This is typically how much stuff we have to wash after one of your baths. First there's your clothes, mittens and booties, then there's your towel as you pee-ed on it whilst getting dressed up. Sometimes another set of clothings cause you spit up milk all over them right after you got dressed. And today, there's also a piece of muslin together with the little mattress and cover as you decided to poo too! Hmm....
Actually, this could be your second outing. Well, excluding those visits to the clinics and hospitals. You went for your routine check up and Hepatitis B jab at the clinic a few days ago. Since it was a public holiday, Papa and CheChe were also around. So we all went together and then headed to McDonald's for lunch. Not sure if you wanna consider that as an outing. Otherwise, we went to Gurney Plaza yesterday. My first attempt out with a newborn.... and his two older siblings! Yes, all three of you! No way I could have done it without Popo and our temporary helper. Couldn't even complete the list of things to get. On the way back, you screamed wee wee wee all the way home again. Quite an experience! Not sure if I'm gonna do it again anytime soon but Papa did suggest for just the three of us to go for lunch tomorrow. Let's see!
Two nights ago I went on my first solo outing to Tesco (I know, wonderful selection for a first solo outing). You have been fussing a bit in the evenings. We thought since it will be a short half to one hour trip, it's not too bad. I ended up being out for an hour and a half (oops!) And it seems Popo had to rescue Papa from all your screams. Last night you slept perfectly well. Tonight I'm experiencing what seems to be the worst of your fussy evenings for the first time. The problem is you ate tired and sleepy and will actually fall asleep after a feed or in someone's arms. But not for long. Every attempt to put you down will wake you up. Every five minutes you start moving and waking yourself up. The sound of a pin dropping will send your eyes wide open. Then you will either continue to keep them open and stimulate yourself more by absorbing the surroundings around you, or start fussing, arching your back and not wanting to be still and every attempt is just futile. This does not happen in the day mind you. Just at night... from around 8pm till, well it's almost midnight now. Hmm.. can get pretty tiring for us. Popo is holding you now. Thank God that there are three pair of hands available. My arms and shoulders are getting so sore... Have to go reat now and chant my mantra "and this too shall pass!" Good night baby. Sweet dreams. ...
Went to the Klinik for your 2nd dose of Hepatitis yesterday. You are now 4.4kg, 54cm long with a circumference of 38cm. After all the accessing done, we proceeded to have your immunisation done. Oh boy did you scream in pain when that needle went into your thigh! Poor baby! Thankfully it doesn't seem to have any side effects as of now.
After that we went for lunch at McDonald's. Was a little treat for your siblings since it was a public holiday. Was actually a little treat for Mama too! 1st outing with you and we went to McDonald's! Haha...
Had a small luncheon for to celebrate your full month of life at Maple Gold Restaurant. Mainly uncles and aunties and two good family friends. In fact, family came all the way from Ipoh just for this and Mama's best friend and family came all the way from KL!
Ordered cute little cupcakes as I wouldn't have time to make any. They also provide these lovely purple Japanese sweet potato ang koos which were soooo yummy! We dyed our own red eggs. Mama DIYed a bit of deco mainly the romper banner with your name hung with pegs and some cardboard frames with some of your pictures. Thought the setting was pretty good. Food wise was alright. Full but nothing to shout about.
You were very quiet the whole time there mostly sleeping but woke up for one feed. Prior to that, you screamed and cried all the way to the restaurant. I kept thinking I should have fed you before we left the house but we were late. When Papa brought you out of the car seat, your back was all wet with sweat. Maybe that was the main reason why you screamed. Poor boy. You were fine on the way home.
Glad and blessed and thankful to God for the past month with you.
5 hours 23 minutes since your last feed! Gave me a shock when I woke up just now and checked the app to see when you had your supper. Actually you probably just slept for about 4 hours as I now remember you were nursed, fell asleep and woke up again. Papa had to carry you and let you go back to sleep which was about 11pm and you woke up at about half past three. Anyway I got to sleep a little longer too. Just a little. Am not complaining though. I'd better go back to sleep now before I'm wide awake again! Night night baby! Sweet deams! Muaks!
