Exersaucer for Janelle

After considering for quite a long while, finally decided to get the exersaucer for Janelle.

Went Takashimaya and they only have 2 choose, either 3in1 Pond @ $348 or 2in1 Tropical @ $188. On budget, so no choice but I got the Tropical. 

Exersaucer aka baby walker but without the wheels. As now, research had show a high percentage of babies injury that caused by baby walker, where they will knock and bump into something and hurt themselves, also baby walker will slowed down baby development to walk. Canada has outlawed baby walker to be used and doctors in US are trying to outlaw too. 

hence, evenflo comes out with this, and it had get very popular among the young mommies. But i think the bad point of walkers "slower to walk" in exersaucer, but i think carrying bb or just put bb down on mattress all time also doesnt help the development. Everything must be moderate.

We (kogan, kogan's brother, ruiyi, ruiliang and me) spent 1 hr to assemble this exersaucer. It comes with all small pieces and we have to assemble them together parts by parts.

Month 6

Janelle's first try in big swimming tub:

Month 5 Week 4

Another chinese new year gathering:

Janelle's first swim

Was thinking to bring Janelle for swim since one month old, but they using neck float which put me off. Last weekend, when reading msapple's blog, saw her girl enjoyed the swimming session even with the neck float on, xiao A really can kick. I decided to give Janelle a try to let her exercise more, asked Linda and annabelle along..

Swimming is good for baby. It improves to build her confidence, is good exercise, gives her freedom of movement, and has a positive effect on psychological and motor development. Hope this swimming session will help her on motor development, she is kind of slow.. this mummy starts to worry, 6 month has not yet flipped, hmm she did... flipped on her without anyone help, but that's only 3 times and it happened a month ago.

Brought her for a swim today, but she dont like it. When we reached there, they gave her some warm up exercise, and slowly into the water. The first 5 min in water was ok, but after that she start to scream... Picked her up and give her some milk. rested for about 20 min and put her into water again to try.. same thing happened, the first 5 min was alright, she was laughing. When she start to cry, i picked her up give up. dressed her and latch her to calm her down. She fall asleep, together with meimei annabelle:

Janelle's on cereal

ok, continue with my previous entry on weaning. Janelle has progress to have cereal twice aday.

by 5th day of weaning, my mil intro 2nd cereal meal in a day to Janelle. i know my mil intention was good, she wanted Janelle to have more in the day in order to sleep thru the night. Janelle is smart, know how to reject when she is full.. Not too much for her and she is coping well. By the end of 2nd week, she is having 1 tablespoons of cereal each meal.

Yesterday, i starts to intro Janelle with fruits after evening meal.. I gave her banana, she dont quite like it though, she gave me a face like not nice. But i told her, cannot choose food, this is good for you.. and she finished the banana i prepared for her (1 oz)

Valentine's Day

Today is Valentine's Day... my valentine's day gift from my hubby but he is not in town to accompany me.. he away in shanghai for a project implementation.

My sis, Celine, afraid that i will not received anything this valentine, she shared her valentine's day with me and mummy. The "flower" is hand made by her boyfriend, see as big as janelle's  head

 

Dinner with my mummy

Tonight, i went out dinner with my mummy and joey. the initial plan was to meet up with uncle hock chong for a dinner, but last min he informed father that he cant make it. And since me and mummy already reached the restaurant, we must well have our dinner there.

By 9pm, my maid called me on my mobile phone. She said "Mom, baby keep crying, nei nei ask you must return home now." nearly fainted.. i rushed home, and janelle was siting on nei nei lap watching TV. haiz.

Month 5 Week 3

Yi Yi Linda and mei mei annabelle came to our place. 

Mummy compare the size of mei mei annabelle with me and commented me no fight.

mei mei annabelle is 2 months younger than me and is heavier than me...

Uni Gathering

Jean returned to singapore for chinese new year, and as usual we had a gathering over a dinner and drinks. This is the first time since i'm pregnant with janelle to have beer. But not as free as before pregnant as i have to rush home before 10pm to arrange janelle to bed. I waited for 2 hrs after that one and only glass of beer before i breastfeed janelle, this will let the alcohol level to the minimum.

CNY Visits

Went to Jess's and amanda's place for CNY visit. Brought nian gou for their mummies. hmm, i still got angbaos the the mummies even i'm married with kid. althought janelle was not there as she is sleeping at my mama's place when i'm about to go over the their place, she got more angbao than me during this trip.

Saw Amanda's 2 "monsters", i think it too tough to handle 2 kids at a time. I took my hats off for amanda's SIL. Next year, this time, my girl will be just like that, running around the house.

taken with elise:

Weaning Stage 1

Friday evening, went ikea and bought a high chair for janelle to start her on cereal. The purpose is to trained her on table manner, so that in future, she can sit down quietly when meals.

Stage 1 of Weaning:

Purpose - gradually introduce foods other than breast milk or infant formula to baby's diet.

The best food to start with is a single-grain baby cereal. Rice cereal is best because it is unlikely to cause an allergic reaction in young babies. Gradually increase the amount of cereal you feed until you're feeding twice a day—in the morning at breakfast and again at dinner. When your baby is eating from a spoon fairly well, you can reduce the amount of breast milk, water, or formula normally added to the cereal.

So, i started janelle on nestle's rice cereal from the sample pack given by Dr Lee. We intro at about 11am, where after her morning nap and just before 12pm milk time.

31/01/2009 - 1 tablespoon of rice cereal + 30ml of milk.
[Janelle's progress: she only takes a few spoons and refused to seat in the high chair.]
[Yvonne's progress: failure in preparing the cereal... :) i mixed a tablespoon of cereal and 30 ml of FM, but no idea why the cereal doesnt seems to smoothen up with the milk. my maid told me that is it because the milk is not hot enough, guess what, i put into the steamer to double boil the cereal. by the time the cereal is done, janelle's starts her cranky cos she is hungry and want milk. also find that the utensils are not correct, should use a bowl instead of a plate. went out in the afternoon while janelle having her afternoon nap to get the bowl.]

1/02/2009 - 1 tablespoon of rice cereal + 30ml of milk.
[Janelle's progress: we are at my mummy's place, so no high chair. maid carry her, while i feed her. she also has a few spoons but much better than the first day and starts cranky, seems like want to sleep as she skipped her morning nap.]
[Yvonne's progress: i mixed a tablespoon of cereal and one scope of milk powder. then add 30 ml of hotwater. it's better then yesterday but by the time the cereal is ready, it colded. so just feed janelle a few spoon and stop when the cereal is too cold. hmm.. how??]