It was a hot afternoon at Nainai's place.
3 years back.
Same?
Mummy Lim
Monday, October 31, 2011
Classic Pose
Daddy Lim and Lil Isaac.
It was a hot afternoon at Nainai's place.
3 years back.
Same?
Mummy Lim
It was a hot afternoon at Nainai's place.
3 years back.
Same?
Mummy Lim
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Milk Tasters
We bought the Mamil Gold step 3 FM yday. I think step 3 should taste nicer than step 2. Afterall, step 3 is for toddlers age 1 to 3 and the FM must be tasty enuff to “retain” these targeted audiences.
I hate milk, especially those that are white in color. I haven’t touched white milk for as long as I can remember. I have tasted my BM despite my lack of keenness to do so. On certain occasions, I have to make sure that the ebm is still fit for consumption before I feed Lil Shauna in the past and now Lil Isaac. It actually tastes like glucose water, with a tint of sweetness and no milky taste at all. Or maybe the little droplets that I took barely give any taste. Still, I declared that I have done my part. I cannot bear the thought of having to taste the step 2 and 3 FM for comparison and so I turned to the newly appointed official milk tasters of the Lim family.
I made a little amount of the step 2 and 3 FM in separate cups and presented them to the father and daughter team. They tried step 2 and both gave me yucky face. It must have tasted really bad. And they both agreed that the step 3 FM tasted much better. Lil Shauna was even willing to take 2 gulps of the step 3 FM. Daddy Lim commented that the step 3 FM tasted more vanilla-ish. He was lost for words how the step 2 FM tastes, just yucky in general.
So, we have the conclusion. J
We will start Lil Isaac on step 3 today. Popo was hesitant to throw away the step 2 tin, which is still ¾ filled and also questioned about Lil Isaac being able to stomach a new FM. No problem lah. Who doesn’t like a tastier drink?
Mummy Lim
Updated: Lil Isaac refused the step 3 milk!!! I am so glad that I heed Popo's advice and didnt throw away the step 2 milk. Haiz, feeding him milk is such a challenge!
I hate milk, especially those that are white in color. I haven’t touched white milk for as long as I can remember. I have tasted my BM despite my lack of keenness to do so. On certain occasions, I have to make sure that the ebm is still fit for consumption before I feed Lil Shauna in the past and now Lil Isaac. It actually tastes like glucose water, with a tint of sweetness and no milky taste at all. Or maybe the little droplets that I took barely give any taste. Still, I declared that I have done my part. I cannot bear the thought of having to taste the step 2 and 3 FM for comparison and so I turned to the newly appointed official milk tasters of the Lim family.
I made a little amount of the step 2 and 3 FM in separate cups and presented them to the father and daughter team. They tried step 2 and both gave me yucky face. It must have tasted really bad. And they both agreed that the step 3 FM tasted much better. Lil Shauna was even willing to take 2 gulps of the step 3 FM. Daddy Lim commented that the step 3 FM tasted more vanilla-ish. He was lost for words how the step 2 FM tastes, just yucky in general.
So, we have the conclusion. J
We will start Lil Isaac on step 3 today. Popo was hesitant to throw away the step 2 tin, which is still ¾ filled and also questioned about Lil Isaac being able to stomach a new FM. No problem lah. Who doesn’t like a tastier drink?
Mummy Lim
Updated: Lil Isaac refused the step 3 milk!!! I am so glad that I heed Popo's advice and didnt throw away the step 2 milk. Haiz, feeding him milk is such a challenge!
Friday, October 28, 2011
Updates on Lil Isaac
He is one year old but still not walking. He can easily put himself up to a standing position, which is an important feat so as to reach for the things on the table top. He cruises too but opts to crawl any time. He is not at all interested to learn how to walk despite mummy’s eagerness for him to do so. Chey!
