Ms chubby cheeks in oct

The botanic gardens, Orchids

We took Jodie out to the gardens today for a walk in the park.
My girl is a nature lover and loves going for her walks.

Jodie starting her solids

As Jodie grows older, it time to start feeding her solids so that she has another food source to depend on other than milk. Breast feeding for the past few months has been no easy feat. It's getting difficult to maintain milk level when I'm not totally breast feeding. Plus, its quite a waste to pump and throw cos JD only wants BM straight from the source and not from the bottle.

Bed time play time

Jodie loves her play time on mommy and daddy's bed.

Granny's birthday celebration

It's Granny's birthday today. We've absolutely lost count of how old she is. But with 2 lovely granddaughters by her side and one bun baking in the oven. Who's counting?

Granny is sure one busy lady. She spends weekdays with Elodie and her weekends are for Jodie. My only gripe is that Jodie only gets 2 days with Granny. But hey, I'll take what I can get.

I do wish that we all can stay alot closer to each other but this is a wish that will take a while to fulfill.

Our Day at the Jurong Bird Park

It's the school holidays and Jd's cousin, Elodie is staying with us for an entire week! Since hubby and I don't have to work, we brought the girls to the bird park. Apparently everyone else in Singapore seems to have the same idea too. We waited for a good hour to get into the park. However, the wait was worth the while as the kiddies had a blast. Elodie enjoyed running around in the park occasionally saying hello to the birds and JD was just enjoying watching Elodie.


JD was already grouching before we got into the park.

Bed time pictures

Sleep training was always on my agenda, for the past few days, I've been trying to get JD to fall asleep by herself. It usually takes about an hour for her to fall asleep but there's always satisfaction when she finally goes into snooze-dom.

Hari Raya Staycation

It's the New Year for the Muslims here in Singapore. So what do other races do? We take the opportunity to enjoy ourselves within the island.. somewhat.. Well, my sister and I were contemplating where we could go for our year end vacation since JD is still a baby and she was with child. After much deliberation, we settled for Rasa Sentosa Shangri-la.

We booked oursevles a 3 day 2 night package and checked ourselves into 3 rooms with seaview! So, it's a granny, her 2 girls with their hubs and 2 granddaughters and another one in the oven.

Me and my bolster.

Fried beehoon

Lunch last sat was fried beehoon.
Everyone liked it but is wasn't salty enough. =P

Canon PS G9

My sister has passed her camie to me when my existing camie isn't working very well. Hehe.. now to put my skills to the test.

Project milk bottle update

Ok, granny has successfully fed her formula milk from a bottle! Yay.

Project bottle feed

i'll be going back to work soon and we are trying to bottle feed Jod. Tonite is the first nite of trying and its milk down the drain.

Lazy thurs afternoon

J has been sick for the past week and it is getting worrysome as well as tiring when I have to handle Jodie on my own. Anyways, here's to a lazy afternoon.

When routine goes out the window

It's been a tiring 2 mths. I'm amazed I managed to get myself this far. From a little darling, Jodie is now a devil in a baby's out fit. I'm not too thrilled by that. Then again, no mommy would. I used to have her on a perfect schedule til life took over and screwed up the entire process.

I realised that perfection is not possible when life's going on. Now, I have an incredibally fussy baby who is nursing for forever. I keep looking for solutions and came up with nothing. As tired as I may be, i still persist on in search of that solution.

2 mth milestone

Time flies so quickly. Jodie has not reached her 2 mth milestone.

- She's now able to voice out her opinion.
- she enjoys going out
- She recognises grandma's voice and looks forward to seeing her on the weekends.
- She's able to follow our voice and turn her head 180 degrees and follow us.
- When put on her tummy, she can lift her head 45 degrees for quite a while.
- She stares at us when we have a conversation with her.
- She can tell that daddy and mommy are not getting on well.
- I glimspe a hint of cheekiness in her.

It's been a tiring 2 mths with her but it just seems so worth the while when she gives me the " I'm so cute look" then my heart melts.

I've only got one more month to go before I have to get back to work and I'm starting to miss our time together already.

