Did He Do That?

Coincidence or Reality?

He has been able to recognise that "Hi" word for quite a while now, and will even try to verbalise it with a screeching "hi" sound. I already thot he was quite "slow" since the girl in the video could point and act out the words from like 8 or 9 months old! JR is almost 11mths old! He has not been able to point or gesture to various parts of his body or at things. Only perhaps to raise his hands to ask me to carry him. Or to close/open his palms when he hears the "Twinkle" song, and raise his arms to show "Hurray" as in the "If you're happy" song. But then again, it does say that baby can recognise words if he just focuses his attention on certain words when you read them out, and JR does do that.

I'd made a little cardholder of words that he has come across in the videos that he has been watching since 5mths' old. This morning, while going thru it, he of course said "Hi" at the 1st word as usual, and when he saw "Head", he patted his head....then he saw "Ears" and he said out "ea" ...and then he saw "Mouth" and said "Mao". Was I dreaming that he did that? Was it coincidental or intentional? Couldn't get him to do it again, but well, the sounds WERE different, unlike his usual "do-it-all" "BABABABA or MAMAMAMAMA or DADADAA" sounds.

And when I walked into the store at the petrol station today, he excitedly went "Ba ba ba" when the door to the store opened and he saw the array of Bananas there....Hmm....oh well, he said the same thing when he saw the word "Ball"....

Wearing Baby

This is so amazing... a Mommy playing this YangQin-like instrument while slinging baby!


And this Mommy is kneading bread. Reminds me of slinging the boys and swinging them to my back when I prepared food & cooked so that their busy little hands would not be able to reach out so far .

Zoo Trip

Haven't been to the zoo in years! We decided to take the bus jus for fun, since there's a straight bus. JR was so excited humming away and looking out the bus window.


His 1st visit to the zoo!

At the zoo, Bb seemed somewhat overwhelmed. Can't tell if he recognised all those animals from his books n vids! Didn't seem to show much reaction! He was only much more lively after lunch after he had a short nap.

Zebras - there's this 斑马 book that he likes.


Giraffes. I think these are "baby" giraffes since they were playfully galloping around the enclosure. Who ever sees giraffes *galloping* in a zoo, right?! They usually just stand around looking bored.


Never seen a white peacock !


Ah...refreshingly cool aircon, and lunch!

We took the bus home. Not too bad a trip!

Health Benefits

Breastfeeding has health benefits for moms: Study

Women who breastfed were less likely when they were older to have developed high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol and cardiovascular disease.

Hand expression

Hand expression and breast massage combined with breast pumping does a better job of stimulating milk production than breast pumping alone.

Click below link for article
Hands On Pumping Pumps Up Milk Production

Card Game

Convincing, eh?

www.babycanread.com
www.winktolearn.com

IQ & Breastfeeding

Breastfed babies seem more likely to do well at high school and to go on to attend college than infants raised on a bottle, according to a new U.S. study.

Read more *Here*.
Study links breastfeeding to high grades, college entry

Here, Baby!

Trying to tire the baby out so I'd have a peaceful night - well, we can *hope*!

Having baby follow me like a little pup. LOL!

Screenshots

At 7am on a weekend ... *yawn!*

Minute of Peace

With the holidays on, schedules get somewhat topsy-turvy. The past week hasn't been way bad, but as usual, there's the time-balancing that is so tricky. I've tried to get up early despite the disturbed nights, just so I can get some work done in the office. Yup so tiring. Each of the 3 older kids seem to have their own schedule of school/practice/play. Then tried to steal a few minutes for myself just after paying my road-tax ... a little peace without the sounds of one baby saying "merk!!" and the others fighting or just being plain rowdy .... by the park! (duh, the carkpark, you mean?!)

Oh well, a little caffeine is ok!

Motherhood 2009

The biggest parenting extravaganza in town!

Slings & Pouches at Promotional Prices @ Motherhood Exhibition.

Venue:Singapore Expo Hall 6A
Booth C4: The Birth Shop
Dates: 04 June 2009 - 07 June 2009

Opening Times:
4-6June: 12 noon to 10pm
7 June: 11am to 10pm


www.TheBirthShop.com

See you There!

Auto-Turn

Can't fool the kid, huh?


Then I tried to *test* him with words only, so had the idea of printing out the words and putting it in a photo album. ...Words only. And he turns that around too.

Ah, but that photo album is too flimsy. What other medium could I use....Hmm....

Bra Baby

Saw this at NTUC Fairprice supermarket this morning. Just great for washing your bras, and at a great price too!

