Noreen 3rd vaccination

Noreens 3rd vaccination visit, she weight 6.2kgs and 61cm long. She is such a clever girl today, Dr Margaret inject her and she just gave a shocking look with her big eyes and didnt even cry.

I took back the box to reconfirm and yes this is the new 5 in 1 vaccine without mercury.

Noreen is now 3 Months old

White Flags

In any battle they will come a winner, and the loser will raise the flag of surrender. Most time before the actual confrontation began a statistic will be drawn up. We the parents has so much more experience in life and ammunition. What has the baby got that we never anticipate a defeat?

But the flags were raised by us, we have been defeated by a tiny 3 months old baby doublefacepalm.jpg

Baby Hammock - Sarong

The price of surrender, bought Noreen a baby Hammock, and it kinda work for 2 hours maximum, after that she would want her mama to pretend to be human sarong so she can enjoy her nap, what a notty girl.

Water Baby

Notty girl playing water, she will enjoy her warm bath every morning, and a rub down in the evening.
this is her mood after her bath, she will be in such good mood when she is clean and comfortable.

In her 3rd month, Noreen I think is a left handed, she start having control of her finger beginning with her left hand, she would raise her hand and starred at her fist the whole day.

She would now take her anmum 90 ml at night, the success rate is around 50:50. Duno what kinda baby is this, doesnt sleep in the day, refuse her chupee (pacifier), refuse bottle. Likes watching TV at 2 months old.

The other day I was carrying her and she would look at the TV, I call her name and as usual she would just pretend not to hear anything, then I off the TV sound thinking it was distracting her and she show pouting lips and started crying. I quickly on back the sound and she is ok.

Playful girl

We start training Noreen to feed on bottles from mommies expressed milk but notty girl refuse, she will spit out the milk coming from the bottle. So no choice we try anmum milk, at first she reject but after trying few days now if we're lucky she will take about 60ml. So we feed her twice a day on formula and the rest of the day on breastmilk.

We plan to stop breastfeeding by next month and see how it goes, Noreen is such a "tiuman".

Now when she is in a good mood especially morning hours, she likes to listen and watch your lips when you speak to her, then she will try to copy what you're saying, her words would be "ang gooo" or "ahhh" very loudly.

Noreen is 2 months old

Baby dreaming in her sleep

Yesterday Noreen went for check up, she is now 5.26kgs and had her 5in1 injection and Doc says she most probably will have a high temperature. We had expected this and came prepared. We gave her liquid paracetamol from Doc at nite around 8pm before the fever starts. She cried a bit at nite more than usual from her mild fever.

This morning I measured her temp its 37.4ºC, so we gave her another 1.5ml. I've just sms Lita and she's doing ok.

Noreen's 60days progress:

Noreen had learn to carry her head when in the prone position but had yet learn how to crawl. We will put her in this position 15 minutes a day before her morning bath to play. At first she tried to move about few inches but without lifting her head and her face was scratching on the playmat. She would cry from the discomfort. It sadden our heart and we would quickly carry her and pacify her. Shows how little tolerance we had and this I think is poor coaching. But we believe we have all the time in the world.

In the morning when she is more alert I would carry her and talk to her, I can see she stare at me particularly my mouth to see how I talk and she would copy me and blabber. When I smile she would copy and smile back at me staring cheekily from sideways.

When she is awake in the morning around 6am she would stare at the ceiling and start blabbering loudly playing and talking to herself or perhaps talking to her little guardian angel. This is daily routine I've learn to sleep through it, I've even graduated from sleeping through her midnight cries leaving Lita to attend to her LOL.

Her "tiumaness" are getting worse, she would demand to be carried to sleep, I've talked to Lita about how to solve this problem, and we've both came to a conclusion that perhaps this will go on a maximum of 2 years. After this she would grow up and we would never get her back as a toddler. We will continue to manja her and enjoy the moment pacifying her and treasure every minute of our time taking care of noreen when she is still a baby.

Noreen is the gem in our life and it changes us so much, our thoughts and plan now put her ahead of everything else. This is growing up experience for us too and Noreen showed this to us. We learn from our baby as much as our baby learn from us.

31 Aug Lita and Noreen

Books that help

I'll do a little review on books that had help us out here. Hopefully this will help out first time parents.

The first book we bought "What to expect when you're expecting" by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel.

