Our first wedding anniversary photo

We took our 1st wedding anniversary photo shoot complimentary from SWC on 16th Dec 2007 which is exactly 1 year after our wedding. The photographer took about 20-30 shots for us and since i was 9 mths pregnant then, she suggest to take some extra shots to show my nice tummy - thanks to the anti-stretch mark massage cream that i have been diligently applying every nite! ;-) Since we are given only 1 complimentary photo, we have to select the best pic out of all cos we don't want to spend extra $ to buy the extra pics too. Well, we collected our photo last saturday and very glad with the chosen pic. A very interesting way to remember how big my tummy used to be! Ha... My tummy has shrunk since delivered but still have lah. I still need to shed 10 kg cos i put on 30 kg in total and only managed to loose 20kg naturally without malay massage. Hopefully can loose all before i go back to work else all my old clothes cannot wear ah... So sad! :(

Life back to normal

Finally my confinement end! Unofficially it ended on 16th Feb while my mum insist that confinement must be 40days which is 25th Feb.. hehee. :-p Anyway, behind her back, i started to eat normal food except seafood like prawn, crab on 17th Feb cos we went to our friend house warming and they catered muslim food which is very yummy!! That day, we also dressed up princess as a pink pooh cos we were given a pooh bear baby gift set that cover her from head to toe! Look at that cute hat! ;)

Other than my dieting went back to normal, we are back @ cell group too! We went last friday for the first time and our little princess is quite cooperative except when it hit her feeding time and she woke up crying! Oh ya, we also attend saturday service or rather we went to the nursery room @ church during service time. I have to confess that i didn't pay attention to the sermon cos met a few old friends @ nursery room and was busy catching up with one another throughout the 1.5 hours... :-p After service, we went to suntec carrefour to buy diaper cos they are having sale! Good Buy Must Buy! When we reach suntec carpark, it was really close to adelle feeding time so i quickly head for the nursery aka feeding room @ suntec level 3. There are 2 changing mat for diaper changing and 2 small rooms that are for breastfeeding session. Well to save the trouble of warming up the EBM and i haven't expressed out for 6hrs, we decided to breastfeed her directly. Without much struggle from princess, she was sucking happily away with tonnes of milk spilling @ her face! Well it was a messy feeding cos the milk flow very fast since it was over-stock for so many hours.. haha! After her happy feed, she poo immediately and we changed her diaper before proceeding to shop @ carrefour! Within 1hr, we bought all the things that we need and she was dazing and staring away in her pram. Well, so far our experience to bring her out shopping is still a good one. Hope it will keep it that way and hopefully there are more nursing room in shopping malls or places that we go! :)

On sunday, my secondary school friends came to our house to see princess so i thought of dressing her up. I dig out a baby clothes gift set that my friend Karen Pan give to us but it seem to be a little tight fit for my chubby girl. :-p Anyway i have promised Karen that i will send her pic when princess wear the clothes. Here it is!

Princess is officially 1 month old on 16th Feb

Yesh! Finally on 16th Feb, my darling princess is 1 month old and it's our first shopping trip together after 1month. We went to Ikea Tampines for dinner and then we went over to Giant Tampines to buy some groceries. Our little princess was very cooperative throughout the car ride there and even when we are having out dinner @ ikea. We thought we will leave the place in time for her feeding but who knows we were still at Giant when it hit the hour! No need to say she is crying for MILK! Oh no... what to do?!?!! Hubby told me to either go toilet to direct feed her or go to the car since it also takes at least 15mins to reach home. I tried to go to the toilet to see if there is any nursing room but no luck and toilet stink so I quickly bring her to the carpark but can't find the car!!!. :-( Finally, hubby paid for the stuff and came to carpark. Once i saw the car, i hopped into it and *thank god* our princess did not reject to latch on again after 3 weeks of bottle feeding. So she was happily sucking the milk all the way home! .... :-)

The day before her 1 month, she had a bad outbreak of "pimple" (red spots) all over her face so we brought her to see PD to find out what's the problem. Dr Tan also not very certain what was the causes as the red spots only appear on her face, hands and legs, ie exposed area. We asked Dr Tan whether could it be insects bite as there are a lot of mosquitoes flying around at our house especially night time. Every night, we can kil about 5-10 mosquitoes, half are squshed flat with blood and the other half are bloodless. We are not sure where these mozzie came from but they are evil for sure. Aaaargh... i can't wait to move out from this old house to our new house! :-( Anyway, Dr Tan gave medicine for Adelle to consume and also a cream to apply on the red spots and it does help to subside the redness within the next few days... Oh ya, while we are at the clinic, we found out that Adelle was weighing at 4.6kg now. She has put on 1.2 kg since discharge from MT A.

