Baby Pediatric Massage

All along, I've been bringing JE to Yu Guo Baby Massage at Kembangan ever since I got to hear of it in 2014 when my mummies' group was sharing about remedies for cough, wind in the tummy, etc for babies..

Yu Guo Baby Massage  (18B Jalan Masjid, #B1-01 Kembangan Plaza, 418944; Tel: 6447 4761) is non-invasive, and a experienced physician would diagnose your child prior to assigning massage therapists to massage your child according to his or her condition for around 30 - 40 minutes. Medicated tummy packs will be dispensed for the kids.. So far, we have been going there for the past 2 years..

However, I'm not sure if there's an epidemic recently or they have gotten more popular, the waiting time is rather mad during weekends. One Saturday, we rushed down from Senja to Kembangan only to be rejected for registration 1 hour before closing because the queue was too long. We have been rejected once cox it was 30 minutes prior to closing time, and thankfully given the grace to register once around the same time. We went down again early the next morning around 10am and waited 1.5 hours before we got to see the Dr, and finally finished our massage around 12.30pm..

So when JY caught running nose middle of the week, I was sourcing around for alternative clinics..
There's also not bad reviews for Herbal Basic at Havelock Road. It's sort of in the middle between the east and the west. Hubby's friend recommended it, so did one of the neighbours. perhaps shall try and then review them one of these days.. they go by appointment basis as well..

Looking around for clinics even nearer home, I found that BPP has a pediatric tuina at Eu Yan Sang. Also found that there's Shandong TCM at Jurong East, Chinese Medical Centre ( at CCK, Jurong East & West).

I brought both kids to try Shandong TCM on Saturday morning. They take appointments, we made one that morning for 10.30am but then were slightly late and so had to wait a little for our turn. The clinic was much smaller than Yu Guo's. There was a dispensary and 2 physicians who would diagnose the patient's condition. The physician we saw was Dr Tee Bee Lay, who had two assistants, one typing out the condition and diagnosis. After diagnosis, we waited to do massage at one of the three treatment beds available. Both kids were supposed to do the Herbal Vapour Therapy as both were having a bit of flu, but JE was awfully scared of it. (Pic is from Shandong TCM's website.)

I had to cox her for a long time with watching Youtube videos on my phone and even then, she was sitting abit further away from the machine and I had to fan it towards her to get more of the medicated vapours into her nose. JY, being only 7 months, just sat there on Brenda's lap while the therapy was ongoing. The treatment time overall was quite abit shorter than at Yu Guo's, perhaps only 20 - 30 minutes, whereas at Yu Guo the massage went on for about 40 minutes. I paid $95 for two kids' massage, HVT, and medicated patch for JY and oral powder for JE. Shandong TCM's price is available here. I guess I will go back again during Saturday for a follow-up, hopefully they are already well by then. JY pooped sticky poo on Sunday, hopefully he was dispelling phlegm after treatment and would be fine soon..