(2008/12) December 2008 MTBs

emeraldbride, today baby fair starts? there is additional 10% disc for taka credit card holders from 12 to 15 march, dun know if it applies to the baby fair.
 


2nd Baby, i din see any Carters brand clothing.

Fabbie, u can bring any brand of bottles and get to purchase Pigeon wide neck bottle at 50% off the retail price. Fabbie, u need more Medela bottle?? I tot i will pump initially so went n buy 4 more bottles from spree but now i dun need liao leh..heeh

Jowin, I hv Avent manual pump. Borrow u want? It's basically brand new onie use less than 5x..i hv the avent cup oso. Hahaha
 
oh no wonder sometimes I see Live Messenger notifying me on and off that "fabbie has signed in" ... it's because of the macbook ah?

I used to wonder what on earth fabbie doing keep signing off and on ... hahahahha !!
 
mayelynn
i think mine is because of connection ba?? i use mac at office msn okai leh. I guess. LOL next week then let u know HAhhaa one thing i dun like mac msn. i cannot set my friends to a group. i can only edit their nickname. and always people MSN me. the icon bounce and is like like PC keep flashing.

kath
u selling how much? i ask my mum see she thinks she wants anot..

Sam
LOL i dun think cus of the macbook ba. I think something wrong with the wireless?!?! my house here the connection very lousy, alot of walls is blocking it. i also duno how to fix it. haiz.. So i guess its always on and off. its quite irritating as i always chat half way kana cut off i also duno. and i keep chatting.. arghz.

Ya i also want to know how many months must i change a bottle.. Wah today i feed my gal med.. she cry till so sad till i cry too. faints.. so heart breaking sia! really duno how to feed her med. like forcing her. haiz
 
fabbie

i dun think is ur connection lei. bcoz my hb use his msn no prob.. but mine keep signing in out in out... not many times la just maybe 3 or 4 times a day which is bad enough!

Aiya msn is owned by microsoft.. of course the msn version for mac is surely the most lao beh and most function cannot use wan.

budden i still like my macbook despite the lousy msn heee
 
Juz,

Thought last time u r sharing with me the cheap infantcentre that u sending ur boy there? Now u change to nanny?

As my mother who is living with us is working on alternate day, so on days that she not working, we send our gal to a auntie in her early 60s upstairs our place to take care.

At 1st, I dun want so old auntie. Worry she old fashioned method or disagree with my childcaring method.

But hor, this phrase 姜是老的辣, is very true! Experience do count alot in childcare. My gal nanny is old, but she took care of 22 bb + her own 6 grandchildren. She teach us alot of things but she not pushy type. Wun force us to accept her method. She do frown at things we use or do with my bb but she wun comment too much.

She dotes on my daughter, always bought her clothes and toys at festivals, like Christmas, CNY. My daughter got a fat ang bao from her too, $20.

Sound like the perfect nanny right? Wait 1st. Hear this out. I am paying her $400, this coming month $450 as my bb on solids liao, for alternate days care. For Sat, we bring her home earlier like 4 or 5pm. Very easy $ for her right, just work say 12 or 13 days in a month, can get $400. Yet she will still often got alot of appointment or events. She got 2 Malaysia weddings, go temple to pray to her ancestors and hubby who pass away, etc etc. So end up every month, she will have 1 to 2 days off day. We dun pinch so much for the $ lost through giving her extra day off (end up she got $400 for 10days work only) as long as she take good care of my daughter, which she did. So we open 1 eye, close 1 eye.

But the trouble is finding some1 to help us take care our bb. Somemore she only tell us 1 or 2 days in advance. Luckily my hubby got his own small business so can arrange his timing. But still TROUBLESOME for us.

So I guess as long as we are letting others to take care of our darling, be it infantcare, nanny next door, MIL or maids, we still face problem. Wat to do, by choice or no choice, we cant be SAHM.

Hope u solve ur problem soon. Perhaps u can look for senior a bit (older age) nanny, they usually got more experience with different type of bb, so they are more receptive to cranky bb or got more method to deal with cranky bb. Honestly which bb never been cranky in their entire infant stage. Injection, down with flu/fever/cough, skin problem, teething, intro solid food, transit from BM to FM, the list of things that cause cranky bb go on n on. When our bb suffer, we also dun feel good. Cant sleep well, worry during work n cant focus at work.

