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Random bits of my (non existent) life
Life as a mother has been nothing but a monotonous cycle… Of feeding, burping, changing diapers, putting baby to sleep, expressing milk, washing bottles and sterilizing them.. And when the cycle ends, before I could find the time to rest, the cycle starts again. How do people actually get any sleep in? There must be help from somewhere to make it possible. Everyone tells me to sleep when I can, I find it hard to find the time to do so! It’s been mentally draining because it means I don’t have time for myself at all, and when I do, I sit around stoning and find myself drifting off to…
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Mummy & baby is heading out!
Mummy & baby is heading out! Our first outing without papa and we are gonna take the train. Wish me luck. =) Posted via LiveJournal app for iPhone.
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Jerry is ONE month old!
And a few days, because I am terribly late with this post. Time really did fly in the last one month. Before I know it, the confinement period was up and my son turned one month old! Dear baby Jerry, it’s been an eventful one month thus far! From your first few moments in life, all stark naked and blood-stained in the delivery room, to having all your measurements taken with daddy companying while mummy is still being stitched up. Your crinkly bitter gourd face when bundled up, as if you are telling the nurses that you want to be cleaned up. Mummy’s first picture with you, just at the…
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Today, I eat my words.
Of having my son sleep in the cot ALL THE TIME. I actually asked my mum if she could babysit Jerry throughout the night tonight to ease me of my motherly duties. I am still reeling from the post party fatigue, overwhelmed by the amount of tasks post party and coupled with a fussy baby the whole day, 3 hrly milk production schedule + cleaning works and early mornings (popped into the office today to give my team some cakes & we are going to collect jerry’s passport tomorrow..), I decided I needed a good night sleep. One void of baby cryings and diaper changing. Never mind that I’ll still…
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wee bit of sanity installed.
i was going crazy a couple of days back. the baby has been giving regular bouts of crankiness at specific intervals and timing and i figured, he’s colicky. but while i have tried the usual ways to soothe a colicky baby (warm baths, massage, colic hold, and eventually, letting the baby cry out loud), my mother has been given me the stare for letting the baby cry and she cannot stand it but to come and carry (read: snatch) the baby up. mad frustrating. like it helped matters, the baby still cried on anyway. does not help that the husband decided not to do anything and went with the flow…
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Helplessness
Is when no one, not a damn person stands on your side. Im so ready to give it all up. To the hell with everyone. Posted via LiveJournal app for iPhone.
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Update at 26 days old
He has upgraded to being a koala lately! Since my last update a week ago, I have since moved Jerry back into the cot and he sleeps there on all occasions, except the times where I am in the bathroom or expressing milk. He goes into the rocker during those brief moments or the sofa, but briefly. I didn’t blog about it in fear of jinxing it, but I think he’s pretty ok these days. His heat rashes has since cleared up quite a bit, but he has developed some fungi rash (!) at some other parts of his body! He is still peeling like a snake so the pd…
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A quick update.
Guess what?! I have mastered the art of sleeping through my baby’s cries! Nah. I’m joking, but fatigue had me so bad, I heard the cries but simply didn’t have the strength to even pull myself out from bed. I guess all that late nights, intermittent sleep and stress has overwhelmed me this morning that I just slept and slept. I did crawl outta bed for an hr for my massage (my mum screamed at me like 10 times before I struggled to wake cos the massage lady is here, only to doze off during the massage), and promptly after.. Collapsed in bed again. It was as though I lost…
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An encouraging quote.
Think of your baby as the bearer of a wonderful life challenge. After all, each of us has a host of lessons to learn in life, and we never know who or what is going to be the teacher. In this case, it’s your baby.Quote from Secrets of the Baby Whisperer. How apt. Anyway, thanks to hubby, I managed to do a 3-hr nap! Am still tired but much better. Why am I sucha a sleepyhead? Never seemed to be able to catch up with the sleep debt. Ok. Dinner time! Posted via LiveJournal app for iPhone.
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ok. culprit found!
meanwhile, i think all those little naps that i have taken during mid day.. and all those nights that my mum relieved me from taking care of the baby has been pushing the baby AWAY from me! der and me found out yesterday that… only my mum can soothe Jerry! when he fusses and we tried to soothe him, he gets from irritated to major rage, howling the house down and nothing, nothing that we do can soothe him. then comes my mum. she just plonks the baby on her chest (koala position) and the baby goes quiet within seconds. how can that be?! and now, i am beginning to…
