only few left, some either have gone home or did not come to school. there are 16 of them actually..

So the chocolate left quite many, i just let the teacher distribute among themselves.

The Malay teacher is Missy's English teacher and her favourite.. Teacher Diyana. The chinese teacher is Ling Lao shi, she replaces Hou Lao shi after Hou Lao Shi was transferred to K1/K2 below our home.

One more new occassion for missy, as she doesn't seem to understand why i need to give chocolates to her friends and gifts for her teachers.. and take pictures.. well, she doesn't understand now, but at least when she knows next time, i can show her the photos and she maybe able to recall something abt her days in the childcare ;)

BB @ 5 weeks plus

Bravo ! i've breastfed my boy, almost full breastfeed (only give FM when i have to go out, one feed in a week ). i'm so produ of myself, really, haaa.. should have done so during missy's time. sigh. last week, when i pump out and give to missy, she rejected my BM.. sob. wonder why, the last time (beginning) she still drink all..

anyway, now, bb is drinking 110ml each feed at 2 to 3 hours interval. at night, he will drink and sleep, i still latch him on at night, thus, my sleeps is always not through out the night, but intervals. Morning, usually, he will need some carrying around after feeding or in between feeding. lesser loose poo now compare to beginning. mum said the digestive system is maturing. missy last time on FM, so her stool always very routine and not loose like Bfed baby.

Now, since not working, i will take a nap in the afternoon. which helps a lot.Wonder how i cope after i go back to work..mm..

missy is so keen in carrying her lil brother.. everyday ask us to let him carry , she looks so funny, didi looks so "scared"..the lower photo was taken this morning before missy go to school (she is drinking Gain IQ, 240ml now), wonder who is the baby here.. we will let her drink her milk before go to school, her school breakfast only starts at 8am.

Sister & Brother

Do they look alike ? some said yes, some said no.. i also dunno, sometimes i feel yes, sometimes i feel no.. haaa.. the hair make a lot of difference, one thin hair, one more hair..

missy on top and bb below, pictures were taken about same age

more toys for missy ..

Went ELC again yesterday, got missy the washable finger paint.. orange colour and alsp the giant puzzle (tractor with texture).. haven show missy yet, as she suely want to start playing immediately.. only will show her during weekend.. hee



Today will be missy's last day in her childcare , tomorrow she will be transferred to the branch just below our home. sososso convenient..so i bought some cutey chocolates for her classmates.. it's chocoalate atatched to animals.. very cute, but not cheap, one small one cost 80 over cents each. then i went to mark & spencer and get some cookies for her teachers. at the same time i got missy's one packe (inside has 6 small packs) of children healthy pop corns. i ever bought their organic cheese mouse biscuits and organic animal biscuits.. missy likes them, so i tot maybe should try this pop corn since missy been asking for "junk" recently.. everyday open fridge ask for choclate/ice cream.. *fainted*.. she loves the pop corn, she can finish one whole children-size package at one go.. i tried one.. ok only.. not as crunchy.. well, since it;s healthy snack, i can consider giving missy once a week .. if she wants.

Superman ?!?

latest photo for bb.. all babies sleep this way, like surrender.. i always feel he is a superman that is trying to fly but unsuccessful.. haa.. cos his one arm will raise higher than another.. but never get to fly up..




The "I Love Mum" bodysuit is cute, i took this photo while waiting for the nurse to inject bb with Hep B vaccination last week hee.. and the lst photo was taken while we having breakie at McD after the jab, and bb is on the carrier with me.. sleeping soundly...

Weekends activities - Mar 10

Sat morning we bring missy and bb down for a walk, while missy is busy blowing bubbles 9her favourite), mum bring bb for a walk in the pram..

missy insisted on pushing the pram (cos she is big sister) so mum cary bb ..



Missy and her bubbles..



Sunday, we resume our kite flying, this round, our hawk soaring up successfully but the string broke half way.. so got to do it again next week. missy got the chance to run and chase and blow bubbles.. use up all her energy..



