For the past two days, Qi Yu goes on milk strike. She refuse to drink powder milk as well as breast milk. Her usual quest to be nurse at night also stop! Even though I have stopped expressing milk at work, each day when i reach home after work, her first request is "Mummy, I want nen nen." But this request stopped two days ago. And ecah night before she sleep she will request for her fix as well and in the middle of night, she sometime will request for comfort nursing. But all these stops in the last two days!
She had fever on Monday and then go on strike Tuesday. She is drooling a lots, maybe she is teething again. Also because we had too much of a durian feast lately, so everyone is down. Qi Ning was also not well and mummy too.
From the strike, I think I am going to wean her off the breast permanently now. At first I thought it would be difficult to wean her off the breast because before the stike, any mention of weaning her off the breast will bring about a big fight from her. Now with the strike on, even when I offer her she would say "NO". Looks like mummy is going to have a breeze again in weaning my girl off the breast! :) But I do hope she won't goes on the milk strike for too long. Will need to ask her jiejie to persuade her to drink cow milk as she likes to follows her jiejie!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
After 30 months....
Yes, is about 30months liao, my good friend didn't visit me and yesterday she came by. It has been 30months that I have enjoyed without the monthly period pain or discomfort that goes with it. but now it has return with a vergence. Yesterday was the first day and I had bad headache, today is the second day and I am having period pain.
After so long, i sort of forget what it is to have menses, now I am feeling it all over, don't know whether should celebrate or what. Hubby said is good isn't it, is normal to have mense!
After so long, i sort of forget what it is to have menses, now I am feeling it all over, don't know whether should celebrate or what. Hubby said is good isn't it, is normal to have mense!
Monday, July 21, 2008
Two months more...
In another two months time, Qi Ning will be turning four, how time flies. My girl is a big girl now. She can do most of the self care tasks by herself now. She can change her own clothing, tie her own hair, wear her own shoe with sock, brush her own teeth and feed herself. There will be time when she would want to "manja" mummy and want mummy to feed her. I try as much as I can to encourage her to be independent. Overall, she managed all the self care task quite well.
Qi Ning is a sociable girl and she loves to invite people to come to her house for visit. She loves to play with other children who are slightly older then her. She can play badminton quite well and the other day, she was teaching a girl who is 7 year old how to serve a ball! I was having a good laugh observing how she was showing her new found friend at the play ground how to play badminton! she seems to like to be a teacher, I guess that give her a sense of control.
She loves durian, this durian season, she really get to eat lots of durian especailly this few days. I think she is like mummy, loves to eat and can really eat. So I have to always remind her not to overeat.
Two more months to her 4 year old birthday and she has been reminding mummy to buy her birthday present. Mummy has to really look around for a present for her, if not she would be disappointed. But with kids, I think whatever present given with love, would be apprecaited, so i don't have to worry about the price tag yet! :)
She is
Qi Ning is a sociable girl and she loves to invite people to come to her house for visit. She loves to play with other children who are slightly older then her. She can play badminton quite well and the other day, she was teaching a girl who is 7 year old how to serve a ball! I was having a good laugh observing how she was showing her new found friend at the play ground how to play badminton! she seems to like to be a teacher, I guess that give her a sense of control.
She loves durian, this durian season, she really get to eat lots of durian especailly this few days. I think she is like mummy, loves to eat and can really eat. So I have to always remind her not to overeat.
Two more months to her 4 year old birthday and she has been reminding mummy to buy her birthday present. Mummy has to really look around for a present for her, if not she would be disappointed. But with kids, I think whatever present given with love, would be apprecaited, so i don't have to worry about the price tag yet! :)
She is
Monday, July 14, 2008
New journey
Last week the semester at UM started and that mark the beginning of my PhD journey. I finally decided to plunge in to take the challenge. It was a stressful week to begins with as there were so many thought going thru my mind. To study or not, to teach or not, how many classes to take, what subject to take, to resign or continue working . etc , it was so stressful.
My Prof. told me to apply for tutotship in UM and offer me to teach one subject in UM. I applied for the tutorship, no news yet but I am tecahing one class. He asked me if I wnat to tecah another class, after consideration and making all the necessary arrangement I say yes. Then was told that due to some techinical limitation on the amount a part time lecturer can claim, only claim a maximum of RM9000 per semester, I am not able to take two class. Now I have to reschudule my class and everything. So upset with them for messing around with my schedule! And even though I have registered as student, I can only starts to borrow libary book one month later, how inefficient! Only consolation I have is that I get a staff parking after paying a RM20 deposit so I don't need to fight for parking space as I can park at the designated area for staffs.
There are no answer to all the questions I have but at least I am more settled now, knowing that I can only teach one class, take two subjects. Still need to change the class time with my students. They probably think that I am frickle minded but I have no choice. So wish my all the best as i goes on this new journey!
My Prof. told me to apply for tutotship in UM and offer me to teach one subject in UM. I applied for the tutorship, no news yet but I am tecahing one class. He asked me if I wnat to tecah another class, after consideration and making all the necessary arrangement I say yes. Then was told that due to some techinical limitation on the amount a part time lecturer can claim, only claim a maximum of RM9000 per semester, I am not able to take two class. Now I have to reschudule my class and everything. So upset with them for messing around with my schedule! And even though I have registered as student, I can only starts to borrow libary book one month later, how inefficient! Only consolation I have is that I get a staff parking after paying a RM20 deposit so I don't need to fight for parking space as I can park at the designated area for staffs.
