Estee Lauder MakeOver

Bummed into Estée Lauder ‘IT Girl’ Model Search last Monday at Jusco. It was a big event and they actually set up a big and prominent stage for make up artist and hair stylish to make over potential models. Its been long time I did not go for any studio photoshooting.. You know, when i was still in college time... studio photography was a big HIT. We will save up money to capture our teenage look which is also the PRIME look of lifetime. Now, being Mommy of 2 kids... I think i should capture one for the sake of remembrance.. :) When i'm old, toothless, maybe it will make me smile silly looking at those photos .. :P 

Promotion goes like this.. pay RM300 which comes with full makeover, inclusive of wardrobe styling, hair styling, photo shoot, a free instant A4 photo emulating a magazine cover and a redemption voucher for Estée Lauder products worth RM250. 

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Taken at Estee Lauder stage studio

HAPPY Teacher's Day.. Let's party!

YiWen will be having a Teacher's Day party today at preschool. Great that she is overly excited over it, as I do not need to scream and shout in the morning to drag her to school. She happily change into uniform, wear her shoes, went into car and once reached school, smillingly bid me Bye-Bye with a lovely flying kiss... LOVE to see you happy! Hope you enjoy your PARTY , darling. :)

Our conversation on yesterday nite.. :

Mommy: Tommorrow go to school ya??
YiWen : Oh.. (Nodding)... HOLIDAY AR?!! HOLIDAY AR??!
Mommy: **puke blood**.. Tomorrow , got party wor... don't want HOLIDAY ok?
YiWen: Uh? Party ar??! I WANT! I WANT! ...
Mommy: Ok.. let's party tomorrow in the school OK?
Silence for a while.....................
YiWen: Mommy... i want PARTY! Mommy "mai" (she meant 'buy' in cantonese) party aaaaaaaarr...? Mommy "mai" aaaaaaaarrrr...
Mommy: OK OK .. Mommy tomorrow "mai" ar.. now we change into pyjamas and go to sleep first..
YiWen: OH! **Nodding happily**

Still lactating...

I have finished my DOSTINEX dosage few days ago. It is suppose to stop the lactating process. But my breasts are still quite full but not painful. This is just what I want, not pumping for whole day and just enough for Yijing to suck (pacify) during night sleep. JUST NICE!

In conclusion, DOSTINEX is not able to stop a well-established lactating mom completely within 2 days course.
 
Now, I have more quality time to spend with my eldest daughter. Been neglecting on her ever since I start pumping rigorously lately due to engorgement. :)

Suppressing Lactation

Before you read on, I would like to clarify first that this write up is not about encouraging you to stop breastfeeding , I just would like to share to all about part of my breastfeeding journey.

If you have been following my blog lately, I had a severe engorgement on my left breast few days ago. Its been engorged, relieved... engorged again.. relieved again, engorged engorged and engorged.. at the end, I'm not able to pump it out nor feed by baby. I had been very moody and kinda of depressed over this breast pain .. it been affected my work and time with my family. I'd been spending most of the time worrying my engorgement and steal time to pump milk but all at no vail. I can see that my hubby is also very worry about my condition too.

In such, i finally decided to end the lactation process. It takes lots of courage to decide to stop it. But thinking back again, I successfully breastfed Yijing exclusively for 6 + months. To me, that's a great achievement already! Plus she is now taking solid food, and loving formula milk, which means she is taking enough nutrients daily. ^_^

So, yesterday hubby brought me to see gynae. Had a chat with doctor and he actually proud of me to be able to feed exclusively for 6 months. He advised that if engorgement and discomfort affecting my life and work, then it is advisable to suppress it. He prescribed me DOSTINEX (Carbergoline) from Italy ... in that small bottle only have 2 tablets.. and it is just for 2 days consumption. 2 days stop the lactation completely! So FAST?! Kam geng? Can't believe hor ? It took me 2 weeks to build up good milk supply and just 2 days can make it stop completely? According to my doctor, this drug actually stop our body to produce hormones that cause the brain to send signal to breast to produce milk. This drug is safer and more effective compared to Bromocriptine (used many many years ago.. i think even my mum used it last time) which has lots of side effect and in some cases causing death! If you see the price tag on the box.. it is so shocking expensive for just 2 tablets. I really hope it will solve my problem and worth every penny from my purse!