I think ur nanny is just giving excuses. She might be hoping to care for a bb who she can just rock her to sleep from 7am to 7pm so that no need to care for her except feed her or change her diaper. That is why she refuse cranky bb.

Life which someone depends almost entirely on u is tough. I cant stop laughing at myself when I read article that Jowin posted. It is so true of my life now and future or should I say 4ever. Haha... Yet motherhood is some experience that I never regret having.

U all got same feeling like me? Paiseh for another long post. I think I got occupation hazard 职业病. As a teacher, I constantly need to repeat to remind students. It makes me very long-winded 啰嗦, my posts here all very long...............

Pardon me! Know all of u very busy, probably no time to read my long post. Maybe when u see post under ypg, auto skip. Ha...
 
fabbie/jowin & all breastfeeding mum,

加油!All of u has done thing that I fail to do, that is breastfeed till now. I din breastfeed liao when my gal is around 2 months. U all suffer so much, block ducts, fever etc yet still persist! So I really salute u ladies!

SIMILAC: Users of Similac, do u think they will increase price like Enfalac? Hear any news?

TAKA Fair: Any mum going there tmr? I will go on Sunday, make it into a family outing. U all going there after ur gathering at Snowger's place?

Juz,

1 more thing to ask u. Remember I got the hp number of Lavendery from u to encourage her during her confinement time. I bad gal, never encourage her after a while. Busy with own stuff.

U still keeping contact with her? How is she now? She coming to the gathering? I a bit worried about her as till now, still never see her post online. But I feel paiseh long time never contact her so hesitate to sms her.

*PAGING for Lavendery*! Paiseh, busy with own stuff, never sms u for so long. How are you now? How is bb also? Hope all is well with you.
 
Fabbie
i tried out ameda liao.. wa lau eh.. 30mins, only letdown once n i yield less than 100ml for 2 sides. Usually i can yield more than half lor. Immediately i change back to my old pump... yield back to 340ml liao.Maybe i m very tired so hard to let down...tomorrow shall try again..

If i tell my HB, he sure say i HIAO.. he drove me all the way from Bedok to Jurong to get pump despite he being so tired... i die die want the pump by tonight.. hahahah..
Chamz. tomorrow he sure scold me. Waste petrol

Hi ypg
cos i guilty lor.. so keep hanging on.. going to drop soon la... =P

Kath, oh.. can lend me Avent manual ah.. I dun mind leh...Sat can bring along?? Thanks

Or who has PISA who dun use liao.. lend me awhile to try???
 
ypg
Thanks for sharing ya info of nanny! wah.. next time i know how to deal with it.. and its quite smart of them taking leaves sia. hehe

About breastfeeding i hope i can be able to cope when im working. when im really quite miss my back to normal life liao. tmw im going to baby fair with my mum and maybe meeting xuelyn there. =)

Jowin
Sat u going to snowger there right?? you just bring your bottles there and she just lent you the PISA to pump. then u see how. If okai then u look for people to lent you lor. I think u pump like 15-20 mins and see how it is ba. Wont take too long mah.. Ya hub with you so someone is there to take care of ashlynne and theres so many mummies we also can help to take care de lar. hee so dun worry! Or you scare peiseh i bring my pump let u try at snowger house lor. Lol.. bring ya bottles can liao. Let u choose which pump smells nicer for you to try out. Hahahaha
 
Jowin,

U stay Bedok? Me too. I stay at Bedok North, Blk 137. U leh?

At 1st I also guilty like u. Struggle everyday with my miserable milk supply. But my hubby give me the assurance that I am still my bb gal's mother, breastfeed or not breastfeed. From there on, my bb become Similac bb. I still feel guilty on and off, when I hear mummy say that their bond with their bb is great cause they breastfeed for how long how long kind of story. But my gal give me a special smile and she is especially excited when I am back home as compared to my mum or my hubby. She assure me that she love me alot, even if I never breastfeed her.

