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Updates on Peter…<\/p>\n
His facial acne had become worse and developed into what his paediatrician called neonatal eczema. I almost used neoderm (a cream containing steroids that can eradicate bacterial and fungal infections) on him but decided to pay a visit to his paediatrician to get professional advice. Glad that we did as his paediatrician informed us that the steroid strength of neoderm was on the high end in the spectrum of steroid creams for children. She prescribed Zaricort for Peter and recommended the use of moisturizer. His eczema improved greatly after 2 applications. Now it is almost non-existent. BTW, I like this paediatrician better than Hannah’s. Her name is Dr Tan. Both of them are good but Dr Tan shares her knowledge and experience freely, is thorough and patient, and helps us cut down on medical expenditure. A-star for her :)<\/p>\n
Eating wise, Peter has been drinking both breast and formula milk. More of the latter actually. I plan to stop breastfeeding after 3 months as my supply has been diminishing when he began to sleep more. He drinks Dumex’s Mamil Gold formula milk but during the recent contamination of NZ milk, I’m thinking of switching to Similac. And oh, I would like to share about his milk bottles. Instead of using Bfree bottle as before in Hannah’s case, I tried Pigeon’s Peristaltic PLUS wide-neck BPA-free bottle after reading many positive reviews about it. Peter took to it instantly – absolutely no nipple confusion. Other plus points are: only 4 parts to clean, valve to prevent build-up of negative pressure and BPA-free. The Japanese has done it again. And this brand is also cheaper than Bfree. A sure winner IMO.<\/p>\n
One reason many friends have been giving to encourage us to have no. 2 is the fact that Hannah started sleeping through the night when she was 5 weeks old. The assumption was that all our babies would therefore be like her. True? False! Week 5 came and went and Peter still woke up in the middle of the night for milk. I was starting to worry whether Peter would be one of those babies who couldn’t sleep through the night until they were way pass one-year-old. Then, he started to show signs of sleeping through the night. One or twice in the following weeks, he slept through but woke up very early, like five-ish in the morning. Come week 8 the miracle occurred. He slept through between 8-10 pm to 6-7 am. I’m really thankful that I could have my sleep back again and quite soon. My energy level started to recover from then on. Yay. :)<\/p>\n
Updates on the mother…<\/p>\n
Sigh, I’ve been rather depressed over my mummy tummy. The second pregnancy really disfigured my body. I couldn’t locate my waist and looked 5 months pregnant. The thought of returning to work with colleagues and students asking whether I’m pregnant with no. 3 is dreadful. From the Internet, I realised that I might have diastasis recti, a separation of the abdominal muscles, due to pregnancy. This condition often causes the mummy tummy. True but I also can tell that I have a thick layer of blubber on top of my abdominal muscles which needs work. Besides doing abdominal exercises to close the gap between the abdominal muscles, I need to do aerobic exercises to burn off the fats. Tried swimming but I didn’t feel much calorie loss even after doing 16 laps in our condo pool. Read up that running is probably the best fat-burning exercise in terms of effectiveness where time is concerned. So I switched to jogging. Wah, my legs felt like lead the first time I hit the pavement for a jog. I can’t remember exactly the last time I actually jogged. Hmm, perhaps 2 years ago? I persisted and have been jogging on and off for about a week now. From jogging around our condo I upgraded to jogging around Punggol park. It was nice to jog in the park because the sight of other joggers improves my morale somewhat about doing the exercise. Last night, I felt good enough to cover 2.4 km in 20 minutes. Timing wise needs work but it is progress nonetheless. :)<\/p>\n
We would be getting the keys of our new place soon and this means that we need to look into renovation now. Yang and I have been sourcing for ID and ideas for our new place and the process has been time-consuming and exciting. Yang will be sharing more on our renovation journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is a random post. Updates on Peter… His facial acne had become worse and developed into what his paediatrician called neonatal eczema. I almost used neoderm (a cream containing steroids that can eradicate bacterial and fungal infections) on him<\/p>\n