Videos of Evangeline When She Was Born

Day of Delivery


Munching Away???

Day 2: Nestle Rice Cereal

As said yesterday, I made some changes in my routine and her feeding. Evan took her milk feed of about 100ml, followed by her solid and then finished up her remaining milk feed of 50ml.

12 May 2009 - 1 teaspoon X Rice Cereal X 10ml of FM

Age: 5 Months, 3 weeks and 2 days old

Allergic Reaction: None

This time round, the consistency seems thicker but some lumps remained hard to dissolve. Evan's reaction towards the cereal today was more of anticipating and eager to gobble all up. She opened her arms wide and you should have seen her facial expressions, as though she can't wait to get her hands on the bowl! So far for the past two days, she did not make a mess, she has been such an angel, feeding well from the spoon and not dirtying her bibs at all. Today, she responded well by not having the tongue thrust reflex at all. She finished all up with a record of 7 minutes. I am so proud of her. By Day 4, I will increase to another teaspoon and next week on her 6 month birthday, homemade fruits and vegetable puree will be introduced. Oh I can't wait to try!

Current Mood: Proud

Introduction to Solid Food, Day 1: Nestle Rice Cereal

Today, I started Evan on her first stage of weaning. Rice cereal by Nestle was introduced. I am intending to purchase organic rice cereal either by Healthy Times or Happy Bellies for Evangeline. At the moment, I just try her out using the samples given by PD.

11 May - 1 teaspoon X rice cereal X 10ml of FM

The consistency of the cereal was a bit watery thus I may add lesser FM the next time round. Evan took it quite well and finished all the cereal. After which, I continued her milk feed of 150ml,drank 50ml and rejected the rest. She fussed and cried when I warmed up the milk again for her to drink 15 mins later. Guess she was cranky because she was sleepy. So I left her at her rocker and she fell in deep sleep immediately. I gave her the remaining 100ml of milk in her sleep and she finished them all.


Reflected on the whole process and realised that I may have to feed her a bit of milk (maybe 50ml), then rice cereal followed by the remaining 100ml of milk so as to enable her to know that milk is still her staple food for now.

Try again tomorrow and see how it goes. :)

Age: 5 Months, 3 weeks and 1 day old
Allergic reactions: None. She finished everything! :) God Bless Her!

Current Mood: Accomplished

Books and more books

As a first time mum, I really have lots to learn. I came to appreciate my mum more, knowing the difficulties and contraints and challenges in bringing up a child. However, as the older generation has a different way of bringing up kids compared to now, I have to do some reading up to ensure that what I am doing is right for Evan. Like my mum will nag about introducing solid food to Evan when she was 4 months old and to start off with chinese porridge, this is totally unacceptable in Evan's case as my hubby and I have history of allergies. Therefore these are some areas we have to educate our parents or help them to understand better.

So far, the following books are very informative and helpful for me in my research. Hope those new mummies will find them helpful as well.

1) Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron ( A good reference book for parents or children with allergies)

2) Weaning by Sara Lewis

3) Weaning and coping with feeding problems by Naia Edwards

4) First Foods published by Marshall Cavendish

5) The First Complete Nutrition Guide For Asian Parents, Feed Your Child Right, published by Marshall Cavendish

6) Annabel Karmel's New Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner (My favourite :))

7) Annabel Karmel Top 100 Baby Purees (My Favourite)

Current Mood: Excited

Cooking equipments

Here are some basic equipments you may need to get baby ready for solid or prepare homemade baby food.

1) Small Cooking pot or saucepan
2) A steamer (Electric or pot type)
3) High Chair (Proud to get a second hand JANE high chair at $100, RP:$275)
4) Blender (Either U-like Blender or Braun handheld blender, still sourcing)
5) Bibs (I got Dex Dura Bibs Stage 1)
6) Measuring Spoons and Cups
7) Weaning bowls, soft-tip spoon(I bought Pigeon Stage 1 weaning set)
8) Training Cup (Mag Mag Pigeon is the best!)
9) A few cutting boards for different purposes to prevent cross contamination
10) Sieve
11) Baby cubes by Petite Creation or ice cube trays

I think these are the ones I have for now to help me with her weaning.

Current Mood: Anticipating

Evangeline, the Pianist!

Good Morning Evangeline!

Apologies that the video is inverted. I dun know how to invert the video vertically or horizontally so that it will not be upside down. Can anybody enlighten me on how to do it?