SS - 7 months

At 7 months :
8.9kg
BM intake, 6 bottles of 5 oz from morning till 1pm. Midnight will latch on twice at 3am and 5+ am or once at 4+ am.
Can sit on bumbo and fisher price high chair herself
Eating solid food milestones! Tried happy bellies rice cereal, sweet potato, avocado, broccoli and carrot with porridge.
SS behaves better outside. She will sleep inside car seat without pacifier and soothe herself...

This clip is her FIRST experience of eating solid food, rice cereal in kuching.

Yummy toes! :)

So she has reached a stage whereby she likes to suck her toes! Yum yum yum

Don't disturb me!

Even inside car seat

Everywhere!!

6 months injection

Following the vaccination schedule, SS had another round during 6 months old. At night after the injection, fever came. We had to fed her paracetamol.....she was ok with it. The next morning, the fever came back, and we fed another round. The fever subsided but came back around 8.30pm, fever up to 37.9C!!! Since she just had milk at 7pm, and we fed her med around 8.30pm, she disliked the taste and vomit all the milk out. She looks so pitiful and reject the medicine. Cried and we feel bad and helpless. Around 10+, we tried to put the med inside the milk (a big no no, but we failed to feed her directly). She ate 2 oz and somehow, she kind of like knowing the milk is different! She slept and the next day, we took half day to monitor her. Normally the fever will subside after 24 hours of injection, hers lasted abit longer. Now both SS and us are phobia with feeding med :(

Baby SS 6 months old

Weight : 8.1kg
New observation : 1) She knows how to split milk out!! Naughty girl
                             2) She likes to open her leg wide wide in the cot

Bathing activity :-
Baby SS used to dislike bathing, very scared and will cry. Slowly, she starts to like bathing now ~6 months old. When I clean her mouth and tongue with handkerchief, she will bite my finger on left or right gums, miscellaneously :) She will smile and laugh. She also enjoys me washing her pigu and drying her buttocks area.

SS flipping at 4.5 months

Flipping milestone!! :D Still mastering how to flip

First CNY with Baby SS

This year we have SS celebrating CNY together. Very meaningful and happy to be parents for the first year. This is aside from getting angpow for SS :P Mummy bought alot of dresses from poney for her, all english style and no cheong sam/chinese style. Haha. Maybe next year can try wearing mini cheong sam. Poney clothes are not cheap...although they have 50% sale, but never mind la, once a year thingy and her cuteness in those clothes is irresistible. Must cherish the moment!

This was also the first flight experience for Baby SS. The flight will be from penang to kuching for 1 hour and 45 minutes. We were worried initially, on the air pressure thingy...since she was still small, just barely 4+ months old. We gave her milk/water and pacifier throughout the flight and luckily she was ok. Took a short nap after milk feeding...played awhile and pooh! We had to change diaper in the tiny toilet...Very challenging indeed. =.= On the return flight, she poohed another round. Imagine mummy, daddy and Baby SS all cramped inside the toilet..=.= We went back to hubby's hometown 3 days earlier before CNY. Baby SS cried the moment mil kissed her forehead at the airport...silly girl recognizing people i guess. But she got better the second day and throughout the trip, letting alot of people carrying her. She likes to look at her big cousins playing/shouting and had her first time meeting cousin sister Adele. Bought same clothes and hair band for both of them! Cute or not?

Baby SS understands what Mummy says?

It was 9th of Jan. Baby SS made noises for milk around 5.45am, she can shout by now and the noise level is far higher compared to previous months. She used to be very gentle with "eh eh eh eh".... but going to 4 months, she can shout with high pitch!
After feeding her, I put her into rocker to play while I express breastmilk. By the time I am done with expressing, washing bottles and changing her pooh pooh, it was already 7am. I was very tired....wanted to grab some sleep before 8am, but doubtful Baby SS will let go back to sleep as she was very alert and active. She slept from 6.30pm yest night.......:P

So I carried her back into the room around 7am, put her beside me, on the same bed. I looked at her and our eyes locked. She gave me full attention and did not make any sound. I said softly to Baby SS "SS, mummy wants to sleep, you kwai kwai (behave) and go back to sleep k?". Then I sayang her head while my hubby pat her buttocks. Not sure she really understand what I was telling her or she happens to be sleepy, she closed her eyes gentle and go back into sleep. Awwwwwwwwwww, my little precious cute little SS, mummy loves you to bits! :D

Lifting up her head

SS another milestone!! Lifting up her head on 1st Jan 2012! Happy New Year gift. hahahha, my dear, mummy is so happy and proud of you...the feeling was astonishing, seeing her growing day by day

Fever and 4th month vaccination

We took half day leave on the 6th of Jan to bring Baby SS for 4th month vaccination. When we brought her back from bbsitter, I noticed watery liquid inside her nose, she seems to be having flu! :( She was abit cranky that afternoon and abit warm, but little did we know that she is having fever. Once we arrived to the clinic, I told the doc immediately about the flu and he measured Baby SS's temperature. It was 38.1C :(. Fever!!! My poor girl, yet she was still smiling at us when doc was examining her lungs and etc.

