~*angie's lil reverie*~

Going back to work

After 5 days of Annual Leave and 16 weeks of Maternity Leave and 5 days, I am back to work this week.

And there are only 2 words to describe how I feel. Sad + Sian. Feeling extremely blue on Sunday as I know I am going to miss my baby girl so much. The good thing is, Jianhui is on leave for 2 days so I know that baby girl is in good hands. And he will send me photos of girl girl throughout the day.

On my first day at work, I woke up at 5am to pump milk and started to get ready for work. In the end, I was too early. About 6.40am, I was walking to MRT and I reached office before 7.30am. While walking down, I really feel like crying. I miss my girl so much.

Feeling so sian and it doesn't help that I have close to 4k emails to clear. I deleted most of them anyway. Haha. Then, I went for my first pumping session at the nursing room in OCBC Recreational Club. All I can say, the room is not very conducive for pumping, but I guess, this is better than pumping in the toilet. It's just a cubicle with a chair and small hanging table. I also tried pumping milk in the chill out room which feels kinda weird too. Maybe I am too stressed or what, my supply kinda dropped a bit. And it's very ma fan to go Rec Club. If only I can pump at my desk. Haha. Anyway, I have one colleague, Lena who pumped at her desk with Real Bubee and Freemie. Maybe I should also try it.

I'm just so glad that I survived 2 days. I didn't do much work in the office but I still feel sian and tired. Can't imagine when I am on 100%.

And I am on leave again today to take care of Lexuan. I was kinda happy to take care of Lexuan today until our nanny told us last night that she won't be able to take care of Lexuan from 1 March onwards. Damn sian as this means that we have to enrol Lexuan for infant care so last minute. Luckily, we went to the infant care to take a look last week. If not, we would really go crazy now. And so, tomorrow I will register Lexuan for infant care and she will be staying there for half a day. I feel so sad to leave Lexuan at infant care. Sigh. The thought of it is enough to make me cry. Oh well, we have no choice as working moms.

Just hope that everything is okay and Lexuan is happy at infant care.

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Sunday, February 25, 2018

Fever

Lexuan went for her 2nd injection - 5-in-1, Pneumococcal and oral dosage of Rotavirus on 22 February 2018. She had 2 injections on her right and left thigh respectively. So poor thing my baby.

As what we expected, she got a fever in the middle of the night. So we kept on waking up taking her temperature and pasted the cooling pad on her forehead. Her temperature did not go down by 5am and so we fed her some paracetamol orally using a syringe.

She was looking quite sick (and emo) the whole day. We also sayang her by letting her use pacifier more often. Haha. We hope she can sleep more so that she can recover faster. She also drank a lot more milk.

Thankfully, she's all well the next day. She is indeed my strong baby. =p

But hor, how come her appetite isn't that good for the whole day on Friday. Hmm...

Let's hope she can regain her appetite again.

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Sunday, February 18, 2018

Lexuan is 100 days old

It seems like we were still waiting for the arrival of Lexuan and now she is already 100 days old! Yeah!

She weighs about 5.7kg to 5.8kg now. Imagine when she was born, she was only 3.12kg. It's amazing to watch her grow everyday. She can lie on her tummy and lift her head up now. These few days, she keeps using her legs to push herself up of the green chair until she ends up in an awkward position. In time to come, I think she will fall out of the green chair soon. This reminds me that we ought to buy the playing mat for her so that she has more space to crawl and play. She is also enjoying her jungle time when she gets to touch the hanging animals and kick around.

Sad to say, I will be going back to work very soon. =( We intend to put her in nanny's house. We met up with the nanny last week and she seems like a nice person. Her house doesn't have too many things and it's neat and tidy too. I really hope that this nanny will take good care of my precious baby girl. I can so imagine myself crying on my first day of work. Separation anxiety. Even now, I worry about this and that. And I am going to miss the chirpy and happy Lexuan in the daytime. (I don't know why but she is quite emo during night time.) But I guess, this is the problem every working mom got to face.

3 more days... SAD...

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Saturday, February 17, 2018

Happy Chinese New Year

Last CNY, it's just Jianhui and me going for house visiting. This year, we have additional family member, Lexuan. It's her first Chinese New Year. =p How much things have changed in just a year, isn't it?