As I din breastfeed through latch on, I am quite tired to hold my pump for 30 min (I use Medela Electric Mini), I din interact with her much. But now instead of resting while she drink my expressed BM, I sing to her, smile at her while I feed her bottle. I supposed me n her bond this way ba. So dun feel guilty. Breastfeed or not is not the ONLY measurement if we are good mothers or not. We can be good n doting mother to our daughters in so many other ways.

But dun mistaken my intention. I not saying Breastfeed is no good or persuade u to give up. Just want to show u that the guilt for not giving BM should go away n not bothering u.

fabbie,

It is hard to reason out with some1 who is taking care of ur darling. If u harsh to her, u will wonder if she will in turn do anything nasty to ur darling. So ended up u at her mercy. So wat is ur childcare arrangement after u back to work?
 
ypg,

i do agree that are many other ways to bond with your baby other than breastfeeding. For me i give my baby expressed BM. I stop latching him after he turn 2 mths. My baby in the day will look for my MIL and during the nite he will look for me. Cos he sleep with me everyday. So i guess the nite time we spend together are important.

Cos for my No 1 he sleep with my MIL after 1st mth. So in his heart my MIL is No1 to him for me is forever No2. So i think the nite time bonding is very very important.
 
ypg
My mum would be taking of my gal for me.. as bonding i duno leh. She always bully me. lol. for me i stop latching since she's 1 month.
 
y'day night tried feeding my boy FM after TBF for quite awhile. he squirmed, twisted and jerked throughout the feeding! he managed to drink about 120ml before making lots of noise. in the end i let him latch on and he happily kept still and sucked till he fell asleep... anyone had such experience after bb not drinking from bottle for awhile??

anyway, he still woke up 4 hrs later, which is betta than BM... ha...
 
Jowin,
When u borrow the Avent Manual, must buy some of the parts to replace for hygiene purpose. e.g. the petal part and the "washer" thing cos they come in contact with the previous user's milk. My colleague bought the parts for me when she loan me her pump to use. So sweet of her.
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ypg,
I agree with u that we can bond with bb in other ways. I miss out lots of time bonding with my bb cos I pump exclusively since Day1. Mostly when I pump, hb/MIL are feeding n playing with her. By the time I'm done, bb is already on the way to lala land. Sometimes I feel even more upset when my bb seems to miss daddy more than mummy...

Yesterday, me & hb went home at abt 12 midnite. My ger ger refuse to go to zzz even thou she is tired. She did this once when my hb was not at home, even my presence is useless. I guess she's a daddy's ger...

Gathering:
So it's confirmed this saturday! Anymore gals who dun have my address???? Rem to PM me ok? I will check my email tonite. :p
 
fabbie
for medela pump, I found that using pigeon milk storage bottles will fit the pump just fine. So you might want to try that instead of buying medela bottles, which are a little more expensive.
 
echo,
I think most standard size milk bottles can fit the medela pump. I used to fix my ger's NUK bottles to the medela single electric. :p direct pump inside for her to drink. *keke* During tat time, I even used those glass bottles we get frm hospital.
 
echo/fabbie,
i compare the pigeon storage bt to my PISA pump connector but dun fit leh, that's why i didnt buy...so i always pump & pour in a big spare milk bt, now i spree for the playtex std liner, i store in thr..

snowger...
i oso pump since day 1 cause my ger refuse to latch...tot i am the oni one...its so tiring hor, cause my ger wakes up different timing to my pump time, so gotta wake up double at nite to pump & to feed her...
 
ypg,

I last time also use the mini electric plus to pump..wah..pump very slow leh..almost give up..somemore tat pump cause me to have lots of block ducts..I change to the PISA not so bad liao..so far now choy la..no block liao...

taka fair,
kath there got lots of toys ar..yeah can go there n play liao..see which one can buy for him keke. Later gg down with pigeon bottles..hopefully can get 50% disc for the pigeon BPA free bottles
 
ya, those glass bottles from hospital also fit medela pump. i also used those glass bottles to store my BM last time.

merydith, if i'm not wrong the pigeon trade in offer dun applies to the BPA free bottles.
 
