Baby S Favourite

Every baby just have their favourite. It could be bolster, pillow, soft toys or anything.

When Baby S was more aware of his surrounding, he started to "make friends". First it was our bedroom window. He would smile happily at the window without fail. Second was the clock in our bedroom, he will coo non stop at it and often broke out in laughter. Thirdly was our wedding picture at the main hall, he would too coo and laugh at the sight of it. Among them the clock "entertained" him the most and for longest period.

Slowly he out grown all the above favourites. Now his favourite which is also our favourite is the squeaky bear soft toy. Mr Bear coax him to drink his milk, keep him calm when he cries and coax him to bed. How can such good toy not be our favourite.

How come I didn't recall having any favourite last time?

Losing the extra kilos

Many people asked me how did I shake off the weight so fast. I did not do magic. Below is the things that I have done to lost the extra fats.

Taking care of baby ALL by MYSELF
To be honest, I think God make us put on a lot of weight during pregnancy for a good reason. A mother will need all those extra fats because taking care of a baby is a very tiring job. We need the A LOT of energy to take care of the baby, those fats will in return be burnt to give us the energy. I took care of Baby S for 3 months until I return back to work force. Everyday after work, I continue to care for him. I woke up everyday at 5 am to feed milk, change diapers and change his clothing. Before I start to get myself ready for work. Slowly I realise I auto transform myself in to a Superwoman after being a mother and I'm very proud of it!!!!

Breastfeed
Although I only breastfeed for 2 months, it helps a lot by burning extra 5oo calories per day. To those who are doing confinement, please DRINK A LOT of water!!! In order to produce A LOT of breast milk, we need to drink A LOT of water. I know some people claim that drinking water during confinement will caused a huge tummy and to me this is NOT TRUE. I drink tonnes of water and my tummy was the first to shrink compare to my thighs and arms. Breastfeed will help baby to build up good immune. I do feel very guilty to stop breastfeeding at 2 months.

Eat Healthily
Good diet is the key to losing weight. We must learn to say NO to curry, nasi lemak, fried kway teow, fast foods, chocolate and all those unhealthy high calories food and snacks. When the whole office was indulging in the heavenly nasi lemak topping with my favourite chicken wings, I opted fish ball noodles. My dearest HB is one of those who alway ask do you want Macdonald(knowing french fries is my favourite), do you want Chendol or Ice Kacang. I will reject them most of the time. I wont say we should not eat these totally, once in a fortnight is perfectly fine but if you do it too often, your weighing scale will tell you your problem.

For me I take heavy breakfast, normal lunch, light tea break and light dinner. Most of the time I don't take carbohydrate during dinner. Skipping meals is a BIG NO if you want to lose weight, because our body will start to store fats once it knows the intake of food is not regular, than we will have more problem losing the fats.

Exercise
Only a died person have no time, so do you have time? Sometimes when Im not so tired, I bring my fat dog for a run, those days when Baby S needs me more, I'll play WII Fit at night. Yes even if its 11pm at night!! I do it even if I can only afford 15 minutes. There is not short cut to losing weight, exercising diligently is the way to go. I also started lifting Baby S with my legs recently, it make him happy and firm up my thighs and arms, a good 10 minutes will leave me with aching arms and legs. It also make Baby S happier!!!

The first thing to do in order to lost weight is to go to the mirror and say "I'M FAT AND I NEED TO LOST WEIGHT" out loud!!! One must be able to admit the problem before solving it. By cheating yourself doesn't works at all.

My uncle always say, 人过了四十连呼吸都会胖. If we know that this is a fact, then shouldn't we be more pro active to prevent it or do something about it. 难到就继续的胖下去吗?

Last but not least, I admit Im a big time vain pot. I need to look good in order to feel good. During my confinement period, I had phobia taking a bath. Because just by looking at those fats on my body make me feel very in confident and ugly.

I'm so happy I managed to squeeze in ALL my pre pregnancy jeans after 4.5 months of delivery. I was grinning my way to work because I was in the skinny pair of jeans once again!!!

Current weight: 43.5Kgm
Pre pregnancy weight: 42.5Kgm
My Idea weight: 40Kgm

I must JIAYOU to lost the 3.5KGM, wish me good luck!!!

PS: Pls avoid taking slimming pills, cause it will do more harm than good to our body.

NAM Treatment - Part 2 (Plate)

After 1 whole month of taping, we further proceed with the plate.

1st week: It was hell!! Baby S refuse milk, keep crying the moment the milk bottle is in his mouth.