After 2 days, all I say is, it is very shag to bring a baby around for house visiting. Even though we have been taking cab, it's still very tiring. And baby gets tired too from all the travelling and when a baby does not have sufficient sleep, he/she will go crazy. Lexuan didn't sleep much for the past few days and so she's very tired by the time we are home. And then, she will go crazy as she is tired and hungry.

For once, I don't have to rush to reunion lunch on Chinese New Year Eve as I am on maternity leave. We took cab to my brother's place after we had fed Lexuan at 11am. As Lexuan didn't take her morning nap, she was super cranky at my brother's place. Luckily, she managed to fall asleep in her stroller. At least, she got to take a short nap. Da sao bought yusheng also so we got to lou hei as well. The yusheng from Aone was quite good. For this year, my mum got the golden coin for the first time! So happy for her and I hope 2018 will be a great year for her.

It's also my brother's birthday so we celebrated his birthday with Swensen's cake. It's mango ice cream cake and it's yummy. I always like Swensen's ice cream cake. =p

Then, it's time for us to go Teck Whye to have reunion dinner with my in laws. My in laws bought our favourite duck and chicken from our favourite stall. And as usual, there's a lot of food to eat. Haha. How to diet like that?

By the time we went home, Lexuan is totally very shag and in bad mood. We quickly fed her milk so that she could ZzzzZz... As for Jianhui and me, we were very tired too. Jianhui concussed since 9pm+ while I had to pump milk before I could sleep. I was so tired that I didn't watch Channel 8 count down party as well.

As for first day of Chinese New Year, it's a repeat telecast of previous day's event with the timing pushed forward to slightly earlier.

We had vegetarian lunch and this year, we had something new, curry vegetables which is a hit among us. We also took family photo together before we hitch a ride from Alan to go Teck Whye.

When we reached Teck Whye, we had nian gao. I always enjoy eating nian gao during Chinese New year so I am glad that my mother in law fried nian gao for us. And then, Jianhui and I had eat a lot of other sinful Chinese New Year goodies plus coke. What's Chinese New Year without eating all the goodies, right? Haha. It's a pity that we had finished all the bak kwa so we don't have any bak kwa to eat... ZzzZz

It seems like we don't have much activities but I can tell you, it's very tiring. And I have to bring my pump everywhere I go to pump milk. So you can imagine how heavy my bag is. And Jianhui is also so tired carrying the pram up and down the cab.

I guess Lexuan will be in better mood today as she slept a lot this morning and till now, she is still sleeping... =p

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Thursday, February 15, 2018

Happy Valentine's Day

Lexuan received a cute bouquet of flowers from daddy for Valentine's day! It's a pooh bear (dressed as dog) and she loves it!

And the best part, mummy has a bouquet of flowers too! Though I know buying flowers is such a waste of money on Valentine's Day, I am very happy whenever I get flowers from Jianhui. =p

Jianhui, thanks for pampering Lexuan and me. Love you lots!

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Monday, February 12, 2018

Happy 3 months old Lexuan

Lexuan is 3 months old on 11 February 2018!

At 3 months old, she should be better at drinking milk, but she started to give us problems again since Friday. She would cry and refused to drink milk and just simply kick around. It's a challenge to feed her. Our guess is that she is probably too tired. Anyway, we bought new teats (again?!!) for her. She seems to like new No. 1 teats better than the new No. 2 teats for now. We shall monitor and see. And she will always cry in the middle of the night a couple of times until we got to wake up to feed her. If this continues (especially when I start working), I think i will go crazy. Thanks to Jianhui who has been feeding her in the middle of the night while I pump milk. So in the end, both of didn't sleep well (or 3 of us since Lexuan didn't sleep well too).

For her 3 months' birthday celebration, we brought her to a new place - Mount Faber! She even had a nice photo with the cable cars in the toilet. Haha. Our Faber Bistro has changed to Dusk which serves expensive European food. When we reached there, the kitchen was closed so we ordered drinks only. As I couldn't drink beer, I order chocolate milk and it was horrible. ">_< I shall order other drinks next time. Menu has changed but the view is the same. I am kinda looking forward to try the new menu.

It was definitely an eventful Sunday for us. I went for a run in the morning then we walked to Lot 1 for breakfast. Jianhui also went for bike ride. Then we took a cab to Mount Faber. After that, we took cab to Teck Whye and we went for an evening run together. Can't even remember when was the last time we went for an evening run together. All in all, it was a relaxing and nice evening run with Jianhui.