She sleeps early and sleeps through the night.. haaa

Missy @ 30 month-old

recently , missy seems to like to arrange things using blocks.. she will stacj up two rows of blocks side by side vertically and bring it to me and tell me, mummy, see, see house..

yesterday, she uses her melissa & dough block to make chair.. after she arranged, she tell me, mummy, chair.. mm.. looks like chair wor.. so i bring one of her ducky toy and sit on it.. she is so excited and she later sit on it herself.. well.. you can imagine what happne la.. the "chair" collapse.. haaa..




sunday, she is requesting for painting session, since we have our term break from shichida, she is very free at home making so much fusss. sometimes really cannot stand toddler this age.. soosos fussy.. and she seems to cry easily with little bit of things, VERY EMOTIONAL.. she will keep requesting for things which she knows we will say no.. then she will start her howling... we simply pulling our hairs out with her "strange" behaviour..

so, ler her do some painting... she press the colours, use the brush.. paint paint paint.. then she tell me.. mummy, fireworks.. whihc really looks like fireworks as she presses the brush onto the paper.. good job !



she is getting better at relating things from her knowledge.. my 2.5 year old.. always cute but naughty as her daddy always said.. heee

Ful Month Celebration

bb is now one Month old and we Celebrated his Full Month yesterday at home with frends and relatives..

Besides catering for buffet lunch, which we thought should have ordered more, cos all cleared at the end, but good that never waste food.. haaa.. mum made some meat balls, tradition glutinous rice, i baked some egg tarts 9with brown sugar, tt's why the filling a bit browish), and we ordered one letter "J' cake for bb.. after everything, we realised that we forgot to bring out the watermelon, which is in the fridge, maid is sleeping through.. shake head.. never even have the initiative to remind us..



I didn't really get to enjoy the food, as im busy catching up with my x-cols, frends, cols, relatives,.. so busy..we manage to catch some family photos and some group photos with guests. missy is busy too, singing and all, she is out "sweet" girls, as i give her the task of giving out lollipops and chocolates to guests. she has done a good job ! we received quite a number of toys, two baby carrier (wonder what to do), clothesssss.. and DOM, diapers,dolls,toy and of course ang pows..



The caterer id from NEo garden, which is not bad, according to my guests, i ordered from them also cos of good recommendation. bb get to cut his cake, he is not so happy at the end cos he just wants to sleep.. haaa.. then this morning, we bath him with the flower from temple, to mark an end of the whole confinment form myself and him.



So, now, i still be at home for the next 3 months, shall work hard to slim down further and continue breastfeeding !

Little baby @ 3 weeks old

bb boy is 3 weeks old now, mum and i think he is more alert compare to missy at this age. he looks around and can follow our movements by turning his head left and right. he smiles already.. and he can lift his head up when we carry him upright on our chest..

but, he cries really loud whenever he needs milk.. cant wait a second.. relaly beh tahan him.. BOYSSS... my massage lady said.. "a hungry man is an angry man".. so once we feed him, he is quite and sleep till thr next feed.

The feeding hours still at 2 hours inteval at night (imagine how MUCH sleep i have) day time, he can sometimes,, only sometimes drag longer as he sleeps longer..so his day/night still not clear to him yet.

hopefully ater 1 month, his routine will be better. looking after baby really tiring. phew..

Missy @ 29months going to 30th months

After watching sound of music for many times, missy is able to sing the I am sixteen going on seventeen..(of course not all lyrics are clear).. but the rythm is there.. cant believe it. and she likes the so long farewell song when the chldren is going up to their bedroom upstairs.. i guess sound of music is suitable for children this age.

now missy knows how to differentiate "mine","yours". she will say is this yours ? wow.. im still so impressed with how much she knows and surprised at how much she knows as each day passes by..

She is quick at catching things i tell her.. and the best thing abt toddler at this age, she is very willing to help me take things.. do little tasks.. er.. sometimes i think os cos she is busybody la.. haaa.. but at least she is carying out instructions correctly.

few more weeks, she will be 2 and a half yo. tt's pretty fast. and it's becoming easier to look after her, as she is verbal and she understands many things now. but, deep down, she is still a baby to me..

Our 2 days in TMC

now that i have the time, shall record what happen in the labour room on 19th Feb,

i was so comfortable at the bed while LGG is taking photos. baby heartbeat is being monitored while im waiting for epidural & all. The nurses are preparing the necessary..that was about 9 plus pm. then i took my epidural which is the last photo with plaster on my back, the doctor was good, i cant fel much pain as he keep telling me jokes.. and he cn tell me what's coming with his each action, which i immediately felt it after he said it. Good job Dr. Chong. i jist lye there for him to do his job. last time during my first bb, i have to sit up and the doctor will administrater the epidural on my back on seated position, i felt slight current at that time. but minimum side effect. this time, i felt nausea, extremely cold and numbness on my whole body. so each time is different.



we took bb's cordblood this round, so the doc took the blood from bb's cord. The photos showed i was hooked on the monitoring device to monitor bb's heartbeat.



