Little Yu Ming has 2 small baby bolsters plus 5 small baby pillows and one of them is a dimple pillow. All of them are filled with cotton specially made by his granny for our little one.
Little Yu Ming likes to sniff or smell his pillows and bolster since he was around 2 months plus... When he was crying, the best short term method to calm him down is to give him the pillow and he'll hug , smell and thus will be quiet for quite some time.
He likes to suck his pacifier and hugging his pillow/bolster to sleep and most of the times even put the pillow against his face. Maybe he feels comfortable and secured when hugging and smelling the pillow/bolster.
Yesterday when he was hugging his bolster, I lay beside him and grabbed his bolster and put it on my left arm. He turned his head to look at me and then grabbed back his bolster. This repeated for a few times and it was so funny to see his helpless face when I was again and again grabbed his bolster... :)
Our baby went to government clinic today for 4th month checkup. Actually for government clinic there is no vaccination jab scheduled for 4th month baby. The appointment is just for baby's weight and long measurement and also consultation.
We bought 2 musical cot toys for little Coby, one of them is the mobile cot toy. Baby develop senses and learning through the stimulation from his environment. Cot toys can stimulate baby's senses and at the mean time entertain baby with lovely lullaby music.
Yu Ming was taken his first dose of Pneumococcal vaccine today together with Rotavirus vaccine. Pneumococcal vaccine can protects against Pneumococcal disease which includes ear infection, sinus infection, meningitis, pneumonia and bacteremia. There are total 4 doses if the baby is given the first dose before 6 months old. Different ages will required different doses.
The vaccine is quite pricey but it is advisable to take this vaccine as the Pneumococcal disease is very common nowadays. According to the WHO, estimated one child dies of Pneumococcal disease every minute.
The price for 1 dose is RM250 but luckily the manufacturer is giving 3 doses free 1 dose promotion. So the total would be RM750 for all the 4 doses.
For Yu Ming's first year, we plan to let him to take the vaccination which is subsidized by government clinic and additionally 2 other optional vaccination from private clinic. The 2 optional vaccinations are Rota virus vaccine and Pneumococcal vaccine.
For Rotavirus, Yu Ming was administered Rotateq orally during his 2 months and 4 months old. There are total 3 doses of Rotateq and we plan for him to take the third or last dose when he is 6 months old.
For Rotateq, 3 doses are needed to be administered orally to infants, advisable that first dose is taken during 6-12 week of age and each of the 3 doses must administered at least 4 weeks apart.
Rotavirus Vaccine can protects against gastroenteritis which may cause diarrhea, fever and vomiting.
Mosquito likes to bite Yu Ming especially during night time. Today Yu Ming has 5 mosquito kisses on his face, he didn't sleep on his baby cot covered with mosquito net last night. Pity our little boy, we noticed sometimes he was trying to rub his face due to the itchiness of the mosquito bites.
Do you know that only female mosquitoes bite and there is a reason why they need blood. Female mosquito needs the proteins in the fresh blood to produce eggs.
We bought a convertible car seat for our little boy, he loves it and even slept on it during the first time ride on his car seat for a 20 minutes journey.
There are a few types of car seats in the market which include the infant car seat (can also used as a carrier), convertible car seat and booster car seat. Infant car seat usually is for baby less than 6 months and it is only rear facing and booster car seat is for toddler and it is only forward facing.
Convertible car seat can used by baby/infant for rear facing and toddler for forward facing. The baby's weight for rear facing and forward facing is vary by the car seat model. For our baby car seat, although its spec stated that it can support up to 18 Kg, but it is only supporting rear facing for weight less than 10kg. Rear facing could offer the best protection for baby and should be used as long as possible until the limit of the car seat.
For my birthday dinner, BS brought me to a restaurant which is located at Upper Penang Road. Smoky Jack Ribs and Steak House is using recycling concept in his interior design and I like the cocoon chairs that made it so unique and special. You can referring to the link http://www.smokyjack.com/smokyjack.php to access to Smoky Jack web site.
Today is my birthday, BS plan to celebrate my birthday by having dinner at one of the restaurant in Penang island. At first, we planned to take Coby together but by considering today is in the 7th month of Chinese Lunar calendar, we think that it would be better by not bringing Coby together for the dinner. Some people were saying that little baby who is still under 1 year old are not encouraged to go out at night during the 7th month of Lunar Calendar as this month is also referred as "Hungry Ghost Month". Anyway, I could said that no harm for us to be so superstitious just to avoid any unwanted or unlucky incident happen to our baby boy.
Yu Ming is 3 months plus now and he still having only 4 Oz of milk for every 3 hours. His granny said he is like a small alarm clock because he sure will alarm us by crying out loud every 3 hours for his milk. Sometimes we'll give him 5Oz of milk if he overslept and the feeding time had been delayed for more than half an hour.
