Merry Christmas to all readers!
I pray that God gave you wonderful gifts and wonders :)
This year, it's a little bit special Christmas, God gave us a new life to take care of. I pray that he continues to support us in this adventure.
Thanks to our Holy Lord.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
A little bit of day dreaming...
In fact, I am completely exhausted... but happy... my work is quite stressful at the moment as my projects did not go as I expected. A lot of things need to be rework, redesign and debug. Parallel to this, my family life, I am taking care of Yukyin and it takes more energy than I can describe... but as I said earlier... I am happy to be able to manage what I am doing. Thanks God for the support he give me everyday.
So, during a short moment, I spend some time daydreaming while looking at pictures of sunset... sunrise... taking a break from all the environment here.
Hope you enjoyed my little daydreaming session.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Today's her birthday!
Juste un message pour te souhaiter un joyeux anniversare ma chérie.
Je t'aime
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Je t'aime
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Friday, December 12, 2008
The miracle of breastmilk!
Ok ok, it's early but we needed to have a deep look at this question and I wanted to share my findings on this holy topic...
It may not be really obvious, but I am Chinese... and there is always the saying about this or that Chinese Proverb... If you happen to be pregnant or if you will be the husband of somebody who will, you will find out that a lot of your friends will start to give you advices on whatever subject in your life, especially Chinese people, they will completely submerge you with advices on what to eat or drink, here is a short list:
-drink milk
-don't eat "cold" or raw (cold refers to cold type of food, like watermelon, etc... Chinese people separate food in two families, hot and cold food, I don't have an exact list, but it should be easily found on internet)
-eat dark green vegetables
-don't eat beef
-eat beef
-don't eat ...
-eat...
then come the don't:
-do not crouch
-do not do too much exercises,
-do not bend down...
and now the suspicious don't:
-do not hammer nail in the walls
-do not meet a newly born baby under 4 months age
-do not use scissors
-do not go to your friends weddings...
The list is huge... and start to really bugs us, because you will notice that some advices are contradictory, some are completely false, some might be true, some... are completely nonsense. But, I want to come back on the milk one, because it made me think about it twice. Yukyin is pouring milk into her stomach once a day with some bran cereals. The bran is there to help her digests because it contains a lot of fibers or I should say, it is pure fibers. Milk was there for her and the baby. The baby will need calcium and her mom said that the baby will take all the calcium from the mom's bones.
So, as a daily habit, she kept drinking milk. Until today.. or tomorrow as she will stop from tomorrow (today's too late). A vegetarian friend of mine told me that cow milk was no good, but she did not manage to explain why. But today, some friends sent us this video (you may want to know Cantonese...). In two words, it talks about milk drinking habit. A professor in the USA has done a lot of research and conclude that humans should not drink too much cow milk (note the TOO MUCH here...). He says that excess of cow milk increases the risk of cancer in human body (which has been statistically proved for prostate cancer) and that drinking too much cow milk will increase the quantity of calcium in bones joints, it may sound contradictory as everyone knows that milk is a great calcium source. In fact, bovine protein (which is contained in milk) will be somehow transformed into acid. The body will react to this acid by taking calcium from the bones... so it's a kind of vicious circle. Also, milk would be source of a lot of allergies or extreme immune reaction in some babies. Some babies have been reported to develop allergies to cow milk because the mother was drinking cow milk during the pregnancy...
A whole nightmare started for Yukyin as she found out about all this... the world were collapsing. Ok, adult people can find calcium in other things than milk, but what about babies? What can they drink? What can she drinks?
Easy answer: breastmilk!
People usually says that it hurts and all kind of other painful moment, or simply, it does not work. To find out more about it, I went onto internet to find out more about breastmilk and its composition compared to cow milk and soy milk.
Soy milk apparently does not have vitamin D and calcium (from wikipedia, other website states the contrary). Cow milk contains a lot of things good for health but it also contains some things... that are no good, exemple: lactoglobuline (in French), it's a substance that is not contained in human milk, this substance causes allergy to newly born child as it is stranger to our body. The intestinal system in a newborn needs around 100 days to be formed correctly and thus, may not be able to eliminate this kind of thing easily. It has too much proteins, a calf does not grow at the same speed as a human baby... Then, keep the cow milk for the calf...
