I like it whenn we swaddle her up like this...
She looks like those russian doll we bought *giggle*
Her 1st bath back home... by papa dearest...
She looked very much like Papa when born.. but she is slowly chagning.. and it seems liek she look vry much like me now...
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Hee...
Tot prob I shall scan my childhood poto n compare w these...
For the 1 mth... Edna been crnaky many times.. in fact the 1st 2 weeks.. she barely sleep int eh day time.. she cried from 9am to 6pm... super stressful... since we duno what exactly she wants.. I rem the 1st week she cried till 4am in the morning.. and both dear and me were just staring at her wondering what shld be done.. she seemed to resist us carrying her.. which is realy weird.. i tot babies like to b cuddled??
We try giving her gripe water.. but that did not realy solve her crying problem during the day time...
eventualy we brought her to the PD who actualy suspect she might b colicky.. th which I ever tot of but prob impossible cos I tot colic usualy happen for 4 hours and usualy also at nite? anyway we were given the colic drops ' ridwind' and it kind of help a little.. at least.. she managed to have short nap in between feed thou crying still persist a little..
Im quite a strict mummy
since we came home.. I been trying to establish a routine for her.. I hardly give in to anythg less than3 hour feeding. I guess I miss her spurt growth drung the 3rd week cos of that.. hope it dun affect Edna very much... since spurt growth might prob need a lil more milk for that few days..
ANyway at the end of 2nd week when we brought her to PD for the colic prob.. she weigh about 3.6kg.. a weight which pd say is quite ok since she is on TBF.. she mentioned tbf babies usualy gain weight slower...
and mummy me haven got much milk..
We supplemented her with "similac" during the 1st week via cup/spoon feeding since I was worried bout her jaundice and all I want was to get rid of the yellow-ness in her asap.. thankfuly her jaundice did not escalate aft the 5th day of birth... thou the visit to polyclinic to do blood test was unavoidable... aft 2 weeks all was cleared... YIPEE! By week 2 she was on TBF.
I managed to established a routine for her as I mentioned earlier... she managed to sleep thru the nite aft mid nite feed. thou occassionaly she wakes up less than 5 hours aft sleeping.. which makes mi wonder if any activity during the day had caused her to wake up? over stimulation? that remains to be observed.
I must say the routine is SUPER impt to a baby and the care giver.. more predicatable at least.. esp for me who have to stay home alone w baby since week 3 after dear went bk to work and on some days he is away and not home at all.
Right now.. our day starts ard 9am.. Here is how our typical dayis like
9am: 1st feed and I pump out any excess since the nite been quite long since the previous 12 midnite pump/feed. Then I will rush out to soak the bottles, pump n etc, make myself a cup of warm drink, eat all my supplement as well as chikcen essence while she wail on bed =p
9.45am: bath time
After which she will be bk to her bed to nap.. she usualy will doze off very fast(ehh 20 mins of struggle?) during this nap (took us 4 week to get into this particular nap routine)
11.30am: usualy by now she will have woken up... sometimes of she is too tired she wills till be sleeping.. I prep for her feed that is supposed to b at 12 noon
12 noon: feeding time.. sometiems i pump out and feed sometimes I latch...
Latching takes about 30 to 40 mins...
and nappy changing.
play ard w her aft this thou she barely like to play w us.. she is sooo boring... I usualy put her on bouncer aft this feed.. cos I will be having my lunch. so while I bounce her w my feet.. I get to eat.. sometimes i just let her cry in the bouncer.. Im quite shut off to cries =p
after i fin lunch I will pop her bk to bed.. she struggle on..and fall asleep... no patting! it doesnt work on her anyway =)
3pm: feed time, diaper changing time.
Attempt to play with her a bit more... thou usualy she make noise n then struggle to sleep again w/o my sassistance...
6pm: feeding time
Usualy by this feed she is more tired.. and will b in semi sleep mode...
I will change her diaper.. put on socks and long pants for her to go to sleep. This sleep.. she struggle less cry less... but might take about 45 mins or so for her to go to sleep.. but at least lesser cries...
My day with her ends here actualy... cos is her bed time by 7pm... and I get to eat my dinner.. do my stuff n etc.
9pm: wakes her up.. dream feed her.. if she is very awake i will change her diaper.. else I will leave her as it is.. she will go bk to lala land immediately after this feed... usualy I give her bottle feed as it is faster and I can get papa to feed her... bonding time mah... (dream bonding that is!) and of cos I need to pump milk too...
After all these... its ME time again!
of cos I got stuff like washing of bottles n sterlising to do..
I wait till 12midnite.. pump and bottle feed her and she continue to sleep w/o fuss... I LOVE evening n nite!
and I go to bed...
Usualy she does not wake up for milk until about 4am or later.. the latest will be 6am where I will latch her on to dream feed her while bothof us continue to sleep till the nxt feed at 9 =)
In btw she will stir a little.. I guess she had more than enuff sleep for the nite =)
I noticed the moment the sun goes down.. she will go to sleep mode..prob cos its dark? and the moment when the sun comes out.. she will start moving more... I hope she realy understand the difference of day n night. In the tummy I will tell her when is day n nite everyday w/o fail... I hope that works =)
while she is strictly on routine.. she is still a cry baby.. I wonder when willt he cryign stop and smiling starts.. she is def not a smiley baby for a start.. sigh...