Anyway, I am starting to feel kinda blueee... coz I am going back to work in 2 weeks time...Who will take care of Lexuan? Hmm...

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Angeline winks
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Sunday, February 04, 2018

6 weeks after my first run post-partum

Today I went for my first continuous 5km training run in the morning. And I feel good! I am so proud of myself because I could have continued to sleep till 7am+ (since Lexuan is still sleeping) but I decided to get changed and go for my run. Best decision for the day. I always feel that it is a good start for the day by going for a morning run.

Weather is good and my body seems good. I didn't really stop except at those traffic lights. Compared to 6 weeks ago in which I went for my first 1.8km post partum (I was about 6 weeks post partum back then), I feel much fitter. I was running at 7 minutes 12 seconds per km today compared to 7 minutes 41 seconds per km for the short 1.8km. I compared the timing to my last 5km training run before getting pregnant, I was running at sub 7 minute per km pace back then. Slowly, I believe I will improve.

Angie, Jia You! =p

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Angeline winks
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A beautiful weekend

It must be the most eventful Saturday for Lexuan yesterday as we took a cab to Changi Village! Furthest from home we have gone so far. Nowadays, it can be quite challenging to take cab with Lexuan as she refuses to sleep and will keep on fidgeting. And sometimes, she will also cry. Sigh. She seems to enjoy looking at trees on the cab though. Haha.

Going to Changi Village means I get to eat my favourite Longan Red Ruby! It was damn GOOD! And I have been craving this for damn long! (I am also craving for DURIANS until I am so tempted to order delivery everyday at home.) It was very windy yesterday that we couldn't take a proper photo without our hair flying around. Haha. We ate Fried Hokkien Mee which was not bad and the disappointing nasi lemak. Nowadays, I feel that the nasi lemak at Changi Lemak not that fantastic anymore or rather I never really think it's that GOOD or worth the queue. Personally, I kinda miss Boon Lay nasi lemak and Punggol nasi lemak. But then again, I have no idea if their nasi lemak is still good as I have not bought nasi lemak from there since like many many years ago.

After feeding Lexuan, we took cab to Suntec. Our poor girl didn't sleep much the whole day and we thought she could finally have a good sleep while we shop in Suntec but she just couldn't sleep. She was so bad mood that we didn't let her try baby carrier too as we foresee she will end up crying. The good news is, we kinda decided what baby carrier we are going to get. Now, we just need to be sure Lexuan likes it too. We have Boba wrap at home but this girl can only stay inside Boba wrap for like max 10 minutes. But then again, we always see parents with baby carrier, maybe their babies are also inside the baby carrier for a few minutes? Haha. You never know ya.

It has been a long and tiring day for Lexuan so she concussed after drinking milk at 8.30pm. Haha.

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Saturday, February 03, 2018

Lexuan is 12 weeks old!

Wow! Lexuan is 12 weeks old today! Time flies isn't it? Imagine 12 weeks ago, I was still screaming in pain in the hospital. Haha.

Lexuan and I went for a little adventure yesterday! For the first time, both of us took cab (without papa) and we made it to OCBC Centre! The taxi driver was really helpful to help me with the stroller and when we reached OCBC Centre, he also helped me to open the stroller. In fact, I am quite thankful that along the way, there are many kind people who help me to carry stroller up or down the stairs or even pushing open door. Thankful for every small little kind act.

After our visit to the office, I pushed Lexuan to Telok Ayer MRT station. It was drizzling so I walked super fast. Haha. From there, it was easier to travel to City Hall.

And for the first time since many many weeks ago, we finally had family dinner in town on Friday. We had a great dinner at Paulaner. Though I can't enjoy Paulaner beer yet, I am very happy to have a good dinner there. It's always one of my favourite dining place. And best part, it has a clean changing station and it is also a conducive place for feeding.

After dinner, we took cab home and as usual, Lexuan was fussing alot inside the cab as this girl wanna sleep and drink milk. I was so relieved when we finally reached home Haha.

All in all, it was a good week and I am looking forward to spend time with Jianhui and baby this weekend.

Oh ya, Chinese New Year is only 2 weeks away! I am so not ready for it... I haven decide what to wear for myself and Lexuan's attire. I ordered some beautiful booties and shoes for Lexuan but it was lost in transit. So sad. :( For the first time, I didn't get the goods I ordered online. And I haven do spring cleaning! Headache sia...

And I am going back to work in 3 weeks time. SAD.

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Angeline winks
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