diannemarinescu
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Hello again, everyone, and thank you for your kind words and advice. I guess it's just a matter of being patient and giving it time, totally agree with you there. Since my first post, I found some cool strolling places here, towards Wampoa and the promenade, probably next year we move to that area. We've been to the other side, Admirality park, etc. It's nice, but so artificial (well, what can you expect, it's a large city, not my usual small town surrounded by forests LOL). The trip would have been very difficult, if not impossible without my husband, however. Yeah, it's the stroller again. Especially when there are lots of people around, it's really hard with it and inside the park, not everything is accessible due to steps. But it was ok with my hubby's muscle power (best gym for him, too haha). I have a carrier, but I can't carry my son anymore 
. He's over 10 kg and naughty, keeps bouncing and I have a mighty hernia post-partum. I know, carriers are the best and when he was smaller, it was something I did often, taking him along for walks. But these days even my husband complains of back pain when lifting him.
I booked a boat trip to Stanley, so I'll see that side soon. I've heard it's nice and stroller friendly. My stroller gets really small when folded, so it's easy to take it on board.
I vaccinated my son at the government clinic and I have mixed views about the process. They check the baby's health, but not as thoroughly as they do it in Europe. Here they only check the height and weight and then the nurse interviewed us and checked his development. In Europe it was a lot faster and more in depth (head circumference, abdomen, intimate parts, etc) The entire process of registration and vaccination took us exactly 3 hours here! In Europe it was never more than 15 minutes. Here we had to see the pediatrician too, because my son suffers from allergies, so vaccination wasn't as straightforward as for other kids. Perhaps this added some waiting time to everything. But the pediatrician was very nice and good professionally. Overall, I liked the facility and the staff, but I'm not sure the ill kids and the healthy ones were separated. My son caught a respiratory virus and now he's got a runny nose and he's coughing and I'm pretty sure it's not the vaccine. He's also low on appetite which is very uncharacteristic for him. I'm sure he'll be fine in a few days, but I'm just saying. They registered us without a fuss after showing them his passport and both our IDs and they offered us vaccination the same day, which was nice. We are due for another vaccination which is not given in Europe (at least not where we lived) next month. I think I'm going to keep the government facility for vaccination and go private for everything else.
. He's over 10 kg and naughty, keeps bouncing and I have a mighty hernia post-partum. I know, carriers are the best and when he was smaller, it was something I did often, taking him along for walks. But these days even my husband complains of back pain when lifting him. I booked a boat trip to Stanley, so I'll see that side soon. I've heard it's nice and stroller friendly. My stroller gets really small when folded, so it's easy to take it on board.
I vaccinated my son at the government clinic and I have mixed views about the process. They check the baby's health, but not as thoroughly as they do it in Europe. Here they only check the height and weight and then the nurse interviewed us and checked his development. In Europe it was a lot faster and more in depth (head circumference, abdomen, intimate parts, etc) The entire process of registration and vaccination took us exactly 3 hours here! In Europe it was never more than 15 minutes. Here we had to see the pediatrician too, because my son suffers from allergies, so vaccination wasn't as straightforward as for other kids. Perhaps this added some waiting time to everything. But the pediatrician was very nice and good professionally. Overall, I liked the facility and the staff, but I'm not sure the ill kids and the healthy ones were separated. My son caught a respiratory virus and now he's got a runny nose and he's coughing and I'm pretty sure it's not the vaccine. He's also low on appetite which is very uncharacteristic for him. I'm sure he'll be fine in a few days, but I'm just saying. They registered us without a fuss after showing them his passport and both our IDs and they offered us vaccination the same day, which was nice. We are due for another vaccination which is not given in Europe (at least not where we lived) next month. I think I'm going to keep the government facility for vaccination and go private for everything else.