Baby Nigel's Stuff - Lotions & more..

Pureen Liquid Cleanser and Pigeon Laundry Detergent. All Not Made in Chine. I don't dare to get anything that is Made in China or Anything from Johnson and Johnson..

Mustela 2 in 1 baby bath and shampoo, Made in France. Soap-Free. From Watson at $21.80.

From Palmers, got them at a good discount from Baby Fair.
Safety First Nail Clippers from Kidzloft at 50% off

Baby Nigel's Stuff - Modern Necessities. Are they ??

Gotten a new electric flask from Isetan Member sale at $129. My current one do not have the function to keep water at a lower temperature for Formula.

Lindam Sterilizer from Taka baby fair $79. I had $50 taka voc so end up paying only $29. I didn't wan to get one in the 1st place. Just use the old method of dumping everything into a big pot of boiling water. But Frm Joo's advice, since I'm breastfeeding and pumping, it will be easier to get one.

4 in 1 Cadi Themometer from Expo Baby Fair $78.

Avent Warmer $54. Got it from Kiddy Palace sale. Decided to get a warmer in the end as it will be easier for my blur hubby.

Baby Nigel's Stuff - HydroCleaner

Our New Vacuum Cleaner aka HydroCleaner. Got this mainly for Nigel. Able to clear out Dust Mites. Shawn and I have asthma problems. We are afraid that Nigel Might have it too. So decided to get something to at least reduce his problem. Pretty useful, can clean air-con, curtains, pillows, soft toys. Able to disinfect as it's liquid base, can drip a few drops of disinfectant in.

Baby Nigel's Stuff - Diapers and more..

Cloth Nappies and Liners from Taka. FOC cos of Taka Voc, courtesy of Samsung !!

Portable Diapers Changing Wallet from Kidzloft. 50% off, can't remember the price actually.

Diapers, trying out Mamapoko 1st.

My Doggies aka Nigel's Future Play Buddies !

My First Doggie. Xuan Xuan. Already 8 years old. Female Shih Tzu. Very Very Vain. Thinks that she's a cat actually and behave like one. She's very calm, but will be really fierce if other doggies threathen her no matter how big the other dog is. Alpha Female! Hates newspaper man, fear of thunder.



Shawn's doggie. Xiang Xiang. A notti boy. Barks at everyone ! Sighz. Got him when he was 6 mths from a pet shop who is going to close down. Poor Doggie. Was very very thin. 6 years old.



Teddy and Sugar. Kids of Honey and Xiang. Very playful and cute ! Teddy talks actually. He can say Hello! and Food !! They are with my father in law now as they love to jump on me. So my in laws are afraid they might hurt me.

Sleepy Doggie !

My Sleepy Xuan. Hahaha..

Contractions Contractions Contractions

26th March, Hot Hot Hot !

Started to have contractions at 7.00pm. Around 8 to 10 mins apart. Sighz.. Took one dosage of my usual medicine and tried to take a short nap. Woke up feeling worst. My hubby have to go to his Dad's place. So I was alone at home with my Iswati. Decided to take the fast release pills instead. Contractions slow down after that. But I started vomiting alot ! Sobs. Ate Supper and vomited again. Sobs Sobs... Tummy feel sore now. Hope Nigel is okay. Wondering how I'm going to tahan another 19 days to 36 weeks. I have been having bad reactions to my medicines now. Been feeling breathless after taking them and been vomiting a bit too. Sighz..

Baby Nigel's Stuff - Bottles Galore (",)

Lindam Bottle for easy feeding, $9 from warehouse sale. For my inexperienced Hubby to use !

Best Bottles In the whole world ! In my hubby and mine Opinion anyway. Dr Browns' BPA free bottles with anti colic function and lots other stuff. Not sold in Singapore at all, only available in USA and Canada. Import all the way from USA.

Cost: one arm ad one leg ! Hahaha ...

6x4oz standard neck

2x 3.5oz Glass bottles standard

3x 8oz wide neck

3x 8oz Standard

Drying rack, of cos it's BPA free !!

