Category: Parenting
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Sending your baby to infant care or hiring a helper to care for your infant?
Choosing between infant care and hiring a helper for infant care can be a tough decision. With my two kids, I’ve experienced both. Sending my first child, Hengboi, to infant care at 2 months old was challenging but necessary due to lack of help. Despite initial guilt, it resulted in early independence and rapid development…
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Birth Story Season 2: Planned Labor Induction @ KKH
HengBoi2 was very cooperative when I requested him to stay inside a bit longer, as I was admitted to KKH for COVID at 39 weeks pregnant. At 40+5 weeks, he still showed no signs of wanting to come out, probably because he heard my pleas. I was scheduled for induction at 40+3 when I saw…
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Covid + @ 39 weeks pregnant
I have been avoiding social interactions ever since the cases peaked, hence getting infected with COVID at 39 weeks was a great blow to me. The source of my infection was from my dad. Once we found out he was ART postive , he went down to QTC to get his result confirmed so that…
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Building up their immunity
When I get together with my girlfriends, the conversation inevitably turns to our kids getting sick in childcare. I’m quite used to it since Hengboi started infant care at 2 months old. It’s common to pay for a full month of school fees but only use two weeks of services because the other two weeks…
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Transiting to floor mattress @ 10 months old
HengBoi does Kungfu in his sleep. He never fail to wake himself up in the middle of the night by knocking himself against the bars of the cot multiple times. and of course it affects my sleep as well. He also started developing preference for my seahly bed instead and ended up falling off my…
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Congee for Baby
Usually when cooking porridge for HengBoi: 2 Meals (e.g. Lunch and Dinner), ¼ cup (equivalent to 4 tbsp) of rice is sufficient. For water/soup stock, i will use about 2 ¼ cup. 1 Meal (e.g. Weekday Dinner), Half of ¼ cup of rice (equivalent to 2 tbsp). For water/soup stock, i will use about 1…
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My Birth Story
Being pregnant is tough (or so I thought before experiencing the sleepless nights after delivery). As I approached the last trimester, I was eager for the baby to arrive, believing that all the discomfort would end once he was born. However, my son had different plans and decided to stay put well past the 40-week…