My Life

Happy New Year and hope everyone have properous new year !!!!!……..

Hahahaha…. yes, if counted by year, KaiRou is one year old now, born in 2008 and now is 2009 …..

I always have funny feeling when saw babies same age as KaiRou but is much bigger than KaiRou. I have neighbout’s son with 8 months old (considered same age as Kairou) climbing gate during our visit. Err… are they really same age? Hahaha… I always hardly believe it even I know it makes sense if counted by months.

Hup’s mom and sister said “Aiya, your baby ‘lose out’ as others same age babies already learnt a lot of things while my baby still like a plain paper”

Hup and I have different thought. We said “Wow…. our baby so lucky, only 1 month old ++ already considered as Year 1 now” ….. hahaha….

For babies that born on early months and later months, we may see a lot of differences during initial few years (in terms of body size, things that they have learnt), but eventually the differences will be slowly close up….:P

To me, it is the most difficult and stressful task after giving birth. Due to my tiredness after giving birth and additional bb’s stay in hospital, I just breastfed once per day for her first week. Yes, it badly affected the milk supply due to very low demand ((Supply = Demand))
 
Besides the low milk supply problem, another problem was how to have a proper latch on for feeding. It was difficult as both mama and bb were very new to this and still learning. Little bb sometimes get frustrated and mama have to be very patient and keep trying. My bb initially rejected breastfeeding as she has used to the bottle feed with quick milk flow. Life became so stressful…

After 2 weeks, I stopped breast feeding with the naive thought that frequent milk pumping (with electric pump) will increase the milk supply and will keep the supply continue, means, my bb will continue to get the breast milk. I realized that I was wrong few days later after I had some reading on how to increase the milk supply. In fact, the ONLY way to increase the milk supply is bb’s SUCKING !! … My goodness, I have to quickly continue the breastfeeding before my bb’s totally rejected it. I told Hup that be prepared for bb’s crying as I was going to trying hard on this.

I won’t say I am successful in breast feeding now as my milk supply still considered low….. but at least for now, my bb just have once or none formula feed daily, the rest with breast feed. I am still trying hard to increase my milk supply. Now I am taking supplement ‘Fenugreek’ which said will increase the milk supply, hope it works.

I am more relaxing now… just supply whatever I have. This is the best that mama can provide

Thanks my hubby for his continuous support in my breastfeeding effort. I am not fully succesful but I DID it !!!!…..

For those upcoming mama… don’t too worry about this. A friend of mine just gave birth a little girl and she has over-supply of breastmilk. So, it really depends on individual

KaiRou’s first month is on Dec 18th. Hmm…. we didn’t have much ceremony on her full moon, just cut her hair a little bit, cut her little nails and we all (my mom, confinement lady, me, Hup and KaiRou) went out for lunch for little celebration

We had also invited friends/relatives/neighbours to our house on Dec 20th for the full moon celebration. Little KaiRou slept through all the way in the living room regardless of how noisy it was. Haha…so good, so that Hup and I can focus on serving people… ….

“KaiRou, you are good girl, ya :P… mommy ’sayang’..:P “

“Hurray !!!! I am one month old now !!!! “

“Our First Family Photo”

“Hair cutting… by papa “

“Nail cutting…. by Mama. It was so challenging to cut her little nail…”

Hehe…. yes, she is *o* …..  She likes to hold the milk bottle when she is drinking…guess this is the nature of all the babies

Of course she still don’t know how to hold it properly and she can just hold it for short while with fix position

“Mama… see… I am so clever. I know how to hold my milk bottle on my day 16th :P”

“o….. I am so full and zzzzzzzzzzzz……….”

Today is the 23rd day of my confinement…… and I had my first bath and hair wash !!!!

WOW !!!!!! I felt so good !!!!!

Errr….. yeah, you can imagine how oily and dirty my scalp was without washing for soooooo long. But, no choice lah, old people say washing hair (with wet scalp) will absorb the wind and will easily cause headache in future. So, I just listen lor  ^o^ … but I do wipe my body every 2 days (the water must mix with rice wine)

Others confinement rules are:
-must either wear shoes or socks
-no direct fan blow
-food control (can’t take egg, certain veges/fish/meat)
-all meals must have ginger, sesame oil and rice wine (to expel ‘wind’ from my body)
-no drinking of plain water. Instead, must drink warm/hot red date & longan tea

Hmm… luckily the hired confinement lady didn’t impose too many “unnecessary” confinement rules. All above are still acceptable for me. The only thing that hardly bearable is no hair wash and I always feel like my body is ‘burning’ but I still need to eat all the ‘heaty’ stuff that made me hot, hot, hot !!!

I do feel lucky that my mom and mother in law are not around during my confinement. Else, I am sure they will impose more rules for me. Phew !!!! …..

“Some said I got Mama’s nose and cheek, some said I look like Papa…. what do you think?”

“Both Papa and KaiRou are pig pig…. like to zzzzzzz……:P”

My bb’s jaundice’s level was increased back to ~270 after she came back home for 2 days. We rushed her to policlinic for the lab test of jaundice’s level and doctor asked us to come back again the next day for continue monitoring. Luckily, her jaundice’s level dropped back to 140 on the next day, or else, she need to be admitted to hospital for photo therapy. She seems like fully recover now (means, her liver is fully functioning now :P)………

“Under morning sun bath…..to reduce the Jaundice’s level ”

Nappy rash is another thing that worried us. Her nappy rash was quite serious when she was discharged from hospital. Sigh… there are so many babies that the nurses need to take care, thus, they won’t have much time to really take care of my little one. Poor little girl was crying badly whenever we changed diapers for her. The nappy rash was badly spread after 2 days. Again, we brought her to doctor. Her nappy rash seems like recover a little bit after we applied the medician. Hope she will recover soon.

“Nappy rash was badly spread…. “

Sorry, ya…. KaiRou….you have to bear the pain of blood drawing (at least 5 times for jaundice’s level check) and nappy rash once you are born. But… don’t worry… you will fully recover soon.