Sling: Hip Carry

The Hip Carry is generally for older babies of at least 5mths or older, when they have better upper body/neck control. We do have pictorial instructions that you can study:
. Step-by-Step Hip-Carry Pictorial Instructions

Do note that the bottom edge of the sling is to be brought all the way over the baby down to behind their knees. The baby would *sit down* over this bottom edge. The upper edge of the sling is wrapped up the baby's upper back. For older babies(as in above pix of the 7month-old baby), this sling edge can be up to the armpits.

And for the shoulder portion - do make sure it is well-spread over the shoulder so that weight is distributed well. Do not have it edged into the crook of your neck for instance. Or have the ring around the neck either. That would be super-painful and tiring!

For Younger babies(as in pix below), the upper edge of the sling should be wrapped all the way over their shoulders.


Babies, or even the Big Ones, will always be happy to be close to you, and at the level where they can talk & communicate more easily with you.

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Mail Boy

JR concentrating very hard at the task of slotting that envelope into the postbox. Yes - for real ! *haha*

But it's not everyday that you'd have the honour of having your mails from MomsinMind.com being personally sent out by the baby; complete with it being christianed with slobber by JR. ;)

Here he is on the way to the postbox.

New Tastes

Sucking on the pineapple. And he's lucky it's those honey pineapple!

Storytime II

The excitement - oh my! He loves being read to.

Patterned Delight

He never fails to gurgle & coo upwards each time I go to buy a refreshing icy-papaya soymilk fr the beanie stall.

What's he looking at? Dots!!!!!!! What's so funny about THAT?!

Cry Room

I never ever wanted to be in the Infantcare room in church. But at the new church that we are attending, it's just soooooooo quiet in the main santuary. In the end, I find it less stressful to be in the infant room. Even if he doesn't cry, he grumbles, fusses. Ah....I think as parents we feel more nervous than those around us. But since those around us all have such serious and stern faces, I really don't feel comfortable, and instead feel too suspicious as to whether they are secretly frowning at me & the noisy baby. *sigh*.

Chinese FlashCards

Another video - a longer one that shows how JR just concentrates when this is put on. He loves it!

www.winktolearn.com

Here's JR watching the English DVDs.

Hunger Pangs

6-month/7-month milestone: Not sure if it's because the baby is demanding more milk now.....but I'm just about always hungry these days! Just about 30mins after a nice full meal, and I'd be all hungry again. And if I dont' fill my tum, I start getting the low-blood sugar feeling. Quite inconvenient, I must say. And those of you in the same situation as me? I'm sure you can sooooooooo identify.

One of my quick "snacks" is sweet potato. And....Yup, this was what I was sharing with babe in this earlier post. *haha*

It's really delicious!

Early Mornings

I tend to sneak out from the house real early in the mornings while the baby is still asleep to get to the office. This morning, when I was about to leave the house, I realised I hadn't fed the bb, or at least 1 side felt quite engorged. With no time on my hands, I just quickly grabbed some bottles n the pump and dashed out of the house, sterlising them only on reaching the office.

Threw everything together n dumped into the microwave while organising stuff in the office:

I pumped while in the office. Nay, baby doesn't take the bottle, but at least the expressed milk can be kept to be put with his morning cereal.

Cool Dads!

Many have the idea that the sling is only a woman-useable item, but hey, look at these cool dads!

In the Snuggle Front-carry:


Kangaroo-Style:



Lying Down:



Piggyback:

BabyCare Fair

This was one truly busy time for me, rushing in & out, as I needed to take some time out to feed the baby (who doesn't take the bottle), and in being chauffeur for the other kids too!




Am thankful that my girl could help out this time around.

Breakfast

Sharing my breakfast with baby.

Avocados have always been a favourite of mine, even when I was little. I personally like to make up a batch of mashed avocados with chopped onions and cherry tomatoes. The tomatoes keep the avocado from oxidising and turning black/brown. Like this! So yummy!

Nevertheless, I'm quite happy jusy scooping out thin slices and layering it with lettuce or alfafa sprouts as a sandwich too. Keeping it simple like that means I can easily share with baby. Today, I just mashed it all up though, and scooped up some for the baby.

The baby's portion was mixed with some expressed breastmilk to keep it fresh and lessen the chance of it oxidising - hopefully. JR usually eats this mixed with his Oatmeal cereal.

.... and some for me!


TIP:
Putting breastmilk on foods does help prevent them from oxidising or "turn brown"!

Dirty Fella

The Dirty Fella...thanks to SPP..

He loves sharing our foods, and we do - if it is suitable for baby to try.

Baby seems to like more "real" foods, so we didn't blend & grind them up as much now. Here's an example of his lunch. Rice with peas & carrots.

Bumbo

Found JR some distance away from the Bumbo. It's certainly not safe to leave him there unsupervised! We'd seen him stand up from it many times before, but never seen him jump OUT and away from it! And he sure seemed so tickled by having done so too!

I'd never approved of the Bumbo myself, as I so disagreed with the concept of having a baby who is developmentally unable to sit independently, be on a chair. But we were nevertheless given this as a gift. Really need to watch your babies carefully if they are on the Bumbo!

More FlashCards!

Baby LOVES watching his flashcard vids. It's the "Your Baby Can Read" series and the "Wink-to-Learn" series. I'm amazed at his attention span with these. We started showing these to him when he was 5 months' old.


And this morning, I took out some of the kids' old Barney CDs ....JR didn't give the shows any attention! But was happy when I changed to this....Chinese flashcards - again:

Strange Kid!

To Market

(6.5 months old)

To market, to market, to buy a fat pig...oops.

Well, no pig in our wet markets these days! Baby enjoys the trip nevertheless. He's getting fairly big now, and even though he's really in the seated position in the baby pouch, he likes to pull up his feet and suck/nibble at them. Very nimble.

And the main reason for all these photos...so you can see the baby pouch or slings in action!
(Ah...I need a better cameraphone for all these photojournals!).

Sitting

At the Grand Ole Age of 6 months, the little boy still can't sit independently. ;( His elder sis & bro could sit by 6mths, just about. And his 二哥 (small big bro) could sit by himself at 4 months!

Nevertheless, when we were offered the baby high chair at our fave roti prata place, we tried.

Well, he can sit for awhile.....but he asked to be carried not long after! Mom's lap is probably still his preferred! Oh well... still have to eat with difficulty outside! Not something I relish.

Semi-Solids

JR turned 6 months old a week ago. He was down with a slight cough then, so we decided to hold off the introduction of solids . No hurry!

We started off with an instant brown rice ceral, Healthy Times single-grain. 1 tablespoon of dry cereal. He was so excited. It was all finished!

Single-foods are given at a time so that we can more easiliy watch for allergies to any single food.

Banished

With all those tiring trips, I'd concluded it's easier to just banish the boy to the back where I can't see him.

(photo taken from my mirror)

I've also figured that it's not worth wasting my time stopping or interupting the car journey to calm him. Might as well go quickly from point A to B!