Wow! It sure is no joke bringing everyone out to a shopping mall on a Saturday night! What were we thinking!?!?!?

1stly there constant white noise in the shopping mall makes it very difficult for me to hear everyone and vice versa. So we ended up shouting at or ignoring each other!

Then there is the mass (and mess!) of people which is totally expected on a Saturday night, suburban mall or not. It just makes it very difficult to keep a lookout for all 6 of them especially since we have 3 that are waist height and below! The children have all been taught to stay close and they do but it is physically difficult since there are so many people milling around. And then there is the wriggly baby who refuses to be in the pram or even in the sling. So that means I have no hands to hold on to anyone. And dh has only 2 hands....

I guess that taught us a lesson - don't do any errands on a weekend when you have 6 children 9yrs old & under!

Anyhow, the reason we had to go out on a dreaded Saturday night was to shop for underpants for the toddler whom I need to toilet train. Have you ever wondered why it is so difficult, in Singapore at least, to find underpants for toddlers who are small sized???

Our children are born average sized (all above 3kg) and them they bloom into chubby babies but mysteriously thinned out by the time they start walking. So by the time they are toddlers, they are really petite. I don't have a problem with this ***but*** it makes buying undergarments for them extremely difficult! Especially for girls!

The last 2 girls I toilet trained had their small-sized panties brought over by grandma from the UK when she visited sil. But she hasn't been there since last year and the panties that the older ones wore can't be passed down coz the elastic has died.  So we went hunting for them at Kiddy Palace but nope, the smallest size was way too big for our 2yr old. SIGH.

So we had made this trip for nothing! Argh!  So who knows where to get small-sized undies for little girls???

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Posted by Anonymous

Try the baby shop opposite AMK Polyclinic.

Posted by Anonymous

You can try Mothercare. They have sizes for 2-3 yo, and 2 types of cutting. Choose the smaller cut.

Posted by Cindy Tan

Hi Serene,

i know of those pasar malam stores where they do stock up panties for little girls as small and "thin".
why don't i get some and mail them to you?