Certainly great for keeping your Nursing Padded Bras in good condition!

One Million Campaign

NO MORE MILK SCANDALS
SUPPORT WOMEN TO BREASTFEED
Thousands of babies fell seriously ill in China because the milk they drank was contaminated with melamine. Some even died. These babies were not breastfed because
baby milk companies convinced parents that their products were better than breastmilk
women lacked adequate support to breastfeed their babies at the work place
women lacked correct information about infant feeding
Evidence points out how vital breastfeeding is to infant survival with health. Women are being forced to stop breastfeeding and give their babies infant milk powders because of lack of facilities and support to women to breastfeed and increasing commercial interference in infant feeding.

Potential disasters are waiting to happen across the world.

We’ll deliver our call to world leaders to implement the International Code for Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent relevant World Health Assembly Resolutions, ensure breastfeeding friendly workplaces for women at the World Health Assembly in May 2009.

RAISE YOUR VOICE TO SUPPORT WOMEN TO BREASTFEED.
Sign the petition now…
http://onemillioncampaign.org/en/Index.aspx

All OK

I delayed JR's Developmental Assessment bc of the Swine Flu, thinking it'd be too risky to our health and too troublesome, given the possibly long queues that would be at the NHG Polyclinics. But 2 weeks after orange alert was downgraded, we met with this long queue outside the Poly nevertheless. *sigh*. Not sick, so we were both given green stickers:

JR nearly failed his hearing test. He was more interested in the sounds of handphone ringtones and the queuebox buzzer OUTSIDE the assessment room than in the sounds coming from the little electronic box that the nurse was using as stimulus at different frequencies & sound levels! Thankfully, he "passed" in the end. *haha* I sure don't relish bringing him for a detailed testing - to "I don't know where".

Ha-Chooooooo

Ati-shoo!!!!! Flu? Thankfully No. Just a wave of dust, I guess?

With the recent swine flu pandemic scare, it's hearty to know that at least this alerts us to keeping clean at all times. It was surprising for me to read that more people die from the seasonal flu than what we are seeing from the unknown swine flu. 600 a year!!! in Singapore!

The best bet to keep up a baby's immunity is still...to breastfeed, breastfeed, and frequently. This is exactly what the CDC advises - initiation of total breastfeeding, continued breastfeeding if mother falls ill. And not to forget the 1st line of defence - clean hands. Now, how to stop people from touching baby when we are outside? Grrrrrrrrrrr.......

Pipa Rabbit

JR loves to read..and to be read to. This is one of his favourite books.


And...Mommy! Don't disturb - I'm reading!

BF lowers Heart Risks

Risk lowered by 10% if the mother breastfeeds beyond 1 year!

Article:
Breastfeeding lowers heart risks for mother: study
http://news.sg.msn.com/lifestyle/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3206941

Does this mean 10% for each year? Haha - can hope right? That means my risk could even be lowered by 50 to 60%!!!!

Grater

Ah...following from yesterday, I made more grated food.

Organic Pumpkin


Organic Zucchini


All in the 2oz containers and steamed in microwave for 90seconds - fast since they are already grated. So simple.

These tasters went with JR's porridge today, for him to have some separately for taste before we mix it together with the rest of the porridge.

All fresh - just enough for today. None of these will be frozen/stored since there's only that little.

Wasabi

A wasabi grater is super for quickly doing up a small amount of food for baby!

(from: Daiso)

Baby already had his bowl of pureed porridge for dinner ready, but as I had a Zucchini that I wanted to have for dinner, I thought to let baby try some. I used this to grate a small section of the zucchini, put it in this little container(tiny container with lid also from Daiso), and then put this tiny container in my small microwave steamer for about 1min only since the zuchini was all minced already.

Just only about 2 teaspoons for the baby to try. I let him have it before giving him the rest of his dinner - the porridge that I'd earlier done, lah!

Ah, if not for this grater, it would be so troublesome just to prepare a tiny bit of food for baby. Maybe I'll do the same with the pumpkin that I have for tomorrow's dinner. ;-)

I used to do big batches of baby food & mince to freeze in cube-sizes, but Baby JR doesn't like the taste of frozen foods somehow. ;( So it's freshly-prepared food always for him.

JR also prefers his foods as natural as it comes! Like this:

He'll eat the banana if it come straight from its jacket, but will not touch it if I mash it up in a bowl for him, or mix it with his oatmeal.

He also likes eating sweet potato, freshly scooped from the potato itself!