Mummy back to work

mother the greatest

after being a mom, then i realised that why there is a says about mother is the greatest..

i guess all jobs u can says give up.. but the job of mother is something that u can never quit once u becme one. can never give up. no matter how tired u are, how cranky ur kid is, how naughty they are, as a mom, u have to do ur job to take care of them..

i'm very tired.. lack of sleep, time has all given to janelle, other than take care of her, still need to  pump breastmilk in the middle of night just to bottle feed her in the morning (afraid she will reject bottle). worry about her brought up, worry about her mentally and physical growth. after i started work.. my sleep time is 5hr everyday...

wean off Janelle bad habits (part 3)

Day 1: Janelle manage to fall asleep on her own after abt 15 min of cries. took janelle out for ah ma birthday dinner, so she got no choice but to fall asleep without yaoyao in the night. When we reached home, it was about 11pm, i changed her when she is drowsy.. guess she is just too tired, so no crying, once down she also knock it down in the night.

Day 2: was very bad, she screamed and shouted till she lost her voice. but still able to fall asleep after the cries

Day 3: ok for morning nap. in the afternoon i need to go out for a few hours, so i get my mil to take care of janelle. it was alright in the late morning nap.. she managed to catch a 1.5hrs of sleep... but the late afternoon nap was very bad, she screamed and shouted, i was in the room pumping... my mil cannot tahan and keep saying "i dont know how to take care of you without sarong, i dont know how to take care of you without sarong".. haiz..  ask me to use sarong.. i ignore and let her scream... but after 15 min, she still screaming and cry till she likes having breathing difficulty.. i throw in the flag, and put her to yao yao... immediately into the yao yao.. she fall asleep... the same thing happened to at my mama's place... 

I give up... sleep yao yao... sleep yao yao lo.. no choice.. i have allowed it to start, very cruel to stop her now... now, just dont need to plan to bring her out... haiz. i'm useless man.

noone supported my idea to wean off her from yao yao... kogan was there up to you la.. my mil and mama says let her sleep yao yao la.. my aunt says this weather, sleep yao yao better... started alr dont be cruel to take it away from her... am i that cruel?? i also heart pain to see her cry.. but it is about her own good.. if she can fall alseep by herself, wouldnt it be more easy for everyone?? anyway.. i give up... will try to reduce the usage lo. now hoping that she would refuse to sleep in yao yao soon...

Month 4 week 2

First Christmas with janelle.. Daddy not around, he is in shaghai, but will be back on 24 Dec :(

Milk Chart - 4th Month

now janelle is 6.2kg, her daily intake should be 6.2*150 = 930ml

average 120ml every 3hrs

0630am - latch

0930am - 120 ml EBM

1230pm - 120ml EBM

0330pm - 120ml EBM

0630pm - 120ml FM / latch

0930pm - 120ml FM

1030pm - 60ml FM (top up fed)

0400am - 90ml FM

Wean off Janelle bad habits (part 2)

tomorrow starts my xmas break for 2 weeks. target: wean off sarong from janelle.

i told my mil yesterday night that i dont want janelle to sleep in sarong anymore.. i want to wean it off.. my method is to let her cry.. leave her alone.. so dont come and interfered my trianing.

my plan is to keep the sarong away... die die also must let her fall asleep on bed. actually, i afraid i will give in to her seeing her screaming n shouting... i tried out yesterday night, poor thing.. she cried till like noone child. but for her own good n her mummy sleep, i have to do it.

this morning my mil says she dont want to see her cry, she went over to bil's place early in the morning. :)

Flipped

Yesterday my girl flipped for the first time. it happened at my mummy's place, during her tummy time. I flipped her over for tummy time and she just kicked and turned over to her back. me and her cousin sister saw it and was so happy and clipping our hands for joy... mei mei very cute, she turned to janelle says: "baby li hai lo... again".. :) 

finally a milestone janelle had reached. had been waiting for this to happen for 1 month. 

Month 4 Week 1

Janelle holding bottle

baby pillow

last night, during my pumping session, was reading msapple's blog, her girl flipped in the middle of night one day. the first thing that come to my mind is that is very dangerous. if there is a pillow then the baby might suffocated. i went online n search, then realised that baby below 2 years old dont need a pillow. no good for their neck development and might cot death. omg.. i had been letting janelle sleeping on her granny made pillow since 1 month old. i faster removed it.

omg.. how can i be so careless n listen to my mil. seeing my mil taking care of bb, she had used all the wrong methods. baby cries give milk, if baby dont drink, wasted. baby awake, she carry her, bring her out walk walk... during the weekend, i have to spent time to correct janelle.. weekday mil mess up again.. how? is infant care better?

Janelle 4 months old's Photo

Janelle 4 months old lo

after seeing Janelle's hair, the "gu gu road" was so obvious, so decided to give her a botak n let the hair grow more equally. i know cny is coming, by then the hair will not be out, but one yr ugly never mind la :)

after the morning nap, daddy n mummy brought janelle to her gugu salon for hair cut. hmmm.. she didnt cry, but just screaming her way out.. haaa cos gugu got to hold her head to prevent any injury. 

after hair cut, brought her back to my mom's house... ah ma brought her a new dress, mummy says 4 month has to wear new dress. after milk, bath... we had a ceremony for her open up her taste bud to meat n veg.

ah ma went to the wet market to get for chicken tongue but noone willing to sell just the tongue. so in order to get the tongue, we get one whole steam chicken from pinsi (old mother's tale: chicken tongue will able her to be good in talking in future..) ah ma also boilded veg, mushroom, chicken, pork, dry prawn. and also string up 12 biscuits (mali biscuits) to collect her saliva n all silbings will take one (old mother's tales: will sayang janelle)

Janelle Passport

Janelle now has her passport. Both daddy and mommy took leave to bring baby janelle to ICA for collecting of passport. 

