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..

missy @ 29th month-old

missy's new song from school.

Something like this:
shake banana shake banana
peel banana peel banana
squeeze banana squeeze banana
cut banana cut banana
press banana press banana
eat banana eat banana
arhm...

Missy now is talking in sentences.. some of the coversation i observed:

missy ask her grandma :
can i play this ?
can i play didi ? <--apparently, she thinks her young baby brother is a toy *frown*

Missy & neighbour :
uncle ask her : where is your brother ?
missy: The brother drink nen-nen..

She also tell the neighbour, "The didi ta bian"..*fainted*

My little bb ..

Taking this video while in hospital. hee.. after bfeeding.

Welcome my bb Boy

Finally, he arrived on 19th February. im suppose to induce on 21st Feb, but he chose his time.

I started to feel cramp on tummy and backache in office on friday (19th Feb), i was telling LGG, maybe it's contraction ? cos it's not regular but it's pulling. But im still fine to do my work and all. and i feel dilation when i pee.. i told LGG< i'm sure i've dilated. haaa.. so it's so accurate.

When i bathed after work, i started to see blood discharge, it's those mucus with blood. I felt panicky already, cos never encounter such thing before, last pregnancy was induced with no sign of contraction or whatsoever. then i quickly smsed LGG, ask him quickly settle his work and come home, i may be delivering soon ? it's about 630pm then. Missy is watching her DVD and i only manage to feed her few spoonful of her dinner as she seem to fuss about.

Then i smsed gynae, he said will call me back later, as he is running his clinic now. after 30 minutes, still he is not calling and i started to feel rather strong contraction , so i smsed him again. i told him this is my second pregnancy, will it come faster ? he then said quickly go to hospital.

LGG then smsed in laws to come over to take over missy while he accompany me to hospital. we left home about 8 .... reached Thomson about 815pm..we then went to monitoring room, the nurse checked and said i was 6cm dilated.. woahh..

then, they called the gynae.. ask if i want epidural.. everything was quite fast.. i took my epidural, LGG registered.. Gynae came and said "dun worry, we will see the baby before midnight".. ohh.. so confident ? haaa.. then after the epidural i still can feel strong contraction, with soreness from my tummy till my back.. really painful... the nurse said try not to increase the dosage of the epidural, so i can feel the contraction this time..

then, gynae came back again. fully dilated.. about 11pm..or so. he asked to push..then finally bb was born at 11:23pm, 3.83kg..

but ihave lots to complaint abt thomson hospital soososos not up to my standard.

Pheww. Job completed. haaa. this time, the stitches are bad, cos bb is big. suffering still.

anyway, glad to see my bb finally, missy is so excited to see her bb brother.

Banana & Chocolate Muffins

The banana muffin i made yesterday simply good.. except the size is too big, LGG said two muffins make him full till noon.. see la.. feed him more complaint.. feed him less also complaint.. not say he ever bake anything for me ! MAN!

neeway, wanna keep the recipe for my future reference, i adopt this recipe from HBB again, her recipe always very good and confirm good stuff !

Banana & Chocolate Muffin


Ingredienst:
275g plin flour
3 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 large bananas (abt 450g) <-- i use pisang emas, so i use 6 bananas.
100g brown sugar (i use normal castor sugar)
1 large egg, lightly beaten <--i use 2 small eggs
50ml semi-skimmed milk <-- i use full creamn milk (missy's)
75g unsalted butter, melted and cooled <-- i use normal salted butter
50g chocolate chops <-- optional

Methods:
1. preheat overmn to 180deg celcius
2. sieve together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a mixing bowl.
Mix in the chocolate chips.set aside
3. Peel the bananas and mash with a fork in a bowl. Add in brown sugar, egg, milk and melted butter. mix till well combined
4. Pour the liquid mixture into the dry ingredients. With a wooden spoon or spatula, gently fold all the ingredients to form a wet batter. stir genlty, using only a few strokes and mix until the flour are incorporate into the batter. DO NOT Over mix. The batter shold appear lumpy.
5. Spoon the batter into the muffin cup. bake for 20mins or until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean.

