Angeline: my weekends are super packed, hardly at home. For mailing, not possible to do without box cos the cream may be squashed out of their tube if Singpost mishandles them. If you're afraid of lost mail, may I suggest Registered Mail, so you can track. Cost wise, PostPac box will be $1.75, postage $2.55, registered mail is another $2.24, so total will be $6.54. Alternatively, you can drop by during weekdays.
Flos: your maid is trying to help you save money on the food ah. quite a sweetie! I wish my in laws are as helpful too, my electricity and gas bill shot up to $327 last mth, usual for 2 pax was $180-200! It's even higher than during my confinement! *faint*
Weaning: I still pumped out 90ml last night, my last pump was 35 hours apart. I pump at the first sign of engorgement now, to avoid any pain! And I try not to pump too much out and not for too long a period (less than 15mins). So far so good, think can drag even longer now and eventually be able to stop without pumping. But my poor breasts are really ugly now, like deflated balloons! Sigh ... another side effects of motherhood!
Baby sleeping thru: I started by training the boy to skip a feed, and also by tanking him up by his last feed so he can sleep thru. But this mummy is so heartless now. Usually, my boy will have last feed (FM of 130ml) at 1230am or 1am
and it'll last him till 730am. This morning, he woke up at 7am! I went to check on him and saw him eating his hands and drifting back to sleep, and then start fussing again. I stuffed a pacifier into his mouth and he sucked and went back to sleep, but 1 min later, he started fussing again. I didn't want to feed him so early, as I do not want to encourage him to wake up earlier, so I unplugged the baby monitor and went back to sleep, and leave him to continue with his cycle of fussing and going back to sleep. When I woke up at 830am, the boy was still soundly asleep! I'm so pleased because that's the idea time we want him to wake up. He was fed at 845am eventually when he woke up.
I think babies are creatures of habit! They will not die of starvation if they miss a feed, and I think they can endure at least 12 hours without milk. For those babies who are waking up habitually for a feed, you can try feeding them glucose water, so that they will get the idea that, "I'm not gonna be fed anyway, so dun bother to wake up" and they'll start to sleep thru!
Good luck!