Dr Browns' older series, Same function except not BPA free. From Baby Fair at Expo $106.
4 x 2oz bottles
3 x 4oz wide neck, Given 2 to Ting for little Kyan.
My Hubby doesn't want to use anything tat's not BPA free for Nigel



Lots of Tollyjoy and other from warehouse sale. Given all to Ting.

Baby Nigel's Stuff - Or Rather Mummy Cow's Milking Thingy aka Breast Pumps

From Tollyjoy Warehouse Sale, Manual Breast Pump and Battery Operated Pump.

From Expo Baby Sale, Ameda Dual Electric Cum Battery Operated Pump $399. With FOC adaptor and handsfree set.

I'm very KS hor. Manual for Just in case, blackout and no battery. Hehe.. Battery operated to bring to work as the Ameda's motor is pretty big to put in the bag.

BB Nigel is 33 weeks old ! Labour signs ??

24th March, Tues RaIn RaIn

Been raining a lot these few days. I hope my confinement month will be nice and cold too. Imagine not being able to wash ur hair for 2 weeks plus if weather is Hot and Humid ! My BB Nigel is 33 weeks old today. Only 7 more days to 34 weeks. And 21 days to 36 weeks. Seems pretty long to 36 weeks...

My cervix is feeling swollen and tender. The sides are aching too. Nigel's movement has slowed down since he has no room to move around. His hiccups is getting more frequent too. My poor BB. His head seems lower too. Cos everytime he hiccups I can feel it on my lower butt too. I hope I'm not going into labour anytime soon. I hope to deliver after 36 weeks.

My sisters and I made chocolate muffins today. 33 weeks Celebration for little Nigel in a way. Pretty nice for 1st timers. A little too dense, i think we added too little baking powder. We will have another round next week. This time my cousin Dee will be joining us too.

Baby Nigel's Stuff - Little Duckies

Hanging Duckie thingy from Ikea at Nigel's walk in cupboard.

Rubber Duckie bathing toy cum themometer from Kidzloft. 50% off $3.45

Baby Nigel's Stuff - Rocking chair and etc

The blue chair is a rocking chair and the white colour is a bathing chair for Nigel. Got it from Singtel Online Flea market. Got them cheap cheap.

I got this 2nd hand feeding chair FOC from the lovely lady who sold me the rocking chair.

Baby Nigel's Stuff - Play Mat

Cutie Playmat from Isetan Sales $39.90. Very cute hor. Can't wait for Nigel to start playing with it. Can be made into normal baby gym, when he's older can be converted into a tunnel !

Baby Nigel's Stuff - Beddy

Comforter Set from Kidzloft Sales. 50% off $49.90. Very Very Comfy. Comes with a comforter set, mattress cover and a protector.

I have gotten a Baby Cot, FOC from my lovely Cousin Ruoyi. Haven't fix it up yet.

First Years Portable Beddy from OG sale $74 after discount. Loving it. Very useful since Nigel will be traveling quite a lot. Also can be place in between Moi and Shawn when we sleep.

Baby Nigel's Stuff - Pacifiers Galore !

From Tolljoy Warehouse Sales: 2 Pacifiers and a Pacifiers Soother. Got them Cheap Cheap.
Went to NUH pharmacy, gotten Nuby Pacifiers this cute green one with some Natural Flex thingy. Not Cheap !
From Expo Baby Fair, Elmo Baby Soother at $3 only.
From Vonjoy, Leopard design Soother. Real Stylish
From Isetan Sales, NUK Pacifier for $9++. Shawn is crazy over anti-colic stuff ever since his fren's little Chloe gotten colic twice over.

Baby Nigel's Stuff - Cross Stitch

A Nice Cross Stitch Done by Nigel's Auntie Pam.

Quoted from Her " i would love to stitch all of my blessings into this gift to my nephew ... but, it will take me another year! so, my heartfelt wishes for nigel is to grow up healthy, strong-willed, filial (to us all!) and most importantly, someone of integrity! *MUAAAAAAAHZ!*"

Horror of Horrors !! Stretch Marks !

Scary right !! My horrible stretch marks. Just taken at 32 weeks, 4 days. Wonder will it get any worst. Something tat i will definitely show Nigel when he's older. Beside the ugliness of it, it's not really bothering me. Using Palmer stretch mark cream to reduce the slight itchiness. I do not possess any hope of it getting better. Seems to be getting worst instead actually. Just found one new one at the top of my belly button. Sighz. Should get Nigel to pay for laser treatment when he's older !

