Tag: parenthood
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Let’s talk about postnatal blues
They’re real – so very real, it’s scary. It’s not some nightmare or horror story people tell you in hopes you can sympathise with the difficulties of parenthood. They’re an actual monster come to life that breathes into one of the most precious and beautiful moments in your life, and makes it into one of…
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My Baby’s First “Bullying” Experience
I couldn’t sleep last night. 😢 My emotions were a cocktail of anger, guilt and frustration over what my helper shared with me. Over the course of the Lunar New Year, we brought baby David to visit family and friends. David (to me) is really the best baby ever! ❤️👶🏻 He always makes me feel…
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That day, I felt like such a bad mum
It was a really, really bad day. 😢 So many things around me weren’t working out – just totally beyond my control sort of things. And for quite a while now, I’ve been feeling crazy frustrated!! 😫😫 Really doesn’t help that I cannot go out for a full day with a friend to chill (because…
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Becoming a Parent: 5 Lessons I Picked Up from My Childhood
It still feels hard to believe that soon I’m going to have my own kid – I’m still a kid! 😂 It freaks me out as much as it excites me that I’m going to be a mom soon. It’s really all for a simple reason – for the longest time, I’ve shuddered just thinking…
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First Steal Utensils, Then Create Scandal On Cockroaches
Just on Boxing Day, I saw this Facebook Post on my feed. Super long – but felt it was worth the read. Long story short: Family goes to hawker for a meal. They needed more utensils, daughter goes to another stall to get them. Stall told her to put the utensils back as she didn’t buy…
Gera Shen 