Crying in rear facing car seat!

Ryker has been regularly crying out his lungs when sat in car seat too long. Ever since, i converted it to rear facing, he gets cranky when the journey get too long. I can't blame him, i think he just wanted to see my presence. When it was front facing, he was totally happy in it. The moment i turned my head behind, he would smile at me! Things changed as direction changed. =( I have been cracking my head everyday for a solution till i see this:

Munchkin Safe View Mirror

The mirror is meant to be attached under the rear view mirror. I never wanted a view of Lil R from my driving seat as i'm afraid i would get distracted. Today, while driving to work, i figured out that i could stick it at the board beside the window! Hmm, i dunno what's e actual board is called so i just called it board. Haha. Before i went up to my office, i took a while to adjust the angle so that i could view the driver from the car seat. Then i went to the driver seat and check. I could see myself in the mirror so does that mean that Ryker can see me?? Hmm.. I must go experiment it later in the evening.

Really hope it works! Will attached a pic of the mirror done up in the car if my brain permits! =P

Feeling a little proud with the work done! Haha! Felt like i've done a man's job! Lol

There! *cross fingers*

Massive spending

Massive spending on our expensive entertainment. That is, to check out how our Ryker looked like. First attempt wasn't successful. He was head down, facing inwards. Sonographer shook him over a long time but it didn't help..... he went all defensive, using his hand to grab his leg and remain defiant!

I can't figure this out too. But it's his feet all over! Guess he may have talent for gymnastic. Haha!

I was asked to lie on my right or left just to get his feet away but in vain.

See? I wonder how he could do it! Maybe he heard too much of HS's speciality stunt, the leg hooked over neck!

Finally, sonographer gave up. Asked me to go walk around and eat something sweet. I chatted with my cousin who we met on the way to buy soya milk. Guess our gigglings did make him change position. I could feel the squirming! After acquiring our snacks, we headed back to L4 to try again. We were at TMC since 2pm and it was already 4pm for the second try. Hub and I were totally exhausted from the wait. =(

On the second try, it was better in the sense that he had only a feet covering his head. So after much vibration, he gave up to show us his face!

A grumpy face of coz! Who likes to be disturb? Haha Hub was there accusing me of being grumpy most of the time to have a grumpy baby. Hmmpf!! Where got? You tried being shook for 10 mins and see whether you will be smiling or not!

He finally gave a handsome face for the sonographer to snap snap!

And even a side profile. I guessed my mum would love this pic coz she is always obsessed with nose bridge....-_-

Just before we ended, he gave us his fist probably wanna show his middle finger haha!

He really got disturbed BIG time haha! The scan was accompanied by growth measurement too! Thank god, he fall into the 'medium' range today. Weighing at 1.652g as on 30w4d. His head circumference remained slightly above average of 296mm, Everything on the wellbeing scan is good. =) My gynae was happy with my weight gain over the past 2 weeks. I think it was a mere 400g! WOOHOO! I didn't really control my diet leh... ok maybe i did, i took more fruits nowadays and limit one serving of ice-cream per week. And i resumed walking MuFFin for more than half an hour. Didn't know it helped so much!! Phew! Oh, after 7th month, i would get to swim with her too! Yeah!! But the OGTT test showed that clear the test at borderline so must remained watchful over the sweet tooth i have. Guessed i do follow my mum in this way.

I'm really happy that i get to see my son every 2 weeks from now. =) Am counting down already. This friday would be 9 weeks till EDD. Time flies!

A priceless capture on his frustration! I tot that creased up face looked like hubs when he is totally pissed!!

Weekend buys

We finally went out to shop for mattress for Ryker's cot and playpen. First we went to kidzloft in vain. Things there were overpriced and the mattress dun looked good enough for the price. We headed out to kiddy palace at TPY on Sunday to search again. The price was reasonable and one stop for our needs.

The smaller one on top is for the playpen while the bigger one is for the cot. The cot would be placed in hub's house while the playpen would be in my mum's place. The smaller one only cost us $33 but the Lucky Baby one cost us $90! Hmm, they are still cheaper than my 3D scan leh!