2nd week: Baby S slightly gotten used to the plate.

3rd week: Baby S start loving the plate and suckles it like a pacifier.

4th week: Baby S gum gap are not closing ideally.

5th week: DR C.Lee found that plate slipped behind Baby S gum and make a new plate.

6th week: Baby S put on new plate which fits him much better.

7th week: Gum gap closed slightly. Dr C.Lee adjusted the plate so that gap can close even more.

8th week: Gum gap was closing at a rapid speed.

9th week: Dr C.Lee advised that gap is about 2mm wide and 3 in 1 surgery is highly possible.

10th week: Suppose to put on Nasal Stand but Dr C.Lee wants the gap to be slightly smaller before proceeding.

Baby S had a love and hatred relationship with the plate, so was I. Initially its really uncomfortable for him, but after he gotten used to it, he will cry and look for the plate if its removed from his mouth. As usual, the most paranoid person is not me and Baby S, it was my Mom.

I really had to give kudos to my baby, he is so strong, so cooperative, so much so he learns to love things he hate because he simply knew this is going to be part of him. This is something I have to learn from him!!! If we are stuck in a "bobian" situation then we need to change ourselves to adapt to the things we don't like. Life is easier with things we like than the things we hate.

Wedding Bells - Aaron and Rain

Location: Bliss Garden at Expo
Date: 11/06/2010

Rush like mad after work so that I was in time for the solemnisation. Luckily went there early, have so much time camwhoring around. After the solemnisation ended shortly, I was so busy attending to the guest and helping Rain around. Although tired but Im very happy for my bestie!!! Welcome to the MRS club!!!

Rain and Me!! (Shouldnt have on the flash light....)


YL and Me!!!


Jen and Me!!!


YR and Me!!!


Kiddos time..... Its really hard to capture them well. Either Claire or Hazel was moving.

Hazel moving....


Claire moving...


Best Shot I had for the day.


PS: Waiting for more pics from Rain's photographer.

Bonding

I couldn't directly breastfeed Sheldon due to his condition and that is really a killing point for me. Breastfeed provides the best bonding session between the mother and child.

After heading back to office for about 1.5 months, my time with Sheldon is much lesser. Sometimes we just need to pat him a little while and off he goes to dreamland. At times, Sheldon is able to sleep on his on.

Today I carried Sheldon until he fall asleep and I slept with him in my hands. When I woke up, I feel so bonded with Sheldon again. When Sheldon was much younger, we used to carry him to sleep because he was still feeling insecure. I didn't recall when did Sheldon outgrown this, but it was a bonding session that we didn't realise at that moment.

Children really grow up very fast, as parent we should spend as much quality time as possible with them. Because once they outgrown their childhood, you will never be able to go back again.

4 month old prayer

A simple prayer for 床母 and also to officially let Sheldon to start semi solid food intake.

We cut a little of Sheldon's hair and he had flower bathe.


Red eggs, glutinous rice and drumstick for prayer. We gave the drumstick for Sheldon to 'taste' as part of the prayer.

Motherhood Baby Fair 2010

To avoid the crazy crowd, I went on 03/06 evening. Still some booth that sell cheap stuff are crowded. This time round I didn't buy a lot of stuff, just bought 5 bottles of Heinz organic purees and Nepia diaper.

I finally found a school that actually take in cleft baby. This is how sad Singapore is, world No 1 in everything... health care also first right??? Then how come school not trained to take care of special child???? Apparently the school I inquired is very confident that they can take good care of Sheldon and they even have qualified nurses station in the school. I'm considering whether to go for their open house. I'm not sure whether to let Sheldon goes to school before palate surgery or after palate surgery. Even if its after palate surgery, I'm pretty impressed by the school representative.

Got to tks Grace for passing down so much clothing and its branded baby clothing. I save quite a bit for not purchasing clothes. Though I'm not a brand conscious person but there is really a huge difference in material. Now I fall in love with Carters, Pumpkin Patch and Gap.

Goodbye Itchy Itchy Scratchy Scratchy!!

Finally we managed to get Oreo's skin problem in control. The solution to her skin's problem was Avoderm lamb and rice kibbles. She is strictly on kibbles and fruits now, she has since stop scratching herself and her bald patches has started growing furs.

I must admit I wasn't a big fan of commercial food but I have to give in cause its the only answer to the skin problem which has been haunting us for almost 3 years.

I don't know when she started being so allergy to food but well I thank God that everything is under control now.