How to keep Mittens and booties in pairs

mittens and booties.

They're tiny and many.
So howta keep them in pairs?

1. put them in washing bags before you throw them into the washing machine.

2. clip them pair by pair to dry.
If you can't find the matching pair, leave the lonely mitten or bootie on the clip until you've found and washed the matching other.

3. To keep the dried mittens / booties,

tuck one into the other.

There!
That should keep them in pairs.

Takashimaya 14th Craziest Toys Sale

Tue 13th July 2010

My very 1st outing with Mummy!

1st we went to Junction8 to meet Mummy's friend to pick up some books for korkor.
Then we travelled together with her and her son to Orchard and finally parted at Takashimaya.

Saw that Taka's going to have this Crazy Toy Sale.
Wow! looks like a LOT of toys!


Wed 14 Jul to Sun 1 Aug
Takashimaya Square B2

Full Month @ Sukura

Had my full month celebration with my father's relatives at

Sakura International Buffet Restaurant
at Doby Ghaut Green.

~ photo taken from www.sukigroup.com.sg ~

The buffet spread is very good and food is yummy too.

Their outlet at Doby Ghaut is super convenient - just outside Doby Ghaut MRT
but since it's in town, it was very crowded (full house!) and super cramped (space is scared in orchard).
Hence my papa didn't take any picture.
of cos, he was busy entertaining the guests too.

To celebrate my full month, we are giving have given away
10 Sakura 50%-off-2nd-pax vouchers!
Actually the restaurant gave us lah.

Click on the picture to read the terms and conditions.

Note: only valid at Choa Chu Kang and Balestier Shaw Plaza.
Since these outlets are not in town, I'm sure they're much more spacious cos the ones my papa visited before (Omni and Jurong West) are very spacious.

To win these vouchers, just leave a comment on this post, indicating ya interest and ya email address and we will contact you soon.

I'm one-month old!

Friday 9th July 2010

Time flies!
I'm one-month-old today.
My papa arrange for my hair to be shaved and make into 胎毛笔 (Chinese calligraphy brush made with baby's first hair).

Mummy ask Papa to take nice pictures of me with hair before I'm shaven.
and these are what he took:

Argh! so angry!

This is much better!

me with hair, waiting for the TaiMoBi person to come.

and soon, the shaving began.

"Are you sure about this?"

Soon it was done.

My korkor was very supportive and was with me the whole time when my head was being shaven.

My confinement nanny, Auntie Betty, giving me a bath after the haircut-shave.

Tell me the truth, Hello Kitty. How do I look?

Evening...

My Ah Gong, Ah Ma and

Xiao Yi came to see me.

Our family insurance agent, i.e. my Lao Goh (Grand Auntie), also arranged to come this day to settle my Hospitalization Policy.
(sorry. forgot to take pictures)

What an eventful day.
I was so tired at the end of the day,

I was knocked out.

Sunning my Jaundice away

Pictures taken when I was 8 days old.

Mine was consider a mild case of Jaundice, hence no need photo-therapy.
I was to be sunned twice a day - morning 8am and evening 6pm, front and back, 10mins each.

"A common condition in newborns, jaundice refers to the yellow color of the skin and whites of the eyes caused by excess bilirubin in the blood. Bilirubin is produced by the normal breakdown of red blood cells.

Normally, bilirubin passes through the liver and is excreted as bile through the intestines. Jaundice occurs when bilirubin builds up faster than a newborn's liver can break it down and pass it from the body."
~ taken from kidshealth.org

Hence, to help baby recover from jaundice faster, you have to give baby as much milk as possible.

Note: "Giving water or glucose feeds will not lower the jaundice. Since bilirubin is excreted from the body in the stools, breastfeed your baby frequently to encourage frequent bowel movement."
~ taken from www.nuh.com.sg

Mummy was amazed that I can prop my head up so high when I was only a week old.

Then I started to graze on the blanket cos I want milk!

another important thing to note: Jaundice causes babies to be sleepy.
but Don't allow baby to sleep as much as he wants
but you've gotta wake baby up for milk!
Make sure you feed baby every 2-3 hours so that baby can pass out bilirubin as quickly as possible.

I've recovered from jaundice on my 2nd week.

Dear God, thank you for healing me.

and thank you, Mummy's friends who had prayed with us.

Golden butt

Not so long ago (actually even now), people use cloth nappies

that's my Mummy when she's a baby in 1977.
Notice they didn't even use safety pins but a cloth belt to secure the nappy.

My parents did try to use cloth nappies for my korkor...
until one day...
my korkor's motion dropped out of his cloth diaper from the opening meant for his leg.

So they gave up on cloth diapers and switched toimage taken from www.fairprice.com.sg

Pampers NewBorn - disposable diapers.

My korkor has tried other brands like Mummy Poko & Drypers.
Mummy Poko New Born is soft and good too but it was too slippery on my korkor's butt so it kept sliding down his backside. Drypers was good too... until my parents found crystal-like stuff on my korkor's butt especially when the diaper is heavily soiled. So Pampers is THE brand for newborn babies. When it was my turn, the hospital which I was born in used Fitti. So we brought home and used the pack from the hospital. Mummy thinks Fitti is rough at the edges though my papa thinks it's similar to Pampers. but it just nice bao liao end up at my umbilical cord stump so it kept rubbing on the stump and it dropped prematurely causing a mild infection. sigh. now we change back to Pampers.

Pampers New Born Cheapest S$8.45 for a pack of 24 at NTUC Fairprice.
(correct as at 30 June 2010)

So what happened to all those cloth nappies?

Oh... we put them to good use - bed linen, blanket, swaddle cloth, towel, etc.
That's me in the picture, in case you were wondering.
Cloth nappies are great! cos they're so thin - suitable for the humid weather in Singapore.

As for wiping babies' backsides,

image taken from www.unfpa.org.pk

My Mummy remember helping to tear cotton wool from these rolls of them and make them into cotton balls. My grandparents will then use the cotton balls, dip them into water and wipe my XiaoYi's butt when she was a baby back in 1988.

image taken from www.pigeonbaby.info

Nowadays, we use baby wipes.

image taken from www.pigeonbaby.info

Pigeon's baby wipes are the best so far - no smell and not too wet, not too dry.
others are either too fragrant or too soapy.
the box's great for home use - making sure you take only one piece of wipe with each pull.

image taken from www.fairprice.com.sg

Otherwise, you can get the refill pack cheapest from NTUC Fairprice,
pack of 3 x 82 for $9.85 (correct as at 30 June 2010)


To keep baby's butt free from diaper rash, apply a barrier cream (nappy rash cream) after cleaning baby's backside everytime, before putting on the diaper.

image taken from www.eczanemonline.com.tr

Mummy recalls seeing this Drapolene cream being used for all the babies at home so she tried that on my korkor and the effect was not good. It was quite useless for a baby (i.e. my koror) who pass (a lot of) motion after every feed.

They then switched to Desitin.

Desitin Nappy Rash Cream comes in two types:

1. Desitin Creamy (blue box)

Picture taken from www.gmarket.com.sg

Desitin Creamy smells nice, can be applied and wiped off easily.

but for maximum strength, or bad case of diaper rash, use
2. Desitin Original (white/purple box)

Picture taken from happydays-shop.com

But be warned: Desitin Original's got fishy smell and more difficult to wipe/wash away.
Super effective though.