He knows how to reach for his sippy cup and holds up his cup to drink. He loves water, bread and biscuit but not a milk lover. We have started him on formula milk (FM) and tried to give him one feed of FM a day, which he drinks with little enthusiasm. He is only a little more enthusiastic towards ebm. He is generally not a milk baby. He is currently on Mamil Gold step 2 and I am going to move him to step 3 today after I buy the new tin. I think the step 3 milk is sweeter and hopefully this will encourage him to drink more and faster? Even Ferlin drinks faster than him. Popo sometimes have to resort to spoon feeding. Our little man is still saying “No” to mummy’s breasts and poor mummy has resigned to fate and is on exclusive expressing. Interestingly, he has almost dropped his night feed. He does stirred in the night but often goes back to sleep without demanding for milk. Popo or Auntie usually tucked him back to bed. Mummy still wakes up to express but didn’t manage to coincide with the time that Lil Isaac stirs. I have tried to latch him once and he actually appeared to try to suckle. But even before the let down, he bit me and decided that he wanted no more. Chey, don’t know how to value the good stuff.
Popo shared that Lil Isaac is definitely eating more as compared to a while back. He is probably about 9 to 9.5kg. He likes his cereal and a particular brand of puree, which Popo always mixed in food that he doesn’t like to mask the taste. For reasons beyond us, he has taken an appetite to porridge recently despite it being the same porridge that Popo cooks everyday. Well, we are not complaining. Lil Isaac is probably at the 50 percentile for his weight but we can definitely do with a little bit more of chunkiness. Oh gosh, I like fat and chubby babies.
Constipation is still a challenge. Popo has been feeding him lots of high fiber food, especially plums. He hasn’t established a regular bowel movement and he moves his bowel as frequently as every day to as constipated as 5 days. Since the last badly constipated episode, we have given him suppository once and lactulose 3x. We gave him lactulose whenever Mr Poo Poo plays the disappearing act for 3 days. It is always such a joy to hear from Popo that Lil Isaac has moved his bowel. Jiejie and mummy will break into a dance in celebration. Lol.
With Lil Isaac, I am such a hands-off mummy. I am lost wrt what he should eat and what to help him moves his bowel when Popo is not around. At least I do the breastfeeding in the past. Boohoo. Now, I have taken on the task to give him his last feed before he sleeps. It can be a bored at times bcos we closed ourselves in the pitch black room and he takes forever to drink. But I value that little bit of quiet bonding time. The other time that I have with him is spent chasing after the active tiger. He still smells fabulously babish. I can never get enuff of his baby smell. Yummy.
We wont have another kid. Daddy Lim can vouch for that. Lol. So Lil Isaac will be our last baby and I hope that he doesn’t lose his babish smell. Hohoho.
Mummy Lim
He knows how to reach for his sippy cup and holds up his cup to drink. He loves water, bread and biscuit but not a milk lover. We have started him on formula milk (FM) and tried to give him one feed of FM a day, which he drinks with little enthusiasm. He is only a little more enthusiastic towards ebm. He is generally not a milk baby. He is currently on Mamil Gold step 2 and I am going to move him to step 3 today after I buy the new tin. I think the step 3 milk is sweeter and hopefully this will encourage him to drink more and faster? Even Ferlin drinks faster than him. Popo sometimes have to resort to spoon feeding. Our little man is still saying “No” to mummy’s breasts and poor mummy has resigned to fate and is on exclusive expressing. Interestingly, he has almost dropped his night feed. He does stirred in the night but often goes back to sleep without demanding for milk. Popo or Auntie usually tucked him back to bed. Mummy still wakes up to express but didn’t manage to coincide with the time that Lil Isaac stirs. I have tried to latch him once and he actually appeared to try to suckle. But even before the let down, he bit me and decided that he wanted no more. Chey, don’t know how to value the good stuff.