Fish Spa (",)

22nd March, RaIn RaIn

My Hubby gotten me a new Mobile phone with GPS, Motorola A3100. I love Motorola. Finally they have a new model. Actually it's more for himself, cos he has problem remembering routes. So he needs a phone with GPS.

The first place he brought me is QianHu for a nice Fish Spa. It's relaxing but really tickles !! Nigel seems to enjoy it. Kicking me all the time. hehe.. There is 3 fish pond. 2 with small fishes, one with big fishes. We tried the small fish 1st. Somehow most fishes are attracted to Shawn. I have to sit really close to him before they come near me. We decided to try the big ones after a while. It's really scary actually cos one big herd came after moi !! I dip for a while and gave up! We decided to come again after my next appt on the 30th.

Lotsa of Little Fishes at Shawn's feet

Only a few fishes at mine.. SoBs

Lotsa of Big Fishes !! Scary !!

Ting's Little Prince !

17th March 2009 will always be a special day for my best buddy, Ting.

It marks the birth of her newborn son, Kayian and her new chapter of life into Motherhood. Her pregnancy was a long and tedious road. Now it has finally reached the end and a whole new journey begins. I wish her all the best, and may this new road be fill with joy !!

Nigel's 32 weeks landmark !!

18th March, SuNnY DaY

Today is Nigel's 32 weeks appointment or rather mine. He's 32 weeks and 1 days old today. Long wait as usual at the clinic. It's been a long long 11 weeks since I had any ultrasound done. I was pretty panicky for the past 11 weeks as I'm not sure whether my Little Boy is doing well. Shawn and I was pretty anxious. His not so little head is 8cm by 10cm ! I was wondering how am I going to deliver him !! At most my cervix will open to 10 cm !! Oh my... Maybe I should consider C-Section.. His weight is at 1.9++Kg. Wow ! Average weight is actually 1.7kg. I'm glad to know at he's doing well. All the durians I have eaten is not for nothing!!

Next appointment will be at 30/03. After that Prof Mary will be on one week holiday. I hope nothing happens within this one week !!

Coming of Ting's Little Prince....My Lost Baby ..

17th March, Tues, RaIn RaIn RaIn

Today's the D Day for Ting. She's going to be induce today. Her little Prince is not growing well, only 2.4kg at 38 weeks. So Dr Heng recommend induction. I really envy her, can see her little stranger today. I'm still waiting. Only 32 weeks today. Have to tahan another 2 weeks at least for his sake, hopefully 5 weeks if possible. Ting asked me why will I'm so excited instead of nervous during labour. Well.. I really can't wait to bring Little Nigel to this BiG BiG WorlD, to see My little Stranger, to know everything is ok and to end this endless worrying over everything !!

But all this reminded me of my little lost baby. If everything had went as plan, I will be waiting for his birth or maybe even have delivered him already and holding him in my arms. His EDD was to be the same as Ting's Little Princey. Sighz. I cried a lot yesterday (till I vomit out all the ice cream I ate). Still crying now actually.. At the risk of sounding a little creepy, we chinese believe tat the soul of a child will not be attached to the fetus till 6 mths. So Shawn kept telling me not to be sad when I lost my baby. He believe he will be back. And he did, 6 weeks later.. My Little Nigel. So Shawn and I believe Little Nigel is one and the same. I believe it too. But somehow, I still cannot help feeling sad. Now, all I hope is that Nigel will be safe and sound.
(P.S. Why all the he and him.. cos I always have a feeling tat my lost baby is a boy, I also same the same feeling when I have Nigel)

Nigel's playtime

14th March, Sat, RaIn, RaIn

Little Nigel is so active today !! He's up the whole night and day. I manage to fall asleep finally at 4am. But woke up again at 7am. I was so bored, I change the whole outlook of my blog.

