Mothering Corner

 When my boy was a baby, he would regurgitate his milk when we were traveling in a car. He’s buckled up in infant car seat, but the movement of the car made him felt sick sometimes, and he would vomited his feed. I dared not nursed him in the car when we were moving as I knew he couldn’t take.

The time when we brought our kids for their first plane ride, we were late for our flight and hubby was speeding very fast. My boy who was seated in his car seat placed in the front couldn’t take the motion and vomited twice in the car! It was a lot of cleaning up for me, and we couldn’t stop as hubby was rushing for the plane.

Needless to say, we missed the flight but we bought the tickets for the next flight. I was worried that he would be sick on the plane but he didn’t. I guessed he had vomited everything out and was quite tired and sleepy only.

With a kid who’s so prone to motion sickness, I dare not bring him for cruises yet. I’m not sure if how bad his sea sick will be, so I better wait a few more years before our family’s first cruise.

 My girl has another allergy attack from dust mite again. Her paediatrician suggested that I get myself a bottle of anti dust mite spray from the pharmacy and spray on all the beds, sofas, pillows, and even hubby’s office furniture because my girl goes there occasionally.

With a baby with sensitive skin, I admit that we have to be more cautious when taking care of her. I tend to worry more sometimes when I see her touching the floor mat, biting the edge of the cushions or just simply having fun on her cousin’s bed. I try not to be over protective but when there is an allergy attack, I blame myself for not doing good enough.

MIL said I was too choosy with food when I was pregnant with my kids, so my kids are super sensitive and have intolerance or allergy. But I don’t believe it. It’s inherited anyway, so maybe it’s in my genes.

Gee, I better make sure the house is as clean as possible as I don’t wish her to have another allergy again.

Every one around me knows that I’m a breastfeeding fanatics. If I can, I would like to tell the world about the goodness of breastfeeding, and it’s a lost to your baby if you choose not to breastfeed.

One day, I came across a car with a bumper sticker saying that “Not come this near, I’m by baby’s food source”. I was so surprised to see the sticker and I thought it was cool! Too bad I didn’t know where she got in from, but I noticed that she was wearing a nurse uniform. So, maybe she’s working at the hospital, and they are free custom labels like that.

If we are get more customized stickers to promote breastfeeding, I think it will help to increase the public awareness of the goodness of breastfeeding, and more babies and mothers will benefit from it.

My PC is infected with adware and Vundu virus. I have tried various spyware softwares, and even paid for one but they still can’t remove the virus from my PC. Thus, the only solution is to reformat the PC, which I haven’t done.

My 29 months old boy likes to “read” their blog by looking at the pictures and recalling the events. But 2 days ago, I found out that all the Google Adsense ads of the sites or blogs I read, including mine will show some seductive pictures from a dating site.

It bothered me a lot as my boy saw the sexy naked lady and asked me why was she on his blog? Frankly, I was speechless for a while as I couldn’t get an answer for him. Then hubby asked him for a quick shower as he’s preparing to go to school. Since that morning, I don’t let my kids see their blogs, not until the virus is removed.

My boy likes to use my PC to visit sites like Barney and Sesame Street. I blocked all the pop ups, but I still got funny virus like this. Hubby’s not using my PC much and I don’t visit porn site, so it’s really bad luck to have such virus infected my PC.

Thus, once I’ve reformat my PC and install my laptop, I will definitely install spyware software to prevent this from happening again. It’s really a nuisance to me now!

I’m blessed with 2 beautiful kids, and some of my friends joked that I’m a rabbit because I can easily get pregnant.

But not every couple is as lucky as we do. I have seen my aunties who are going through the disappointment of not being able to have their own babies. They gave up finally and tried to live as couples only, but deep on inside, I know they still yearned for kids, but they are in their forties now, so it’s a bit impossible.

If you are having problems conceiving, get yourself and your partner examined by doctors to rule out any infertility problems. But you can also consider in vitro fertilization if you really want to have babies. It maybe expensive, but if the successful rate is high, it’s worth a try. There are lots of healthily IVF babies born to the world over the years and it’s getting more common nowadays.

But there is also another option —- adoption. One of my Indian friend has just got a baby girl adopted. So, the choice is yours.

My little girl is 13 months today. I’ve “graduated” from preparing baby food as she knows how to take rice with dishes, cut in tiny pieces. So, my maid and I are free from baby food cooking because MIL will be cooking for all of us, there’s no difference in the food my girl is taking from the other family members now. However, I still prepare food for my kids on Sunday as MIL will take a day off her kitchen.

Both my kids don’t really fancy bottled baby food or baby cereal, if not, I would have a bliss. They only like home cooked meals. Luckily, it’s not hard to prepare baby food as I use the slow cooker. All I need to do was just prepare potatoes, carrots, pumpkins, baby rice, fish, meat, anchovies, and etc. Not all of them at the same time, but the combinations each day. I only cook once, and only heat up the porridge at dinner. My maid helped me with the cooking too, but I had to do all the shopping and tell her what to cook for the next day.