Popo shared that Lil Isaac is definitely eating more as compared to a while back. He is probably about 9 to 9.5kg. He likes his cereal and a particular brand of puree, which Popo always mixed in food that he doesn’t like to mask the taste. For reasons beyond us, he has taken an appetite to porridge recently despite it being the same porridge that Popo cooks everyday. Well, we are not complaining. Lil Isaac is probably at the 50 percentile for his weight but we can definitely do with a little bit more of chunkiness. Oh gosh, I like fat and chubby babies.
Constipation is still a challenge. Popo has been feeding him lots of high fiber food, especially plums. He hasn’t established a regular bowel movement and he moves his bowel as frequently as every day to as constipated as 5 days. Since the last badly constipated episode, we have given him suppository once and lactulose 3x. We gave him lactulose whenever Mr Poo Poo plays the disappearing act for 3 days. It is always such a joy to hear from Popo that Lil Isaac has moved his bowel. Jiejie and mummy will break into a dance in celebration. Lol.
With Lil Isaac, I am such a hands-off mummy. I am lost wrt what he should eat and what to help him moves his bowel when Popo is not around. At least I do the breastfeeding in the past. Boohoo. Now, I have taken on the task to give him his last feed before he sleeps. It can be a bored at times bcos we closed ourselves in the pitch black room and he takes forever to drink. But I value that little bit of quiet bonding time. The other time that I have with him is spent chasing after the active tiger. He still smells fabulously babish. I can never get enuff of his baby smell. Yummy.
We wont have another kid. Daddy Lim can vouch for that. Lol. So Lil Isaac will be our last baby and I hope that he doesn’t lose his babish smell. Hohoho.
Mummy Lim
Still Happy
I am still feeling joyful that the mega event is over. I can't believe that it was just 4 days ago that I was working my life away at sdc. It felt like months ago. Although the event is over, I am still working hard to tie up the loose ends. At least I can breathe better now and there is no doomsday ahead. I can take my time to clean things up. I still fund myself grumbling at times while I tie up the ends, but I am constantly reminded that the event is over and the it didn't kill me. This makes me happy. Hohoho.
The event being over means that I finally can have more time for my daily work. And I need to arrange with Daddy Lim to clear my leave. I am left with 2 months and have to clear my 14 days of annual leave, 5.5 days of childcare leave and 1 day of off-in-lieu. I don't think I will be able to clear all these leave, not bcos I am too hardworking but bcos I just came back from maternity leave in January and had already cleared 11 days of flexible maternity leave since. I am intending to take a weeks' leave in November and one week in December. Woohoo! I need some holiday, badly...
Mummy Lim
The event being over means that I finally can have more time for my daily work. And I need to arrange with Daddy Lim to clear my leave. I am left with 2 months and have to clear my 14 days of annual leave, 5.5 days of childcare leave and 1 day of off-in-lieu. I don't think I will be able to clear all these leave, not bcos I am too hardworking but bcos I just came back from maternity leave in January and had already cleared 11 days of flexible maternity leave since. I am intending to take a weeks' leave in November and one week in December. Woohoo! I need some holiday, badly...
Mummy Lim
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Finally Over
Finally, the Company event is over and I am happy and relief beyond words. Just in case you are wondering, I am safe and sound. Like I mentioned in my earlier post, it wasn't my safety that was at question but that of my follow colleagues.
I was worried that a stampede might take place. My heart was really in my mouth. I will be dead if a stampede took place and somebody got injured. Not that i will be dead bcos somebody trampled over me but the need to answer for it. I have never done so much crowd control in my life and have never handle such a situation before and I was scared. I was so glad that so many colleagues helped out and things eventually turned out fine. Phew.. No injuries, thank God.
I like organizing events and contemplated going into events management when I was much younger. However, now that I have 2 kids and organizing such a mega event on top of the daily job gave me nightmares. Yes, can you hear how relief I am now that the event is finally over?
I hope I am not so suay to kena organizing the event next year. Next year's is supposed to be bigger. Crossed fingers and toes.
