Baby learns to read

Yes, i know it's still early days yet but who's to say we shouldn't be educating Sherrie everyday? She is a smart gal and i think it doesn't hurt to talk to her and teach her things. So far, we've been using toys to teach her things, primarily those that are red, black and white. Babies see best in contrasting colours so it's good to let her play with toys that have these colours.











On the educational side, V bought her a little children's bible and over the weekend, we got her some music CDs and a 1001 word book. Of course, you might say we are kiasu, but the pictures in the book are lovely and thematic.. making it easy to tell her a story during play time. She has play time normally between 4-6pm in the evenings. She enjoys the playtime. Actually I wonder how much time she should spend sleeping and how much time for playing.. i guess I will figure out as we go along.












The confinement nanny will be leaving this Sunday and i'm rather apprehensive as to whether I'll be able to cope. Mum has agreed to help out in the afternoons and we are going to get a part time maid for the housework. Also, probably going to order tengkat food for meals since cooking is probably out of the question. Koko has also kindly called and asked me to call her if i need assistance.

The thing i'm most afraid to do is to bathe her. But, i should have confidence. The nanny says she will teach me how to bathe her tomorrow so i'm back to being a student again; albeit for a very different kind of education! I'm looking forward to it (the learning, i mean) and hopefully by the time she leaves this Sunday, i can do it on my own. I suspect the first few times I would need another person to be around, just to be safe.

Sherrie's started on the bottle and somehow takes very long to finish her milk. She was being spoon fed the past 3 weeks but kept whining throughout the feeding. Spoon feeding involves having to press down her tongue to ensure she swallows her milk.. but being lazy, she always keeps it in her mouth. Try to put in some more and out it will come. Now with the bottle, I had hoped for less crying.. which worked, but she is taking twice the amount of time to feed. We will have to ensure she learns to suck faster.. or i will be spending all day feeding her.

Also, i bought a pumping bra from Mums & Babes but it's a little on the tight side that when i put the pump head on, it sucks so much of my nipple and areola in that it hurts so bad after i finish pumping. I must try to sell it online.