13 May, 2012

Happy Mother's Day!!

So...before the night ends, I'd like to wish the entire world mamas Happy Mother's Day!!

How was the celebration? Ok before that, my preparation was to have a hair cut first, before our dinner with close cousins and aunties. Really need it badly.

I missed my cleopatra bangs. Hence I decided for a dare-to-change look. I was nervous though, as my hair stylist began to chop off my old fringe.

Tadaaa! Presenting you my mushroom head :D

Now back to our dinner. We made a booking at PuTien Restauant in 1Utama shopping mall. The food was ok lah. No time to take picture of our set dinner coz YY was soooo busy trying to get out from the high chair. After dinner, we headed to Baskin Robbins for a scoop of very berry strawberry ice cream for QQ.

That's for tonight! Yaaaawnn...YY finally KO whereas QQ already KO-ded since on our way back home from te mall. Good nite!

07 May, 2012

Mobile blog

Testing testing 123. I've just installed mobile blog into my Iphone. Hopefully it works well so that I can blog more coz my pictures are all in my hp. With this mobile blogging, I don't have to transfer picture from hp to pc, less mafan :))

P/s : I can blog while satisfying my lil nenen addict :P

04 May, 2012

I am a certified Breastfeeding Peer Counselor


Jeng Jeng Jeng!!! Am proud to announce that I am a certified breastfeeding peer counselor! This is my dream come true. Well, partially. My initial dream was to be a certified lactation counselor (LC), which would require longer journey (3years I guess) and lotsa lotsa reading and courses to attend.

It was Gina Yong, my breastfeeding guru, who organized this for us - the members from The Breastfeeding Advocates Network in Facebook. The respond was good but the maximum participant allowed was only 20pax.


Gina's friend has managed to book a multipurpose hall from Ken 1 Condominium as the training venue for us. It was just nice for all us, 7 trainers + 20 mommies + a few babies. YES babies were there too throughout the training. Some were as young as 1month old :) See, mommy was determined to take part on this training even after confinement.

This course was conducted by 7 trainers. Some of them are pediatrician, GP, nurse :D Awesome! We took this opportunity to ask lotsa questions with regards to baby's health vs breastfeeding. You know, there are many BF myths out there right. They are seriously very very helpful and friendly.

Group study and discussion time



yeah...mooing during break time!
Many moo-mama doing it too :D
Demo on various latching position




The making of.....
Yes. A booby! See the ugly sewing effect? Simple sewing also failed big time!



And here's the boobies gathering! Some colored it with a marker pen. Kinda infected boobies alike huh? Haha. It is meant for us to use as a demo unit, eg showing mommy how does a good latching looks like. And I don't mean myself to 'latch' on my demo unit ok. Use hand lah to mimic baby's lacth on position.






Proud owners of the their 3rd boob :P


Lunch and tea break was provided. The food was so yummy! Whacked everything kao kao.


YAY! Receiving my certificate!!

After the certificate has been given out to everyone, we gathered in a circle and each of us will hold this string which was connected to each other. It symbolized togetherness, staying strong with challenges and maintain the relationship. Each of us was given a chance to provide feedback on this training course. It was indeed a very emotional moment for everyone. I sobbed +_+





Here we are! The happy breast feeding peer counselors!




I have gained a lot of knowledge from this course and also made new friends. We can never stop learning though.

3months ago, I was able to help my very close friend (we knew each other since Primary 1) to breastfeed her first child. Most importantly, she trusted me and never gave up despite to a few time of failures. I sincerely hope that I can render my help to mommies out there, especially first time mother, who are facing problem on breastfeeding. Please join The Breastfeeding Advocates Network (TBAN) in Facebook  for breastfeeding support. There are plenty of breastfeeding peer counselors there to help out those in need, inclusive myself. This page was set up by Gina Yong, my breastfeeding guru :) There are more than 4k of members there, everyday with lotsa new posts from mothers seeking help/info about breastfeeding.

So, what can a bf peer counselor do? Can do home visit (free of charge of course), some leave their contact no to the midwife in the hospital so that mom who just gave birth can contact them for help if needed. For the time being, I'm assisting mothers from TBAN through FB and some will private message me. But I need to highlight that a breastfeeding counselor cannot do magic ya. No matter how much we can advise you, at the end of the day, it is still up to the mother's own will to do it and to make it a success. Some will think that whatever we say is a SURE can increase supply, SURE can overcome plugged duct, SURE can overcome problems. Sigh. Even David Copperfield also cannot do such magic ler. Every individual is different. Every baby is different. Some respond well to Fenugreek, 1 of the BM booster supplement to increase supply, while some mommies see no result with it. You just gotto do the trial and error on those few milk booster remedies, to identify which 1 works well on you.

Sometimes, some mommy who prefers beauty sleep, easy and fast work, and thought that breastfeeding is as simple as A B C, 1 2 3. Yes, I have been blessed with a simple and easy breastfeeding journey. I thank God for this. But you still need to put in some effort to do it right. I have come across a mother who asked me hundreds of questions on how to increase her BM supply, how to pump, what pump to use...you know, those 101 questions lah. In the end, she told me "waa need so much time to pump ka, I cannot do it lah. It's ok lah. I will try it for my next child"  =_=  Sigh. Need I say more? I did my part to help you. But you do not want to help yourself,  not even 1 step to TRY. So that's the end of it lah.

Do not hesitate to drop me a line if you need help or somebody you know who needs guidance on breastfeeding. Saya sedia membantu! :D I'm ready to help!







14 February, 2012

I AM B.A.C.K!!

Yes Yes Yes....me gone with the wind for months!! I have no time to update my poor dusty blog ;( 

There were TOO MANY things had happened. TOO MANY until I don't know where to start now.

MANY GOOD things had happened.
MANY MANY BAD things had happened too.
SHED TOO MUCH OF TEARS over unpleasant things.
SHED TOO MUCH OF TEARS over happiness too.


See, life is like a roller coaster. There are ups and downs, any day any time.

"Live your life to the fullest". I'll try.



Geezz...for a moment I feel like as if I'm gonna leave the world!!! or committing suicide?? LOL. Too emo with my very first virgin post in 2012 :D

As a start, am greeting myself - welcome back to my blog-sweet-blog!! I just want to share some of my sweety pie YY's picture, from newborn until 1yo. YY grows too fast. She is now 14mth old! Bias hor, left out my drama queen QQ here :P

Will write more, HOPEFULLY, after this. I've got tonnes of things to tell. There are some real important things which I really want to pen down here. So that I can refer again, when I grow OLDER. 

Btw, HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY peeps!!! My Mr Valentino is traveling, so me and monsters stay home makan sendiri.


YY @ 1 day old!! First virgin cheeky smile!
YY @ 3mo - Digi









YY @ 5mo




YY @ 8mo
YY @ 10mo - her trademark, our fav piggy face!




















YY @ 11mo

YY @ 1yo on the dot



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