No News = Good News?

There is a good piece of new today, Matthew finally poo after 5 days! Maybe his pooing pattern is once a 5 days. My hubby's colleague email my hubby on this pooing issue and it really set my mind at peace. For those total breast babies who encounter this problem, here is a link :~

http://www.breastfeeding.org.sg/babys-bowel-movements-2.html

So mummies, do not panic if your babies did not poo.

The Making of Elixir

Went back to work on Monday and has been busy. Busy applying for no pay leave, busy making my claims. Now trying to claim whatever I can before I go on no pay leave, every cents counts now.


I read about using the placental to make to chinese medicine quite sometime back ago even before my elder son was born but it never cross my mind to keep it. Furthermore, I pledged to donate the cord blood to KKH so did not went to any more research about it. Anyway, my first delivery was a kind of a rush, water bag burst, being a first time mum I was so panicky that my mind was blank most of the time. Thus, forgot to ask my gynae to "Tabao" the placental back.


Ok , here is some background on Placental. The chinese name for the dried placental is 紫车河. 胎盘既非草木，又非金石，世上也没有紫河，何以命名为“紫河车”呢？其实，这名字的来历带有浓厚的神话色彩。据《本草纲目》解释，“天地之先，阴阳之祖，乾坤之始，胚胎将兆，九九数足，胎儿则乘而载之”，其遨游于西天佛国，南海仙山，飘荡于蓬莱仙境，万里天河，故称之为河车。母体娩出时为红色，稍放置即转紫色，因此，入药时称为“紫河车”。


What is it use for ?


功用] 补气，养血，益精。 [主治] 虚损、羸瘦、咳血气喘、劳热骨蒸、遗精等症。


I read alot about it and a chinese sinseh even kept her son's placental in the freezer for years and scrap a bit to let the son eat when he had a cough or ill. Some even say is good for mummy's complexion and cooked the placental with Spaghetti! :P . Well, the thoughts already irks me. No way I'm going to cook the placental as a meal. My elder son, Samuel is very proned to cough and so I thought, why not keep Matthew's placental and both of them can eat! It will be better then to get the one from the chinese medicinal hall where the source of placental is in doubt. I asked around and post on forum and I found a lady who got a friend who does it for people at a cost. Now they set up a web site to do it. It was kind of expensive, $100 plus. For those who is not comfortable to DIY and willing to pay can look up at this web site. http://www.freewebs.com/mommycozyhaven/
Please note that I don't know them at all and have no share in this business and I am not advertising for them. Just put it here to share the info.

My hubby is also not comfortable with this idea so I end up looking for the recipe to DIY. For those mummies who are interested, I had attach the recipe below :~


Placental Capsule Preparation


For washing the placenta, use salt sparingly, because salt will actually make the placenta 'cold'. You can also use a can of coke to clean it. Wash away all the blood. Instead of steaming it, buy some 金银花 and 甘草, boil them in water, afterwards, put in the placenta and boil it for 1/2 hour. This will get rid of the 'fishy' smell.

Slice it to thin slices, the thinner the better because it will be easier to dry. My hubby cut it so thick that I took a long time to dry it.

Sun it like you would with chinese herbs. Put it out in the sun, bring it indoors to keep. If the weather is bad, bake it in the oven till crisp. Watch your fire coz I burned mine a bit. DO NOT put into the fridge because this will cause moisture deposit on the placenta.

Grind it to powder and get empty capsule from medicinal hall to put the powder in.

Use a piece of clean baking paper and pour the grinded placental powder.

Open the capsule and press onto the powder, press a few time till it filled up with the powder. Depending the size of your placental, it will make around 150-200 capsules.


I have already taken the powder TWICE! Taste…. hmmm, don't know, i swallowed it with a big gulp of water. Gave Matthew a bit as he cannot poo, so i was hoping that this helps. He did poo once after taking it but after that back to sqare one, he dun poo anymore. I do not feel that my skin is better or more radiant, maybe I did not take enough. For those mummies who had try please share your view point on eating placental with me :)

Bridge over Trouble Water

Trouble, trouble and more trouble. Baby still did not poo regularly. Yesterday mark the fifth day that he never poo! My friend Angela suggest maybe I should start taking the placental capsule which I made. (this will be my next posting) so my breast milk will contain all the goodness of the placental! I give Matt a bit on his tongue also. Viola! Not too sure if there is too much stool or was the wonder of the placental powder, Matt poo a bit yesterday afternoon. I was so happy. You would naver imagine someone can be so happy that a baby poo. This morning we are woken by our maid. More bad news, our tap cannot be closed! the water is flowing and flowing non stop. My god! Our utility bill had already double this month! It was so early in the morning that my plumber did not even bother to on his hp. We have to shut the main water system after collecting some water to wash out face and brush our teeth. After trying in vain to reach my plumber umpteen of time, I decided to call my contractor to get another plumber to do the job. We are actually going to change the sink and table top next week and the stupid tap died at the wrong time. Luckily i contact my contractor ( my colleague's sister) and she suggest her plumber to bring me a new tap to replace the old one and use the new one to fix to my new sink next week. Problem solved, at least I don't waste money buying a spare one first. The down point is cannot go to shop for a nice tap :( , no choice, life is miserable without water. Can you imagine how the people suffered when cyclone wiped out Myammar and the earthquake in Sichuan, China. Maybe this is a gentle reminder for me to appreciate what I have.

Baby Matthew still dun Poo :(

My second son Matthew has not been pooing frequently recently. He went to see a GP and now upgraded to PD but still the problem has not been solved. He also has reflux problem and was getting better after the medication from the PD. Today marks the 3rd day his poo still remain in his bowel and refusing to come out. I was very worried. I have try all kinds of ways to help him, massage him, pressing his acupressure point, drinking more water, I drinking all the jamu my Indonesian maid made for me.. eating the fruits I hated most and never touch in my 33 years of life ...papaya. Luckily I was having flu now and I escape the horrible smell of the papaya....etc. Strange nothings works! What beats me is that he is a total breast fed baby and should not have this problem. Alot of people told me is ok not to poo for a fews day for a breast fed baby but he is showing sign of discomfort, crying more, eating less and letting out alot of smelly gas. The previous record for the stubborn poo hiding in his bowel is 6 days! And he only manage to poo out after the PD put gel into his anus :( my poor baby. Being a mother is really not easy. My elder one poo too much and this one don't poo at all now. U never guess how happy I was when he poo! Hahaha that's the thing with mummies, a little action from the kids bring them so much joy, even thing like when the son finally poo.... what a adventurous journey as a mum.. tough!

Birth of Flying Saucer

Last night, my husband was telling me on what he learned about business management and views on money earning opportunity. The conversation drag on and we talk about blogging and I told him there is this lady who blog for a living! "That's business opportunity, there is opportunity everywhere and the key is to find it. Why don't you start blogging when you become a SAHM?" he told me. I say to myself why not? I always enjoy writing composition when I was young and ever since I left school I never have the chance to do so or the maybe I should say the lack of Great Energy Force from the teachers to continue writing. Furthermore I can vent my anger here. Hence, I start the birth of my Blog- Flying Saucer. This name is inspired by my dear son, Samuel, who drive me nutz at all time. Sometime i was so mad that I want to throw something at him. IS a wrong thing to Do! Well I have to improve on my anger management. Well maybe saucer is not the only item i want to throw at him but I always have this scenario of me a messy hair auntie screaming at my son from the kitchen and throwing pots and pans at him as he make the BOO BOO face at me. So I choose saucer, well sound nicer and I love science friction :)