Hi mummies,
I've been so busy, therefore MIA
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Just sort of scanned through the posts. (Still busy- need to wash up breakfast things, mop floor, prepare dinner)
Long post to follow...
Grace,
I bought the chana dahl from my market dry food provision shop. You can also get lentils and beans from NTUC dry food section, or oganics section. Mind you, some chana dahl doesn't soften as easily as others. Don't ask me which is which, I just try my luck . The provision shop one disintegrates more easily than the NTUC one. I just add it to the porridge together with the rice, either in the slow cooker or ordinary boil. Sometimes if I'm organised, I might soak the lentils for a few hours.
Cheese: Heh heh, this lazy mummy couldn't be bothered to express BM for Ben's cereal this morning, so I spread some Laughing Cow cheese wedge onto some wholemeal bread and he ate just over half a slice of bread, + some scraped apple + some Healthy Times Teddy Puffs. At other times, I might give him Kraft cheddar cheese (the one in the blue box).
BTW, the Teddy Puffs tastes exactly like original Cheerios. But both equally expensive!
gak,
I think Ben's 3rd pneumococcal is at 1 yr old.
Sarah went from full BM to fresh milk/full cream milk (Fernleaf 1+ bought from Malaysia) at 1 YO. Most of the 1+ milks sold here are made from skim milk.
fat_babe,
What happened to you? Are you OK? Are you preggy again?
milkshake,
Why is YR getting knocked all the time? Aiyoh, naughty mummy! You should keep a record of all the balukus she's gotten. Poor girl!
NO NO! Ben hasn't eaten dragon fruit yet. It was Sarah who started early and had loose stools after that. So I haven't started Ben on it yet. But I'm going to start him to see how he takes it. Maybe his constitution is stronger and can handle all those little seeds.
huskie,
Maybe your Sophie and my Ben are alike. Need less sleep. Ben now takes a total of about 13 hours a day only. At night, same as yours - about 10.5 hrs. Daytime average is 2.5-3 hrs. This is only by observation, because, like you, I figure that actually Ben might be sleeping even less than that because often when he wakes, he's really quiet, plays by himself in the cot, so I don't quite know exactly when he woke up. I only know he's awake if he cries, or talks loudly, or else I just go in at the scheduled time and find him playing in bed. He's just not tired enough to sleep so long. Nowadays, if he wakes at night and cries before 7 am, I just ignore him. He goes to sleep at about 8.30pm. My hb hardly has much time with him at all. When he comes home from work, Ben is just having his dinner. After his dinner, we're all busy getting our own dinner out. After our dinner, I will give him a shower and then his last milk feed whilst my hb washes up the dinner dishes. Then it's off to bed already. By the time Ben wakes up in the morning, my hb has gone to work.
charis,
Dahl is a lentil. My church friend from Sri Lanka puts dahl into the rice porridge for her baby. So I also tried. It's nice. I sometimes make slightly spicy dahl curry for Sarah & me to eat with pratas for lunch, so since I have the dahl, I may as well use it for Ben too.