Mummy Lim
I was worried that a stampede might take place. My heart was really in my mouth. I will be dead if a stampede took place and somebody got injured. Not that i will be dead bcos somebody trampled over me but the need to answer for it. I have never done so much crowd control in my life and have never handle such a situation before and I was scared. I was so glad that so many colleagues helped out and things eventually turned out fine. Phew.. No injuries, thank God.
I like organizing events and contemplated going into events management when I was much younger. However, now that I have 2 kids and organizing such a mega event on top of the daily job gave me nightmares. Yes, can you hear how relief I am now that the event is finally over?
I hope I am not so suay to kena organizing the event next year. Next year's is supposed to be bigger. Crossed fingers and toes.
Mummy Lim
Friday, October 21, 2011
Happy Bday Lil Isaac
Lil Isaac turns one today.. and I actually forgotten about it, only to remember it in the late morning. And I couldnt go off work early, it was already super late when we picked the kids up. Still, we bought him a cake and jiejie decorated it. Jiejie's master piece.
We sang him the bday song and Lil Isaac looks stone throughout the celebration. Jiejie helped to blow the candle and cut the cake. Well, at least Lil Isaac gets to eat his bday cake. :)
We threw Lil Isaac a "great" bday party last Sunday. I said that it was "great", not bcos it was a magnificient party but bcos it turned out well, much better than I expected despite the little effort that I put in. I am dead busy bcos of the coming Company's event and I seriously cannot even find time to breathe. And our dear Popo insisted that bday party must be held before he officially turns one. I was actually very tempted not to hold a bday party at all, but I was worried that he will blame me for favortism in the future. Afterall, jiejie had bday parties for both her 1st and 2nd bday and she had 4 cakes to celebrate her bday this year.
There was little attempt to sycronise the theme for Lil Isaac's party. Well, I did try and at least he ended up with a "cars" cake.
I rented a ball pit with slide and Lil Isaac loves it.
And so did his little friends.
I also rented a rocking horse and a cottage house for the older kids and the toys were a hit. I made good choices this time.
The jiejies were much more excited than him during cake cutting.
Lil Isaac was generally in a good mood.
His loot.
He received so many toys, much more than what we bought him in this lifetime.
Dear Lil Isaac, pls grow up quickly, learn to walk and talk so that we can enjoy you more. Love you. Muaks.
Mummy Lim
We sang him the bday song and Lil Isaac looks stone throughout the celebration. Jiejie helped to blow the candle and cut the cake. Well, at least Lil Isaac gets to eat his bday cake. :)
We threw Lil Isaac a "great" bday party last Sunday. I said that it was "great", not bcos it was a magnificient party but bcos it turned out well, much better than I expected despite the little effort that I put in. I am dead busy bcos of the coming Company's event and I seriously cannot even find time to breathe. And our dear Popo insisted that bday party must be held before he officially turns one. I was actually very tempted not to hold a bday party at all, but I was worried that he will blame me for favortism in the future. Afterall, jiejie had bday parties for both her 1st and 2nd bday and she had 4 cakes to celebrate her bday this year.
There was little attempt to sycronise the theme for Lil Isaac's party. Well, I did try and at least he ended up with a "cars" cake.
I rented a ball pit with slide and Lil Isaac loves it.
And so did his little friends.
I also rented a rocking horse and a cottage house for the older kids and the toys were a hit. I made good choices this time.
The jiejies were much more excited than him during cake cutting.
Lil Isaac was generally in a good mood.
His loot.
He received so many toys, much more than what we bought him in this lifetime.
Dear Lil Isaac, pls grow up quickly, learn to walk and talk so that we can enjoy you more. Love you. Muaks.
Mummy Lim
Struggling
Lil Isaac still maintain that he doesn't want to latch. I tried and he bit me before turning away and started crying. Win liao, I didn't even scold him. To save me from the heartache, I didn't force him to latch.
