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Tuesday, July 27, 2010 1:21 PM 

What I had read/am reading

This is the first book I had finished (specially requested my parents to buy from Taiwan), because it provides straight to the point guidance on feeding and baby sleeping. It intoduces E.A.S.Y method, which stands for Eat, Activity, Sleep and Your time. Eat means feed your baby. Activity means allow her to play a while before nap time/bed time. Sleep means nap time/bed time. Your time means once baby slept then you can have your time to do your works/have a rest. It emphasizes on routine and is in a cycle but it does not focus on what time you should do what. This book also provides some surveys for you to find out what type of baby of yours so you will be able to understand more on her temper. This author is very experience in handling babies and even can understand baby's language by differentiating baby cries. Quite amazing. I like this book as it sheds light for first hand parents and I like this routine style of taking care of new born. Some might find it too strict for a new born, but like mentioned in the book, we should treat baby as an individual, not an attachment to parents. We should also respect the baby and interact more with a baby, you thought the baby will not understand? But nowadays all babies seem like super smart and getting mature earlier and earlier, don't you think so?

Another book which I am finishing is this one borrowed by Tracy. Is a very detailed guidance book on feeding and sleeping too. It introduces CLB method which can be said 90% similar to the above book. But it provides very precise schedule to follow and even how much volume for each time of breastfeeding express. Basically the theory behind is the same, to set a routine for baby so you can expect what to happen next. I like the detailed time table, ha ha. Because if you tell me roughly then I will scratch my head and think roughly is how much or how many times, so I guess it is very important for a new mummy like me to have solid reference especially first 3 months.

This one also brought back from Taiwan by parents. Very colourful and high quality on book printing. But I guess I will treat it more like a 'recipe' book as not much wordings and more like manual.

This one I read half way but is rather dry. More on children coaching but I prefer stories-liked writing style instead of using too much of experts' quotations so makes it feels like more on theories but not practical.

There are a lot of parenthood magazines available in market but I found this SGD5 Young Parents is very worthwhile. Tracy borrowed 2 these magazines to me and I like the info inside very much thus cw bought me this latest issue. I read page by page without missed a single info. Ha ha.

What Chloe is reading

Even though Chloe is still in my tummy but I had started to read her some rhymes and fairy tales. However I prefer to borrow from library so I can have more choices and as you know those books are mostly with few pages so can finish up very fast. It will be too wasteful to invest now so I prefer to borrow then in future can teach Chloe to read and borrow books from library too. Is a good habit!

Over the past weekend, cw and I started to convert our study room to Chloe's room. Haiz..I have to give up my big desk and now using cw's desk and he moves his to master room. Just a little corner. Anyway no choice, but luckily our master room is big enough but Chloe's room now is very packed as we still need to keep one desk and book shelves. Only can convert it fully once I have found better solution for our books and barang-barang. But I guess Chloe will not mind for the time being as we will still provide her space for her cot and changing station. However, one most headache problem we are facing now is the glaring sunlight issue in the room. As there is a condo right next to our block so during late afternoon time, the white condo is under great sunshine and it has the mirror effect which glares to my side. >< So now I am carrying out a project to solve this problem, but how? Ha ha, tell you all once is done. ^^

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