This book is a must have for first time pregnancy mom and dad. It explained everything in such detail its like your temporary pregnancy bible. We refer to this book almost every other day. It is very helpful and offer very useful advice, easy to read and not boring as you can skip around from month to month.

A must have pregnancy bible.

The 2nd book is "How smart is your baby" by Glenn Doman and Janet Doman.

This book is more of a scientific study and experiment. It gives you insight of how far we've develop on understanding of baby and toddlers. How useful is this book in your real life, I would say very useful however certain experiment like loud clapping with 2 blocks of wood to test your baby's startle reflexes I think can only be done with mat sallehs babies. If you're to do this on asian babies they would shit green poo for the whole weekend and you've to feed your baby with bo ying dan LOL! Some practicals are really over the wall but generally the Domans book and their discovery I find very important if you're the coaching parent typed.

They're some very useful research that will help you understand your babies like how important we need to follows natures path like the most important first step your baby need to make creeping and crawling. This will greatly enhanced their brain development. She encourage early brain development and setting your baby free.

This book is recommended if you're freaking academic and coaching type, but I'm just 50% here and there. Will not be too critical in this area, maybe I'm not the type who expect too much from my daughter. Maybe again I'm just being afraid over expecting may back fired on me.
The 3rd book we bought is "Raise a smarter child by kindergarten" by David Perlmutter.

This book is very interesting, its almost like a fiction novel that gets you chasing the pages. Its easy to read and understand. The book is somewhat similar to the above Doman's book but in a more practical adaptable in real life way. I guess if you follow Davids way you'll still end up with a smarter babies, but you get a more jovial baby and parents.

Its a more complete book about development of brain to other factors like environment toxin that somewhat affect our babies life. eg vaccine shots are tainted by mercury, and seafood we eat are also stain with mercury. Sometimes you get depressed reading too much of his studies to the point you feel like moving back to the jungle.

I find this book very very good and highly recommended.
The 4th book is "New babycare" by Dr. Merriam Stoppard.

This is practical baby care book for noob first time parents, but unfortunately many of the teaching will contradict with your confinement lady and your mother in laws. A clashing of the East and the West. You'll just have to compromise somewhere in between.

This book is not really needed if you've a confinement lady, but still it will give you an early understand of what parenting is about before all hell breaks loose. Buy the book and read before the baby comes.

Noreen's DVD

Front DVD cover

Back DVD cover

It was a good thing that we've recorded as much as we can in the beginning till now, I've compiled most of the useful and important stuff into a DVD and made a nice cover. So we decide to make this our vol. 1 collection and hope to continue doing so for her. Papa and mama hope you will cherish these memories later on in life.

We love you baby.

Probiotix Biolife

Expensive stuff

Mui Jie advised us to use this product Probiotix Biolife reuteri drops, according to her baby whom are fed this the first month will have better digestion, reducing stomach sensitivity and also reduce colic problem later on. Its quite expensive and rather difficult to find. I went to 6 pharmacy and non of them carry this product including Guardian, Caring and watson.

Finally found a pharmacy at Pudu, its Holistic Pharmacy opp Pudu Plaza, but need to be special order. Took 5 days for them to bring in the product and a very very tiny bottle cost us RM110 (wow). But lucky we only need to give Noreen 1 bottle, next time we will just replace with vitagen (hehehe).

Noreen finished her Probiotix last week, and we've no idea how much it help as she is our fisrt baby and nothing else to compared to, hopefully it does booast her immune system and digestion.

Mui Jie Coconut herbal chicken soup

Mui Jie, Noreen and Lita

Mui Jie special recipe coconut chicken herbal soup

Our confinement lady, Mui jie came visit us again, this time she made coconut chicken herbal soup for lita, again it look so delicious, and with a taste to back it up. We chatted till quite late both of us bombarding her with question on what to do next with Noreen, when we can remove her boxing?, how to weaned her from breast milk to powdered milk?, how to prepare powdered milk? (gosh how amature we both are (facepalm)hahaha).

We told her Noreen is very "tiuman" refusing to sleep on her bouncinet or playpen, she wants to be carry all day long. Mui Jie says we need to train her, must have a harden heart to ignore her when she cry. Well I duno how harden we can be, Noreen is so manja when she cry.

Poh Poh Says Noreen look like notty girl

Litas mom says Noreen look so notty, hahaha. Yea, she is really a "tiuman". Update some notty girls pic.