We introduced partial formula milk last night and he had no problem with the milk but he still gave us hell by refusing to drink his milk initially. He was cranky and I guess it is bcos he screwed up his schedule. He is used to latch for his last feed and will drift off to lala land while latching. But bcos he refused to latch, he can't sleep and he was cranky. There was much crying and it was finally Popo to the rescue, who tucked him to bed and made him finished his bottle. Mummy was dead tired by then bcos Lil Isaac partied with her for over an hour the night before.
Lil Isaac woke up at 1+am but Popo didn't wake me up. She didn't see the need too since I won't be latching anyway. I felt bad for disturbing Popo's sleep. I should and want to continue to take the night feed. Must work out some arrangement.
Last night, I was finally able to tuck him to bed. :) We locked ourselves in the pitch black room and he was still happily crawling, refusing his bottle. I rocked him to semi-sleep state when he was finally tired and then I dream fed him. Although he didnt finish his bottle, at least I managed to tuck him to bed, the first time since the day that he refuses to latch. That sense of achievement and pride that I felt was immersed. Oh, he hasn't been up for milk for 2 nights! He does stirred but settled back to bed after some patting. This may be one of the few benefits of his refusal to latch.
I don't know if Lil Isaac will eventually latch back. I really hope he would, I am not done with him yet.
Mummy Lim
We introduced partial formula milk last night and he had no problem with the milk but he still gave us hell by refusing to drink his milk initially. He was cranky and I guess it is bcos he screwed up his schedule. He is used to latch for his last feed and will drift off to lala land while latching. But bcos he refused to latch, he can't sleep and he was cranky. There was much crying and it was finally Popo to the rescue, who tucked him to bed and made him finished his bottle. Mummy was dead tired by then bcos Lil Isaac partied with her for over an hour the night before.
Lil Isaac woke up at 1+am but Popo didn't wake me up. She didn't see the need too since I won't be latching anyway. I felt bad for disturbing Popo's sleep. I should and want to continue to take the night feed. Must work out some arrangement.
Last night, I was finally able to tuck him to bed. :) We locked ourselves in the pitch black room and he was still happily crawling, refusing his bottle. I rocked him to semi-sleep state when he was finally tired and then I dream fed him. Although he didnt finish his bottle, at least I managed to tuck him to bed, the first time since the day that he refuses to latch. That sense of achievement and pride that I felt was immersed. Oh, he hasn't been up for milk for 2 nights! He does stirred but settled back to bed after some patting. This may be one of the few benefits of his refusal to latch.
I don't know if Lil Isaac will eventually latch back. I really hope he would, I am not done with him yet.
Mummy Lim
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Really The End?
Lil Isaac still refuses to latch yday and I couldn’t even manage to latch him in the middle of the night. He was cranky but refused to latch and refused bottle. He finally fell asleep on our bed with no milk after lots of whining, tossing and turning. And I had to express after he fell asleep.
He woke up at 2am for his night feed but refused to latch again. It was bad. He started fussing when I put him on the nursing pillow. When I attempted to latch him, he either turned his face away from my breasts or gave me a nasty bite before turning away and crying. It didn’t matter which breast I offered, the end result is the same and the warm night definitely didn’t help. We were both perspiring after a few attempts to latch him.
I finally gave in to the bottle and heated up 60ml of ebm for him, which he drank hungrily. I offered my breasts after that but he still refused. Then, he spent the next 45 mins tossing and turning on the bed. I supposed he was still hungry or needed more milk to drift back to lala land. I gave up struggling with him after 45 mins and gave him another 90ml via bottle and that knocked him out but leaving me wide awake. I expressed again and finally turned in at 3+am.