Will blog again on the result ... stay tune!

HARD Rock!

Yesterday i had a bad bad breast (1 side) engorgement. Almost 3/4 of my breast is swollen and as hard as a ROCK. Imagine a rock inside it, and the shape of the breast actually follow the rock! Out of shape terus! Painful and so sensitive to touch. From morning till night I been struggling with this pain. Hubby even skipped his squash practice, standby to send me to see doctor/gynae. Aiyo, what can actually doctors help le.. In my first pregnancy, almost every week, i faced severe engorgement.. till fever some more.. seen doctors, but only being send home with paracetamol and advice to pump and feed regularly. No one can help except our bb. But, long time Yijing has not been feed directly (except night time when she is too sleepy to suck , only treat me as her pacifier). Plus my aerola is too hard she can't even latch properly. Since any pump also can't help me, i only can use hand-express. Little by little.. till i sweat like hell especially in this kinda of weather. Since i reluctant to see doctor, so hubby tried to search from the net for any help/tip. He happened to bum into this chinese forum where a mommy had same situation like me last time. Can't pump can't feed .. So what she did is she squeezed oranges juice up to 1 bowl (small chinese soup bowl) and add 1/2 bowl of rice wine. Steam it for 15mins and drink it hot. She went to sleep and direct feed during sleep time.. and early in the morning, engorgement is gone! My hubby is so nice.. he prepared a bowl for me while i handle 2 kids in living room. Drank it, felt a little bit dizzy coz rice wine has 17% alcohol. Quickly finished up house chores and went to sleep. But Yijing is toooooo sleepy to suck. AIYO.. so woke up at 12:30am to try pump.. jeng jeng jeng.. milk shoots out after 1 minute of pumping.. what a relief! I GOT BACK MY BOOB finally!! Though milk production has decrease drastically from that boob, but I'm sure in no time it will regain back its efficiency. BTW, I can't really guarantee if this tip really works for everyone, but at least for me and for this time, YES, it works!

If you have any tips to get rid severe engorgement , please feel free to leave comments here.. :)

Happy Yippie Mother's Day !!!

Celebrating this year Mother Day's at Fairway Restaurant at Royal Golf Club with PIL, BIL and SILs. Nice place to  be at. At least something different la.. if not sure will go to Chinese (Aircon) restaurants. Really bored already. :P Food wise.. so so only.. but to me, the most important thing is, everyone had good time with each other's presence. :) Wish all mommies , HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! It is our pride to have this day dedicated to us .. :) So enjoy it!

6 months!

Yijing is exactly 6months today!! YIPPIE! Time flies.. felt like it was just a month ago i gave birth to her.. hahaha.. I have slowly feeding her Nestle Celerac Rice to her. The one in green can. This is actually less sweet than the blue can (also rice). Coz the blue can has added milk and i believe more sugar. I found it quite sweet for young babies. Tomorrow gonna feed her some banana puree.. :)

Since last week, she has started crawling.. not forward but backward.. :) A minute you put her in front, you will see her disappear to the back... macam KIT KAT! Sekejap ada.. sekejap HILANG.. :P

Weird thing is .. baby this young knows how to pick their feeding bottle. Since newborn, I'd been using bottle from MAM brand.. there was time, she refused to drink milk. So I switch and tried bottle from PIGEON. FAailed. Then we tried with MEDELA bottle, BINGO. She loves it! This bottles are actually gift from my brother which he bought it in USA when he was having his training there. Great saviour, bro!