Nursing rooms experiences

I have always been googling reviews of nursing rooms in the various shopping malls that I'm planning to go to. Those blog entries really help me a lot. These two are the ones that I prefer to most: this & this =)

Here, I am not doing a review as I am just not that good at gauging the conditions... however I'm gonna share the experiences I have in the various nursing rooms that I've been to so far.

Compass Point:

The first ever nursing room that I've visited. Spacious diaper changing and nursing room. 2 diaper changing stations and 2 individual cubicles that can be locked. Two persons can be seated inside comfortably, along with the stroller inside. I have nursed here a few times and so far so good.

Isetan @ NEX:

I haven't nursed here. In fact, I was here alone (while waiting for my colleagues to catch up over lunch on Tuesday) but I just wanted to check out the nursing rooms as I've read good reviews from the other blog entries that I've seen. Spacious with 2 individual nursing cubicles, each comes with an armchair and a small table.

Takashimaya level B2:

I was there today with hubby and baby. Baby pooed while on the way to Takashimaya, so I quickly searched the location of the nursing rooms in Takashimaya while still in car. We parked our car at level B3 and went straight to the nursing room in level B2 to change her diaper. There are 2 individual nursing rooms, each with one armchair and also each with one drop-down nursing station.

Takashimaya level 3:

After our lunch, baby seems hungry and it was 3 hours after I last nursed her, so we went to check out the nursing room in level 3. The cubicle cannot be locked and has only a curtain which makes me feel very insecure. I put the stroller right at the curtain and I thought I heard someone came to the curtain and left, probably upon seeing my stroller the person knows the cubicle is occupied. There's a sign that says no males are allowed at the nursing cubicle, and ample diaper changing stations at the other side, with chairs and benches for family or friends who are waiting while the baby is being nursed.

Below, bought this for baby at Takashimaya... we bought a playard for baby and several Christmas gifts for hubby's nephews and for my gift exchange sessions coming up, and got a $10 voucher that will expire in 3 days. It is only valid in the children's department and we are definitely not coming back to Takashimaya anytime soon, so we shopped around and I decided to buy another cloth book for baby. :) This is her second cloth book, her first one on counting and numbers was bought at Kiddy Palace.

Lastly, something to share... taken at the clinic while waiting to see my baby's PD, some weeks ago. =)

It says:
One hundred years from now... it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove, but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a CHILD.

Of pacifier and frozen milk

My baby dislikes the pacifier and prefers her thumb and forefinger a million times more! She always ditch the pacifier that I insert into her mouth and puts her thumb AND forefinger into her mouth instead!

I have many bags of milk in the freezer... but now my baby only wants fresh milk...

I always latch her when I'm with her but at times when I'm not around, I'll have to pump in the morning (when I wake up engorged and can get over 100 ml per side) and keep my milk in the fridge for my mother-in-law or hubby to bottle feed her when I'm out. She totally rejects the frozen milk so I'm at a lost of what to do with the 20+ bags of milk in the freezer!

Photos of the day

Yesterday we went out for dinner with hubby's family and baby's grandaunt's family. She was dressed up in this really pretty top that we received as gift. I love it so much I wish I could fit in it too!

My baby was sneezing a lot yesterday with clear mucus and we could hear her heavy breathing due to her stuffy nose. So I brought her to the clinic downstairs and the doc gave her these:

She didn't cry at all when I used the nasal spray and decongestant drop on her, my good little girl. :) But she wasn't all that good when I tried to replace her fist with Sophie in her mouth. She loves sucking on her fist and decided that her BFF Sophie can just be there to accompany her unharmed.

She was good with all those spraying into her nose, but she started screaming away when I put her on her tummy. She's 3 months old but hasn't been on her tummy much as she hates it, so I just left her on her tummy and continued to encourage her... finally she stopped making noise and settled down, so I let Sophie give her a good back massage.

It was so good that eventually she fell asleep. Sophie was also there to sing her a little lullaby into her ears. Heh.

I may be making some drastic changes to this blog. I dunno how soon or if it'll ever happen, but do look forward to it!

Baby sleeping bag project

I'm back. I have so much I wanna share. Everyday I made up my entry in my mind, full of stories of my days with my baby, and yet at the end of the day I could never find time to come type out each entry that I wanted to share. Alas, this motherhood diary will never be complete with all the thoughts that I wanted to keep.

Anyway I'm here because I'm doing a research on baby sleeping bag (or sleeping sack) patterns. Yup patterns, for sewing. My darling baby keeps kicking her swaddle all over and sometimes I even find it next to her head. So I worry that one day she may grab it and cover her face/head... and it will be more dangerous to cover her with a blanket so that will never be an option. I started looking at baby sleeping bags but they are either too thick for our warm weather (and I sleep without aircon), or super freaking expensive (for those "suitable for tropical weather").

