Happy Full Month

Hippee!! I am now 1 month old.


Today and tomorrow, Daddy & Mummy will be throwing a party to celebrate my full month. We have invited all our friends & relatives. There are too many guests, which is why we need to hold it over 2 days. (If all done within 1 day, our house will be quite cramp)


Mummy didn't take any photos (because as usual, she forgot about it again!!) but she actually took a shot of me in the bedroom.


Of course not to forget, shooting all the lovely presents we got from the guests.


A Big Thank You to all uncles and aunties for your lovely gifts and red packets!!!

Confinement @ Po Po

According to the Chinese custom, after delivery, Mummies are not allow to go out of the house for 1 full month. They are suppose to be confine at home, rest and recuperate. During these 30 days at home, there are things that they can or cannot do.

Can Do
1) Eat, eat as much as you can. They believe that this is the time for you to take in as much nutrients as possible to build up your body. As delivery is consider a very major project for every woman, so during post-natal we would have to build up our systems again
2) Rest, let yourself have plenty of rest as possible. Preferably, you should be in bed all the time. So that you can heal your back as well as your uterus
3) Drinks lots of hard liquor/ rice wine/ DOM. Also to aid in building up our body.
4) Eats tonnes of Ginger. This is to disperse the wind in our body. (But I wonder how did the wind get into us in the first place?? When we deliver?? "_")

Cannot Do
1) Bath. You are not allow during confinement as this is consider cold (chinese term it as 寒)
2) Wash Hair. For the same reason as above, not allow to wash hair
3) In fact, you are not allow to touch water at all
4) No seafood as they are poisonous (as to the chinese)
5) No chicken for the first 12 days after delivery
6) No fan / aircon. As the wind might get into your body and you will get rheumatism when you age

Lucky for Mummy, Po Po actually let her have fan in the day and aircon during nite time. She was also allow to bath like once a week starting from 2nd week onwards. However, definitely no washing of hair. Po Po worried that mummy will get 头风 when she grow old.. haha..

Our confinement days are not that bad.. Get to eat n sleep, eat n sleep. Though I am a 3hrly kid right from the start, Mummy still can't get use to waking up in the middle of the night to feed me.. She still needs some time to adjust herself and also because she needs to express her breast milk for me, so she can be quite exhausted at times.

Here are some picture of me taken during confinement :)

Jaundice Jaundice Jaundice

Today is 5th day after birth and I am due for my first check up with Dr Ong, the Pediatrician at Singapore Baby & Child Clinic.


For the last 4 days, I had been all so sleepy and tired... and not taking much milk.. Mummy and Po Po doesn't know why and they thought that newborn are suppose to be like.

As I am still too young to communicate, so all I can do is cry abit here & there and sleep all the way!!


When Dr Ong saw me, he said "oh.. he looks rather yellow!!"


Ur oh.. Mummy got so worried.. Dr Ong immediately asked us to go for blood test to check for the Jaundice level. The reading was 15 (normal should be less than 12 and when I was discharge from hospital on 29 March, my reading was only 7)).

Dr Ong suggested admitting me so that I can have my photo-therapy. Otherwise, if the condition worsen, I may have to change blood.. (Sound so scary!!)

Mummy was very upset and can't bear to leave me alone in TMC, but she got no choice as she is aware that if they were to bring me home and do self sun tanning, the result will definitely not be as good as photo-therapy.


I was then being brought to this room where all the "yellow" babies are and everyone of use will have to be naked except with our diapers on. We were even given "sunglasses" (some kind of eye protector made from cloth) to wear so that the light will not hurt our eyes. I had to spend 2 days in this room so that my jaundice level will be back to normal.







Don't I look sick and yellow :(

Mummy wrapped me up with this cloth makes me looks like "Chee Chong Fun" :D