When your newborn child is diagnosed with Down Syndrome, who do you turn to for support and advice? Thinking back, I was glad that K's paediatrician remembered to inform us of the Down Syndrome Association (DSA) here. Because many good things came out of that call to DSA.  From that call, DSA helped me to connect with one of the best paediatricians who...

Before the countdown starts, Before the clock strikes twelve, Before the Auld Lang Syne, From us to you,  Here's wishing everyone a very blessed new year!  To good health and a more enriched life!  ...

Love.  It is a universal language - and often, it's a language that does not require words to be expressed.  Love was overwhelming at the RDSS (Rare Disorders Society Singapore) "Christmas is Christmas" party last Saturday. As I sat at my table, soaking in the scene of radiant-looking Mommies catching up with one another, excited kids, flying balloons that escaped from the children's hands, and Santa...

Have your kids ever entered this phase where they simply hate bathing even though they used to love the water-splashing fun? It's almost Iike they just wake up one day and decide that enough is enough with bathing, and they start battling each bath with screams and cries. It's every Mommy's nightmare to deal with such resistance to bathing.  I was fortunate enough...

[Media Invite] It was curiosity that prompted me to attend the 10th National Piano and Violin Competition Prize Winners' Concert & Prize Presentation Ceremony at the Victoria Concert Hall on Sunday. I am no expert listener, and can't tell the difference between great works of Beethoven or Mozart, but I was curious about the performing standards of the prize winners and I was...