I wonder how that mere pieces of cloth stitched together can ever end up so highly priced but well, many baby stuff are priced to empty loving parents' pockets. Right? So I thought may be I could start making one for her... just try. May be. With material of my choice. And if it worked I may just make somemore and may even make for friends! How about that? But well... me being myself. I'm always  too busy to start doing things that I wanted to do inside my mind. Writing blog entries included.

Anyway just a head start, I founded some links with patterns that I can use. Gonna bookmark them here in this entry, and share with others who may be interested in making their own.

http://smalldreamfactory.blogspot.sg/2011/11/free-pattern-baby-sleeping-bag.html
http://www.favoritethings.net/patterns/children/hushabye_baby
http://www.sleepingbaby.net/jan/Baby/sleepsack.html
http://made-of-cloth.blogspot.sg/2011/05/how-to-make-toddler-sleep-sac-without.html
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=271822.msg3070131#msg3070131
http://withatangledskein.blogspot.sg/2008/02/sew-sewmaking-fleece-sleep-sack.html
http://www.luvinthemommyhood.com/2010/06/dress-shirt-sleep-sack-tutorial-with.html

(The last one is amazing! You can do it with any unwanted shirt from your hubby, your dad or dad-in-law, your bro or bro-in-law etc. It's good for our weather, save on buying new fabrics and buttons or zippers, recycle old material, and really sweet too!)

Okay, this is definitely one project which I dunno if I'd ever get started! And if you come across any cheap sleeping sacks available in Singapore or online, please please please leave me a comment and let me know. I'll really appreciate the gesture. :)

PS. If I'm ever too free (NEVER!) I may even start on this, this, this or this!!

Very very pissed

I am very very very very very very very very very very very very very pissed with my husband!!

So pissed that I brought baby out and slept in the living room. And he hasn't even realized because he's still sleeping like a dead log!!!

Just my personal thought

A friend posted on Facebook a news article about Singapore's cleanliness behind other asia countries. And he wrote, "因為會亂丟垃圾的都是被邀請來新加坡的！哈哈哈…"

And I commented:
在N年前，我们还是数一数二的清洁花园城市。曾经，人也比较有礼貌，该礼让的会礼让。现在人是多了，却在开倒车。曾经这是个能安居乐业的好地方。现在却天天面对着拥挤的车厢，自私或没礼貌的人，垃圾也多了，日子也难开心起来。我很想念小时候的新加坡。感觉比较平安，自在，清新，舒服。国家的却是发达了，但生活越来越紧张，不安，不自在，不开心。是好事吗？Hmmm, 只是我个人感想罢了。Heehee...



Just a personal opinion.

One day in future

There will come a day when all the angry girlfriends will ditch their husbands and come live together! Because seriously, if women can have babies own our own, there is certainly no need for any man. Man only sleeps and eats and play games and watch anime and does no chores although they work and earn the dough, while woman works too and takes care of home and takes care of children. You think women doesn't want to sleep more and relax more? Women are just more committed to the kids, the well being of the family and the living environment. If only men can make themselves more useful... Can't men do more besides donating the sperm and perhaps paying the bills?

I know there are better men who are involved in family and fatherhood, like my lovely father. Men, don't bash me for this seemingly absurd entry. It's just a thought after all the fussing about husbands with friends. Turn out we've all gotten ourselves a bad bargain... Now can only suck thumb, bite the tongue (or end up nagging nonstop) and press on while having one another as confidantes.

What a cranky day

Baby was cranky in the morning after her bathe... Then she was finally okay. I had lunch and my parents-in-law went out.

My colleagues came to visit and baby was enjoying herself for a while, then she got cranky again. My colleagues felt bad for disturbing her sleep, although I told them they didn't, and they left shortly.

Baby continued to be super cranky the rest of the afternoon and I was really on the verge of falling asleep as I cuddled her in bed, but she just kept screaming her lungs out and I had to carry her and walk around.

Last night she slept near midnight and woke up at 4+ in the morning today. I'm sure that she's tired too as she slept as little as me (that's not counting the few naps she had in my arms)... and I am seriously feeling burnt out.

Furthermore hubby's not home last night and even now, he's not home yet. Baby was cranky all the way till night and i couldn't have a decent dinner as I was home alone with her and cuddling her to pacify her. I'm still home alone now with baby who has finally fallen into deep slumber. Yes! My turn to snooze... Lying in bed now while updating this. Good night!