Merydith, cannot get 50% disc for BPA bottles. Onie the normal wide neck bottle. I will be bringing my bottles down tmr to change..hehe.

Fabbie, me selling $3.30 for one bottle but y must u ask ur mom ah?? She wanna use to store soy sauce?? Hahaha

Jowin, i tink i hv the extra spare part for my pump when I bought it at Robinsons, let me go check and let u noe. I heard this model of pump discontinued liao??
 
dbaby,
i'm also tying to get bb to drink from bottle.. he's on total latch on since day one.. 1st attempt w/ avent teat was not successful.. that was on monday..
this morning, i pumped 1oz while he was feeding on the other side.. he didn't seem quite satisfied w/ the feeding coz i "took" 1oz from him.. then, when i offered him the bottle, he sucked till finished! but when i gave him H2O from bottle, he stuck his tongue out pushing the teat away! dunno if it's the milk or the bottle..
 
kath,

u so funnie... store soya sauce...hahaha...can i buy 2 frm you if fabbie doesn't want? fabbie.. or we share share?? u take 2, i take 2?
 
Hi Snowger,

Gathering 14 March 09
Venue: Snowger's place @ Redhill rd [My place is just opposite the Redhill MRT station- the yellow & red buildings]
Time: Arrive between 1 to 1.30pm
Foodie: Pizza (Any disagreements?)

2nd bb (with bb & maid)
ah bur (with bb)
Bubblepearl (with hb &amp;bb) <= count us out for lunch. Thks!
Carmen (with bb)
Charis (with bb)
Cindy (likely with bb)
Echo (with bb)
Fabbie (with bb &amp; hb) <= count us out for lunch. Thanks
Fong2 (with maid &amp; bb) <= count us out for lunch. Thanks
Gill (with bb, son &amp; maid)
iemiko (with hb &amp; 2 bois)
ikeike (with bb &amp; hb)
Ivy Tan (with bb)
Jo (with bb &amp; hb)
Jolynash (with bb &amp; hb) <= count us out for lunch. Thanks
Jowinbaby (with bb n hb)
Juzyounme (with bb, can only reach after 3.30pm)
Kath (with bb &amp; hb)
Loveangel
Luthadel (with bb n hb)
mayelynn (with bb and maid)
Merydith (with bb &amp; hb)
Mimi (with bb)
Phylicia (with bb)
Santorini
Samantha (with bb) -- no lunch for me pls
Spaghetti (with hb and bb)
Tamms (with hb &amp; bb)
Xiao pooh (with bb)
Xuelyn(with bb &amp; hb)<= count us out for lunch.
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kath
cus she keep nagging me why So much BOTTLES! lol so ask her lor.. haha anyway i have try my pump liao. piegon standard size bottle can fit in medela pump so no need to buy le..

Thanks Echo for saving my money! hahahah It does work!

bur pigeon stand size bottle can fit in wor. i just try nia.

Okai. today i see the newspaper.

BABY FAIR
Early Bird Special friday 13 to 15mar
Free goodie bag exclusive to 1st 50 customers who spend 30bucks and above at baby fair

Free Polar Pleeces THrow(assorted designs) with 200 &amp; above
Free Little tikes chair with 350 &amp; above
Free Little tikes champs spors center with 500 &amp; above.

Philips Avent
Free umbrella with 250 &amp; above (limited 300 pc)
Free soother Chain with 100 &amp; above (limited 300pc)

Huggies
Free Diaper Bag worht 200 with 120 above of huggies diapers (1st 100 cust)

TRADE IN SPECIAL
Enjoy 50% off for a brand new pigeon wide neck bottle when you trade-in any brand of 4oz or 8oz milk bottle*
*all trade-in bottles must be complete with bottle, screwcap, teats and hood. While stocks Last.

FREE CLEANING SERVICE
All pigeon steam sterilizers only Monday to Friday 10am - 12pm Limited 20 sets per day.

LUCKY DRAW now to 12 apr
Spend min 50 bucks and chance to win 6k worth or prizes.