I tried to read up on possibilities of Lil Isaac’s sudden refusal to latch. There is of course the teething possibility, the milk strike possibility and lastly the self wean possibility. He is likely to be teething and he showed me that he is not happy at me scolding him by refusing to latch. It can’t be a milk strike bcos he still takes his bottle and drinks when Popo spoon feed him. I am not sure if he is self weaning. Anyway, this mummy is more upset than he is. I am definitely not ready to wean Lil Isaac and never imagine that he will be the one who call the shots on when I should stop breastfeeding him! Hello, I am the mummy. Me, me, me!!!
Daddy Lim was telling me that I should take this opportunity to stop breastfeeding. But I enjoy breastfeeding, the bonding and all the conveniences that come with it. No need to bring along milk bottles, no need for hotwater flask, no need to heat ebm, no need to wash bottles, etc. Since I still have milk and have established a routine, I will still continue to express, which will mean that I will now have to spend more time expressing and I have to find ways to express if I were to spend long hours outside. The only comfort is that I no longer will be indecently exposed in public, there is no need to look and queue for nursing rooms and my nipples will not get bitten. Boohoo, I still like direct latching better.
I will continue to try to latch him, hoping that he will agree to latch after a few days of tantrum or when his gums are not so itchy. We will be introducing him formula tonight. This will at least save us some agony of having to heat up ebm in the middle of the night and when we are outside if he really decides that he wants off from mummy’s breasts.
I am still sore and upset. I am being manipulated by my barely one year old son. I felt a little better after wat’sapping Mummy J and Mummy S who comforted me that at least I don’t have to wean off Lil Isaac, which could prove to be another nightmare.
Mummy Lim
He woke up at 2am for his night feed but refused to latch again. It was bad. He started fussing when I put him on the nursing pillow. When I attempted to latch him, he either turned his face away from my breasts or gave me a nasty bite before turning away and crying. It didn’t matter which breast I offered, the end result is the same and the warm night definitely didn’t help. We were both perspiring after a few attempts to latch him.
I finally gave in to the bottle and heated up 60ml of ebm for him, which he drank hungrily. I offered my breasts after that but he still refused. Then, he spent the next 45 mins tossing and turning on the bed. I supposed he was still hungry or needed more milk to drift back to lala land. I gave up struggling with him after 45 mins and gave him another 90ml via bottle and that knocked him out but leaving me wide awake. I expressed again and finally turned in at 3+am.
I tried to read up on possibilities of Lil Isaac’s sudden refusal to latch. There is of course the teething possibility, the milk strike possibility and lastly the self wean possibility. He is likely to be teething and he showed me that he is not happy at me scolding him by refusing to latch. It can’t be a milk strike bcos he still takes his bottle and drinks when Popo spoon feed him. I am not sure if he is self weaning. Anyway, this mummy is more upset than he is. I am definitely not ready to wean Lil Isaac and never imagine that he will be the one who call the shots on when I should stop breastfeeding him! Hello, I am the mummy. Me, me, me!!!
Daddy Lim was telling me that I should take this opportunity to stop breastfeeding. But I enjoy breastfeeding, the bonding and all the conveniences that come with it. No need to bring along milk bottles, no need for hotwater flask, no need to heat ebm, no need to wash bottles, etc. Since I still have milk and have established a routine, I will still continue to express, which will mean that I will now have to spend more time expressing and I have to find ways to express if I were to spend long hours outside. The only comfort is that I no longer will be indecently exposed in public, there is no need to look and queue for nursing rooms and my nipples will not get bitten. Boohoo, I still like direct latching better.
I will continue to try to latch him, hoping that he will agree to latch after a few days of tantrum or when his gums are not so itchy. We will be introducing him formula tonight. This will at least save us some agony of having to heat up ebm in the middle of the night and when we are outside if he really decides that he wants off from mummy’s breasts.
I am still sore and upset. I am being manipulated by my barely one year old son. I felt a little better after wat’sapping Mummy J and Mummy S who comforted me that at least I don’t have to wean off Lil Isaac, which could prove to be another nightmare.
Mummy Lim
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