Pieces of Life Puzzles

If nothing goes wrong, Brian will be having his first dose of  the 6-in-1 vaccination this saturday. Mum will be making pao sheng drink for him to drink tomorrow night, hopefully this can reduce his chances of developing a fever after the injection. This is even more worrisome than reading up on how to sell my timeshare.

Seriously speaking, we were quite hesitant in agreeing to take up the 6-in-1 package. How can a small baby tolerate having 6 virus strains in the body?? I thought baby’s immune system is only developed after 6 months? Gosh… can Brian take it?

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It’s been sometime since I wrote down my thoughts.I had been busy with the baby till i have no time to go online nor to reply smses. No photos so far as there is no bluetooth in this computer.

Brian and I had been staying at my mum’s place since last Friday. He and myself seemed happier staying here as I know my mum’s style of handling baby better. If there are any disagreements, they can be sorted out quite openly as she is open to new and creative ideas. This is not easily done at my in laws’ as they are rather opinionated at times and refused to listen to a newbie mother like me. But i did discovered that my MIL uses a few of my tricks behind my back *wink*

Of course, Brian has to move back to be with the in laws after my maternity leave as my mum will not be around in the afternoons. Pretty sad isn’t it? But since I will be back at work then, there will be less clashes with the in laws. (I hope)

Recently, I also discovered that a provision shop at my parents’ place is selling the baby milk powder at a much cheaper price. The shop has barcode scanners like ls2208 but they lacked the NETS feature, else we could have bought the powder straight away last saturday.

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The days to bring Brian home are finally here. The allowance we are paying our in-laws only covers weekdays. For the first weekend, we were quite worried that Hubby and I couldn’t cope with him ourselves for 2 days, but thank heaven for my mum, who dropped a surprise visit with all her barangs with her.

She stayed with us for a day and two nights to help us tide over the maiden baby-at-home journey. I feel quite bad to trouble her like this as she is already quite busy running to and fro to her own mum’s place everyday. So for the next few weekends, I’ve decided to attempt to handle Brian myself.

For the past few weeks, i’ve learnt how to handle his fussiness and scream (which can be harder than writing a thesis for a PHD at times)- sometimes it’s due to gas pain and sometimes due to insomnia etc; his feeding behaviour and also how to bathe and wipe his poo-poo. All i can say is, it’s almost impossible to handle Brian all by yourself. We are also looking at insurance plans for Brian. So many different home insurance quote to digest.

His first night at my own house prove quite alright, with a few fussiness here and there..

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My mum finally got a chance to handle Brian last Sunday when we went back for Chinese New Year visit after my confinement. After trying to figure out Brian’s character through various kinds of methods to put him to nap, my mum concluded that he is a really fussy baby who can be quite restless – just like me when I was young.

Ah, of all genes , why inherit mine! I do not have that much of a patience to handle such a kid including my MIL.

Recently, the weather is pretty hot in Singapore. My MIL’s flat is really like an oven sometime. I am rather sensitive to heat so I guess Brian is feeling the same thing too. He doesn’t like to sleep in his cot nor in the sarong. So he ended up screaming or crying for attention mostly in the afternoon. Now he sleeps in air con room during the night.

What a troublesome baby. I do hope he will improve when he grows older. Don’t be as fussy as I am now… life will be miserable if things doesn’t go the way it should.

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Reading through pamphlets of vaccination packages is just like flipping through list of investment information like the gold bullion.

The total vaccination cost can total up 1k plus. Can this be considered as a form of investment? — but one with no monetary returns? Maybe we can save up on the medical fees instead since Brian will be well protected?

What a headache.

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Brian is 4.12kg now and it’s getting a bit straining to carry him in my arms now. Babies in the first 3 months tend to be very troublesome. Just as his nose is getting much better, he has begun to have some colic. He has kept us (me, hubby and in-laws) awake for 3 straight nights, and if we did not do ‘night shifts’ on alternate days, we would have become zombies. Because of this, my acne starts to break out again. Time to start some treatment for acne by doing facial and masks.

His stomach wind pain usually starts after 1pm and on worst days, it will last till the next morning. This kept him cranky the whole day. I miss those rare days where he is cheerful enough for playtime. He only sleep for 15 minutes each time before waking up and start his crying spells. The only peaceful time is when he is drinking his milk. The PD advises us to burp him after his feeds. Brian is a poor burper and most of the time, it took us an hour to burp out his wind >_<

The next big thing for him is to get vaccinated from next month. Poor baby, he has to take a total of 14 vaccines for the next year or so. It’s pretty scary at the number of vaccinations he is getting compare to us when we were young.

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