It's now early in the morning. Just sent CheChe off to school and I'm in the room with you. You are wide awake listening intently to conversations and looking at things around you. I caught you staring at me. I looked back and smile. That's when you smiled back. As if to acknowledge that this is my Mama. The one who carried me in her womb for 40 weeks. The one who gave birth to me. The one who loves me no matter what. What a reward to see that smile.... now to try and capture it....
Also noticed you are turning your head to the direction of the things you want to see now. You like to look at mainly the dark brown curtains in our room with flicker of sunlight shining through and the lights on the ceiling.
CheChe and KorKor are funny. And loving. They will often return from the park or even just outside our house compound pick up leaves or flowering weeds for Mama. It's funny. But it's really sweet. CheChe will even put the weeds in a small container of water to keep them alive. Obviously not realising that they are weeds. KorKor will pick different coloured leaves and I will admire the colour and shape and veins and any other markings on the leaves with him. After that, I really don't know what to do with them. I ant bear to throw them just yet as that will hurt their feelings but I don't want to keep more bits and bobs in the house. Maybe I should have a tray somewhere for this and bin them when they finally seem that they belong in the bin, somehow....
After your check up yesterday, we managed to go to Maple Palace Restaurant to check out their menu for your fullmoon luncheon next week on the 25th. Decided to have a small luncheon outside instead of doing it at home to minimise extra work. We have invited mainly just family and a handful close friends. Mama's best friend will be here too this time!
For the rest of our friends and Papa's colleagues, we will give a gift of tarts and red eggs and angkoos.
Usually, this would be a title for a post on one of you kids. Today it's gonna be for Papa. We have managed to move CheChe and KorKor out into their own room. Papa and Mama finally got to enjoy a room all to ourselves in more than 5 years! Then DiDi came along. We still try to let you sleep in the cot most of the time. But there were occasions where I would just feed you side by side and we will both just fall asleep in bed. Papa sleeps really soundly and he often worries that he'll accidentally squash you or something. So when you are in bed with me, he'd rather sleep on a duvet on the cold hard floor. This is also because there's no room left as Popo is sleeping with CheChe and KorKor while Kakak is occupying the last room. Poor Papa. Such sacrifice... ♡
Brought you to the doctor in Gleneagles today. Firstly it's because the Dr V from your hospital is on leave for a few weeks! Secondly it was because we wanted some assurance from the doc to say that you are okay. It's regarding your redness overall, how warm you are generally, the wheezing especially when you feed especially at night, your BCG and your belly button which is still weeping. I read online that most of these are quite normal but we just wanted the assurance.
You still look very red even though you are not jaundiced anymore. Your face, you back, overall it's just red. You seem fairest when cool. Like when you are sleeping with aircond. You have also been warm to touch. Somewhat fever like. But everytime we checked your temperature under your armpit, the readings are okay. Doc says your redness is from the my red blood cells still in your body as your body can't make it's own red blood cells yet till when yiu are about 6 weeks old. That's when you will return to a normal colour. Your temperature was 36.8 degree Celsius so it means you are alright.
I recorded the sound of your breathing for the doc. It can be quite heavy and scary as I often wonder if you are able to breathe properly when you feed. It seems as though you have a lot of phlegm blocking your airways. Doc says your lungs are clear and the stridor is from your immature trachea instead which should also resolve in a few weeks' time. Otherwise, if it does not or gets worse, we'll need to insert a scope in to check! Hope we don't have to take such traumatic measures!
You have no BCG scar yet. Again it will come at week 4-6. Doc gave your belly button a good wipe with 2 pieces if alcohol swap. Says it looks good but it shouldn't weep anymore. If it still weep, she'll have to put some disulfide powder to burn and seal it off. She then explained that it's just a chemical burning which will help seal off any puncture. She also said that the belly button leads to two major blood vessels which is why we have to keep it really clean with sterile wipes to avoid any infection.
