So you intend to nurse… Good on you! Nursing is very effort intensive and contrary to what some daddies may think (Oh you just lie around doing nothing!), it’s actually very tiring to breast feed and it saps away all your time. This post includes some good to knows that I gathered over my 18-month…
The Busy Mum’s Musings – Regarding Post Natal Depression
Lots of news these days regarding the mummy who plunged to her death clutching her 2-month-old baby and the mummy who is 6 months pregnant but got knocked down by a lorry. It seems to me that there are a lot of such tragedies these days but it might be me noticing these news more…
The Busy Mum’s Guide: Bibs 101 – Plastic? Cloth? Paper?
I remember feeling very confused when the infant care teacher rejected our plastic bibs saying ‘These are for older kids’. The purpose of this post is to shed some light on bibs. Since Baby E was born, she has used a combination of cloth, plastic and paper bibs. It turns out that they serve different…
The Busy Mum’s Guide: Insurance 101 – What is important and what is good to have
Just a short post on insurance. When Baby E was born, we were bombarded by financial advisers who advised us to purchase endowment plans, hospitalization plans, life insurance plans and so on… Which is really necessary? Just want to highlight here as a disclaimer that this is just a commentary and please approach your financial…
The Busy Mum’s Guide: Essentials 201 – Baby Items Checklist
This post includes a list of the items that we got for our baby before she was born. It’s similar to many of the lists that you can get on the web just by googling. The only difference here is that I’m going to indicate on the list which items we actually never used. For…
The Busy Mum’s Guide: Vaccination 101 – Making sense of the vaccines needed
Once upon a time, I remember feeling very lost regarding vaccinations and finding little information on it. MMR? MMRV? 5 in 1? 6 in 1? Those were alien concepts to me and I had to ask around and research to figure out what’s going on. The purpose of this post is to shed some light…
The Busy Mum’s Guide: Diapers Masters Class – How to save on diapers
Probably the last of the series on diapers unless anyone has specific questions that needs to be addressed… So from the beginning till the end, the question in our minds was always: How do we save on diapers given it’s such a huge outlay. This is what we did: 1. Take advantage of coupons on…
The Busy Mum’s Guide: Diapers 301 – Cloth or Disposable Diapers?
At the beginning, I opted for cloth diapers because the environmentalist in me cringes at the thought of disposable diapers clogging up landfills. I went ahead to buy a set of 12 cloth diapers on Qoo10 despite my colleagues’ kind advice to just use disposable diapers and was very excited to receive those cute little…
The Busy Mum’s Guide: Essentials 101 – What to do when you are expecting?
So you’re expecting a baby. What next? For many who are first time parents-to-be, the initial phase of excitement gives way to a lost feeling of what to do next. This post is to shed some light on it because we too, felt lost. First Trimester: 1. Get a Gynae by Week 7! Some of…
The Busy Mum’s Guide: Diapers 201 – Where to get diapers
Baby E is toilet-trained! *Hooray!* I celebrate this milestone by this post, which sheds some light on where we’ve been getting diapers, given that diapers and milk powder are the two biggest outlays of having a young baby. So where have we been getting diapers? The short answer is: Online. Why do we get diapers…
The Busy Mum’s Guide: Sleep 101 – The Fourth Trimester
Conversation with a classmate recently: Classmate: Hey you have a baby right? Me: Yea, why! When is it your turn? Classmate: I have one already, two months! Me: Yay! Goooooood luck man! *long pause* Classmate blurts out: WHY IS IT THAT THEY DON’T SLEEP!? **************************************************************** That was actually quite amusing. And I guess to…
The Busy Mum’s Guide: Diapers 101 – Diapers Review
This is a series of guides for the busy mother to be who has no time to read entire books or long articles.
