My Princess is 5mths old on 09 Sept 08

BM supply has decreased drastically. No choice everyday mummy got to bring down 1-2pkts of FBM. Nw already empty my freezer no more FBM left. My princess dislike FBM so everytime waste my bm. haiz...already nt enuff bm still waste them...so sad :'-(. No choice we hv to supply partial formula milk already and at the same time mummy still hv to try hard pumping milk for my darling.

Over the past 1 month, we noticed our little darling is getting very cheeky and smart! Anyway, she now know how to bully her ah ma. She always made my mil to carry her by stretching out her hand, making noise and can't wait to get out from her cot when she sees my mil. ;)

Here are some other interesting stuffs/observations:
1. She knows how to hold thing with her 2 tiny hands together eg holding an empty tissue box
2. She likes to pull out her pacifier, look at it before throwing it away
6. She will make noise and stretch her hands out when she wants us to carry her.
7. She can flip already and her little legs alway kena stuck outside the baby cot and screaming for help!
8. She loves to laugh out loud.... eg hahahaha.....
9. She can sit in bumbo seat
12. She loves to suck her tiny toes

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Little Xuanlin looks equally like mummy and daddy.... =))

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My Princess is 4mths old on 09 Aug 08

Spent longer time to get express 150ml or sometime even lesser. My supply has started to decrease eversince i reduce the expressing interval to 5-6hours 3-4 times a day. Thus, we started to supplement with 1 packet of "spare tank-EBM(Frozen breast milk). Me and hubby are quite persistent on giving BM. Well, just hope that i can prolong it.

So what happened over the last 1 mth?
1. Princess learn & love to grab things!
2. Princess loves to "talk" I guess probably she is trying to tell us what happen in the day time with my mum?? :p
3. Princess prefer drinking fresh BM than frozen BM. She always cannot finish her milk if we give her frozen BM (think bcos FBM got a chemical and fishy smell)
4. Princess discover her hands exist now and she will cross her hands like as if she is praying. Hmm probably she always see her daddy pray?!?! :p
5. Princess finally able to lift up her head during tummy time.
6. Princess able to sit upright with some support.
7. Princess likes to latch on and fall asleep on my breast.

Back to work on 24 Jul 08

After 3months of maternity leave... Finally i need to go back to work on 24 jul. Still left 10days of ML, afraid that my darling need to go polyclinic for jab... Will definitely miss my princess badly. I'm still tbf, so i hv to bring my barang barang to and fro. I hv only lunch time to express my milk. My concern is office rooms are all make of glass, no choice i hv to express in a storeroom which located at the pantry. It is a small room, no air-con, no electric plug (mine is a electric pump). Hw am i going to pump??? haiz.... was thinking if i should bring my avent manual pump there, but hor... manual is slower and will be very tedious for me. i hv only 1 hr lunch which include pumping and eating.

Spent only 15mins to get 150ml. To me, that is my quota for that hour. Prior to this, i have adjusted my expressing intervals to 4 times a day - 7am, 1pm, 7pm, 10pm. Well, believe my supply will definitely decrease very soon. Somemore my darling is drinking more and more each day. Well targeted to tbf her at least 6mths. Ganbette.... :-)Even tot is tiring and challenging but it the seek of my darling i think it is all worth it.

My princess is 3mths old on 09 July 08

Watching princess grow every day is indeed interesting although it's tiring sometimes. But i believe it's worth it. Every weekday evening when i reached hm, she will greet me with a BIG smile & talking baby lingo to me like telling me what happen in the day time....so cute!! :D Then every weekday morning, she will smile at daddy for goodbye. Last week we notice that xuan lin has bad dandruff which i think is craddle cap so i apply johnson baby oil and bought the dentinox shampoo which was recommend by the nurse. So we apply the baby oil onto her head before we wash her with the shampoo. Thank god that within few days, the head was healed now.

Other stuffs that we observe on her were

1)when i attempt to put her on tummy, she will kiss the bed and saliva started to drip... yucks! :p 2) she definitely has grown fatter and longer!
3) she likes to hold her own pacifier and push my hand off when she managed to suck the pacifier 4) she likes to suck her mitten until it's totally wet so we decided to remove her mittens and she enjoy sucking her thumb and index finger. My mum says she love both mummy and daddy cos thumb = daddy and index finger = mummy... haha.. anyway she's already sucking her fingers when we did the 1st trimester scan. ;-p
5) she will scratch her head and eyes before falling asleep on her own
6) she moves about in her sleep and we found her in a slant position or kungfu pose in the morning

My princess is 2mths old on May 08

Times really files....My princess is 2 months old. Really had a hard time looking after her, cause she really no need to sleep lor... she is light sleeper just like her daddy. Most of the time she need us to carry her to sleep and once we put her down to her cot she will wake up and cry. Well another thing to share is until nw i have not try bathing her cos u should she is simply too fragile....Luckily with my mil and mum help i can slowly learn hw to bath xuan lin. Shall post some picture during my 1st attempt bathing her.

Full Month Celebration

Been busy with my little one. Wanted to TBF my darling as long as i can. It has been a sleepless nite for me eversince my princess was born. I have to wake up every 2-3 hrs to latch on. Luckily with the help of my mil taking care of bb and doing confinement for me. At the same time i also started my post-natal massage on the following Monday 14 April for 10 sessions $600. Not cheap but hope to see result.

Naming for our princess, hubby decided to go Hua Xia Tai Mo Bi to let master to decide which character is best for her...we are given 5 best name and more then 10 single character to mix and match. After the discussion with my hubby our final choice is 陳宣霖 (Chen Xuan Lin). Following will be choosing a good day for daddy to go ICA to submit document for birth certificate.

We decide to hold a full month celebration only for relative on 04 May 08. As for fren and colleague we ordered full month package from chOz confectionery. As buffet we only tried Neo Garden on our AD and feedback from fren and relative was quite good so will cater from them again.