To make it short, the best milk for a baby is the breastmilk... It contains everything the human babies needs to absorbs, its composition will change during the first three months of breast feeding to adapt to the baby's development need. Its composition will change during a single meal so that a baby will naturally feel full. There is too much to say, too much to discover, I can only invite you to look for breastmilk on wikipedia here.
When I read all this, I can only be astonished by how amazing our God's creation is. Everything seems to be so natural and perfect that you can't think that we are fruits of random evolution or unorganized explosions... God, I really want to thank you the way you made us.
So what does Yukyin can do to help her in taking care of our baby in her body??? we don't know yet, but we do know that cow milk is no good nor soy milk. Still need to investigate.
It may not be really obvious, but I am Chinese... and there is always the saying about this or that Chinese Proverb... If you happen to be pregnant or if you will be the husband of somebody who will, you will find out that a lot of your friends will start to give you advices on whatever subject in your life, especially Chinese people, they will completely submerge you with advices on what to eat or drink, here is a short list:
-drink milk
-don't eat "cold" or raw (cold refers to cold type of food, like watermelon, etc... Chinese people separate food in two families, hot and cold food, I don't have an exact list, but it should be easily found on internet)
-eat dark green vegetables
-don't eat beef
-eat beef
-don't eat ...
-eat...
then come the don't:
-do not crouch
-do not do too much exercises,
-do not bend down...
and now the suspicious don't:
-do not hammer nail in the walls
-do not meet a newly born baby under 4 months age
-do not use scissors
-do not go to your friends weddings...
The list is huge... and start to really bugs us, because you will notice that some advices are contradictory, some are completely false, some might be true, some... are completely nonsense. But, I want to come back on the milk one, because it made me think about it twice. Yukyin is pouring milk into her stomach once a day with some bran cereals. The bran is there to help her digests because it contains a lot of fibers or I should say, it is pure fibers. Milk was there for her and the baby. The baby will need calcium and her mom said that the baby will take all the calcium from the mom's bones.
So, as a daily habit, she kept drinking milk. Until today.. or tomorrow as she will stop from tomorrow (today's too late). A vegetarian friend of mine told me that cow milk was no good, but she did not manage to explain why. But today, some friends sent us this video (you may want to know Cantonese...). In two words, it talks about milk drinking habit. A professor in the USA has done a lot of research and conclude that humans should not drink too much cow milk (note the TOO MUCH here...). He says that excess of cow milk increases the risk of cancer in human body (which has been statistically proved for prostate cancer) and that drinking too much cow milk will increase the quantity of calcium in bones joints, it may sound contradictory as everyone knows that milk is a great calcium source. In fact, bovine protein (which is contained in milk) will be somehow transformed into acid. The body will react to this acid by taking calcium from the bones... so it's a kind of vicious circle. Also, milk would be source of a lot of allergies or extreme immune reaction in some babies. Some babies have been reported to develop allergies to cow milk because the mother was drinking cow milk during the pregnancy...
A whole nightmare started for Yukyin as she found out about all this... the world were collapsing. Ok, adult people can find calcium in other things than milk, but what about babies? What can they drink? What can she drinks?
Easy answer: breastmilk!
People usually says that it hurts and all kind of other painful moment, or simply, it does not work. To find out more about it, I went onto internet to find out more about breastmilk and its composition compared to cow milk and soy milk.
Soy milk apparently does not have vitamin D and calcium (from wikipedia, other website states the contrary). Cow milk contains a lot of things good for health but it also contains some things... that are no good, exemple: lactoglobuline (in French), it's a substance that is not contained in human milk, this substance causes allergy to newly born child as it is stranger to our body. The intestinal system in a newborn needs around 100 days to be formed correctly and thus, may not be able to eliminate this kind of thing easily. It has too much proteins, a calf does not grow at the same speed as a human baby... Then, keep the cow milk for the calf...
