A Pregnant Pause

Now that my baby girl is going to the babysitter, I need to ensure an adequate supply of expressed breast milk (EBM) for her everyday.

On the first day, she had to drink formula for both her feeds there. When I brought her back, she cried and cried (as she wasn’t familiar enough to sleep soundly there yet).

Luckily, I managed to breastfeed and calm her down: I had to rock her to sleep in my arms and hold her there until she was fast asleep. The poor little dear clung onto my t-shirt with her little hand but she managed a sweet smile to my visitor, a long lost friend.

The next day, I timed my pumps at 3-hour intervals but I could only get 1-2 oz per session! Angeleyes sympathized with me when she saw me pumping because I am, ahem, heavy on top.

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A NEW set of the award-winning AVENT Isis Uno IQ Single Electric Breast Pump. The set comes with:

• 1 single electric pump (convertible into a manual pump),
• 1 battery set
• 1 pack of pump spare parts
• 1 travel kit (bottle & pump cover)
• 1 pack Avent breastpads
• Warranty from AVENT – valid for 2 years (from January 2010)
• AVENT’s Guide to Breastfeeding

What’s missing? The 4 oz AVENT bottle.

Mothers who pump regularly will love these features:

• User-friendly. Just fix the electric motor onto the manual pump, plug in the power, press the blue button a while and you’re ready!
• Efficient. AVENT breast pumps are famous for its gentle yet powerful suction,
• 3 ways to pump. Manual, Electric or Battery.
• Quiet. Yup, no motor boat sounds

Pumping is really a breeze with this baby.

Retailing at RM899, I’m letting the set go for only RM700 (22% discount). Price includes courier charges within Malaysia.

FOR DETAILED VIEW:
1) CLICK ON PHOTO
2) CLICK ON ‘ALL SIZES’

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Thank you, everyone, for joining in the the giveaway sponsored by TheBabyOrganicStore.

If these two ladies are having a fun time shopping during the Sales! Sales! Sales! going on now, I’m sure they’ll be even more thrilled to find out that they have WON

Congratulations, ladies – have a fun time shopping for sweet and safe 100% organic cotton clothes for your kids The lovely lady from TheBabyOrganicStore will be in touch with you soon.

P/S If you’re taking your kids to the big, big mall, consider getting a portable GPS like the Garmin GPS for them, ok? Keep your eyes on them and hold on to their hands!

“Men makes plans but God decides”

I remember a saying like that, which shows how unpredictable life can be.

I was all happy when the confinement lady said that she’d stay on as a helper (and cook).

For the past two months, I had been hunting high and low for a domestic helper (not stay-in as there is NO room at our place already) and got rejected about 6 times that I gave up.

Since she’s coming in 2 weeks’ time, we all gritted our teeth and got down to do all the work that’s needed as best as we could.

One morning at the market, she called my Mum and said,

“Please tell your daughter I’m sorry. I’m so busy with Chinese New Year preparations because my children are coming home (she’d lamented that she doesn’t have a meaningful Chinese New Year because her kids DON’T come home) etc etc. I will help her to look for a helper.”

She was our last hope. Both of us were puzzled at her change of mind (I guess she’s hoping I was that desperate that I’d offer the confinement rate again!).

I called her to confirm this – I was even too tired to get angry with her. And I resigned myself to the fact that I will have to remain a full-time “stay-at-home Mother” for a few more months.

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I had the nicest Sunday morning thanks to a funny, energetic and vivacious old lady (and her witty friends) from my church

Usually, I’d dash home to breastfeed the little girl but since she started fussing before the service ended, I went out to see if I could find a quiet room.

I don’t know many people there so I asked a lady washing up some plates at the sink and she directed me to the room where the kids would have their colouring activities.

Peeping in, I saw a few ladies arranging some chairs and setting up some audio-visual equipment. When they heard I needed to breastfeed, they warmly welcomed me to choose any corner I liked

My baby girl was halfway through when a little girl tip-toed into the room, asking if she could SEE me with the baby:
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Now that my little princess is 4.1 kg (sigh, she’s just reaching her brother’s birthweight at 2 months!), I decided to take out my stash of cloth diapers.

Also, I noticed a bit of nappy rash today Since she poos more frequently now especially after a breastfeeding session. I wonder if that’s the reason?

Anyway, I stopped the disposables today, applied some Drapolene and started her on cloth.

The verdict? Miss Chubby Cheeks seems to like cloth diapers ^^

(Comment: She’s thinking, “I’m bored, Mum. When can I get out of the house and visit New York?”)

I’d received this newborn-sized pocket diaper from Bumwear for review and love the petite size .

This cloth diaper is smaller and trimmer than the earlier Bumwear cloth diapers I got for my boy (read my review here).

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Now that our girl is 2 months old, she spends quite a bit of time staying awake. In fact, she’s very, very active and alert (already noted by ob-gyn at Week 23)

Besides breastfeeding, taking a morning bath and an evening wipe-down, there is little else in routine tasks to keep her entertained!

At first, I didn’t know what to do with her and I realize that I’m such a lousy stay-at-home-Mother LOL

Her Grandma is more patient with her but I need to give my mum a bit of rest too. Since the confinement lady left, this Mother has had to think of ways to entertain her baby girl.

Here’s what I do:

1. Prop her up on my knees and talk to her. She loves to see the trees and the sky outside our bedroom window.

2. Sing some nursery rhymes. On good days, she’ll allow action songs e.g. “If You’re Happy”, “I’m a Little Teapot” and “Hokey-Pokey”. On other days, she just wants the American Idol. Her favourite seems to be this Christian kid’s song, “If I Were a Butterfly”.

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GIVEAWAY CLOSED – WATCH OUT FOR THE NEXT ONE

TheBabyOrganicStore (based in KL) is giving away 2 (two) shopping vouchers worth RM80 each.

What lovely items can you pick up there?

(CLOCKWISE, LEFT TO RIGHT: How about an organic cotton Hum bundler for cold nights? Or Baby Haha Tee & Pants for outdoor adventures? Maybe a robin’s egg blue kimono dress or a Prance tie-dress? I know I *love* that oh-so-juicy-looking watermelon plush toy!)

And I am sooo tempted to buy the super-soft 100% organic Egyptian cotton fitted crib sheet…
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I’d recently received the Hot Milk Her Playfulness Was Captivating nursing bra, which I bought from Maternity Exchange (Singapore) for SGD89.90.

Hot Milk is a New Zealand brand of maternity and nursing bras that DO NOT look like nursing bras

Instead, these nursing bras are lacy, pretty and sexy with names like Her Midnight Charm Was Striking, Radiant In Her Rescue and Her Radiance Enchanted Him LOL

I was looking for a T-shirt nursing bra, which is why I chose Her Playfulness Was Captivating (in dusty pink). When I opened up the package, I was “captivated” (seriously!) by how well made the nursing bra is:

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As I wanted to stop using polycarbonate bottles, namely Avent bottles (BPA-free or not), I decided to get MAM polypropolene (PP) bottles since they were popular among mothers.

Although I thought the many parts would be difficult to wash, it’s not bad having to wash an additional 2 parts. The good thing is that you can wash both the top and the bottom of the bottle, which you can’t do for most baby’s milk bottles.

I think the anti-colic function works because the girl could drink her milk without any problems…

However, my biggest problem with the MAM anti-colic bottle is with the teat.

One, the flow was too fast even for newborn size (no. 1). You can tell because the girl was getting really excited (fast breathing, hands flailing and legs kicking) as she couldn’t seem to chug down her milk fast enough.

Even the confinement lady noticed this…

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