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.