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For baby: Grow: Her weight is 6.8kg and height 64cm. Feeding: Valerie starts to refuse to eat puree. I stop fed her purée and change to fresh banana this month. I started to let her eat abit our food. Rice, bread, toast butter kaya, biscuit, banana, grapes, kiwi, ice-cream  and etc. She also started to refuse to eat porridge sometimes. She wants a little bit more solid food now. She will ask n cry when we eating and we dint give her our food.  She drink less and could not finish 140ml milk at nanny house. She drinks less and need few time feed because she can’t finish in one time.  This month I have totally run out of milk supply at last week of 9month. She needs to top up with milk formula.  At night I let her latch only and she will wake up for milk at around 2am and 6am  Night time: Her sleeping time is more consistent now. She sleeps around 1030pm every night and no more nap after 8pm. She wakes up very consistent at 6am in this month or sometimes t...

For baby: Grow: Her weight is 5.5kg and height 62cm. Feeding: Valerie continued her porridge lunch and dinner and purée in late evening. She started to take porridge at week 33 (8 months 1 week). I gave her some fresh cut papaya and banana at 8 months. Her feeding reduced. She drink less around 400ml per day. She can’t finish 140ml each time. I reduce to 100ml each and 60ml at 9pm.  She was given purée before our dinner and baby biscuit or baby bite when we eat dinner at 830pm.  There was 2-3 times Valerie was given formula milk in this month because mommy can’t supply enough milk for her.  Night time: She sleeps at 1030pm after we off room light and latched. She will cry and sit up on bed at mid night around 2am. I let her latch and she can continue her sleep till 6am to 7am then I give her latch. Think she is hungry and not get enough milk.  Development: Valerie can stand up herself  and hold for few second without holding anything.  She can ...

For baby: Grow: Her weight is at 5.5kg and height 62cm.  Feeding: Valerie was started her first porridge at 6.5 months after being asked by nurse to feed her porridge to increase her weight. Her baby sister cook porridge with fish or meat with vegetable and give her at 11am and 4pm. At night 8pm I give her purée after latching. She has been given many types of food now. She has been given carrot, pumpkin, potato, sweet potato (yellow, purple, orange color), apple, banana,  pear,  cabbage, tofu, green mustard. months. She is not like her sister who wait until her first protein - fish at 30 weeks and porridge at 7 months.  Her appetite is more consistent and she likes to eat and is a clean water. She can finish almost half bowl of porridge.  She can drink milk faster in 5- 10 minutes for 100-140ml each. She was given less frequent of milk now simply because she doesn't like milk so much. Less difficult to feed compare to before weaning time. She drinks aro...

For baby: Grow: Victoria weight 5.1kg and length 62cm. Feeding: Valerie started with her first solid food at week 23. Just one week earlier than 6 months old. We fed her carrot puree then the next day purple sweet potato and then potato, broncolli, pumpkin, cabbage, Kai Lan, apple, banana, pear, toufu and etc. This time round, I do not follow the rules of trial for 3 days each new food. I'm abit aggressive and add new food every day. I start on one daily feeding then twice a day 50ml purée after 5 days. She can tolerate and is happy to eat. She can finish it fast and swallow better after 3 days.  She was given her milk as usual too. She drinks around 600- 650ml per day with 100ml each feed.  Since she has poor weight gain this month, only 100g gain for past weeks, the nurse want us to do further check with doctor. The nurse advice me to feed her porridge and add some olive oil in her diet. So I started her porridge on the 26weeks and to finish her multivitamin drop, mct...

1 cup (250 ml) warm water 1 teaspoon (5 ml) instant yeast 1 teaspoon (5 ml) sugar 2 cups (500 ml) all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon (5 ml) salt In a bowl, combine the water, yeast and sugar. Let stand until the mixture foams on top, about 5 minutes. In a food processor, it is important to work with the plastic blade or the dough hook. Combine the flour and salt. Increase the speed to medium and add the yeast mixture until a soft ball forms. Remove the dough from the bowl and knead for a few minutes on a floured surface to prevent sticking. Place in a lightly oiled bowl and cover with a clean cloth. Let the dough rise for about 30 minutes in warm and draft-free area. Cut the dough in half. Use the pizza dough immediately or refrigerate it (less than 48 hours), otherwise place it in an airtight bag and freeze. This recipe will make two 23-cm (9-inch) thin-crust pizzas or two 20-cm (8-inch) thicker crust pizzas.

For baby: Grow: Valerie weight 5kg and length 62cm. Feeding: Valerie was fed with 100ml to 120ml 2-3 hourly. Her last feed at 8pm and to latch at 10pm before we go to sleep. But she not keen to latch most of the time and only drink about 60ml. Sometimes she want to bottle feed again 40-50ml before she can quietly go to sleep. She has no or less burp now after feeding.  At night I still bottle feed her 70-80ml whenever I wake up to express milk. In the morning, I bottle feed her 40-60ml then let her latch about 40-60ml.  I started her weaning a week earlier (23 week) before turning to 6 months. Her first weaning is carrot puree during Chinese New Year 3rd day. She accepts well but doesn't know how to swallow, the purée came out with her saliva. After 2 days, she can swallow well and less come out together with her saliva. Her feeding still maintain after her weaning.  Night time: She sleep well throughout the night. She will make some soft noise but not crying. Then...

For baby: Grow: Valerie weight 4.05kg and lenght 60cm. Feeding: Valerie was fed with 120 to 140ml 3 hourly. I direct feed her at 10pm as her last milk before sleep. She accepts latching better but sometimes still crying and refuses when milk come out. She has no  or less burp now after feeding. Her weight is at -2SD which is at a concern level. She only earns 500g from previous month. I went to seek advise from paediatric, and I started her with grow fat recipe by add 0.5- 1ml of MCT oil in each feed, Appeton multivitamin with lysine drop 0.5ml each day and 1 capsule of probiotic. The weight stil growing slow and ear around 100g per week only after introduced this regime. I add on woodwards gripewater 5ml daily at week 19 because seem like the result is not so good. After fed her gripewater, her baby sister can feed her 150ml 3 hourly instead of seperate the feeding to 40ml at 2.5hour and 100ml at 3hourly. I feed her every morning before I go to work because I want...