All About Your Child

Someone close to me is looking for some baby stuff before the arrival of her baby in the second half of this year.

However, due to personal issues, she is hoping to get the following things at a low cost or as a gift.

Do any of you have:

1. A baby cot ?
2. Sterilizer ?

If you intend to give away or sell it away, could you please contact me at angeline@AllAboutYourChild.com

Truly appreciate. *hugs*

HELP! Baby stuff needed.

I want to take this post as a chance to say Congratulations to a number of my friends who became first time Daddy and Mommy this year. Though being a first time parents can be a very exciting event, it is also a time to test patience, skills and stamina; especially with the night feeds.

What can be worse when the baby refused to sleep after the night feeds and start to feel cranky, uncomfortable or even in pain because of the gas which went to the lower intestines and could not be burped out after the feed.

Sometimes even after the baby has burped, the baby may still feels uncomfortable 30mins or 1hour after feed because a small amount of gas could have gone to the lower abdominal area.

My elder son suffered because of our inexperience and ended up with colic. Because there were too much gas accumulation. So here’s sharing what made my life so much easier with my younger son, because I learned how to get rid of the extra gas in the lower abdomen.

There are 3 baby gas remedies:

• With your four fingers, rub the Baby’s tummy in an ‘N’ shape, in a clockwise direction. Starting from the right groin area, ‘push’ the air upwards to the gastric area. Then without lifting your fingers, continue to slide them across to the left side and down to the left groin area and lift up your fingers. Do it again until you hear a fart or till the Baby shows signs of comfort. What you are doing is pushing the air out of the Baby from the anus.

OR

• Lift up the Baby’s legs, bring them towards the Baby’s tummy and rotate the legs in a clockwise direction, the aim of this is the same as above.

OR

• Alternate the Baby’s legs in a pedaling motion. One leg up and the other leg down. Keeping alternating the legs until Baby farts or feels more comfortable.

I must always mention that methods that work for my Baby might not work for yours. These baby gas pain relief steps works for my child, I hope it works for your child too.

I understand the thoughts of first time parents, ‘I would do anything so long as the Baby stops being cranky’, yes? So why not try these simple baby massages for gas relief to see if it can give your Baby and you some peace. *smile*

This year’s BabyCare Festival 2011, headed by MediaCorp Pte Ltd, will be held at Singapore Expo Hall 6. If you are a newborn’s Mommy or toddler’s proud Mother, then you might be interested in heading there starting tomorrow.

Prenatal Education, ever heard of it? In Chinese, it is known as ‘Tai Jiao’. All over the Internet, there are plenty of Prenatal Education Tools, for example, the very famous Baby Einstein Prenatal education, have you ever saw or read it on the internet? Do you believe in Prenatal Education?

Prenatal Education, in simpler words,  refers to whatever the Mommy does, thinks and feel will affect the fetus’s character and hence when the baby is born, he or she will have the same kind or reaction or action or even same mindset as his or her Mommy.

People who believe strongly in Prenatal Education would often preach about the Importance of Prenatal Education. Well, if it is true, then all pregnant women must truly behave yourselves. *giggle*

I have heard of people writing a Prenatal Education Journal; whereby you, the Mommy, writes in all the bits and pieces of details of what you did for your child so as to impart values when your child is still in the womb. The Mommy would probably write something like “Baby listened to Mozart masterpieces today.” or “Baby went swimming with me today.” or whatever special education the Mommy wants to give.

Prenatal Education is a personal thing, no right and no wrong. The best part is everything you see, hear, feel is actually passed down to the brain of your child subconsciously. No special effort is needed.

You must be wondering why am I talking about this today right? This has been a draft in my blog’s draft box for a really long time now. And after what happened tonight, I think it is time to finish up the incomplete blog post.

When I was pregnant with Keatkeat, Allan and I were still new to the pushcart retail business. So we have lots to chat and discuss whenever we lie in bed. We would keep chatting till one of us fall asleep first. We were are really that talkative!

Yet, when I was pregnant with Binbin, I was working 12hours a day running from one bazaar to the next. Carrying bags and bags of jewelery for setup and tear down at every start and end of each bazaar. I am always exhausted by the time I washed up and laid in bed. I simply went concussed the moment my head touches the pillow. Thus, no more long chats before snoring begins.

Now, Keatkeat loves to chit chat before bedtime. He has endless things to talk about, ask about, laugh about, so on and so forth.

As for Binbin, yup, you have guessed it, he sleeps like a log within minutes! Totally two different behaviors during bedtime and very much reminded me of how I was when I had them in my womb.

Does any of these sound familiar to you? Did your child go through any special Prenatal Education?