Weaning

Its a sad sad day that we decided to wean her :( So now I'm pumping only once in office, even then I don't empty them, but pump enough for my own comfort. I must say I'm quite reluctant, but she's almost 11 months, so I got to do it eventually. Best do it now during term break. Once school starts, will have no time to pump anyway.

She's been terrible the last few nights, waking up at 2am to 4am refusing to sleep. So yesterday and the day before that I had massive headaches. Yesterday I succumbed took MC, reluctantly leaving her with my in laws, despite being at home. I must say, time alone is really therapeutic! I really do miss being free and easy and able to do anything I wanted! But not quite as much as I missed her hehe...

Did I mention she's now eating pasta? Coz of her taking so little milk, i'm trying to introduce calcium rich foods like cheese. I bought those chedder cheeses available at the cheese deli? kind, to reduce processing. like $6 for 6 slices or something like that. Really ex as far as chedder goes, and grated it over her brocolli pasta. Glad she loves it =)

Its been so long

since i last posted, since then so much has changed. i've come back to work, tanya now eating tons of porridge now, but not wanting milk any more. she taking very little milk which leaves me really worried; like when i'm at work only about 3oz (<100ml) 3x. she needs at least twice that amount daily...:(

I also just started seeing the start of her top left tooth erupting yesterday when she was laughing. waited so long for the first signs of pearlies and suddenly she has 3 erupting! tried to catch photo of them but they are really elusive! probably coz they are still half baked hehe

she's geting really active and starting to know things and get curious. also getting wary of strangers as compared to her friendly self before. We have been going out every week, from zoo to bird park to swimming and singpore flyer etc trying to keep her entertained =) tons of pics been uploaded to facebook, coz thats much easier to do than blogging hehe, i'm turning to a brainless bird

hopefully got more chances to update soon.

Tanya is 6 months! =)

In a blink of an eye, another month has passed; and I haven't updated my blog this past month :( Many things have happened, like Tanya flipping over (finally! late, i know), Tanya thriving on her organic rice cereal, but I'm waiting til her to be 6 months to start other foods. I wanted to try avocado but couldn't ripen it. Gonna try again this weekend with a brown paper bag =), me returning to the poly for training of a new system we'll be using, and me finding out from there, much to my disappointment, that my pump output is too low, so we've started supplementing her with formula. Basically its been too busy for me to update much. Now I've just finished my training so waiting for half hour more before knock off =) thats the problem with training in the office, you have to hang around until knock off time anyway. bleah. Her appointment with PD for her jab is next tuesday. hopefully got chance to update more often.

Updated: reading backward then realised that I didn't mention she is NOT sleeping through the night yet =P indeed it was a fluke, but it happened again last night. So hopefully this means she is just about ready to sleep through..?

5th Month jab

Brought baby to PD for her 5th month jab. Very good girl leh! First time i think she slept through the night w/o waking up for milk. But hehe i think is fluke lah. Will give her more time to sleep thru night =) and at the PD, didn't cry at all when taking her injection! surprised me really. The first jab she cried until the babies outside oso cry lol. 2nd time she cried a bit when the needle went in. Today very good, din cry at all. Plus finished the rotarvirus vaccine in the syringe. =) Now she totally exhausted and cleeping. Love you my brave baby girl!

Bye Bye Baby

Today for the first time, I left baby in the care of my in laws, for almost full day. They came over for her morning bottle feed as per normal and then brought her home as usual. I went over for lunch bringing along her next milk feed. Then since I need to go back to work on 20th, I suggested that I leave her there and come back again at about 3pm with her next 2 feeds. My in laws agreed so here I am, home alone sans baby :( very mixed feeling. wonder how will it be like when i go back to work

First solid

Had really wanted to wait for her organic food to arrive before starting her on solids but there was some delay. I couldn't really wait liao so used the nestle sample pack to try. hee; would rate it fairly successful with most of it going into her but of course i didn't mix a lot. also the mixture was disappointingly watery. doesn't seem like 'solids' at all. lol but she seemed to enjoy it =) will post up the video after ming compress it. now; should i continue tomorrow?