To make it short, the best milk for a baby is the breastmilk... It contains everything the human babies needs to absorbs, its composition will change during the first three months of breast feeding to adapt to the baby's development need. Its composition will change during a single meal so that a baby will naturally feel full. There is too much to say, too much to discover, I can only invite you to look for breastmilk on wikipedia here.
When I read all this, I can only be astonished by how amazing our God's creation is. Everything seems to be so natural and perfect that you can't think that we are fruits of random evolution or unorganized explosions... God, I really want to thank you the way you made us.
So what does Yukyin can do to help her in taking care of our baby in her body??? we don't know yet, but we do know that cow milk is no good nor soy milk. Still need to investigate.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Waiting... again...
Dear All,
I tried to find another title for this post, but I can't, that's the first word coming to my mind actually.
I have been away since last week, did not post, did not take any pictures... No time at all. In fact, Yukyin is pregnant. I have so much to say about that that I don't know where to start but, there is a common factor to all that happened in our life... and that's God's work.
Let me give you an insight of the power of His works.
Last year, we join a new fellowship at Church, a lot of couples, a lot of new friends. Some of them are already married for long, others are recent marriage. We started to integrate into this new family. There were people that just learnt their pregnancies, people in late pregnancies, people with new born kids, people with older kids... A lot of examples for us to look at, to share experience with. Yukyin has always been a bit worried by my expectations of having a child. But I know that God worked with me to show me plenty of different kids in order to get me accustomed with the idea of having a baby and what it implies. Anyway, we were looking for a new fellowship and developing our faith, He was looking to build our personalities to face our own pregnancy.
He also prepared my work, I already talked about that two post below, but I am overly convinced that all are His work, I cannot have a better choice. I am living 25-30 minutes away from my office, which is quite good considering the geography of Hong Kong.
I can find a lot of different things that He has given to us, there is simply too much that I can remember, but one thing has been ticking my mind lately, in fact, I have been suffering from a skin disease on my hands for 13 years that was caused by the use of soap based liquid, which made us separate household work, I was nearly doing everything that would not require me to use liquid soap or rubber gloves (which is not much). But, I was finally cured during last summer and found a method to avoid it in the future. Thus, I can take care of Yukyin everyday by doing all the household work. This also take part in His preparation of our couple to have a child.
I praise our Holy God for what he has given me. I pray that our baby grows steadily in Yukyin's womb.
That's what I wanted to share today. Sorry, no pictures yet.
I tried to find another title for this post, but I can't, that's the first word coming to my mind actually.
I have been away since last week, did not post, did not take any pictures... No time at all. In fact, Yukyin is pregnant. I have so much to say about that that I don't know where to start but, there is a common factor to all that happened in our life... and that's God's work.
Let me give you an insight of the power of His works.
Last year, we join a new fellowship at Church, a lot of couples, a lot of new friends. Some of them are already married for long, others are recent marriage. We started to integrate into this new family. There were people that just learnt their pregnancies, people in late pregnancies, people with new born kids, people with older kids... A lot of examples for us to look at, to share experience with. Yukyin has always been a bit worried by my expectations of having a child. But I know that God worked with me to show me plenty of different kids in order to get me accustomed with the idea of having a baby and what it implies. Anyway, we were looking for a new fellowship and developing our faith, He was looking to build our personalities to face our own pregnancy.
He also prepared my work, I already talked about that two post below, but I am overly convinced that all are His work, I cannot have a better choice. I am living 25-30 minutes away from my office, which is quite good considering the geography of Hong Kong.
I can find a lot of different things that He has given to us, there is simply too much that I can remember, but one thing has been ticking my mind lately, in fact, I have been suffering from a skin disease on my hands for 13 years that was caused by the use of soap based liquid, which made us separate household work, I was nearly doing everything that would not require me to use liquid soap or rubber gloves (which is not much). But, I was finally cured during last summer and found a method to avoid it in the future. Thus, I can take care of Yukyin everyday by doing all the household work. This also take part in His preparation of our couple to have a child.
I praise our Holy God for what he has given me. I pray that our baby grows steadily in Yukyin's womb.
That's what I wanted to share today. Sorry, no pictures yet.
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