After we bought the mattresses, we headed right to my auntie's place to make sure they were the absolute right size for both cot and pen. My auntie took out all the hand-me-downs from my cousin and there were four huge bags! They all looked cute and new to us! Thank god for her, we saved quite a bit. Our carseat would be my cousin's too.

These were only part of it when i sorted them out according to age.

The many mittens and socks.

Oh, we also bought Baby Bottom balm which took us so long to find it!

There, @$18.50!

Oh, Baby Ryker received his second gift from Auntie Ju even before he is born!!

See the very nice bean sprout pillow? Thoughtful Ju actually bought an extra casing for him! =)

This picture showed the other side of each casing. We really loved it alot! (I dunno why the orientation didn't come out right on blogger)

Having a baby is not cheap at all! Definitely not worth to jus have one. hah!

Last but not least,

Tummy @ 28 Weeks!

The Pram

Our citeria for pram is that the baby can face us while strolling so that left us Capella, Combi and Quinny. Quinny is far too ex and dun look as comfy. However, their 3 wheel system would make a good jogging pram with great stability. Well, $798 was just too much. Combi range was like $400 to $600. They looked good too. But with budget, Capella was quite affordable.

We got the pram over the weekend. It may seemed too early but since there is GSS might as well. I somehow felt cheated coz throughout the whole conversation the lady keep saying $299 which was totally within our budget. Upon payment, another lady said $329 and claimed that only the display set was at $299. My man didn't think that $30 bucks make a difference but i seriously dun agree. The $30 bucks can use to buy pillow set for our baby lo!! ARGH! And I've actually compromised not having warranty to the price of $299 lo! Totally felt cheated but hubs was in his own world, happy with the purchase. Another reason for getting the pram early is to train my dog to walk with the pram. =) This pram of our choice fit just nicely into the car boot. We don't have any extra space for anything else there already haha!

Oh, i wanted to get an in between colour for my future daughter but only left with pink or aqua. So sad.... hubs say next one sure boy and i conveniently told him that this would be his first and only child then haha! It sure keep his mouth shut.

Special features of Capella S705 stroller:

• Suitable from birth

• 4 reclining levels, with the lowest being 170°

• Infant cushion

• Lightweight Aluminium frame

• One-hand folding mechanism

• Full canopy

• Rear window

• Cool mash fabric

• Reversible handle

• All the 4 wheels can turn 360°

Weight: 8.5kg

Anyway, below are the choices of colour for this model:

First Mega Purchase

I heard of the motherhood fair from singaporemotherhood forum MTBs and was really glad that hubby knocked off half an hour earlier to go do some browsing. Only an hr was left to go through the exhibition hall at expo. So many cute things that we resisted buying. It is still too early to buy. However, from the discussion of MTBs, i knew that breast pumps were the most expensive thing to purchase, thus i took the opportunity to source for cheaper deals. I only saw the Avent and Medula ones. The Avent was a single pump selling at $229 (U.P $299). The Medula ones were even more ex. They could cost up to $700 plus for a dual pump. We ended up in shock after the browsing. Haha!

Discussions in forum are very useful. I popped a question on if it was worth it for the Avent pump, all of them suggested a dual pump since i'm determined to bf. Dual means faster and they said when you pumped one side, the other would start to leak => wasteful. I tot about it, and yes, it means i could spend lesser time to be a cow when i return to work. Great! The MTBs also suggested Ameda, a more affordable brand. We went to the fair again the next day with my mum. Saw the booth selling Ameda pumps, set our foot in and got very good service. The lady who was really educated in lactation fed information to my mom who do not believe in breast feeding. We ended up buying the bundle set.

The bundle also include two glass bottles from nuturepure. It costed us $399. The bad thing about buying now is that the warranty would start upon purchase. However, they allowed pre-ordering whereby we just nd to pay 150 bucks deposit and the remaining upon delivery in Oct.

A closer view of Ameda Breast Pump.

And since breast pumping needs bottles to contain, we ended up buying glass milk bottles which are easily to cleaner and last longer.

Glass bottles of coz are fragile but they do not contain the BPA thingy which are harmful to babies.

We also got the siliskin which could protect the glass bottles from breakage. They looked cute right? Haha.. of coz... not cheap either. The cost of being parents.