Over the last few weeks, I have been diligently attending mass at Novena Church down Thomson Road. The fact that its hardly a 3-minute walk from where I work and there are 3 masses celebrated throughout the day has been the best blessing I could have asked from God. Singapore has always attracted me that way – the accessibility of the faith. As I am on paternity leave this week, I had...
One of the things you do learn soon after the delivery of your baby is how to latch your baby so you can start breastfeeding. This is often a precarious time for a new mother as it really affects her confidence. A successful latch is key to ensuring the baby is able to feed of his mother. Most mothers rarely get it right the first time as the breasts are slowly shaping up to start producing the...
Hospital stays are never pleasant for anyone. It’s a very sterile place (for right reasons of course) and you often spend most of your time in bed feeling helpless as people come in and out. Oh and there’s also that constant barraging from nurses checking in on you to see you haven’t died yet. Or something like that. Looking at those nurses come in and out to check in on Wifey...
The last days were especially though for wifey. She would wake up with back pains as the weight of our baby was piling on her. As such, she would not have good restful nights anymore. Sleep at night would be coupled with lots of tossing and turning as Wifey tried to get comfortable. I remember feeling bad and sorry for her, wishing she could get good sleep. There would be nights were I would give...
The days were going by faster during wifey’s second trimester. Days would swift by in such torrential speed we would both be so surprised thats its already the weekend. Having the baby prompted us to make more visits to church and to attend mass together. There was a period where on Fridays we would attend night mass at the Catholic Spirituality Center and we would just start our weekend by...