Hi
My baby is coming to 5 months old, and he takes an average of 500+ ml milk a day. He weighs 6.6 kg but compared to his older sibling at his age, he isn’t chubby. Is 500+ ml a day normal for 5 months old?
According to baby center, based on his weight he should be drinking 900+ ml?
He hasn’t started on any solids yet, but he had about 3 bouts of flu, running nose and cough when he was 4 months so he has lost his appetite.
Feel quite sad for him when I see him lose his chubby fats…
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RE: Baby's milk diet / volume intake.
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RE: Difficult Relationship with Parents
Wow… having read your sharings on your mums… really feel sorry for some of you…
I can only conclude that old folks are not perfect. The government and politically correct media like to paint old folks as being “poor things”, “victims”, being cheated or taken advantage of by the young, although I don’t deny that there are some old folks who are “poor things”, there are also as many old folks who are simply, just horrible.
Their actions cause harm and misery to people around them and their children. They “infect” others with their misery and depression. Based on their “seniority”, they do and get away with all sorts of wicked things, maybe not intentionally, but the effects are harmful, and far-reaching nonetheless, impacting not only their children, but their grandchildren, and destroying the happinness of the family. As there are wicked children who bully their old parents, there are also “poor” children who have to put up with and sacrifice their peace, happiness or joy to accommodate unreasonable requests from unreasonable parents.
But society will not acknowledge publicly that there are “wicked” parents, in news reports you only hear of “wicked” children.
Does being “old” in years means that you can cause more misery to people around you, and you can be “excused” with the reason that you are “old”? If that is so, then some old folks are simply the “most wicked” people around as they can get away with much more…
Sorry… you know I don’t mean it… but ranting… maybe I shd wait till I am old to become as wicked as some of the old folks… and everyone will have to give in to me… (Jus kidding!)
When I get over my frustrations, in my better moments, DH and I will go back to be being the “poor”, “abused” fillal children to unreasonable old folks again… (Jus kidding… of cos we tolerate them and overlook their inflections out of love and fillal piety). -
RE: Share your labour experience
Thanks for all your replies.
I am thinking of having 3 or more children but be'cos my first was via c-sect for medical reasons, my gynea strongly encouraged me for c-section for my future children too.
We are blessed to have children whether natural or c-section. :lol: -
RE: All About Travelling Pregnant Or With Kids
Hi
Any brave parents out there have brought their 1-2 years old on long haul flights, e.g. 12-24 hours?
I am worried that my child will be stressed out but DH feels strongly that we should bring her along.
My main concern is my child. I want her to have a good time, like DH says, holidaying, but hopefully she won’t be too stressed during the flight! She has gone through a 12 hours day flight and night flight with both ok. I think my DH and I were more stressed than her! But I have never attempted 24 hours before…
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RE: All About Full-Time Maids
Hi Dessertwind,
Thanks for your reply. Yes, I think of doing that too. When my child goes K1 or P1.
Right now DD is very happy everyday and loves everyone, although she likes the maid best.
My only prob is that when my DD is big enough, her younger sibling is still young, and attached to the maid, so I have to wait for all my children to be big enough, and that will take at least 7 years…
Govt always encourage Singaporean parents to have more children, but really, it’s very difficult for us, because of child care concerns. If I work, I have to worry who takes care of the children. Not everyone is blessed to have grandparents willing to take care of grandchildren. One solution is childcare, but in UK countries where the birth rate is higher, the maternity leave can go up 1 year, with employment laws to protect the mother. At least at after 1 year old, you feel better about committing your child to full day childcare.
We still don’t have that kind of pro-family, pro-children culture in Singapore society and among local based companies. So I think it’s very difficult for the birth rates to increase very much. -
RE: How do you not succumb to temptations?
Hi Insider,
Enjoyed your post about your P1 son having an admirer, your 18 years old daughter turning down a boy who liked her, and your son who disregards many girls who want his attention for the right one.
I hope that my children can be so sensible and selective, especially in their teenage years!
Like to ask… how did you inculcate the thinking in your children, to see the shallowness of teenage romances, to wait for the right person whom they want, and to realize that there are other matters e.g. achievements, opportunities more important than BGR?
There must be something that you did or said, that taught them?
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RE: Share your labour experience
Hi
Like to ask:
1. Anyone chose elective c-section, and why? Other than medical reasons.
2. Anyone has more than 1 c-section and how many times?
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RE: All About Teaching Values
This is an interesting thread. Picked up lots of nice points here.
Very nice to read a couple of comments from school teachers who mentioned that when they look at kids, they don’t see the kids, they see the parents in them! How true is that… kids grow up in the kind of environment with their parents and emulate their behaviour irregardless of what their parents say and don’t practice!
I have a couple of points for your comments:
1. If daddy/ mummy are going through a hard time, anything, do you explain to your child, let him/her see your situation, not to despise you or to fear, but to learn from you how to overcome adversity? Or is it better to shield your child from the harsh realities of life and maintain a happy childhood? To what extent will you share with you child - what if he turns cynical or to what extend will you protect him? - what if he stays naive?
2. I always wonder why we sometimes read about amazing kids of poor parents who broke through the limitations of their background and become a success in life? The parents are too busy elking out a living to teach moral values or spent much time with the kid. What does the kid has in him or her to become such a good person? Why does other kids in similar circumstances continue to be no-gooders in society? Why then do rich kids with all the privileges of time, money, effort, schooling turn out to be no-gooders too?
3. Besides some of the parents who have shared, I am interested to know what are your top priorities/ values that you teach your children too, and why it is important to you?
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RE: All About Full-Time Maids
Dear all
Appreciate your opinions/ comments about maids.
I got a maid to take care of my children 'cos my husband and I are both working. My maid has been with my DD and DS since they were born.
1. My children likes the maid alot, to the extend that they prefer the maid to feed them, tuck them to bed, etc over mummy and daddy sometimes. But my children also love their mummy and daddy. How old were your children before they grew out of their maids and love mummy and daddy the most?
2. My maid is generally ok, although sometimes she show us “bochup” face. She likes to play politics abit with my relatives. I overlook small matters as long as she does not go overboard and takes good care of my children. I am afraid that as my toddler age children grows bigger, she may try to manipulate them against mummy and daddy. Did that happen to your children? E.g. maid don’t want to wash car or something and tell your children mummy and daddy treat her badly, and the child is angry with mummy and daddy, and ask her parents why they bully the maid?
3. There were some incidents in the past where my maid did some wrong things to my relatives and me. She has since apologised for what she did. I accept her apologies and want to move on. Any of you have maids who commit wrongs, and your family forgave her, and decided to carry on with her?
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RE: Is it possible to treat your children equally?
I always tell myself and my DH that we will treat all our children equally and love them equally, because it is not fair to show favortism.
I have seen my MIL show favortism to 2 of her children e.g. she is afraid to offend them, does not rebuke them when they do wrong, covers up their mistakes, sacrifice herself to love them without complaints, while she treats her 2 other children shabbily, e.g. grumble about them, embarrass them, take it for granted when they treat her well, make up lies about them, reveal their secrets to her 2 favored children. It causes lots of hurts and disharmony in the family.
I wonder why my MIL show favortism. Is it because the other 2 children that she favours appear to be richer? Parents, will you favour your child who has more success in life but who is selfish towards you and look down your child who is fillal and takes care of you, but appear to have less success in life?