Forever hungry

Recently I've been eating and eating and eating... I'm soooo craving for food ALL the time! Well, not always hungry but always wanting to eat. It's like I'm never satisfied with food the food I eat, and kept wanting more even after I've eaten... it's worse than when I was pregnant!

It's been for a while, but let's start from last Saturday.

Mooncakes at our friends' place. So many different types! I just ate and ate.

Had a little indulgence too since the host offered. This was all that I drank.

We stayed for dinner and our friends cooked dinner for us.

Sis-in-law returned from Malaysia with these Hello Kitty mooncakes for me!

Sunday after beehoon for lunch, hubby and bubs were napping and I was hungry... I ate one whole avocado, pan-fried. (>__<)

Sunday dinner at my parents' place.

And of course lots of mooncakes for supper on the night of mid-autumn festival. *sugar overload*

Monday was atrocious... first I had overnight oats for breakfast at 7am. Then I had laksa at 11am, and then rice at 1pm. I guess the canteen stalls love me.

In the lovely nursing room at work. I shall write a post on it soon!

At 3:45pm, cake in the nursing room after pumping.

Was out running errands and ended up having double portion of fried radish cakes at 4:45pm. As I was eating, I was thinking "oh boy, I sure can eat!!"

Dinner was at 7pm... luckily it was healthy, but the portion was still humongous.

Yesterday afternoon at staff meeting... the beehoon was urrrgh, but I had like 5 slices of that rich and good chocolate swiss roll. I ate and ate and ate... it was soooooooooooooo gooooooooood!!

Home sweet home. Dinner yummy dinner.

Today I had beehoon for breakfast at 6:50am, laksa at 10am, pumped at 10:30am, half granola bar at 11am, rice at 12:30pm, and another half granola bar at 3pm.

I couldn't bear to cut the mooncake... sweetie Hello Kitty, I don't want to cut you!

So I ended up gobbling up another granola bar at 4ish, with a mug of Lipton teh tarik.

So, I did a search on food intake for breastfeeding moms and I found this...

"An exclusively breastfeeding mother, on average, needs to take in 300-500 calories per day above what was needed to maintain pre-pregnancy weight. Since the recommended added calories during the last two trimesters of pregnancy is 300 calories/day, an exclusively breastfeeding mother will typically need either the same amount of calories she was getting at the end of pregnancy, or up to 200 additional calories per day. That’s the equivalent of adding 1-2 healthy snacks per day."

Source - http://kellymom.com/nutrition/mothers-diet/mom-calories-fluids

Errmmm, one to two healthy snacks per day?! OMG, I'm definitely overdoing it!! 

Playing with the pages

Here's my girl playing with the pages, while I'm adding more stitches to the drawstring bag page. I'm paranoid like that, keep feeling that it'll fall apart and adding stitches along the seams again and again. My girl can't resist playing with the completed pages whenever she sees them.

Baby led weaning?

I didn't know what is baby led weaning (BLW) until recent few days. The mummies in my new mummies group started to talk about it. And in my old mummies group just mere 3 years ago, there was no mention of such thing and none of us were aware of such a practice. So I googled and read it up. Seriously, it's too new and un-established to me. Plus my toddler girl was weaned the normal way, so I'm gonna stick to the same way for my baby girl. Pure BLW is just too messy and intolerable (the mess on the baby, the amount of food waste, the mess everywhere else) to me. It'll never happen in my household. Plus, if we eat our food with our spoons, why shouldn't our babies?

While googling around for BLW, I found this blog, and this entry totally speaks my mind about BLW -

http://breastfeedingwithoutbs.blogspot.sg/2011/11/bullshitometer-baby-led-weaninggill.html

Added later: And I found another one that's at the same frequency as me... just to share!
http://hurrahforgin.com/2013/10/17/baby-led-weaning-a-little-rant/

Sick

Back at work yesterday... sad, why is my maternity leave used up so soon?!

The haze was back over the weekend and yesterday. Both of my girls and myself are unwell. My little baby's having congested nose and coughing, so today I brought her to the family doctor and took childcare sick leave. I also had a consultation with the doctor and have my own share of meds for my congested nose and sore throat.

I should be napping and recuperating in the afternoon, but I have a new addiction.

I still can't believe i hand stitched every single one of these... and i went through the stitches twice some more, just to make sure they won't fall apart easily...

Back pocket with a wallet

This is my own idea!! :D

Glad my elder girl's cooperative today. I couldn't finish the entire thing as it takes time for the glue to dry and I'm gluing and clamping bit by bit.

It's a back pocket with a wallet! This will be the back cover of the quiet book that I'm making.

Inside the "wallet", there are 4 pictures - family photo with hubby's folks, family photo with my folks, photo of the two girls together and a picture of their respective Chinese names - printed, laminated and glued into the wallet before I stitch it up ^^

Wardrobe in my quiet book

Wanted to make a wardrobe for my dress-up doll page, so I free-hand sketched it on the felt with the brown marker that I have, then I cut it, pasted it and stitched it up.

Now I just need to find those mini pegs I have.

Ouch

Doing the counting pages...

Stitching, knotting, n putting glue on the knots. Hopefully making them more secure??

I hate accidents :( especially when I'm rushing and had to stop until I'm sure I won't stain the felt with blood... sigh, that's a good long scratch by the tip of the needle...

And what happened when I get too impatient... luckily it's on the back. I better stop for a while.

This beads seem to be too heavy. Now I'm worried they'll pull the strings out, although I've secured the strings by sewing through them and knotting them with strings that I sewed through the felt as well. I'm just feeling too paranoid now, but it'll be troublesome to remove the stitches I've painstakingly done and redo everything again.

Obsession

I'm obsessed but I shall stop for now (maybe make her some shoes and hair accessory add-ons later)... it's 1:30A.M.!

This is not enough... so I made more clothes for her...

Before hubby went to bed, he reminded me that if I kept on making clothes for her, I'll never get to move on to the next page. *oops* Anyway each item here has two sides. ^^ and I'm not done stitching the long-sleeved one...

Felt doll

Before and after... nope, I'm not voodooing! :P

Today's progress. This is fun~ ^^

Apple tree

Idea vs reality.

Was rushing as have spent most of the day adding the final touches to the little tokens of appreciation for my girl's teachers. Didn't print or sketch any template for this; just cutting freely and glad everything comes together nicely.

Wanted to stitch in the woven effect on the basket but yucks, fail. Ended up actually weaving the felt. Happy that it all comes together nicely now. ^^