GraceofGod, nice to see you posting more nowadays
Yeah, your baby has a really good natural sleep rhythm! It's terrible when you feel you don't hv enough time spent with them but well, it's good for their health. I remember when I first read Weissbluth's Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, I felt like THE SHITTIEST mom on earth for not letting Timo nap enough.

You might however, wanna try letting baby sleep once in the morning.. I think total aggregate sleep should still be about 15 hrs per day.
milkie, haha, you very funny leh. I remember during the lead-up to my wedding, I was eating like a chicken.. peck peck peck. On honeymoon, wah, I ate like a monster. After a 4 course ang moh dinner, I still went back to the suite and ordered another plate of sandwiches plus chicken wings and finished everything! Hb thought I was preggies too. Teehee.. Eh, Yoori is really eating a lot leh, you lucky girl. Beth is taking about 1 - 1.5oz (mixed) solids per meal. Timothy's brown rice porridge is with fish/chicken/pork and veggies.
Cooking brown rice porridge (I buy Lundberg organic brown rice long grain) - use about a chinese spoonful of brown rice and fill the slow cooker up to 3/4 with water. Brown rice takes a lot of water to cook. It takes about 3-4 hrs to have a nice porridge. White rice only takes about 1-2hrs. Then if you want, you can blend it with a handblender. Older kids don't need. About half an hour before cooking time ends, I will throw in the fish fillet to cook. Then about 5 minutes before serving, I will throw in the veggies so that they don't get overcooked. Must never ever overcook veggies. I think I only did this for Timothy when he was about 9 months and ready to take animal protein. If not, I was giving iron enriched cereals.
Rgd freezing spinach, erm, I cheat.. 'cos spinach is a little hard to do. very easy to overcook and bye bye nutrients. So I buy the Waitrose chopped frozen spinach cubes from Marketplace at Paragon.
smurfy, my son's cubes are not pureed.. just that I find it more convenient to freeze it up that way. Put it this way, if you don't freeze, you gotta go grocery shopping everyday. If your food is not fresh and you cook for baby everyday, the nutrition is not there also mah. So it's good to do batch cooking of fresh ingredients and freeze up to maintain the nutrients/freshness.
Jas, I bought Baby Banz for Timothy but he hates having it strapped around his head. Rgd cheap sunglasses, better not. 'Cos don't hv proper UV protection. Get a good brand.. else the sunglasses could harm your eyes even more 'cos it allows the UVA/UVB rays into your eyes even though you *think* you are protected.
Sop, you lived in US too? I lived on military base.. got tax free shopping
So that's where we bought the entire Kitchenaid set of pots from. SHIOK. My hb is happy with his new girlfriend and I'm glad to hv my own wheels again. Feel so weird without my own car 'cos I've been spoiled since getting my license.
Giggler, I hope Sher's problem is not serious. Likely to do with the foreskin lah. Pls post back and update all these anxious aunties ok?
Beth can sit for quite long without having to put her hands to support herself. Still thinking about whether to buy a good highchair for her or not. She hates being fed in the Bumbo... unlike Timothy who loved it. Both so different personalities.. oh yah and I cut her hair today. Alamak, she can't sit still so it looks like a rat came and nibbled at her hair.
Where's PVL?