I must learn how to switch off from my work once I reached home. The happiest thing on earth is to see my smiling girl when I open my gate 😊

Although I can’t bear to leave my girl to return back to work, I think I still prefer to work if you ask me. I just can’t do the same routine baby stuff the whole day. I need social life, some work to keep my brain active, lunch gossips with my colleague and so forth. I just don’t have the housewife calibre. Having a balanced life with career and family makes me happy and fulfilling 😊

Anyone’s with me?

What I do after work everyday

✔️Pack ifc bag for next day
✔️Check teacher’s comments in her daily log book for what activity was done, last feed, last diaper change
✔️Eat dinner
✔️Remove my makeup
✔️Clean her up
✔️Feed her
✔️Change diaper
✔️Bath myself
✔️Wash milk bottle
✔️Fold her clothes
✔️Plan what to wear tmr, take clothes out from closet
✔️Next feed
✔️Sometimes I pump
✔️Pat her to sleep

Yah… 真的时间不够用。The above are done in sequence… any mum can enlighten if you have better way to manage your time after you reach home from work?

It will be good if I can squeeze in pockets of tv or social media time 😇 By the time I finish all of the above, its already 11pm 😫 I will be dead tired to expose my eyes to any screens le. Ever since I have a baby, insomnia is never in my dictionary. I used to take 15 mins to fall asleep, but these days prob 20 secs? haha

Then I have this burning question to ask fellow mummies.

How you all even have the energy to fulfil your “wife’s duty” at night upon husband’s request when you are already exhausted beyond words? 给的话，明天会死，不给又好像没做妻子的本份？How ah? 🤷‍♀️ I know I don’t have to worry about this, but I am just curious…keke. Maybe this may happen to me in the future leh, hmm…

First day back to work ⌨️

Decided to start work today instead to save one day of AL. LittleC’s 4 months vaccine is scheduled on next Friday so I better 省省用my leaves.

Hopefully first day of work won’t be horrible since so many things are going on and I have been told
everyone is planning to resign one after another.

Oh ya….

I almost forgot to bring my laptop to work!

Yay going bk to sayang my girl! 🤗

2 Apr 2017 marks the day I send littleC to infant care 😢😢😢😢

The separation anxiety is REAL!!!

Went thru her pack list at least 5x yesterday haha. This kiasi mom is afraid that she might miss out certain items lols (house’s only only 7mins walk away nia 😂).

I don’t wanna wake an angel up from her sleep… butttttt…. 😢

Snoozing room where she’s sleeping in. I realised the ifc teacher pacifies other babies to sleep in the same room while they are screaming so loudly 🤷‍♀️ I think littleC drifted in and out of sleep cuz too noisy man….

My engorgement is real. I am only left with 1 pump per day, but my boobs 是痛的咯！

I can deal with the pain but the problem is, how to carry baby with my exploding boobs? these days I prefer using stroller rather than carrier if I need to bring her out cuz MY BOOBS 😹

Anyone using Graco CitiLite R stroller?

I borrowed it from my cousin… but is the seat detachable to wash?? I am trying to figure out but certain parts seem to be fixed and not even detachable at all leh.

The strap here is fixed to the structure. How to remove to wash?

Unilateral hearing loss

Sedated hearing test done.

So confirmed littleC’s left ear is only functional at 25%. Hearing aid is an option given to me since its not complete loss. However, dr advised not rush into it since her right ear is perfectly fine. Most kids with unilateral hearing loss aren’t much affected in the speech development so he is not so concerned.

I asked if her impaired side will ‘miracle-ly’ improve as she grows? He said “maybe”, but some may even deteriorate.

So he couldn’t be sure of what will happen next time. The only thing ENT can do is to monitor her progress in 6 month’s time… he is looking forward to the same stats every test.

A child develops his/her speech from 9 months onwards, so discovering her hearing loss at this phase is actually good as parents can closely monitor the child’s speech ability and take action when need arises.

Ok la, 我看开了。Like what a friend told me, just hope for the best, yet prepared for the worst.

Just wanna document this down. Just now one of the nurses was actually quite rough when feeding littleC with the sedation medicine. What happened was, infant sedation is nothing like adults’, OT and injection. They are merely fed with 3ml of sedation med. But the thing is, the med taste bitter and minty which I THINK kids cannot stand it. She cried murder! When I said murder I meant it! Like damn angry and ke lian cry. 心痛😢

But what to do, I can only assure her by holding her and talking to her that everything will be okay. I didn’t even hear such murder screams during any of her jabs lor. Luckily this type of test only do once… if not I dunno how my heart takes it.

Ops I digressed too much. Back to the nurse, so basically she held littleC’s cheeks to form an “O” shape, and the other nurse will use syringe to feed her. As the med tasted horrible, littleC refused to swallow. To ensure no med is wasted or spitted out, she squeezed her cheeks till her both cheeks are so red. I guess she cried badly due to both the med and pain 😡

I can understand they need to ensure all med are taken in la. But can be gentler or not? Slowly lah, let her take smaller sips?

Anyone has an issue of needing to sit on the toilet bowl for at least 30 mins every morning?

I am too used to using my phone while doing my morning biz. This habit makes me hog the toilet for a good 30 mins and causing a queue to use the toilet in the morning. 我不想的！

At my parent’s place there is only one sitting toilet where everyone uses except my mum who still prefer the squatting one at the kitchen. You know the old hdbs… I seriously hate the morning toilet queue situation.

My sis wakes up about the same time as me and we will be eyeing the toilet, like who finishes the breakfast faster wins! If I finished first, she will tell me to keep my usage duration to 20 mins hor. Damn! I cannot be given a fixed timing when it comes to pooping. Stress will cause me to constipate. Arghhhh!!! Anyone like me?

I wonder how I solve this toilet situation when I return to work in April? 🤔

@msmin @onewayticket About not bringing in my phone. Hmm i tried leh… Staring into the blank space and doing nothing while waiting for the feeling to come doesnt quite work as well. That is unless I happen to have a stomachache that morning. I need to do sthg while I 酝酿感觉。😆😆😆

Talking about piles, bingo! I got quite a few due to bad toilet habits. 😂

Wth! Why people give me their seats in the train when I am alone now? Whereas when I wear littleC with tula nobody cares? 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Will it be depressing for you to learn that all your colleagues will be gone by the time you return to work after ML?

Yes, all my existing colleagues are either asked to go or resigned. Somebody wants to rule the empire, make drastic adjustment to our employment benefits and hire new people who can accept the job with much lower pay and salary package.

Not just that, he will use the company funds to run unnecessary events that benefits HIS own company.

Someone’s pet will take over the chair and make our life difficult.

🔴 Red alert now❗️ ❗️❗️ Urgent need for a new job.

Please let this Friday’s interview be good. 🤕

Yay! something to celebrate today. littleC finally succeeded to lift her head 90 degrees forward during tummy time. Her neck is getting stronger by the day. Well done little girl. Can’t wait to go thru more milestones with you!

Anyone mummies havent download Health Hub app? I find it very useful leh.

Can monitor baby’s milestones and keep track of her check ups and vaccinations. Cool! For those who are following up on parent’s medical appointments… you can also add it in the app itself. Very convenient 👍🏻