edksd, for blocked nose u may like to try what brenda said. if u dun have a bath at home, just on your hot shower in the bathroom, wait for the steam to steam up the plc, then step in with him and let him breathe it in for a few mins or so. it will clear him up. aircon is very drying, do u happen to have humidifier at home? can try that too.
as to ur qn on bringing baby on holiday, everytime i hesitate about this overseas trip, i will remind myself what a friend told me recently. she has 2 girls. she said that only when she has the 2nd one (she brought both on holidays to phuket before with hubby), THEN she realise that bringing one baby to holiday is really a luxury. she's my inspiration! that sentence strikes a cord in me. think about it...when we were doing confinement, we find it so tough. but when our baby grows up and now going to be 1 yr old, our days are actually even busier coz we cook 3 meals for him AND he naps less. so thinking back in retrospect, those newborn days were a luxury isn't it? i always feel very confident that when i have a 2nd baby, confinement will be so much easier! same theory for travelling. i know i intend to have a 2nd baby. there will come a time when we wanna bring both kids out to holidays. that time, i know i will deal with it, but will lament about the days when there was only one notti boy to deal with. soo.....my theory is, DO IT NOW! hehee. i know if i dun do it now, i will not do it until next yr. by then, WHAT IF i am preggie? how to handle belly and a baby? so, no better time lah...to me lah.
as for food, i ask every shortlisted accomodation if they can allow me to use their kitchen. i only consider those that can. i am lucky in that i got a B&B who serves bf AND allow me to use kitchen hehe. so, what i intend to do is, the day before i fly, make 4 meals worth of food, for his 2 days of lunch and dinner. breakfast will be cereal mah so no prob. so for the 1st 2 days in Melb, will feed this food. since we intend to visit the queen victoria or south melb markets during our stay, and markets there i heard are very nice, i will buy fresh meat and vege, so on 3rd day, i will cook another batch to last me for next 3 days. i intend to buy bigger VIA cups (mine is 220ml) to hold each meal portion to store in their fridge. oh forgot to mention, u need a plc where there's fridge lah.
i did consider cooking every day. but i know if i do that, it will be endless washing, preparing, cooking, feeding, washing, just like at home. and i wun be able to enjoy myself. i figured that feeding freshly prepared but chilled food is the next best to fresh food and i am not compromising too much on nutrition. though i will try to prevent it, but there's always alternatives of jar baby food or just feed cereal!
hope this helps.
ilovebb, aiyoh! she smiles like that to EVERYONE that day? hahaha such a happy girl, so sweet!
brenda, u use plastic bags at JG?? really???? aiyoh yah loh! those expensive bibs are kill people put fire!
edksd, kiddy rides...well, sometimes babies are unpredictable. u may think they dun like something, but turns out they do. they outgrow things, or they may just grow to like something they dun initially like. why not rent a kiddy ride and see if he likes it, before buying?