But now, the slow cooker has been abandoned for 1 month. I may ask my maid to keep it in the storeroom as no one is using it. Gee….I miss seeing my kids trying out baby food, even if they would it out once in a while, but come to think of it, they were so cute doing that.

My working friends told me that they envy that I can stay at home, relaxing myself, just don nothing by taking care of my kids. But what most working mums don’t realized is SAHM doesn’t have annual or sick leaves. No matter what happen, we have duties or chores to be accomplished every day!

I told hubby that when the kids are grown up, I need to take a break away. Don’t get me wrong, I love taking care of my kids, but I realized that I have been sleep deprived for so long, and I have not been resting well. Whenever I’m with them, I can never seems to get myself rested as there are so many things to do! I told hubby that we should get another honeymoon at one of the Rocky Point house rentals and get back together as a couple and spend some time together. All I want is just a nice place and sandy beaches. We don’t have to go visiting around because my main purpose is for taking a break, a very relaxing one.

However, I wonder when will this be able to take place. LOL! My kids are still very young, and mommy is the first and last person they look for everything morning and night.

This is a parenting blog which I meant for sharing my breastfeeding and mothering views. But this morning, when I log on my blogs, I was something pretty annoying. My google ad was showing a dating site, which is ok to me normally. But the picture of the dating site was showing a sexy girl in lingerie, when a seducing look.

I was so annoyed by it! In fact, all my blogs were having their ads, but in different version. I quickly log on to adsense and see if I can do any changes about it, but I can’t, unless I remove the ads.

So, don’t you get annoyed by the ads which are not relevant to your blogs?

I hope it pays well, if not, I am double annoyed!

Updated: I’ve found the reason behind this, my PC got virus again.

When I heard about this, I was very annoyed. A stupid friend of mine was trying to win over her boyfriend and lied to him that she’s pregnant. Ok, I’m not that close to her, if not, I would scold her like hell to wake her up!

But the guy’s parents were not being fooled by her, and demanded DNA test to be done to proof that she is really carrying their grandchild. But how can her go for amniocentesis test? She’s not even pregnant!

See, I really pissed off by some irresponsible woman who use baby as a threat. A baby should be welcome to the world by her parents willingly. If the father refused to accept her, do you still think you want that guy as a father? Sometimes, when I see single mothers, I don’t feel sorry or look down on them. Instead, I admire their courage to bring up their babies despite how hard it is to juggle for financial stability and their mothering duties. These single mothers are great!

So, don’t use baby as a threat to hook a guy, it’s just plainly stupid.

When I was at the hospital the other day, bring my baby for a check up, I was chatting with a mother with a 5-day-old-exclusive-breastfed baby. He’s having newborn jaundice and was about the be admitted for photo therapy. She seemed worried as even if he’s her 3rd baby, he’s the only one with jaundice. The other elder kids who are formula fed didn’t have this problem.

Both my kids were exclusively breastfed, and they had jaundice too. Seems like it’s very common for exclusive breastfed babies to have jaundice, and some doctors will advice to stop breastfeeding if you baby is diagnosed with jaundice. However, that is not true. Feeding formula will not prevent baby from having jaundice. Jaundice is caused by bilirubin in the bloodstream of baby, due to his immature liver of elevating bilirubin. This causes the yellow discoloration of the baby’s skin. Most of the time, jaundice is harmless, but there are certain cases where jaundice can be fatal, and it’s best to bring the newborn baby for checking up 3 – 5 days after delivery.

My elder boy was hospitalized because his level of bilirudin was very high. Hubby and I spent the night with him at the hospital, and I breastfed him exclusively as breastmilk has been claimed in speeding up the disposition of bilirudin. Thus, breastfeeding helps jaundice baby to recover faster, so if you doctor asks you to stop breastfeeding your newborn with jaundice, get consultation from paediatrician from baby friendly initiated hospital, or government hospital. Sadly, not all doctors support breastfeeding in our country.

My boy was not being probably treated with photo therapy as his daddy was concerned with his eyes being exposed to the light, and was adjusting the eye pads all night long. He got frustrated as his was disturbed in his sleep and was crying all night long. He wanted to be nursed to sleep when being placed under the light! No doubt, his reading was still high the next day, but his paediatrician let us bring him home as he was active and had a good appetite. Bear in mind that if a newborn baby seems to be sleepy most of the time, you better wake him up for nursing as most newborns with jaundice are pretty sleepy. Frequent nursing will help him to eliminate the bilirudin faster, so lightly wake him up for feeding, except midnights.

But we brought my boy for checking up on weekly basis, and his bilirudin level dropped when he’s about fullmoon. It’s quite prolong, but doctor confirmed that it’s only breastmilk jaundice, and it’s harmless. As for my second baby, she was not being hospitalized, and just being brought for checking up on weekly basis.

Newborn jaundice is quite scary to first time parents, but your doctor will be able to help you with this, and if you read up more about it, you will gain a better insight of what physical jaundice is about and being less worried.