Finding Causes of Baby Vomitting

Today my baby girl vomitted again. She vomitted around 1 time each week. I am not very sure what's the caused of her vomitting. She is my first, and I am kinda blurred as to what's happening.

I've asked her pediatrician previously, what could be the caused of vomitting. But this was when my baby girl was still less than 3 months old. By then, it is quite normal for baby to vomit due to very immature digestion system.

I was advised there were 3 reasons of baby vomitting, and these are:
- baby is sick
- baby is too full
- gulping air during milk feeding

But now that my baby is 8,5 months old, am not sure whether the above still apply. For sure, she is not sick, she doesn't gulp air during milk feeding. Too full? Not sure. It is already 2 hours apart from last milk feeding to when I gave her fruit puree just now. I am thinking of any other possible causes of baby vomitting. Anyone?

Sleeping Baby

There is a saying that if baby girl tends to look more like her daddy, and baby boy tends to look more like mommy. And looking at my friends' babies, I am quite convinced by the saying.

As for my baby girl, she doesn't just look like her daddy, she even sleep like her daddy.

But of course, minus the snoring. Although occassionally I could hear her "mini" snore. Even her snore sounds so irresistably cute.

Baby's Day Out

We went to Upper Seletar Reservoir. It was a great place, very cosy. There were lots of parents bringing their children to play there too. The place has a children playground, park, and of course reservoir. With cool breezing wind, this place is a very relaxing place to go with your children.

There are flowers planted along the side of pathway. And my baby being a baby, she is really curious. She likes to see new things, learn new things, touch new things, even sometimes damage the new things they touch.

I gave her the chance to touch and feel the flower. It is actually very important for babies to explore many different textures with their hands. She started by touching it quickly then pulled her hand away. Then slowly touched the flower and pulled hand away again. After 3 -4 times, she knows it is safe to touch the flower and she started to hold the flower longer. Then she started to squeeze the flowers, and before I knew it, she started plucking off the flowers. Hahaha. I didn't manage to take the plucked flowers fell on the floor, but I surely can tell you, the bunch of flowers on the photo there, they are almost all gone. Hohoho (^-^)

Condolences to Victims of Padang Quake and Samoan Tsunami

My deepest condolences go to the victims of quake in Padang, Indonesia. Also for victims of tsunami in Samoan islands.

The tremor from quake in Padang, Indonesia, which happened on 30 September 2009, could be felt as far as in Singapore and Malaysia. I was inside my apartment on 17th floor, and I felt the building is shaking. It wasn't as bad as reported in some other parts of Singapore where it was so shaky that people escaped from the building.

The quake was 7.9 in magnitude and causing buildings, hospital, shopping malls, houses to collapse. Fire was also broken out in some area.

This quake was only few hours apart from 8 magnitude quake that caused tsunami waves in Samoan islands. This caused at least 113 people dead.

Meanwhile, the death toll in Padang has reached more than 1,100 people and is still rising as of today.

Together let's extend our helping hand to the victims, pray for the victims and families left behind. Let's open our heart and donate for these people in needs.

High Chair for Baby

Now that Raelene can sit quite steadily, I put her on high chair during meal times. I've been using bouncer chair, but since the chair does not have shoulder straps, and she's getting more and more active everyday, it is no longer safe using the bouncer. She would just try to peek what's underneath the chair. Yeah, she's just that curious.

This high chair is especially bought from Indonesia and hand-carried all the way to Singapore. This particular brand, BabyDoes, is so much praised and used by my friends. Even my friend staying in Singapore would go to Indonesia and carry this high chair to Singapore too.

I asked my relative to buy it for me, and my hubby carried it to Singapore. I didn't check the chair by myself though, just fully trust on friends' recommendations. But, it turned out that this high chair is the new model from BabyDoes, meanwhile the one receiving all the praises is the old model. The tray table of this new model cannot be adjusted as the old model. What a pity. And what a waste of time and efforts of bringing this high chair all the way to Singapore. Oh well, lessons learnt.

But Raelene surely enjoys sitting on her high chair. I guess because it allows her to see more things around her from her high chair.

Quick mommy! Food please!

Well, at least the chair color looks good. Hohoho

My First Pearls

It's quite exciting to see those pearls poking through her gums. I spotted white spots on her gums when she was 7 months old, and yet her teeth just don't really poke through all the way yet.

But now she's 8 months old, she can already flash that teethy smile. Hoho. Kinda miss her toothless smile though. But am more excited waiting for the next teeth to show up.

My Much-Awaited Pearls

I am still cleaning her teeth using gauze cloth. Not sure when I should start cleaning her teeth using toothbrush. My mom said that it might be too early to brush her teeth using toothbrush, but am not certain whether this holds true as nowadays there are just so many things developed to cater baby needs. Do share your opinion though. Really appreciate it.

Sit Down Properly On 8 Months Mark

Time has passed very quickly. It just felt like I've just given birth to my daughter, Raelene, yet she's already 8 months old now, and counting. The sleepless nights and very very tiring night feedings are only vague memories by now. It is so much fun playing and communicating with my little one. She's surely one social butterfly (oh well, at least I hope so by seeing how active, playful and cheerful she is). Do you know the feelings when you just can't get enough of the smiles, the laughs, even the cries sound so irresistably cute to me.

Just took some photos of Raelene when she turned 8 months. She surely loves the camera, especially if accompanied by jiggling her rattles, she just kept on laughing and squealing non stop. Am I just so blessed being able to stay home and spend so much quality time with her.

Here are some of her photos.

She can sit steadily now. Something she never really do before, as she prefers to crawl than anything else. What a milestone to remember.

She just loves the roly poly 8. Kept on playing with it. Picking it up, put it in her mouth, taste it, throw it away. Then pick it up again, taste it again, and the cycle just keep on repeating.

Ooh. I hope I can be the one to discipline her when she grows older, since my hubby is almost never around except on weekends. Hope I have the heart to do it. Hoho. It's gonna be a tough job though, being the "bad cop" to my forever-will-still-be-my-little pumpkin.