More Great offers from our trusted Brands
10% Coosh Baby, GAIA
15% Aprica, Babysafe, Baby Bjorn, Graco, Medela, Mustela, Nania
20% Allerhand, Avent, Baby Gund, JL Childress, Lindam, Munchkin, Petit Terailon, Pigeon, The first Years
30% Baby Bright, Cheeky BonBon, safety 1st

Extended shopping hrs 10am to 10pm

Additional 10% off for taka credit &amp; cash smart cardholders.
 
Oh just to add.. for OCBC robsinsons VISA and Cardmembers got extra 20% off..

Ladies accessories shoes, Bags
Up to 20% off regular-priced items

Ladies Fashion &amp; lingerie
up to 50% off regular-priced items

Nursery kids &amp; toys
up to 20% off regular-priced items

And many more...

If you are cardmembers u got a additional of 20% off. So meaning 40% off.

Exclusive 12-15march!
 
Mimi
ya u should apply sometimes the discount very shiok one wor! but only for selected items de lar. heheh
i saw everything is in straits time. u can have a look. i see the website like dun have leh. is abit different from newspaper. Hmmm

bur
you can get the medela bottles from kath ba.. cus i think i shall use pigeon bottles instead. since i just now try it fits.
 
yo mummies ..

Really wish that i can go to the TAKA fair and see see look look.. but hubby dun like me to take baby out alone and i dun like to ask my MIL along. Anyway, my bottle battle is still on. Need to stay at home to do "On the job training"

Baby care: YPG, thanks for sharing. Long time never read lor soh posts alrdy. haha.. keep me "entertained" for a while.

My MIL will be helping to take care of baby while i go back to work. But one thing i really hate about it, she got very bad breathe lei.. i pity my poor baby, going to smell her bad breathe for at least 8 hrs a day. Will i be very rude to tell MIL about this? If i tell hubby he sure brush me off.
 
Fabbie,
The baby fair promotion you saw in the newspaper is it refering to taka baby fair ?

Thinking of bring my pigeon wide neck bottle and pigeon steam sterilizers to taka baby.
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Chantalle,
Try buying mouth wash for ur MIL to use? :p tell her "Ma, I use this brand and I find it super good. So i buy one bottle for u to try. U try then u tell me good or not."

Fabbie,
Like tat is 20% + 20% + 5% (rebate on bill).
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OCBC disc dun include cosmetics one leh... So a bit sian... haha... not like metro!
 
Fabbie,
Thansk for your information.

Decided only bring my pigeon wide neck bottle to enjoy for the trade in special, hb say the steam sterilizers too bulky to bring along.

Hi Ladies,
May I know how often you changing the milk bottle ? I thinking to change it every 3 to 4 months.
 
Snowger: that is indeed a very tactful way. you must be a very good and filial DIL..hehe However, u know old folks, always not willing to try new stuff. Maybe have to persuade her to try. But i am afraid i get too pushy and MIL gets pissed off.

My MIL bad breathe is not the normal type. Its like from far also can smell lor. What's worse is that She is afraid to go to the dentist as well. Haizzz..
 
Tara, my bottle is new one..bought from spree. I oso got new spare part for my freestyle. Hiao lor..buy so many thought going to pump exclusively but now i feel latch is so much easier and hassle free. Now i m going to keep all my steriliser oso cos no need to sterilise bottle oso..hehe
 
fabbie, no need cos i will go to Zach's infantcare to latch him..will latch him before i start work, during lunch and then ard 4plus he will take FM then after work latch him again.. it's the same as i go pump lor
 
ypg - thanks for the long post. are there more babies whom are cranky or more babies who just spent most of their time sleeping? anyway, since the babysitter can ask me to look for someone just after two days of crankiness. She sure cannot handle this baby in future. this baby is damn cranky. I don't think Lavendery will be coming for gathering and I think she has not bring her baby out alone before. She should be fine. And I don't think she has been reading the forum much since giving birth.
 
Kath/Bur

So convenient for you since Zach's babycare is at your office building.....anytime you miss him can just pop by and see......

In that case, I will take the other two bottles...
so Kath you bring them on Sat, yeah? Thanks.......
 


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