14th Feb - Valentine day

We didn't celebrate this year valentine day cos i am still on confinement so cannot anyhow eat also... So sad... :-(

But hubby bought me a big bouquet of roses and left in the car to surprise me! :-)

It reminded me of the first big bouquet of lilies that he bought for me during our first valentine day & it was the day that hubby expressed his feeling for me... hehee... :-p So Valentine day is our dating anniversary! :-) How times flies and looking back we have very interesting valentine day record.

14th Feb 2005

Our first valentine day and also our dating anniversay! Hubby bought a big bouquet of lilies and we had dinner at Marche cos restuarants were all fully booked. We carried the heavy lilies from suntec and walk all the way to Fullerton. Told hubby that it is like a "punishment" when i think of it cos it's really heavy leh.... :-p

14th Feb 2006

No celebration as I was working full time in HK. I went out for a drink & dinner with Ben(my friend's ex-bf now) cos he was in HK for biz trip! Well, the dinner was at a hawker centre in HK and another friend of Ben joined us too!

14th Feb 2007

Our first valentine day after wedding. Hubby sent a small bouquet of roses with heart shape cushion to my ex-office and we had a romantic candle light dinner @ Conrad. Wine & Dine session.. ;-)

14th Feb 2008

No celebration again cos i am on confinement this time. Hubby bought a big bouquet of roses and left it in the car to surprise me. Thank U dear dear! :-)

14th Feb 2009

Well... look forward to a nice valentine day again.. wahahhahahaa... since we only get to celebrate alternate year leh..... :-p

Princess going home for CNY!

During the last 21 days, we stayed at my parents house & finally we are moving back HOME on cny eve! Yippee!! :-) We move over previously because we did not get any confinement lady so my mum offered to let us stay over for the confinement period so that she can help to cook for me & also take care of baby Adelle. Since it is CNY soon so i told mum that i want to bring princess home to get used to her baby cot & celebrate CNY @ home since we are 'forbid' to go house visiting & some superstitious old folks don't want to visit my parents house if i am still staying there! ;-)

Anyway, it was quite a miserable 21 days for me. Reason being there is no internet access for me so it is as good as living in a isolated world. Next, my parents house only have fan and we stayed at the stuffy room that i used to live in before married. Every nite, i perspire so much and becos of the stupid confinement rules, NO shower so i felt sticky, smelly & yucky! I only managed to convince my mum to let me 'dry clean' and wash my hair every other week. :-p As a result, i get dandruff wor and only managed to get rid of it b4 cny..

After cny eve reunion dinner, we packed all our barang barang (yes, tonnes of stuffs to bring home!) into the car & HOME SWEET HOME, here we come! :-)

Upon reaching our house, we told princess that this is your house, your new bed - baby cot and your friends - Hippo, BB Pooh, Elephant and Lamb! We are very happy that our little princess do like her new bed cos she slept throughout the night! Thank God... we didn't waste our $ to buy the mattress and full baby cot bedding set! Thus, from now on, she sleeps on her own bed and don't have to squeeze in the bed with us! ;-)

On the first day of CNY, it was our first time trying to bath our princess. We are glad that she is quite cooperative with us during shower time and we dressed her up to visit her paternal grandma! As mentioned previously that we are not suppose to go house visiting but no harm visit own parents mah.. rite? :-p Anyway we went! When we reached home, our nitemare started again! Princess eh-eh-eh the whole evening till 1am then she doze off to her dreamland...

On the second day of CNY, we brought princess to visit maternal grandparents! A lot of my relatives are there and looking forward to see her! Everyone gave her angbaos so mummy took a picture of her angbaos collection for 2008 - Adelle first CNY! :-) Well, same thing happen again & princess eh-eh-eh the whole evening again... Sigh.... We are really worried if we should go out on 3rd day of CNY?!?!

On the third day of CNY, we brought princess to my brother's house. Well, her eh-eh-eh was shorted tonight! *Keep finger crossed*

On the fourth of CNY, we brought princess to my sister's house and also we celebrated her 1st month aka Man Yue in advance @ my sis condo function room. It was a simple lunch buffet & we invited our family members, my mum's relative & closed friends to attend! We are very glad with the over-whelming response (abt 90 pax in total) despite it is CNY period. But we also quite paiseh that the late comers got no food as there are some last minute turn up guests.... :-p Princess received lotsa gifts & angbaos! A BiG Thank U to All Uncles, Aunties, Kor Kor & Jie Jie who came on sunday and thanks for your gifts & blessings! :)

More pics @ http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=29291&l=96f41&id=646206041

Challenging moments...