My tummy was so crampy, no change even after medication. Nigel will fall asleep for at most half an hour and will be awake again. Thru the whole pregnancy, he's the most active today. I wonder will he be so active from now on?? Plus his foot was in between my left ribs. My lower left ribs really aches. He has taken a liking to my left side of tum tum. So my left side is pretty sore with him moving around there. I'm so tired that I took a one hour nap at 4pm and 8pm. But woke up feeling really giddy.

But even with all the discomfort and pain, it was really worth it. It really warm me to feel his movement, to know he is alright. Plus he will actually play with me. How does he do that? Well, I talk to him and he kick or just touch my tum tum. Plus he always want me to pat his back back. Poor Nigel has hiccups too. He has hiccups at least once a day and will last pretty long, about 15 mins. My heart really ache when he hiccups, I can feel his frustration. Poor Boy...

31 weeks and in NUH (AgAin)

10th March, Quite SuNnY

Little Nigel is 31 weeks Today. Another 6 weeks to go! Will I make it? I hope so. Nigel is very cute now. He will rest his back against my tummy. I will then pat pat him. He will actually sleep well after that and thru the night. Sometimes I got tired of patting, he will actually get angry and kick me !! Or if i tickle him instead, he will also kick kick me. So cute ! I think I'm spoiling him. I think after he's born, he would want to be pat pat then he will orr orr.

Had bad cramps today. Definitely not contractions as the cramps is always there. But sometimes the pain is pretty bad. I called the Clinic. Spoke to Rosalind. Prof Mary Rauff advice to lay on the bed as there is no much medications she can actually give me and to call back if it get worst. It did get worst. At 2pm, I called again. Rosalind told me to go straight to ER. I wonder why can't I just go to the clinic to check. I told her it's not contractions just cramps. But she says Prof Mary insist. So off Shawn and I went. As expected, I didn't dilate. Water bag was not broken. But I told the doctor on duty that I had clear liquid discharge for 3 days already. But the doctor on duty didn't check for leakage.. Sighz.. I was suspected to have gastric flu so they gave me injections for cramps and vomiting. Shawn was pretty pissed off actually. It would have been easy to just see Prof Mary. I got discharge at 530pm. I think the next time I have cramps I will just lay down and try to endure. Sighz.. Govt hospital service is really bad. Shawn was ask to go to pharmacy to collect my medicine. He got pissed off and scolded the nurse. Cos he thinks wat if I came in alone. Do I have to go down by myself to collect? He feel it's stupid. Having a Senior Consultant as my doctor really has pros and cons. The Cons is that she's too busy to give me attention, and will only come down when there is really an emergency. I think my next pregnancy, if all is well, I will go back to Dr Watt at Raffles hospital. The service at Raffles is a lot better and I'm paying the same price actually.

11 years and even more to go ...

3rd March, RainY

Today is a Special DaY for Shawn, Nigel and Moi. Shawn and Moi's 11 yrs anniversary ! Time flies. Can't really believe that Shawn and I have been together for 11 years. And may there to even more years to celebrate !!

The BiG 3 ! But A sad sad week...

3rd March, Rain Rain and Rain...

Finally ! Nigel is 30 weeks old. A big SiGh of Relief ! If he decide to come out into this BiG BiG world now, at least I'm not so worried. In Fact, I'm between him coming out early and staying inside. Why is that so you may ask, "staying longer inside is better right". Well.. I'm regular on Singapore Motherhood forum, recently there is a case where a 29 week baby died. The poor mother didn't do any post mortum as she do not want the body of her poor baby to be cut up. But Doctor thinks the most likely cause of death is due to twisted umblical cord. The poor baby died due to lack of oxygen. Then last week, my fren's baby also died, at about 29 weeks. Most likely same reason. My fren didn't want me to know. But I digged it up from my hubby cos i suspect something was wrong. Mother's instinct I tink. Shawn was tearing when he told me. It's so sad. It's just 2 weeks ago when he sent me his baby's 4d Picture. Looked so much like Him. Sighz, I don't know wat to say to him also. And it's the 2nd one that he lost too. Now Shawn and I have become parniod. If Nigel didn't move for 2 hours, we will panic actually. But luckily, it's easy to coax him to move as he's easily irritated. Just shake my tum tum.. I really hope Nigel will be fine. But somehow I can't shake this bad feeling... I hope I'm just over-reacting.