3 weeks old

As of today, Jod's officially 3 weeks old. Gosh, time does fly when you're having fun doesn't it?

Milestones a plenty at this point in time.

For starters, Jod's finding her personality right now. Habits are also starting to develop with her. When the girl wants her milk, she wants it now. Not later, it has to be now. If the milk is not to her liking.. it takes a bloody hour to feed her. With this girl, I never know when she's had enough. She seems to be feeding all the time. Not that I'm complaining. She's on a gain weight mission as ordered by the Doctor so I'm letting her feed all she wants.

Jod likes to be walked. By walking I mean she likes to be carried and walked around the house so she can check out the scene. This is going to be one party animal in the making.

When milking her cow of a mummy, she likes to kiao kah (curl her legs), she has to be a 45 degree angle from the boob. No more and no less. Just 45 degree please. You don't tell her she's done. She tells you when she's done.

She doesn't sleep at night, she just wants to milk her cow. When preparing her for a bath, she only likes water to be splashed on her, she doesn't like to be cleaned with a cloth.

She has this silly smile when she tries to fall asleep which is damn cute cos she shows off her one sided dimple.

All in all, this is one cute calf in the making. =)

Birth story

So here it goes, Jodie's birth story.



It all started when we checked in at 12 midnight into Raffles Hospital. Shortly after, the nurse started to induce the labour and this was the beginning of my 14 hour labour before the birth of my first born.

After the inducing, there was generally nothing to do but get some sleep. To me it was tough was the mild contractions were coming in gently and surely. Then... there was hubby's snoring which generally kept me awake quite abit. Surviving on very little snooze, 6 am quickly approached and the nurse woke me up for breakfast and at that time I think I was 2 cm dilated.

At about 7am or so, Dr Goh came in to break my water bag. When she did the check, my waterbag had already broke by itself. So it was all that jabbing around for nothing. Ouch. By then, the contractions were coming in stronger and the nurses were telling me that I should make up my mind when I wanted to do the epidural. I was generally expecting a pretty long labour and the contraction pains was starting to get to me. After 30 mins, I gave up. The pain was driving me crazy. That's when I asked for the epidural.

When they gave me my epidural, it was pure relieve as I started to feel all numb in my legs. I kept wiggling my toes just to make sure that my legs were still there. I was glad that I made the decision to get epidural as it really made me feel more comfortable during the labour.

Doc Goh had predicted a noon delivery and I honestly thought that we could get it done by lunch time. Woohoo! Talk about efficiency. Then she said, my dear, noon came be late noon you know! Oh drats.

As we progressed to lunch, I still wasn't very dilated. I got bored. TV wasn't entertaining me enough. At about 2 pm, I was all alone in the room and then I felt it. Jodie's head was starting to poke through. Okay. I thought to myself. I don't know what this means but I think I'd better call for help.

When the nurse came in, she did some checks and I asked if I should hold or something cause I wasn't able to stop her come proding any longer. The nurse wanted me to hold as Dr Goh was suppose to be with another patient who was delivering before me. The good nurse left me alone to "hold" the baby which I had no idea how to.

5 minutes later, she came in and asked me to practise to push. I had question marks all over my face. She looked at me and said ok I'll guide you. The next thing I knew, the nurses comes in to prepare for delivery, I was calling the hubby to come back into the room and then Doc Goh walts in and puts on her gear and preps me for delivery.

With the epidural, I couldn't feel a thing when the contractions came in. We had to depend on the monitor to tell when it was coming and I was ordered to push was if I was having the hell biggest poop of my life.

It took about 5 contractions of pushing with 2 nurses at each side to help move the baby in the tummy to deliver the baby. Poop! and Jodie was out! Woohoo! That's when I heard her first cry and held her in my arms for the first time. Oh my goodness. During this time, Doc Goh gets hubby to cut her umbilical cord. I must say I'm proud of hubby. He did not faint and it actually cut the cord.

So they then cleaned her up and weight her and all. She's was weighing only 2.45kg when she popped. We were expecting her to be heavier but what the hell. Oh, by the way, did I also mention that she's half a metre long in length?