Dear
<font color="119911">Yuna</font>,
Happy happy birthday to Clarice!!!! Wishing her a lifetime of happiness, good health and great wealth on this very special day! Clarice is so cute! She's growing prettier each time I see her!
Dear
<font color="ff6000">Buttons, Cheekz, and Jerene</font>,
Thanks so much for coming! Have sent you gals the link to the pics! If you want the individual file, just let me know which pic you want yah?
Hey moms,
Sorry for having MIA-ed for so long! I am really swamped with work, and I am away from office most days hence no internet access. However will try my best to check this forum from time to time, though may not have time to post....
Here are Clarence's 1st birthday pics to share. Looking forward to see more birthday pics from the rest of the forum babies.
Clarence's First Birthday Photos
Dear
<font color="0077aa">Alicia</font>,
Thanks so much for organising the birthday bash, and so so so sorry for the very late reply. Yes, thanks for changing it to Dec. As I will be travelling in Dec, maybe I confirm with you later on whether we can attend the bash in Dec can? Thanks a million dear!
Dear
<font color="ff0000">blessedmommy</font>,
Thanks so much for the dental contact at Tanglin Shopping Centre! Brought Clarence there for his FIRST dental checkup. The dentist is really very good!
Learnt quite a few things from her which I felt is useful to share:
- Cleaning the baby's teeth before bedtime is a must (though I am very lazy to do myself). Just get a wet towel and wipe the teeth and gums.
- Baby's toothpaste is simply a waste of money cos it does not contain floride. What is worse is that all babies will swallow the toothpaste (cos babies have poor control over their jaw muscles at this stage, so they will not be able to spit nor understand instructions to spit out the toothpaste until at least age 3). If toothpaste is used at this stage, the baby will get so used to swallowing the toothpaste that it will be very difficult to get the child to start spitting it out when you switch to a floride based toothpaste.
- Nursing to sleep is bad cos it causes milk to collect in the buccal cavity (aka the mouth). This leads to breeding of bacteria during the night and the teeth will practically rot (we were showed many pictures of toddlers' teeth which practically rot right through to the gums, and the gums were bleeding.... simply because the baby nursed to sleep).
- Excessive juice is bad. Once or twice a week is more than sufficient.
That's about what I could remember. The dentist has excellent knowledge of babies and children's teeth problems. She looked at Clarence's teeth, commented on their spacing and growth, and shared on the above. As a whole, I felt the $85 was pretty well spent.
The next appointment shall be 6 months later... Hopefully by then Clarence has more teeth for her to see! Hehe....