good morning mummies. was on long mc.
hope all the kids will get well soon...looks like the bug is pretty strong. My 2 sons also coughing away.
I think Xavier is around 16.8kg. My parents keep pressuring me to feed him more. say he's very skinny. but dr asked me not to worry cos he was born a small baby. My boy so active, hardly sleeps and dun really like to eat, so very hard to fatten up.
MM Lee said Spore may be looking at more ways to boost fertility. So anyone motivated to have 3rd or 4th one?
SINGAPORE is revamping its procreation policies and could be going the Swedish way, giving free childcare and paternity leave in a bid to get couples to have more babies.
The first hint of possible policy changes to prop up fertility rates was given by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew at a dialogue yesterday.
'If we don't reproduce ourselves to 2.1, we are in trouble,' said Mr Lee, referring to the natural replacement rate of 2.1, which Singapore's fertility rate of 1.29 falls short of.
'So we are going to revamp. We've studied what the Swedes have done, what the French have done.
'The Swedes have completely changed their system. Support paternity leave, women get their children into creches, into nursery schools, all paid by the state. Very heavy expenses but Sweden can afford it.
'We are looking at our budget, can we afford it? But we've got to go because these are proven ways.'