Rainbow Baby

One evening, after my shower and washing my hair, I went to the guest room downstairs to blow dry my hair.  This room has a vanity table and makeup and hair products that my mother uses and also have a wardrobe full of children's clothes for my nephew and my girl. My nephew just had his bath and his dirty clothes were left on the floor, outside the bathroom. My little girl came running into the guest room when she saw me walking into it.  I told her I am blowing my hair.  She was holding a soccer ball.  She dropped the ball and it went into the bathroom.  I told her to pick it up.   There, after picking up the ball, she saw the dirty clothes on the floor.  Without anyone telling her what to do, she picked it up and went all the way out of the room, into the dry kitchen, then wet kitchen and then the yard where the washing machine is.  She dropped the clothes right in front of the washing machine. I saw this proud moment and my hea...

Until yesterday, I was excited about our trip.  This whole first experience, like bringing baby on a plane, bringing baby overseas, bringing baby to China, baby staying in a new place, baby meeting new people, etc, etc.   Then I was supposed to meet up my friend in Shenzhen and she cancelled it on me.  So, in the end, I am just meeting my in-laws and that is no fun and nothing to be excited about. In fact, I wanted to visit some places but husband is not very good planner and I can't estimate the amount of people since it is a holiday week.   So, we ended up with no plans at all.  All 6 days in China, staying at my in-law's house and meeting his relatives and friends only.  I am hoping something more exciting will come up, but looks like this trip is just so meh. Still hoping some spontaneous planning will come about.  Fingers crossed.

I have purchased from many online shops and Astro Go Shop is the worst ever!  In fact, the website is not user friendly at all.  Given a choice, I would not buy from them at all.  But since my parents are Astro viewers and their Go Shop channel attracted them so much, I have no choice but to comply. Problem 1: I created an account and tried to buy a product on their website.  Every time I click to pay, the website would prompt me to the login page again.  At first I thought it was some security measure, but then when it keeps prompting me to login for the 10th time, then I flipped!  It's crazy.  My parents were so panic because it says on TV that the deal would end in 5 minutes and I have to rush like crazy to create an account and login.  In the end, I couldn't buy because it just wouldn't go to the payment page.  So I gave up.  That night when I have more time on my hands, I tried the Astro Go Shop app and managed to buy the same...

As per my previous post, I am searching for organic UHT milk for our upcoming China trip.   Since I don't have much time to shop, let alone window shopping, I decided to pop into Village Grocer to find it. The one at Atria had True Organic brand, but not full cream, only the skim milk type.   And then at Jaya Grocer in Starling Mall, I found the Organic Valley, Organic Dairy Milk - Full Cream and immediately bought it so that my girl can try and see if she likes it. I am not sure what are the organic brands that carry full cream milk that is available in Malaysia.  Because I only saw the above.  Perhaps I need to visit other places too like Cold Storage or maybe should check out Aeon or some place like that. So, over the long weekend, I managed to visit Aeon and Cold Storage and found this milk in Cold Storage at Sunway Velocity. It didn't say it's organic but it's free range.  But I only manage to find this in Cold Storage at Sunwa...

Today I finally got my first postpartum period when baby is at 19 months.  I was enjoying the period-free days, from pregnancy until now, which means 2 years and 4 months of period free.   I was getting worried about it not returning when baby turned 12 months old.  But I read that it really depends from woman to woman.   When baby turned 1 years old, I started supplementing with fresh milk.  And lately, I find my milk has dwindled a lot that each pump is only 1 oz.  I am hesitating if I want to continue pumping but I would like to keep my milk until our China trip because I still want my boobies to comfort her in case she cries or get frustrated.   At night she still nurses to sleep.  But if she is really hungry, I will ask her if she wants milk and if she says yes, I would bring her downstairs to get some fresh milk, straight from the fridge. If she doesn't want, she will not say anything and will continue to nurse until she fal...

Updated 6/9/17: Over the long weekend, we used this stroller to the max.  We brought it on the MRT, on the bus, to go to shopping mall and airport.  First impression might not be impressive but after using it for few times now, what I truly like is how easy it is to fold and unfold the stroller.  So getting on and off the bus was not a problem.    Baby feels so comfortable in it, although she did sweat a bit due to the material.  I haven't try with the clip-on fan for her yet.  Just need to remember that if want to fold the stroller, need to clear all the things from the basket and to lock the front wheels, though not optional for the compact fold but required for the ultra compact fold.  We hardly use the canopy since we were indoors all the time.  But when Baby did fell asleep on the stroller, I put the canopy on and then put my nursing cover on it to block the lights.  It works!  It might feel a bit flimsy when it is push ...

Bringing a baby to China is really the craziest thing that parents do.  Did you know that you can't simply go to a travel agent to apply for visa for a baby below 2 years old?  You have to bring your baby to the Chinese Embassy in order to get some travel documents before applying for the visa.  So, besides, milk and stroller, this is something that is on my mind and driving me super nuts.  Imagine the mafan-ness.  As it is my annual leave is just enough for us to travel to China.  So, I don't know how we are going to do it.  Still getting some info and will update later. Besides milk, stroller, visa, another thing that we need to do before we go is to get the Hepatitis A jab.  As baby will mostly be eating outside food, I think best to get her protected first.  So, this is still not done and should be doing quite soon. Money, money, money.  Just for 1 trip, of 7 days.  Sigh.  Maybe I should just leave her behind. ...