Poor William

Yesterday was William's 3rd immunisation schedule at the clinic. When we reached there, he was in a good mood and was smiling to everyone that he sees. Due to that, one the nurse there brought him for sight-seeing and all the nurses took turns to hold him and hug him. One of them even kissed him and left a lipstick mark on his cheek.

A quick check shows that he's weighing at 6.4kg. By the time all the nurses had played with him, he was getting tired and sleepy. When wanting to get his shot, he started crying and was struggling alot because he does not like being hug in a feeding position whenever he is sleepy. That's how he got his shot with a hardened muscle.

Few minutes after the shot, he was smiling all over again and cooing with the nurses. By the time we reached home about 4pm he was sound asleep. However, soon enough he started to feel a very bad pain on his leg and began crying loudly and would not stop crying no matter what we did. He looked so pity with so many tears flowing from his eyes. His thigh looks so red and swollen and we can see that he does not dare to move his leg. Luckily the swell starts to ease few hours later but he still wants people to hug him for comfort till he sleeps. Poor William. I wonder if he will be scared of going to the clinic again next month for his next shot.

Thick Face for Ang Pow

I would say all children and some single adults are eager to receive ang pow during cny since sometimes it could sum up to quite large amount of extra spending $$. However, for the past few years, I notice a lot of public workers asking for ang pow as well, regardless whether they are already married. From their faces, you will certainly know that they are married.

The most common public worker asking for ang pow is the garbage collector. Now they would get lots of ang pow as they will ask from every chinese household that they passed by to collect garbage. When I was still staying at my parents house, the garbage collector still have the decency to only ask for ang pow by only coming during his offday and even gave 1 oranges to every household. But now they will simply ask for it, and will not leave until you gave them. This year, several garbage collectors came to our house for ang pow and we notice is due to they from different garbage truck. I wonder what would happen if we insist not giving them any.

Today I heard from my in-law saying that now even the postman are asking for ang pow. Now they are already getting paid for doing what they are supposed to do, and is it right for them to ask for ang pow from every household they passed by? Are they doing the same thing during Hari Raya or Deepavali? Luckily this still have not spread to our rotiman, newspaper man etc...

And Then It Came Back

I've been experiencing dry season for the past few weeks lately when expressing breast milk for my baby to drink. Previously from 4-5 ounces to merely 1-3 ounces. I even drank more liquid than normal but it does not help. I'm not sure why but my baby also does not seem to have same appetite as last time. He was able to finish 4.5 ounces each time during his feed, but recently he stopped after 2-3 ounces. Perhaps he knows mommy not able to produce enough recently :(.

Anyway, to prevent the milk supply from diminishing after trying for 2 weeks, I went to buy Fenugreek which supposed to help increase its production. I bought it for RM50.30 from GNC after 20% discount from credit card promotion (the original price is RM62.90). But before I manage to consume any of it, my milk supply came back as normal. However my baby's appetite still have not recovered much but at least he is now able to finish up his previous intake in certain feed. I just hope that he won't lost much weight from all of these.

First Chinese New Year

My baby celebrated his first Chinese New Year just after 2.5 months of age. Coincidently at stroke of midnight, he woke up for his feed and we took the opportunity to give him his first "ang pow". Here's the photo of him with his "big ang pow".

Happy Being Confined

I stayed at Sunrise during my confinement period for 1 month after delivery. For me, the stay is quite enjoyable as we get to share jokes and parenting information with all the mothers that stayed in the centre as well. Another plus is that there's an ex-nurse working there as well, so she is able to give valuable tips especially for new mothers on what to do. The ex-nurse is also the one that gives funny nicknames to all babies so that they are able to identify them should the parents brought them back to revisit the caretakers and nannies. I'm not sure why, but the nickname given to my child is "Attap Chee" as in attap seed.


Here's the group photo of all the babies that stayed in the centre during November 2008 month. Guess which one is my William :)

First Day Into the World

Finally I have some free time to download the pictures from my camera (I let my mom take care of my baby for the night :P). Here's some of the shots taken on the day that my precious William is born.

Ahh... eyes can't open yet

Small small knows how to "dig" ear already

Getting some peaceful sleep

Sleepless Nights

We are having many sleepless nights ever since the baby is back in our house after confinement. It seems that the baby biological timeclock goes haywire. He sleeps throughout the day and do not want to sleep at night. We tried to make him awake during the day but it seems that he was so sound asleep that whatever we do did not bother him. At night, he could stay up for many hours and both of us need to always try many methods to make him sleep or not crying.

The worse case that happened was when he was wide awake from 8pm till 5am. Since my husband need to work the next day, I had to manage the baby on my own from midnight onward. I only had 2 hours sleep before he wake up again for his morning bath and feed etc. With the cleaning and washing and feeding during the day, I started to having headaches after few occasions.

Many people that we talked too says that this usually ends when the baby reaches 3rd month. I really hope it does that I won't be able to manage if this goes on when I started working.