The good, the bad & everything else: Then 10 signs of a mother

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Then 10 signs of a mother

How to tell that a woman is a mother?

Symptom # 1: - Dark rings under her eyes

Symptom # 2: - Finding her only bookmark in Internet Explorer is “Singapore Motherhood Forum”

Symptom # 3: - She used to lookout for clothes / shoes sales but now she checks out the newspapers for toys, milk & baby stuff sales.

Symptom # 4: - Makes sure she attends every trial class

Symptom # 5: - Internet acronyms used to be LOL, ROFL, TTYL, etc. But now only a mother knows the meaning of CIO, DS, DD, BF, BP and the infamous MIL etc

Symptom # 6: - Suddenly we have to learn the names of the toys again like Dora, Barney, Spongebob, Thomas the Train when only Carebears, Smurf & Sesame Street existed then.

Symptom # 7: -We watch our babies weight more than we watch ours now. We just resigned our weight to fate.

Symptom # 8: - Bulk purchase is addictive.

Symptom # 9: - You used to only sing broken nursery rhymes.

Symptom # 10: - You have a blog

3 comments:

Mummy Carol said...: Emily,

This is so well-written!!! I totally agree! :) *clap clap*!; June 8, 2008 at 10:00 AM
@pinkyaffair said...: MIL....wow...I totally agreed when u started jio-ing me out with my lil bf...LOL...; June 10, 2008 at 9:10 PM
PRIMA said...: these are all so TRUE :) hehe

but i dun think u have some of those, like dark eye circles, and weight problem??

come on, u are a hot mummy :D; June 12, 2008 at 1:34 PM

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Milestones

2 months: Holds head steady when upright,Lifts head briefly when lying on stomach,Makes noises other than crying (baby talk),Rolls from side-to-side,Thumb sucking, loves blowing bubbles,Eyes follow when his dad speaks to him

3 months: Loves talking - coos and ah-goos,Squeals in delight and laugh out loudly,Can lift head at 45 degrees when lying on stomach,Reach his hands out for toys hanging above him,Refuses to talk / look at daddy when he gets scolded

4 months: Uses his head to push himself forward,Hold head steady whem upright, squeals, roll over both ways,bear some weight on legs when held upright

5 months: Smile back when you smile, gives you a hi-5 when you do the same, can stand for longer periods when supported,keep looking at his toys when you turn him away, babbles with "ah-ah-ah", "uh-uh-uh"

6 months: Had his 1st solids, cuts his 1st tooth, able to feed himself biscuit, sits upright with support, lurges forward to crawl, drags objects to himself, bangs objects

7 months: Cuts his 2nd tooth, sits upright without support, crawls all over the place, able to sit upright from crawling position, stands while holding onto cot, signals "bye bye" sometimes, shows choice of preference of whom to carry, shows temper whenyou don't carry, loves splashing his legs in the water, starts to "ah-bu" again, wakes up sitting up

8 months+: Cuts 4 top tooth, able to stand from sitting position and return back to sitting position, cruises when supported, 1st word "Ba Ba", knows how to look for something when asked, removes your hands when you play Peek-A-Boo,Loves giving you the cheeky grin before doing something dangerous, bang two objects together to create sound

10 months:Has 8 teeth (4 top, 4 bottom), holds his own bottle, likes to put his pacifier in your mouth,keeps saying "Apple", knows how to seek sympathy when scolded, drinks from the straw

11 months: Took his 1st baby step, able to walk 10 steps unassisted before falling down, able to find the water bottle at night and feed himself, feeds mummy & daddy biscuits, whistles on cue, loves to watch Barney, say "Bus" when he spots one

And unfortunately, we stopped counting... ...