Mummy went for a short getaway,
Hubby had to be home late a couple of nights,
dear friends went for a short work/getaway trip.
I stayed at home trying to keep myself occupied while feeding Baby with these:
It's pasta with baked beans and egg white.
And a bit of pork floss.
Bizarre combination but this is what I have in the pantry.
Just these.
Thank you, haze.
Surprisingly, Baby seemed to like the pasta. She moved a lot while I was eating that huge portion.
I hope she's not protesting.
Friday
The hubby finally had the night off, and was ready to read to Baby.
As he was reading 'Daddy Hugs', Baby moved quite a little.
So he asked, "Do you like the story, Baby? If you like the story, high-five Daddy." *twitch*
Oh, the smiles!
"Do you want Daddy to read you another book?" *twitch*
The hubby leapt off the couch and got another book from the table.
He did so much better at "Guess How Much I Love You in the Summer" this time round.
I'm impressed!
Saturday
(Disclaimer: This one is going to sound really angsty.)
We went for the 'Pregnancy Made Easy 2013' seminar at Raffles Convention Centre.
I wasn't expecting the scale of it. All the bellies.
We signed up for the talk ($20 because we are not intending to deliver in Thomson Medical Centre, so we are not the First Born Incentive (FBI) cardholders. These people go for free!) with two intentions.
1. Find out more about Cordlife. And perhaps, sign up for it.
2. Listen to the talks, particularly on nutrition (him) and troubleshooting breastfeeding problems (me).
We signed up for Cordlife after the event.
But to be very frank, we were rather disappointed by the turnout of events that day (especially since we paid $20 admission + $20 parking = $40 for it). I was upset about the tarts**, and the hubby found that it was a waste of money*. Can't help but agree.
1. *The content
It turned out that the content of the talks were rather generic. Really.
Whatever was covered could be easily found online and the enthusiastic husband has already done alot of research and reading so he knew them all. Even the three stages of confinement, which was new to me. Apparently he has already learnt it from some confinement recipe book he found in the bookstore.
The talk that I was most interested in on troubleshooting breastfeeding problems was rather disappointing too.
It didn't exactly cover the problems and ways to troubleshoot them.
It felt more like "how to latch on a baby", which we have read too.
It's probably more useful for mommas-to-be who are in the early stages of pregnancy.
2. The layout
It was so open. We had half expected it to be a closed door event.
Like, if you don't sign up for the event, you can forget about the consultation with Cordlife, and forget about signing up for it.
Later that evening after a short talk, we realise that this is one event we could totally gatecrash. (Read: No need to spend >$20 for it.)
3. The people and the whole organisation of events
The mini bazaar was supposed to start at 10am. We were there at 11am. They were barely set up.
You know pregnant ladies and their bladders.
There were closed to 200 couples so let's assume around 100 would need to empty the bladders during the break. 30 minutes doesn't sound quite enough, does it? Plus it's the time everyone rush forth for the refreshments (typically Singaporeans) and check out the booths.
**It was probably bad strategy on my part but the hubby waited for me to be done at the Ladies before we went to get our refreshments. He was holding my heavy bag.
We saw some doting husbands with their plates piled high with fruit tarts.
Let's do some simple Math shall we?
As with all buffets, the food is catered by the number of people.
So a generous gauge would be 3 fruit tarts per pax, or less.
So if you have 10 tarts on your plate, you are depriving some poor expectant mothers of the yummy dessert. (Meeeeee!!!)
Multiply that by a few doting husbands.
Subtract those tarts that were actually topped with pineapple (which a portion of pregnant ladies won't eat because of all the myths and stuff.. me included unfortunately)
The dessert was wiped out in less than 10 minutes.
I may or may not be whiny about it because I. really. wanted. to. eat. the. tarts.
Blame the hormones, but I was really upset about it. I thought fellow human beings should be more considerate than that.
Takeaway for the day:
1. Check out the organisers of the talk. I've been told that the talks organised by TV stations and magazines are really good.
2. Find out more about the venue prior to registration. If it's as open as this we went for, chances are you could totally crash the event (if you don't mind not getting a goodie bag).
3. If the husband has already secretly done tonnes of research and reading, he will be bored. Very bored.
4. There are still going to be people around who don't really care for others. So don't be upset if you don't get to eat the dessert. Even though that's what you have been craving for.
And even if you know you kind of have already paid for the food.
Go for better desserts after the event.
What made the day better?
Baby was so active throughout the entire day.
Moving all the time.
Sunday
I slept through the whole afternoon.
Must be the long Saturday.
We made a breakthrough with vegetables.
I managed to stomach the vegetables Mummy cooked when we went over for dinner. :)
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