We are weaning

Having a baby that is born 2 ½ months early at 30 weeks, this makes me worry about his growth and development far too unnecessarily.  But after all the traumas and the buckets of tears we shed during the first 2 months of his life, I guess you cannot blame me that much.

So during his monthly visit to his doctor for his 6^th month vaccination, I was quite surprised when Doc K says he is ready to wean. 

The ever "worry-wart" in me, then turned to google. Ha! Imagine after having been advised by a professional with XX number of years experience, and I still turn to google.

It's not that we don't trust LO's pediatrician, we go to him regularly(we are at ease with him) and pay $$$ (we trust him enough for us to sacrifice travel fund $$$), but somehow google has a way presenting details of matters. :) Thank you google.

So anyways, after googling, this is what I have found out.

It is recommended that weaning your premature baby starts when your baby is between five and eight months old, the age they are from their birth date and not from their corrected age date.

So LO is 6 months old already from birth and so yes it is recommended that we start weaning him.

 Here are some signs that the baby is ready to wean:

• baby is showing interest in other people eating  -  check
• baby is putting things into his/her mouth  - check
• baby is feeding well - check
• baby can bring hands to mouth - check
• baby makes "munching" (up and down) movements when putting things to his mouth - check

It's been five days now that we have given LO his rice cereal diluted in milk.  Sometimes he is able to take a lot, sometimes he is not that keen to finish his food.  Maybe straight 5 days of only rice cereal is becoming boring?

We are planning to introduce sweet potato this weekend.  Hope he will like it.

For those who have premature babies, I found this very informative booklet.  You can download it for free here.

How about you, have you start weaning your baby?  What food do you prepare for him/her?  Please share.

These are a few of my favorite things...

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite thing
 .....

When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad

I love the sound of music, and the excerpt lyrics above is one of my favorite songs from the classical musical. So here is my own version of My Favorite Things

Choco cake with hot coffee on a cold rainy day

Warm pancakes dripped with sweet honey

Fresh flowers in the vase that brighten up my day

These are a few of my favorite things.

Toothless grin and bright eyes of this cute baby

Adorable little fellow that crawls on his tummy

A sweet hubby who helps me with the laundry

These are a few of my favorite things

Green apples dipped in salt and vinegar,

Red Chippy with ice cold coca-cola

A stick of gyoza from old changkee

These are a few of my favorite things.

When the head aches

When the bills come,

When the baby wails...

I simply remember my favorite things

And then i feel so blessed!

How about your, what are your favorite things?

We had breakfast for dinner

Last Friday, on our scheduled Friday night dates with the hubby, we have planned to visit the newly "refurbished" IMM Mall. But as experience has taught me, you cannot have things go as planned with a baby in tow.

So instead we opted to a nearer mall at Causeway Point in Woodlands.  We wanted to have dinner first before we go shopping for the hubby.  Given that it was a Friday night around dinner time, almost all the restaurants are crowded with customer queues  a mile long.  We noticed though that the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf was not that crowded and no queue at that!  However, we ignored it as we have not had dinner and what we know about CBTL is that they serve coffee, tea, sandwiches and cakes.  Uhmmm, well not exactly my idea of dinner.

But after two rounds around the mall, and still not much progress in finding a not crowded resto, I finally told the hubby that if we can have our coffee/tea first before we have dinner later after we shop for his clothes.  Diba that's how the English does it, tea before dinner, or is it the other way around? LOL!

Nonetheless, we gave CBTL a try. We are quite surprised that they already served dinner and all day breakfast!  Aside from lunch and dinner and the two snacks in between, breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. :).  I opted for a hearty breakfast instead of light dinner and the hubby follow suite.

So at 8:00 PM we had are hearty breakfast for dinner.  And bonus was that LO was very cooperative.  He slept all through out dinner giving the hubby and I the much deserved we time.

I had the Ultimate Breakfast @11.90 that comes with scamble eggs, two chicken sausage (one of which sadly fell on the floor), beef patty, turkey bacon and fresh salad.  And it comes with free drinks either fruit tea or hot coffee or tea.  I love the dried cranberries sprinkled in the salad.  Yum Yum

While the hubby opted for the Country Breakfast @11.50.  This comes with scrample eggs, toast, hash browns, baked beans, chicken sausage (or I think I offered him mine, hihihi can't recall) and crisp rommaine lettuce salad.

We ordered the fruit tree ice tea which was too bland for my liking.  We should have ordered hot teas instead to go along with our brekkie. Well there is always a next time.

And another down side was that the plate is quite small.  Remember what happened to my chicken sausage? I guess it was because the plate was just to small to manuever all the food.

But over all it was a nice dinner breakfast experience. :)

How about you what is your favorite meal of the day?

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