There are no answer to all the questions I have but at least I am more settled now, knowing that I can only teach one class, take two subjects. Still need to change the class time with my students. They probably think that I am frickle minded but I have no choice. So wish my all the best as i goes on this new journey!
Monday, July 07, 2008
Twenty Months
Qi Yu is twenty months old today. Gosh the time just flies. She is one sweet darling to behold. At twenty months, she can sing and talk very well. But she will only sing to her family members i.e mummy, papa n jie jie. She won't sing to other poeple. still very shy and cling to mummy a lot.
Now she want to dress herself and will want to choose her own outfit. She would be very happy if she can successfully pull down her panty and sit at the potty by herself. She is toilet trained for the day time.
The growing sense of independence is getting stronger nowadays, she will exert her right by saying "this is Qi Yu" and push you away if you try to impose on her. When you ask her something and she don't want to answer, she would say "I don't know." And she know how to use the word because. She has got quite a good sense of comprehension. When ask her the who, what and why questions from the story books, she could answer quite well.
Still want to nurse to sleep and throughtout the night. This is one habit that mummy is trying to break but find it a battle.
Such joy to have her!
Now she want to dress herself and will want to choose her own outfit. She would be very happy if she can successfully pull down her panty and sit at the potty by herself. She is toilet trained for the day time.
The growing sense of independence is getting stronger nowadays, she will exert her right by saying "this is Qi Yu" and push you away if you try to impose on her. When you ask her something and she don't want to answer, she would say "I don't know." And she know how to use the word because. She has got quite a good sense of comprehension. When ask her the who, what and why questions from the story books, she could answer quite well.
Still want to nurse to sleep and throughtout the night. This is one habit that mummy is trying to break but find it a battle.
Such joy to have her!
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Milk Powder
With the recent increases in all sort of things, milk powder has also increases. Good for those of us who are breastfeeding, we saved quite a lot on milk powder. But there will be a time when breastfeding stop and we need to buy milk powder.
I breastfed Qi Ning till she was about 20months then I swiatch her to formula as I was few month into pregnancy. I am still breastfeeding Qi Yu who's gonna be 20mths soon and I am thinking of weaning her off my breast. I am tired of expressing milk when at work, mummy is getting lazy. So I was browsing through the prices of different brands of milk powder and talking to different mummy about the type of milk powder they give to their kids. Many try to give the best as claim by the advertiser. Those with all the DHA, AHA lah whatever knot being added to the formula so that the child will be cleverer by taking that formula. When I looked at the prices different between those which supposed to make the child cleverer, it is almost 3x more expensive.
For Qi Ning, when I wean her off my breast, I was fortunate to have the formula supplied to me via my SIL. So I didn't mind whatever brand as it was one of those that claim to have all the important ingredients to make the child cleverer. Later when the supply discontinue I just buy for her whatever that is cheapest on the supermarket shell. Sometime is Dumex, sometime is DutchLady.
Now that I am thinking of weaning Qi Yu, I am thinking of giving her the same milk powder that I give to Qi Ning. But then there is this nagging thought of if I have given my children the best in their growing up years in term of the kind of formula milk that I choose? I think the advertisers is feeding on this kind of fear that parents might have.
So shall I just give them the cheaper version of the milk powder or should I go for the branded milk powder which is 3x more expensive? Will they will less developed mentally just because i didn't buy them the 3x more expensive milk powder? Hopefully not! Looking at my girls at the moment they are growing up very well and are achieving their developmental milestones spot on! But being a mum, the nagging fear is still there, what if I miss giving my girls the best nutritions (aka milk powder) that they need to help their brain to develop in the early year! But I can rest a bit because I breastfed both of them for as long as I can!
I breastfed Qi Ning till she was about 20months then I swiatch her to formula as I was few month into pregnancy. I am still breastfeeding Qi Yu who's gonna be 20mths soon and I am thinking of weaning her off my breast. I am tired of expressing milk when at work, mummy is getting lazy. So I was browsing through the prices of different brands of milk powder and talking to different mummy about the type of milk powder they give to their kids. Many try to give the best as claim by the advertiser. Those with all the DHA, AHA lah whatever knot being added to the formula so that the child will be cleverer by taking that formula. When I looked at the prices different between those which supposed to make the child cleverer, it is almost 3x more expensive.
For Qi Ning, when I wean her off my breast, I was fortunate to have the formula supplied to me via my SIL. So I didn't mind whatever brand as it was one of those that claim to have all the important ingredients to make the child cleverer. Later when the supply discontinue I just buy for her whatever that is cheapest on the supermarket shell. Sometime is Dumex, sometime is DutchLady.
Now that I am thinking of weaning Qi Yu, I am thinking of giving her the same milk powder that I give to Qi Ning. But then there is this nagging thought of if I have given my children the best in their growing up years in term of the kind of formula milk that I choose? I think the advertisers is feeding on this kind of fear that parents might have.
So shall I just give them the cheaper version of the milk powder or should I go for the branded milk powder which is 3x more expensive? Will they will less developed mentally just because i didn't buy them the 3x more expensive milk powder? Hopefully not! Looking at my girls at the moment they are growing up very well and are achieving their developmental milestones spot on! But being a mum, the nagging fear is still there, what if I miss giving my girls the best nutritions (aka milk powder) that they need to help their brain to develop in the early year! But I can rest a bit because I breastfed both of them for as long as I can!
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