During our 4D3N stay @ MT A, princess Adelle was a angel to me. ;-) Cos the moments we spent together was during her feeding time & visiting hours where she was happily carried around by many visitors. However, the 'BEST' is yet to take place!



Upon returning home, thats where the challenging moments and nitemare started!



Challenge #1

I have to struggle with breastfeeding. Dunno why she is forever hungry and need to be fed every 1 hour. Not only that she get impatient during latch on and i was bitten her so many times until i surrender! Also she will only suck for 15mins then doze off to her dream land & i thought she had enough. And who knows in less than 1 hr time, she will start her eh-eh-eh again & there goes her feeding time again! On the 6th day, I decided to express out the milk and only managed to get 60-80ml with the single electric Medela pump. Quite disappointed and worried with my supply.... As I am not sure what is her intake, so we attempt to start her @ 40ml. Well, this only managed to last her for 1.5-2hrs which is a good improvement in my view cos at least i can sleep for 1 hour & spent another 1 hour expressing out the milk. However, my supply was barely meeting her demand and started to feel depressed with my supply plus i have to feed her, change her diaper, etc day & nite - 24 hours! I need RESSSST and ZzZZzz!! I was kinda regret that i don't have confinement lady/maid to help out + my mum is anti-breastfeed so gave me extra pressure! Anyway I started to call SOS - friends who are breastfeeding or had breastfeed before for some tips. Thank God for supportive friends and i managed to loan duo pump - both Avent & Medela to try out! I find the medela is quieter though Avent one is definitely more comfortable. The duo pump really relieve my stress as it speed up the pumping process to only 15mins and i started to see more supply slowly increasing from 100ml to 180ml each time! During our first visit to the PD(Dr Allyson Tan), she told us that based on Adelle weight, she need about 60-80ml per feed. So the max is 550ml for 24hrs or 440ml for 24hrs. Based on this guideline, i work out that if we want a 3 hr feed, we will feed her abt 70ml. Of cos, that quantity is for last 10days and now baby Adelle is drinking 100ml per feed already. So i have to "work" even harder to meet her demand. Anyway, i on total EBM liao cos this way helps me to monitor her intake and also assured me of some peaceful sleep as well. .. have to confess that i am a lazy and sleepy mum! ;-)



Challenge #2

Our dear Princess is living in a different timezone from us!! She sleep peacefully in the day and eh-eh-eh so much in the nite continuously for the first 1.5 week. Her eh-eh hours start from 3am to 8am! So bopain, i have to carry her and walk around the house middle of the nite trying to stop her from crying. Once she stop and looks asleep, i attempt to put her on the bed and there her eh-eh-eh goes again! Really drive us nuts until hubby started to get irritated too! Well, we never know baby sitting is soooo challenging and tiring!! :-( I mentioned to friends + PD about the eh-eh-eh syndrome and found out that it may be colic or baby Adelle has not get used to day and night timezone. But it is the timezone problem for her and have to let her learn what is day and night loh. So every night before i sleep, i prayed that she will sleep throughout the nite! Thank God for answered prayers and now she sleeps throughout the nite and eh-eh-eh in the day time especially after her shower @ 8am till 11am and then her 'happy' hours goes again from 5pm to 10pm.... Looking on the brighter side, these hours are still ok as it is not sleeping time and i can still entertain her eh-eh-eh loh. :-p



Challenge #3

Her umbilical cord ozing out blood on the 9th day! Before the umbilical cord drop off, we noticed that there are some blood ozing out at the side. Hubby was worried that baby Adelle is infected or hurt & wanted to go MT A. But i told hubby to check with the PD first in case we are 'over-reacted'. As it is 9.10pm. PD clinic already closed so i called the emergency line & left message to ask Dr Allyson to call me back. At around 11pm, PD called and i told her abt the ozing blood. She told me that this quite normal for some babies and just need to use cord spirit to constantly keep the area clean. So it was a relieve for us. The next day we bought a big bottle of cord spirit as we are running out of the swab papers given by MT A. Thank God after another few days, the umbilical cord dropped off on 13th day and now her belly button is out. :)