While giving you an overall body examination, she noted that you have single palmar crease on your right hand. She said that only 5% of the entire population has that on one hand and only 1% on both hands. When I asked if there's any significance of a single palmar crease, she says it's just some interesting facts. When we read up more on it, it's actually linked to a lot of syndromes including Down's and Turner's. However if the person does not possess any physical traits upon examination, the it's okay. Guess doc didn't mention this as she didn't wanted to frighten us. But thank God you are okay.
You are 4.1kg, 54cm long with a 37cm head circumference.
Thanking God you are all well.
It's not 6.32am. We had just sorted you out. I was changing you earlier after a feed and you did a bomb! Yes, you poo-ed, twice more, mid-change! Had to wake Papa up to help me give you a quick rinse in the bath. After getting you all swaddled in bed, you started making little noises. Lots of little noises amidst hiccups. I didn't think you will start to coo so soon. A quick check online and it's affirmative! We officially have some coos! Yay!
You have obviously grown quite a bit now. More chubs chubs on your cheeks and filling the clothings more. We have also upgraded your nappy size from newborn to S! Only 2 more weeks to plan for your fullmoon. Better sort that out fast! Thinking of having a lunch on the 25th of October for some relatives and close friends. Will get gift packs from most probably Justart for the rest whom have kindly given gifts. Need to go survey a bit more while u zzz.
The nurse came today and weighed you at 3.7kg. Still 0.5kg lighter than KorKor when he was born! Praise God for weight gain.
Today is also CheChe's 1st kindy performance. You stayed home with me as we thought the trip was too far and the duration too long for a little bubba. There'll be lots of noise and too many kids to protect you from! Haha. Well, although I would have really loved to be there, guess at least there's still one year next year for me to attend before she starts primary one!
I have been keeping track of your feeding in an App. Noticed that you have been a little more cranky and feeding almost hourly at times. Must be the 2-3 week old growth spurt. The App shows that you have been nursing about an hour more generally these last 3 days. Can be tiring at times. Hope it only lasts 3 days!
Don't know how that happened. The mitten on your left hand was off and the scratch was on your right cheek. You must have reached across somehow. Sigh. Sad. Hopefully some powerful breast milk will heal it quickly.
Meanwhile I noticed that my pelvis are not hurting that much anymore. Praise God! The pubic bone still hurts a little especially when I turn in bed though. But shall pray that all will be back in order soon!
Got your prints down today. Have to say you weren't too chuffed to get your little fingers and toes squashed onto some plaster by your Mama! I so wanted to have the memory of your littleness... and the foot prints were just too cute! Couldn't get good handprints though. Ah well... will just have to repeat again when you are 3 years and 8 months so all three of you can compare your handprints at the same age when you are older.
You are putting on weight fast. Can see that your face has plumped up. Limbs still skinny though. You are also fairer now that the bilirubin level is probably going down. Your acne is also resolving so you're looking more handsome each passing day! And I still can't stop watching you sleep.... especially when you are on your side with one hand supporting your face... so adorable! <3
You are putting on weight fast. Can see that your face has plumped up. Limbs still skinny though. You are also fairer now that the bilirubin level is probably going down. Your acne is also resolving so you're looking more handsome each passing day! And I still can't stop watching you sleep....
I'm home alone with you and was gonna give you your morning bath. Was cleaning the poo off your bum when your upward pointing penis started pee-ing on you face! Poor boy! Had switched on water but realised no towel. While searching frantically for a fresh towel with one hand while the other holding on to you, you wee-ed again. Got to the bathroom and the tub was too full. With one hand again I had to pour out the water and refill again. While waiting, you gave us another shot! That's a lot of pee in such a short time, baby! Still have not got the hang of changing you without getting a good spray yet....
Ah Kong drove all the way up from Ipoh today to meet you for the very first time. He also brought along the home reared chickens especially for Mama. How special. And nutritious for you too since you are eating what I'm eating through wholesome breastmilk.
Kau Foo flew in from KL today to meet you for the very first time. He'll be off either tomorrow or the day after. Your siblings enjoyed the short time spent with him. You probably will too when you grow up later.