Due to the photo submitted was not approved, we have to retake the photo. We took her to ICA to take her her passport photo which definitely approve. Once i reached ICA, i went to level 2 the photo booth, and ask the maid to Q for me while i went to take the Q number for collection of passport. during the photo taking session, the cashier carried janelle in baby chair while the photographer standing behind the camera playing with her..  she started up crying, but after warm up, she is alright and can chat with them.. haaa... but while waiting for collecting passport she start to cranky cos time to sleep. the officer asked where the baby and kogan replied the one the loudest behind is her. faint. and still have to wait for one hour before the passport is ready for collection... me cannot take tahan so asked kogan to bring us back and come later to collect the passport.

No idea how to bring janelle out myself. ai yooo..

09 Dec 2008

Heading shopping at vivo without bb :)

Old mother tales

Saw this from a childcare teacher's site:

Baby thigh myth

The crease(s) on your baby’s thighs will determine the sex of your next baby
Reason
I honestly do not know the reason
True or False?
Answer: True
A single crease on both thighs means that your next baby will be a boy
Two creases on both thighs means that your next baby will be a girl.
A single crease on one thigh and a double crease on the other means that you cannot predict the sex of the next baby although some people says to go by the crease on the right thigh
3 months later, this baby’s creases have changed to a single one on both thighs therefore it means that the next baby will be a boy.

During all my years of working with babies I have found this to be very accurate especially if it is clearly a single or double crease. The prediction with combined creases is a fifty-fifty chance.

[Yvonne] My girl is having single crease on both thighs, which means my next baby will be a boy?? dont know how true is this.. we will see then... but wait for another few more years ok?

wean off janelle bad habits

janelle have too many bad habits. during my xmas 2 weeks break, i want to wean off first 2 bad habit.

 

1. daytime sarong

[why] daytime sarong, night time bed ended up she had a better sleep in the day then night.. night sleep is disturbed. no right.

2. pacifier

[why] will affect her teeth growth.. she is coming to 6 mth soon, in other 2 more months.

but HOW??

playtime with janelle

my gal starts to chat with me... :) with a ahh here n hmm there.. 

she also know how to play with me... this is the first time she play n laugh with me for a long time...  

Week 16

At ah ma's house:

Postnatal Hair Loss

now i suffering from postnatal hair loss.. everytime after bath, combing my hair, mopping the floor.. i see the amount of hair on the floor.. omg.. is alot lo. at this speed of hair falling, i guess i'm going to be botak soon.

went to do a search online... and this is what i found:

• Postnatal hair loss is very common and almost always grows back to it's normal state (one might get a few extra grey hairs though!)... [Yvonne] no choice but have to face
• The usual reason for postnatal hair loss is 'hormonal change'. 
• Hair loss occurs from the sixth week to the thirtieth week after childbirth." [Yvonne] now, janelle is in her week 16, and i have another 14 weeks to go.. omg.. i really going to be botak
  
• These hot-spots are located: A.. the front hairline. B.. behind the ears. C.. top of the head. D.. temples. So, the hair loss can be in patches. [Yvonne] eee.. so ugly.. 
  

Cute Cute

Yesterday kogan returned from shanghai to spent a long weekend with us in singapore. SIL and BIL dropped by to have dinner at our place in the night at about 9+ when janelle usually is asleep. But yesterday she took a short night nap at abt 8.30pm and wake up at 9.30pm to play with her aunties and uncles. After 10pm feed, she still refused to sleep. I bring her into the room and clear her up again (cos too many kisses from them) and she still wide awake. I just leave her in the center of the bed in btw kogan and myself, watching her play. she turned to the right, seeing daddy and turn to the left seeing mummy, and she laughted. :) yes is kind of cute and sweet, she played till 11.30pm and fall asleep. and as usual, she woke up at 4am for milk and refused to sleep after that till 7am.. hmm.. dont know where her energy came from.. in day?? is she has been sleeping alot in the day??

Janelle starts to know where her hand and fingers.. she starts putting her hand (yes hand, not thumb) to her mouth and suck till got chu chu chu sound... hmm.. i tried to stop her and give her pacifier instead... she will push the pacifier away and put her hand to the mouth. my idea is not to let her get used to sucking her hand or finger as ppl tends to like touching bb hands when they play with bb. I have asked my helper to clean her hand more often and especially after someone touches her hand. errr.. yes, i know, i'm a kaisu mama, but no choice, cos dont know what virus is out there.

tml is sat, going back to my mama place.. :) looking forward to it. cos when i see joelle plays with janelle, is kind of sweet. ops, didnt post this story last week :0 last week when we are at mama's place, joelle plays with janelle... janelle laughed out very loud.. and guess what is joelle reaction.. heee.. joelle was jumping with joy and said "very cute.. baby very cute leh... again".. haaa.. me and my sis was there laughing at her.. telling a baby to laugh again. :)

a long weekend is coming... thinking to bring janelle out to east coast to have a walk.. not sure if i can cope anot.. will talk to kogan abt this.. will update again. :)

wasting of milk

omg... today opened 3rd tin of Formula milk.

But Janelle had not been drinking much formula milk. Usally at 10-10.30pm, i will make a 120ml FM to give janelle a last feed no matter when is her last feed and no matter whether if she is awake. usually she will takes about 60 to 90ml. the rest will go into waste.

When we going out, my maid likes to prepare 3 * 4 scope of milk powder, no matter if it is a short trip or long trip.. she says granny asked her to do so. and milk powder, once transferred into container, by end of the day, didnt used it. I will discarded. another go into waste.