Filed under: The Little One
Drooling for more ang bao
Blogging and online gaming have taken a setback because of baby J. More time is needed for him from me, and thus the retreat from the online world.
Quick updates:
- Japan trip went well 
baby J was a good traveler, and Hubs and I were glad that we visited another beautiful country.
- Celebrated Christmas and New Year’s eve with great friends and much love
- Starting Masters again on Tuesdays, in Early Childhood. Finally pursing my interest again.
- I am a proud breastfeeding mum for nearly 4 months. a great achievement I must say.
- I am itching to travel and run away to another country on my own, but I know that I will miss my son terribly if I ever did something crazy like that.
- Spring cleaning is about to commence. I started with my Facebook friends. Need to clean up. Hopefully I can get more things cleaned up around the house too – Hubs has yet to unpack his stuff since we moved in.
Will update soon, but before I forget… have a great 2012
Sleeping soundly after his first Hep B jab – he is 4.155kg and 54 cm long now!
Yesterday was the first time we brought J out for an extended period of time and it was a huge success having him in the carrier was liberating and he managed to sleep in it as well. We visited my gynae for the last time (for now; Hubs wants to have another one soon, though…), my colleagues in school (he cried the whole staff room down, but they didn’t mind and instead added a lot of “oohs” and “awwws”), and finally the polyclinic for his first jab ever since we left the hospital. It was a wonderful feeling being able to walk around with him, and we are entirely convinced that we could travel with him in the future.
Which brings me to talk about the Japan trip that we had wanted to embark on to visit Hubs’ sister’s family – she is willing to sponsor our air tickets for our first anniversary gift! We are really tight on cash having bought (and done up) the new place plus having J, and we were honestly very broke. But Hubs’ sister has always been encouraging and feels that we should travel as early as we could. We are so going to make this work! Am very excited – hope it’ll all work out fine
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…weeks’ old, that is.
My lactating career has progressed quite well since my last post, so I’m on my way to preserving more goodness for Baby J. He’s been a sweetie most of the time (during the day especially) but lately in the evenings he had been cranky and fussy, with lots of continuous crying and non-settling after his 2nd last feed for the day. It may be colic, but it also seems like a growth spurt because he would settle down after a feed followed closely from that 2nd last feed. Oh well.
Life as a mom requires so much more discipline, patience and love than ever. It can be so tiring and upsetting when he fusses/cries/screams, but when you see him sleep and looking sated, you would feel so much satisfaction.
My sweetie pie
Now the next most headachey thingy is – what to plan for his 满月? I don’t have much time for planning… hmmm.
Addendum: his 满月 was a success! Lots of presents (and ang bao) for him and we thoroughly enjoyed our time catching up with family and friends. Lots of valuable advice was also given to us noob parents and J stayed up almost the entire day and slept soundly throughout the night
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Low milk supply.
5 days ago, I suffered from breast engorgement, and made an appointment with Thomson Parentcraft Centre to learn about latching Baby J so that he could feed off me properly as well as to ease the pain in my boobies. Being overconfident at that point in time where I seemed to be “over-supplying”, I did not religiously pump out my milk as I should.
And now, low milk supply. I could barely keep up with Baby J’s ever growing appetite. He is currently going through a growth spurt now and he feeds off a lot more than I could manage now. With each pump session, I could barely make it for his demand. So right now, I’m bombarding myself with lots of red date tea and water every now and then, and Hubs went to purchase fenugreek capsules:
Introducing my BFFs for now – red date tea, fenugreek capsules and lots of water in my Nalgene
It is supposed to be able to boost milk supply within 24 to 72 hours. I had just taken 3 capsules – let’s see if this works for me. And please keep your fingers crossed for me! I really would want to provide Baby J with breastmilk for as long as I could. I shall make this work!
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5am: woke up feeling this… gush and spun myself out of bed. Thought my incontinence had hit a new high that I wouldn’t know when my pee was coming at all, but when I felt that the “pee” kept coming and there was a tinge of blood accompanied by cramps, I thought it was time to wake Hubs up. Hubs thought he was late for work when I called for him. When I looked at the mess I created, I saw that my water was green (later did I realize that it was meconium) and I wondered why.
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Will update my birth story soon, but just to let you know…
Our handsome boy is born on 15 September 2011, 7:06pm. I’m feeling so much love for him, and I find myself being more patient towards him than I thought I ever would. Hope this would keep up 
Ok, time to rest to prepare for more breastfeeding and visitors tomorrow
Filed under: Home/House/Heart
Lovely to know that no one can peep into your house and that the greenery will help boost your eyesight – unfortunately the stupid haze is back, which explains the white sheet of sky. Indonesia, you better wake up your idea…
Filed under: Home/House/Heart
Spent the past two days moving into our new pad and it was EXHAUSTING. I didn’t carry much, but I could feel the strain on my lower back. Sigh. Surprisingly, I do have a fair amount of energy in the day these days, and am able to sleep through the night without visiting the toilet in the midst of it. Can’t wait to visit the gynae later to ask if it’s any time soon because it is less than 2 weeks away!
We finally moved in (and slept on our new bed) on 10th September, and our house was “warmed” by Hubs’ close friends who had been of great help to us. The place looks fantastic – shall take photos when we have finally moved everything in. Let’s just hope that the place would not be wrecked by the cats too soon! Today’s moving was… more tiring as we had to move all our 9 cats over (which is seriously no joke). Half of them were freaking out and stressed, and besides the alpha male who is chilling at my feet, now all of them are hiding somewhere recovering from the shock. I guess it’s not easy for them at all, considering that for most of them it was their first time moving into a new environment. There are still quite a number of things left to be moved from the old place, and we have decided to give ourselves this week to finish moving in so that we can finally hand over the keys to the new owner.
It might be my hormones, and it might just be me who really treasures my privacy, but I am still not used to having an outsider at home. It stresses me out, from time to time, how my helper would “jump” at every opportunity to help when I do not need it, and how she is constantly asking me what else is there to do. She is quite a fast worker but not really a thorough one, so sometimes I have to ask her to do things again. Moreover, her English is really very bad and she cannot even understand simple sentences – we have to break up our sentences in phrases over and over, which can be very tiring. It doesn’t help when she has broken at least three things within the month – not intentionally, of course, but to me it is bad enough. I am trying to get her to learn cooking from my mother, but even my mother (whose English isn’t the most powerful) felt that she could not be understood easily.
Sigh. Well, I can only hope that things will get better in time to come. I am quite clear that my helper should only help our with household chores and nothing else, but I am also quite clear I would probably get a helper from elsewhere in the future – I simply have no patience to overcome language barrier.