Feel like a dog

coz i keep looking out for the postman these days lol i love getting stuff from the mail. feels like buying surprise presents for myself! lol sis says i should go back to work, then not so eng haha

i ordered some stuff online, like milk tea, rompers, sleepers and baby cubes.
i got my hands on some milk tea and fenugreek online in preperation for me going back to work. Boss juz asked me come back late march for training so must get ready le. rompers and sleepers coz baby juz outgrows clothes so fast. need more home clothes for next stage. although i juz bought many stuff from the pumpkin patch and fox baby sales, but i guess those are more for outing use?

and... baby cubes! hee juz can't wait to start solids. waiting for my organic food to arrive. hope i dun cave in and start her first. would like to start wif organic leh. but i already washed out all the cubes haha. i also opened my nestle cereal =) if the cubes dun arrive soon, i juz might start her le...

o yes! and my new patchwork blanket is completed! A-Z series! Thanks to my cousin who recommended it as a way to teach Tanya the alphabet! hehe altho she a bit young now. but she loves her personalised one. the alpahbet one is bigger so can last her when she outgrows her name one =)

Baby ball games

look what i found online



Fantastically Fun Ways to Play with Your Baby or Toddler with Ball Play
Did you know that a simply ball can provide so much fun for your child? I had no idea until I accidentally discovered ball play. Read on to see the ball play exercises that excite every young child.
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/439876/fantastically_fun_ways_to_play_with.html

4th month - ready for Solids

Many things have been happening in her 4th month. I would say she's much better now, more stable and predictable, aside from me trying to train her and some nights she still wake up and dun wanna slp. But she's taking well to the bottle now. We decided to stick with NUK even though she takes well to Evenflo too. I like the air flow system that reduces her colic. So we went to buy the NUK glass bottle so its BPA free, albeit a bit more costly.

I'm super looking forward to starting her on solids. I've placed an order on an organic BP for Bellamy's. Their tiny tummies are not yet equipped to digest chemicals like pesticides etc so many recommend starting off with organic food. I also stocked up on Heinz jar foods. haha probably after her 5th month jab on 6th March, we'll start the solids with the bumbo, since haven't buy high chair yet.

2nd date

Only allowed coz I was there to chaperone =)

So Quiet

Ming's parents brought Tanya to their place again this morning. No chores for me to rush through, so I'm pretty much stuck doing nothing. Feels strangely quiet and lonely without my baby. Its so strange how I look forward to alone time only to realise how much she has become part of me already.

Happy Valentine's Day!

wanted to go on flyer, but too crowded =)
dressed in neutrals. look like boy not? :(

First outing with Oct mummies!

Taken at Swensens with >20 mummies and infants!

Boy meets Girl

First CNY

Tanya was really great during our CNY visiting, and was laughing and cheerful to the new faces who wanted to carry or play with her. But our nightmare came at night when she refused to sleep from 2+am to 6am! After her night feed she was wide awake and ready to play and explore the night! I had hoped it was over stumulation from the visits and that it would not repeat, but it happened a few nights in a row. Was she teething? My sis boys first teeth all pop at 4 months! X-fingers and hope for stabalisation soon.

Limited time

Given the limited time I get to blog, and all the many things I want to capture to remember, I decided to post some empty blog entries with just photos =)

I'm also starting to feel the clock ticking down to the time I must return to work. Fills me with mixed feelings. Mostly, I cannot bear to leave her behind and miss out on the many milestones while I'm off at work. Her first word maybe? Her first step? And the feeling that she will not need her mummy any more :( and may have patterns of behaviour I'm not familiar with. Hai but what to do? Time really flies. Here's some pics of her in her first month versus now. How much she's grown ya? =) wonder how much I will miss when I return to work...

Vaccination shot

Tanya visited her PD for her 3rd month vaccine shot on Friday. She was crying piteously even before the shot landed (sleepy maybe?) and made the checkup tough on us and the doctor. But when the shot was given, she bawled her little heart out. Her crying fit infected some young patients outside the door and set an echo of crying at the clinic. =P

Last 2 days that followed were tough as Tanya broke into a fever and refused her strawberry flavoured fever medicine. She kept spitting it out, despite our best efforts at syringing it to her. She was also fussy and kept crying (although my MIL says she's always fussy anyway... -_-"), almost only allowing me and Ming to carry her. Hopefully she'll be better today, since the doc says the effects should at max last 2 days.


I feel we walk a thin line between my side family and his. My sis, with 2 healthy rowdy boys make me seem like an over-protective mum who keeps her daughter all wrapped up and wouldn't let her do anything fun; whereas in his family, Tanya is the first grandchild, so I seem always to be putting her in some danger or other, like walking past a clinic full of germs and bacteria or letting her go out without her mittens or cap or blanket to cover her. It tends to be stressful to me as both sides wonder what kind of mum am I. But perhaps its for the best as we walk the middle ground and prevent any extremes on either side?