So we have to postpone the vaccination to next week. On the spot, the nurse inject 2.2ml of paracetamol to Baby SS's mouth through syringe and she cried. :(

We managed to weight her and measured her height. She is officially 7.1kg and 67cm now.

Merry Christmas!!

This is our first time celebrating Christmas with Baby SS. Daddy and Mummy were so excited to bring her to see Christmas tree! Early in the morning, we prepared stuffs for going out and put on a white dress for Baby SS. All set to go! :D




































































My dear SS likes to smile alot. Merry Christmas SS! :D

Baby SS singing

Yes! Baby SS singing, with lyrics of eh eh eh :)

Baby SS - 3 months old

Weight : 6.5kg
Interesting Note : She started to play with her saliva, her mouth and her lips to make some funny sound. There was once I was carrying her and eating in the dining room in Ipoh, the moment I eat and put food into my mouth, she will move her mouth and make sound! Haha, when i stopped, she stopped, tried so many times eating and she repeatedly move her lips and made sound. Cute girl, want to eat mummy's food perhaps?

By 3 months old, Baby SS likes to move her leg up and down as well. We started to remove her mittens when she is 14 weeks old, to let her explore grabbing and touching things. Here is the first clip when I remove her mittens. She was so excited grabbing the monkey and hippo loops! :D

Baby SS bathing

Baby SS dislikes bathing. During confinement, my CL helped to bath SS. SS is very scared of water. With certain techniques (holding both her hands so that she feels secure) and slowly put her into bath tub, she will not cry, but still looks frightened. As time passed by, she is more used to bathing, less frightened but still not enjoying the session. Also, one important thing to take note, we can never bath Baby SS when she is hungry. She will blast out her speaker, so normally I will bath her after an hour from feeding. We also purchased a bath tub with slide for SS to rest her buttock and back, I felt more confident bathing her in this. Here is video capturing Baby SS bathing :)



I still remember the first day my babysitter bathing SS. Her technique is so different and Baby SS cried the loudest! I have not seen the poor girl crying so loud before, with so much tears! Sob sob. Heartache. So I taught my bbsitter the way I bath SS and ask her to follow instead. Nowadays, Baby SS does not cry anymore. :)

Here is the latest mok gong chu photo of Baby SS, my current wallpaper.

Baby SS burping and poo poo

Hehe. As mentioned in the title, this post is to capture the moment of Baby SS burping after milk feeding and pass motion sessions. We plan to capture more videos of her as she grows. Baby SS is super cooperative in the sense that, her daddy called out "Action" and Baby SS immediately burp and poo poo subsequently! :D

Thrush

One fine friday afternoon while I was working, I received a call from my babysitter. I was worried as my babysitter seldom call me up unless something urgent. From the call, she informed me that Baby SS's mouth appear whitish...which we later found out to be thrush.

Quoted from PubMed Health : Thrush is a yeast infection of the mucus membrane lining the mouth and tongue. Thrush appears as whitish, velvety sores in the mouth and on the tongue. Underneath the whitish material, there is red tissue that may bleed easily. The sores can slowly increase in number and size. Thrush is commonly seen in infants. It is not considered abnormal in infants unless it lasts longer than a couple of weeks."

We were worried if the thrush will worsen and causing uncomfort to Baby SS if they start bleeding :( So, I called up our pediatrician immediately and emailed him some photos of Baby SS's mouth. He was very helpful and confirmed they were thrush symptoms. He also told us to buy daktarin oral gel to apply on the lips and ensured us it will go away very fast. Very true indeed!

Baby SS's lip with thrush. Her lips were back to normal after applying the oral gel for a day :)

Breastmilk Soap

I am blessed with sufficient breastmilk for Baby SS and managed to spare 9oz for making breastmilk soap. Heard about the goodness in breastmilk soap and from my sil, I got to know a breastmilk maker contact in PG. We discussed about the designs and also the essential oil to be custom made for the soap. In the end, I picked lavender and tea tree essential oils....Da dah! Here are my lovely soap....:D

Very happy when receiving it, they smell very nice too! I love the baby shoes, roses and the mickey cheese designs alot.