Yee Sinn has been very attached to me recently. She would wake up in the middle of the night, look around her and if I'm not in her line of sight, she will scream in horror. It doesn't work to get hubby to carry her to calm her down as she will scream even louder. At one moment, I am pleased that I remain the number 1 person in her life but on the other hand, it can be very tiring physically to be the only one waking up and putting her back to sleep in the wee hours in the morning. Let's hope this screaming phase will pass, though I do hope I'll remain the most important person in her life.

Yee Sinn's favourite sentence now is "Ah Lah Lah". If she sees you eating something and she wants a bite of it, she will go "Ah Lah Lah!! Ah Lah Lah!!". She will repeat the same phase IF we are too slow in feeding her her porridge. At the moment, we are refraining from putting our food into her mouth. She is currently on a strict no sodium, no sugar diet. Yes, she will be having her yucky porridge (yucky cos you have everything from veg to fish etc all mixed up in a bowl.. it can actually look quite gross.) till she turns one at least.

This is so upsetting. I haven't been feeling well for the past 2 weeks. Visited Dr C for a check up and found out that my uterus is in a mess. Sigh. She gave me 2 alternatives - either I go for a minor surgery called D&C for short, to clean it up, or just leave it there till god knows when.

After much consideration, I chose to go for the surgery this coming Thursday. Most probably I will be on MC for 1 week so I guess it'll be the beginning of HELL week tomorrow as I rush to clear of urgent work.

Oh well, I guess it's just one of the days when our body doesn't function normally as it should. Sigh.

I brought Yee Sinn out to Hort Park on Sunday. Apparently there was a baby event called "Babies Day Out" organised by Mediacorp.

After picking up our goodie bags, we had a simple picnic consisting of burgers from MacDonalds. We walked around the park a little and let Yee Sinn explore the children's playground. She was so delighted with the slide as well as the pseudo rock climbing wall. It seemed that she is quite a daring kid, often taking "calculated" risk as she climbed her way up the slope with big steps or when she slided herself down by pushing her bum to start of the slide. (It is "calculated" because she done all these with papa's help)

Seeing her so happy just made my day.

Yee Sinn has been taking her formula milk well. Over the last 2 days, we have gradually increased the proportion of formula milk to breastmilk. Just last night, we fed her with 100% formula milk during her last feed before she slept. The plus point of her drinking formula milk is she was able to sleep till 7am this morning.

We still have many packets of frozen breastmilk in our freezer. I plan to give her 1 packet a day before they expires. I think it should last at least another month before she finishes them.

Just a quick update on Yee Sinn.

She has just turned 8 months last Friday and I started to wean her off breastmilk over the weekend. Initially, I replaced 1 feed with formula milk. However, she started to throw up, not once but twice. We weren't sure if it was due to the milk, but we decided to try mixing it - 50% breastmilk, 50% formula. So far so good. Hubby said she could be a super taster and detest the smell of vanilla in her milk. We hope to increase her portion slowly after 1 week of her getting used to the new taste and smell.

I'm feeling a bit sad that I have to give up breastfeeding her. Just this morning, Yee Sinn crawled over to me and started to latch herself on straight after I finished expressing my milk. I think she misses the bonding sessions over the weekend. I felt I was a bad mother when I de-latched her and told her she is now a big girl and she has to drink from the bottle instead.

Am really feeling a bit lousy because of this. *Sigh*

Last Friday was Edison's wedding. A couple of us gathered together to help out on his big day. So on Thursday night, I went over to his place to decorate his function room. (oh yah, my dear friend Jaime went over to his place early in the morning to help him to clean up his den. Typical man who leaves things to last minute. Tsk! tsk!) As usual, we loaded him with tons and tons of advice and a whole list of do's and don'ts.... One of which was on his degree of generosity. As many old folks will say, if it rains on the couple's wedding day, most probably it has something to do with his generosity. And RAINED it did! It poured for almost the entire day, flooding the ground floor of where the bride's stayed. Guess the old wives' tale was pretty accurate....*grin*

Here are some pictures to share, especially of the decoration of the room which we put in much effort.

This is a group photos of all of Edison's "Brothers" who has helped him to put together his wedding. From left to right, we have Wee Keng, Jaime, Wei Thai, Edison, ME and Angus.

Look at the rain... and this drizzle was only the beginning. It began to pour shortly after and it has been reported that the heavy rain caused flood and massive jams throughout Singapore!!

We stayed up till 10 plus, almost 11pm the night before to arrange the tables and chairs, as well as to manually tie up the decoration ourselves. We used a mixture of fake flowers as well as real roses and yellow pheonix for the entire room.

Resignation to Breast Feeding

I have been thinking about this for quite a long time. Have also had numerous discussions with hubby over the issue of introducing formula milk to Yee Sinn. We have decided to continue giving her breastmilk till end of the week. After which we will slowly supplement with formula milk. By then, she'll be exactly 8 months old. I guess it is a bittersweet decision to stop breastfeeding my little girl. I'll be able to have more time to myself and give my body a break before number 2 comes along. But I'm sure I'll miss the close bonding I have with my girl. It is something beautiful that only mother and child can experience. I'm also feeling kind of sad to say goodbye to my trusty medela breastpumps and my pumping khakis at work too....