7 months and one week old

Baby is 7 months and a week old. She is learning to do the crawl position already.

She was practicing until she is tired and fell asleep on her own. 

This only happens when I am at home with her.

I am very frustrated and irritated when people start to disrupt the healthy sleeping habits that I am training my baby. If you want to carry and rock until she falls asleep then you jolly well come and stay at my house and rock in the wee hours at night. Damn.

Warded in Mount Alvernia

My baby was warded in Mount Alvernia. She was having a fever of 39.2 degrees and doesn't want to eat her porridge. We went Thomson Medical 24 hours clinic but he didn't do anything, just gave us fever medicine. Then the next day, the fever was still high and we decided to go Mount A. Doc said that she has 5 mega red ulcers in her throat and suspected her with HFMD. She has to be warded.

The first night, she woke up 7 times (from 10 pm to 6 am) cos of the pain in her throat. Mommy was really really shag out on the second night. I couldn't wake up to change her diaper at all and she pooed in her romper and soiled the whole mattress crying and crying for help.

On top of waking up to attend to my baby (feed milk, change diaper, entertain her while she is awake),
a) Nurse came in to ask whether she drank milk, how much she drank, whether she pooed, changed diapers?
b) Nurse came in to check temperature
c) Nurse came in to give medication
d) Nurse came in to give nebulizer
e) Nurse came in to deliver my food
f) Cleaner came in to empty rubbish bin and wash toilet
g) Nurse came in to give newspaper
h) Visitors talking loudly along the corridor
i) Babies in other wards wailing away
j) smsing and updating my friends on baby's condition

I almost died.


The third night onwards, mommy gave up and decided to put her on drip. It was just too exhausting for me. If she was on drip, I don't have to be bothered about whether she is drinking enough milk. At some hours, she only can drink 60 ml and I don't know how to calculate the next timing to feed her and how much.

We spent a total of 8 days in the hospital. HFMD sprung her bronchitis and she was put on nebulizer. The nurse had to come and disturb her (and mine) rest every 4-6 hourly. She ended up with really lack of sleep. One night, she was so frustrated and angry that she cried for a full one hour non-stop after being disturbed from her sleep.

We cannot imagine the hospital bill as we didn't manage to get a hospitalisation plan in time. Stupid Aviva took more than 5 months to approve the insurance when they already took the premium. We decided to cancel and go with NTUC.

Anyway, glad that she is well and fine now.

We celebrated her 7 months old in the hospital. Daddy got her a present and she was so happy.

She loves to read

My baby loves to be read to. The teachers in infantcare told me that she loves story books and says how amazing it is that she can sit on their lap and finish the whole book patiently and wants more.

Yes, she is like that at home too. Other than milk and cereal, usually it's play and reading time for baby. I enjoy reading to her as much as she enjoys being read to.

2 different methods - porridge

Two different methods that I tried out over the weekend. One using the slow cooker and the other using the rice cooker.

1) I pour the home-made vegetable stock, brown and white rice, peas and carrots into the slow cooker and cover the lid. After it boils (about 2 hours), turn it to 'Keep Warm' [then I go to bed] until I scoop it out for baby, which is normally 6 hours later.

2) I put the brown and white rice into a glass jar filled with the home-made vegetable stock and then put in the rice cooker (surrounded with stock too) and cook for 45 mins and then 'Keep Warm' until I scoop them out.

(1) is flavourful, smells terrific, convenient (cos I dump all in and then go to sleep - Hubby will do the 'Keep Warm' button), softer texture and easily swallowed.

(2) nutritious, less wastage on electricity.

Started on solids - Part One

Baby is enjoying her food. Even the teachers told me that she is a food lover. 

Baby has tried the following:

1) Butternut squash puree
2) Sweet potato and broccoli puree
3) Sweet potato and carrot puree
4) Peach puree
5) Avocado puree
6) Applesauce from Gerber
7) Kiwi fruit mashed
8) and of course rice cereal - both white rice and brown rice

Next going to give her potato with broccoli puree, then pea puree before I slowly introduce her to meat/fish porridge. It's good to start on vegetables first :)

She has one tooth and the other one beside it is sprouting out too. No wonder she has been cranky for the past 2-3 weeks, waking up nearly every hour at night.

Everytime I want to take a photo of her teeth, she showed me her tongue instead ;p