Thenm in TMC, the way they deliver baby is using the leg rest in the photos, i have to put my both legs on the rest, and the bed was slanted downwards slightly, so, it's easier to push. but lst time in KKH, everything was performed on flat bed, i just bend my legs and tt's it. so gravity did not help much last time, this round, it helped a bit i guess.but still, i need the vacuum to assist me to bring baby out, tt's why bb's head a but longish in the beginning. BB was finally out in the last photo :)



LGG get to cut bb's umbilical cord again as he did for missy. the photos showed the nurse cleaning up bb,


bb's weight 8pounds 7 or 3.83kg.. my gynae keep saying, bb big huh ! yeah, my stitches is long too ! 52cm in length.



so after he is being cleaned, and wrapped up like "bak chang" we get to carry him again, proud parents..but the angry part followed



after bb is measured and all, the nurse just leave him on the bed (not warmer), and when we carry him, i find his hands and feet are blue in colour, which LGG had taken the photos in time, and we ask the nurse, why is his feet blue ??? the nurse in relax tone, oh.. it's normal, not a problem, cos he is cold, come we put him under tge warmer !! WHAT ?? she din know bb has to be put under the warmer after birth ?? and when i ask the nurse can i latch him on ? she said, they need to warm him up about 1 hour, then bath him before i can have my baby back ! WHAT ?? what is this ? isn't it recommended by all hospitals to let baby latch on within the first hour after birth ? which we did for our girl. the nurse immediately teach me to latch on after she is cleaned.

so disappointed with their service, and they said they lack of staff on weekend. What is this ? tt's why i put very negative feedback for their feedback form. still have the cheeks to ask in the feedback form.NEVER will i recommend friends to deliver in TMC ever !



Because of the warmer, my bb's hands and feet skin peeling so mcuh after that, poor thing, but lucky thing nothing happen, which i over-head from another mummy opposite my bed, she ask the nurse for her bb, and the nurse replied her the same thing, abt bb need to warm up first, as now still cold (blue in colour).. is this TMC SOP ?? shake head !

Anyway,LGG with bb, wrap in pink overall, (his sister's) heee.. cos i think no point getting a blue ones, since we wont be using it that much though (from experience). missy is so excited to have her bb brother at home, singing to him, kiss him, keep saying his little brothe "so cute"



bb's cord dropped about 11 days after birth, missy's dropped on 7th day.we did some sunbathing ,sun before 10am, 10minutes front and 10 minutes back as recommended by PD. he has some heat rash on his face, which mum applied "pearl powder" on them, so powderful ! muahahha.. he looks funny. and today i can pump up to 130ml at one go.. not bad. and i still nurse bb by latching on every 2 to 3 hours, round the clock.



now shall be looking for some full month package, cos will have one in 2 weeks' time. It marks the end of another pregnancy and child-birth and also the beginning of childcare.

Post-birth tummy

well, i have been keeping track of my growing tummy since first trimester, to see how my tummy expand slwoly in the beginning until out-of-control at the end stage,,

But lucky thing, i din leave any stratch mark during the whole journey, so, i can still wear my two-piece swimwear.. *beaming*

after i gave birth, my tummy still sosos huge, but a bit droopy, it looks like im still carying baby, abt 5 months..so scary.. but, i have the same during my first baby.

Then, after 5 sessions of Malay traditional massage, my tummy seem to "shrink".. the two photos below, but i still have 8kg or so hanging on..sob.. got to work on my thighs, arms and of course excess fats on my tummy also..



and my massage lady recommended Clarins treatment tonic oil to apply to speed up the firming process.so i've ordered 3 bottles at one go.. *kiasu*

The website to get good price (abt $20 lesser than buy from Clarins counter)
http://www.beautynscent.com.sg/

hopefully, by the time i get back to wokr in mid June, i will look better. i cant pull up my jeans still.. so demoralising.

Promoted !

well, my boss did what he promised. he said he will put me up for promotion this year and he did. i'm so happy cos with this promotion, not only i get a good increment, i get better welfare too especially the benefits cover my children !

Yipeee.. so all the hardwork on the project paid off.i wish there are more projects if each project can help me to go higher.. kekekeke..dreaming...

well, my next target (minimum 3 years time) is to get to the next rank, so that i can have much better welfare from company.. including buying car without interest rate.. how's that ! hooo.. so shall put the car buying plan on hold till then ?

anyway, now on maternity leave, wont think much abotu work, this round, i did not even log on to my company network once after giving birth ! not bad heee..