Cute photos of didi

Love his cheek and double chin


Blowing bubbles while sleeping

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Baby didi is 2 weeks old

For the past 2 weeks, baby didi daily activities are milk, sleep and bath.

Milk

He is drinking 80-90ml every 2-3hourly and he has been able to fall asleep almost after every feed. Such that I was a bit worried that he is sleeping too much.

I have stop latching him already and he is totally on EBM now.

I have manage to express abt 200ml each time and have access to freeze already.

Bathing

At first baby didi was scared, he will cried when being undress but subsequently he is able to enjoy the bathing session. Currently, wai po(my mum) is bathing him, hopefully after my mum leave, I will be confident and make him feel comfortable to enjoy the bathing session.

Sleeping
Baby didi is sleeping on rocker in the day time and baby cot at night.

The rocker will be in the living room and after milk we will put him in and rock him.

Baby didi is afraid of cold hence he sleep very well in the living room and at night when he is sleeping in the baby cot which is in the room, my mum has to leave the room door ajar if not baby didi will not be able to stand the air-con coldness.

We have stop swadling him since the day he is back from hosipital because we can never master the act of swadling him tightly, so just leave it. Now he is used to sleeping with his 2 hand free.

Baby didi 1st PD review

Today is baby didi 1st pd review.

He is weighing 3.75kg now. A good weight gain of 0.5kg in 1 week(his weight was 3.22kg at discharge)


His 1 week development is fine except for the jaundice level.
The PD was not worried at all as he is consider an 'old' baby at 8 days old and that the jaundice level should come down already.

But we are still worried so we went ahead with the blood test and the result is 298(even higher then baby ze at day 5).

But the PD still insist that its alright and nothing worrying.
ehh..but being parents......so the PD gave us two choices, we can either bring him back for another blood test tomorrow(to check that its going down) or we can rent the machine and phototherapy him ourself.
She mention that she don't like to admit baby as it is not good for baby to separate from mummy and the kind of bed she recommend still allow baby eyes movement without having to wear the eye shield. The bed is from PEP (http://www.babyphototherapy.com/pepbed.html)
She also said that since the level is so high, it will take at least 3-4 weeks before the level will go down.

Ok, since she say like that, then we rent the bed home and do it ourself.
(But on hindsight, we should have requested for baby didi to be admited so that he can have professional care and also the bill can be paid by medisave)

Lets hope after 3 days of phototherapy, the jaundice will go down to an acceptable level when we bring him for another blood test next monday.

Baby didi's feeding

Baby didi is on a mixture of BM, EBM and FM.

During the initial 2 days in the hosipital, baby does not know how to suckle hence I did not latch but instead request the nusery to cup feed Similac formula milk.
There is only on 1 occasion when the lactation sister came and manage to do it but for only a few minutes.

Almost thought of giving up latching and giving bottle when miraciously on the morning of discharge, baby is able to latch.

From then on, I will latch baby for about 15mins followed by another 2 Oz of FM or EBM. There are occasions where I did not latch but just give FM.
Hopefully with the intake of milk, his jaundice will go down during the PD review this Friday.

I am using Medela Freestyle to pump and loving it. It can pump handsfree and able to clear both my breast in 15mins. Real can save a lot of time.

Baby at day 4

So fast, baby is 4 days old.

My mum is helping with my confinement this time round so that ah ma can still take care of baby ze and not feel tired.

On the 1st day when baby ze came to the hosipital to visit baby didi, we gave him a barney DVD and mention to him that its a present from didi to kor kor. He is still a bit blur blur but upon our request, he will still sayang didi.

On the 2nd day when he baby ze came to hospital, he ask today no present?? I could not stop laughing, he is so cute. Told papa to take a ballon from the hamper and give it to him.

On the 3rd day of discharge, on the way go home, he ask go home got present? I told him yes, didi got prepare another present for him. Luckily I have prepared a bull dozer toy for him.

Finally : the arrival of little baby 29-Apr

The labour I will never forget.

Just as we thought we have to wait 1 more week for little baby to arrive, he decided to make his entrance the next day.


I always had this feeling that the sign of labour this round will be contractions as during the last 2 weeks I keep having Braxton Hicks(fake contractions) and at regular intervals.
True enough, on 29-Apr morning, I had contractions pain.


Birth story:
5-6.30 am: Contraction at about 6 mins interval. Was a bit apprehensive whether its the real contraction or BHC but the pain is really very unbearable.

6.30am:Went toilet. Slight bleeding. Wake papa, told him its time to go hospital and I went to shower.

7.30am: Left house and went to Mcdonald drive thru for breakfast. Had breakfst in the car as I don't think I can walk anymore. Told hb most probably baby will be out at noon as there's a saying that it will be half the time of #1 and baby ze's labour was 12 hours.

9.05am: Reach hosipital. Told nurse I want Epi. Nurse check and I am already 5cm dilated and cervic wall is already very thin. Told me it will be very fast, ask me to consider without Epi as by the time the Epi come into effects, baby may be out already. I agree. Nurse call gynae.

9.30am: Gynae came. Break my waterbag and told me I am already 8cm dilated, ready to deliver. Cannot believe my ears, ask again to reconfirm.
Gynae told nurse he is going back to car to take his phone and bag.

9.35am : At the next contraction, feel the urge to push.
Nurse came to get ready.
Gyane came. Told me to push at the next contractions, cannot, push, still cannot

9.47am: Baby is out after 5 contractions. But, gynae still have to use vacum to assist me and have to vacum twice before baby is out.

Gynae put baby on me and I cry, cry because of the pain and the relief that its over.

Gosh, this is a short but super painful labour. The gas is of no use at all, it does not relief the pain but to me, it's more of divert the attention away from the actions but yet I still know what is happening.

After baby is out, the contractions of the uterus is another painful thing, so painful that I keep holding on to papa Jack's hand.

I remember telling papa that I want Epi, keep chanting 'very painful' non-stop. The nurse told me everything is over already but I still feel very pain.

In the end, the nurse have to give me another local jab at my thigh. I remember the nurse say that this is a sedation and pain killer and I will go to sleep after a while. All this while I was still holding on to papa's hand, even when baby is pushed to nursery, he is still with me(I refuse to let go).

He hold on to me till I fell asleep and he later told me he stand until backache.

爸爸也是很伟大的!!