Mid-Autumn Festival

Ooh, it's that time of the year again where we go hunting for yummy mooncakes. Okay, we don't really 'hunt' that much and we usually settle for something that tastes yummy and not way out of our budget. This time we bought our snow-skin mooncakes from Home's Favourite (they had a booth at Great World City). It's got D24 durian filling and two of the four we bought have charcoal snow-skins. Pretty special I must say.

Beautiful box which is now Alicia's toy... she loves boxes: she'll put things into it and take the things out over and over again and sometimes, she decides that she wants to sit in the box! :D

yummy food concealed by so many layers of packaging...

This is the special charcoal snow-skin mooncake!

And this is the normal durian snow-skin mooncake

Apart from buying mooncakes, we also bought Wife Cakes (lao po bing). This Hongkong eatery always comes to Singapore once or twice a year to sell their specialties at Great World City, of which one of them is wife cake. I love to eat them and will always make sure that I come by to buy it every year during the mid-autumn festival... :) but my hubby doesn't like it...

6 in a box for S$8

These wife cakes have chewy winter melon filling which I love!

Back to the mid-autumn festival, we bought her a cute little lantern coz she took to it the moment she saw it... Once we got home and unwrapped the lantern for her, she flung it around gleefully, wildly and violently... :)

I do believe that this lil bee will be spoilt in no time...

Breastfeeding my ill baby

It has been ages since my darling had any problems nursing. Now because of the blocked airway, she has problems suckling and she would just come and latch eagerly, only to unlatch feeling frustrated because she can't breathe while she's latching due to the phelgm. Then there are times that she can latch and drink but when the letdown comes (which is within a minute), she just can't cope with the sudden strong gush of milk and ends up unlatching and crying again (and of course, there'd be milk spraying everywhere).

I feel so sad whenever she fails to nurse. I can see that strong desire of hers to latch on and suckle (she'd behave like a hungry little puppy), but that look of disappointment and frustration when she can't drink is just so heart-breaking... :(

The most difficult part about her not being able to nurse is that if she doesn't nurse, it means that she's not drinking anything else. She's always been fussy about what we put into her mouth and that includes fluids. Till now, she doesn't like water and even glucose (which the doctor recommended feeding her when she's ill). In fact, she's so against any other method of feeding fluids (or milk for that matter) these days: she'd put the cap back on the sippy cup when we bring it near her then push it away (she did the same to the bottle when my hubby tried using the bottle which we haven't used for ages). It's almost impossible to get her to drink fluids and of course, that's terrible because she needs more fluids when she's ill. Sigh.

We brought her back to the doctor on Tuesday because she couldn't drink milk on Monday night. He rented us a nebulizer to clear her airway. It worked well and she nursed immediately after the treatment at the clinic. But this problem came back on Thursday afternoon so we brought her back to the clinic on Friday. We were told to carry on with the current medication as well as the use of the nebulizer. Last night she had some difficulty latching still but the two feeds today so far were fine and I hope there'd be no more hiccups from now on...