My 33th Birthday @ Home

I've been toying with the thoughts of baking my own birthday cake, using the steam moist chocolate cake recipe, this time with the chocolate fudge, feling qite lazy actually.

Today morning, LGG ask whether want to celebrate at Jack's place or Swensen.. mm.. well.. im also lazy to go out..so i decided to celebrate at home instead.

so, i started preparing the ingredients and all..steam the cake. then make the chocolate fudge (first time i make this) and hey, it turned out sooo well.. really after stirring for 10 minutes, it turned into fudge..in short, the cake, +the choclate fudge,, makes into my birthday cake..i deco it with some m&m choclates.which suppose to have more, but most ended up into Missy's mouth..*eyes rolling*



Missy is suppose to help mummy putting the m&m chocolate onto mummy's chocolate birthday cake, but she refuses to put them on, she "steal" the chocolate away instead. Lucky im fast to "protect" the rest of the m&m.. else my cholate cake will be real plain..




AFtr the chocolate cake is ready, i put them into fridge as we have to get ready like bath and all..and i askmaid to fry some french fries + seaweed nuggets + sotong ball (yeah, all fried )

Then i thought.. mm.. i have a bunch of bananas that;s riping.. why not make some banana chocolate chips muffins ( this is one of my want-to-do list) so ok lah.. go ahead ! since i still have lots of chocolate fudge left, i might as well put the fudge on top of my muffin after it's ready ? *good idea*. so i ditch the chocolate chips and replace it with left over chocolate fudge,, today will be all chocolate & fried food.. *sinful*

So tt's how we have banana muffin with fudge and missy's one candle muffin "birthday" cake.. she just love birthday. by the way, the banana muffin simply good...



Missy cant wait to help mummy to put the candles on the cakes, we make our birthday wishes and sing LGG sings birthday song for us.. and oh. only 3 candles on my cake.. cos we run out of birthday candles..nvm la..and the cake from fridge seem to crack a bit, so, next time better serve it warm.. else, not so presentable.. hee



my chocolate fudge cake +muffin



some photos, well, i may say some last few photos with JUST ther three of us, before our new member joins along soon.



HAppy Birthday to myself ! one year older and one year wiser..so my next wish is my bb boy comes to us healthily and safely !

HAppy Tiger NEw YEar & HAppy VAlentine's day

HAppy Chinese New Year to all!

Our 14th Feb (CHu yi) all red red..missy like one small ang pow like that




Missy posing with mummy's chocolate :) Happy Valentine's day !

My Bump

Last Thursday check up with Gynae, bb is already 3.2kg..scary ! missy was born at 3.3kg.. but now this little boy will definitely exceed the 3.3kg mark!

Im feeling so bloated and constant backache... in order not to have too big of the bb at 40 week, i will go for induction again this time. we have set the date and all, if nothing happen (no contraction or water bag burst) before the schduled date, we shall see my bb soon.

Wish me luck !

One more photo taken on Sunday, my bump really huge.. can see the arch of my back is much obvious from previous months.. but then, missy's tummy like flater this round.. haaa..it's the angle issue.. she is now 14.4kg.. at 29th month old.

CNY 2010

Today Missy's childcare is going to have a small celebration for cNY. each child is to bring 2 oranges for exchange, we do not buy any mandarine oranges so i substitute ir with oranges instead.. muahahha.. anyway, they don't mind..

past 2 days saw this red tube dress in Isetan, so cute.. cant resist it and bought it for missy.. see how missy who looks like a small adult in her tube dress.. we shall wear this during cny.

Today i let her wear her poney red dress, which she wore during her birthday, her teacher can recognise this dress (from photo brought to school for their lesson). and wonder why she pose this way today.. must be learning from some kids in childcare again.. *beh tahan*

This will be missy's third CNY ! Gong Xi Gong Xi~!