5 months elsa baby, motherhood and parenthood
Sunday, June 29, 2014
i have been wanting to do this but being a parent and a mother seriously take up alot of my precious time, sleep and free time to do my own things.
as much as i miss my drinking sessions, clubbing sessions, freedom, movie sessions, JB sessions, church sessions with my friends, there's no way I want to replace this period of my time with my little precious princess, elsa
I want to record all the accounts in elsa growing up monthly to yearly and when she's a mother herself, I can tell her that she's also like this :D
0 month:
being a premie, she's a very sleepy baby. adding to that, she has jaundice so we have go to polyclinic every week to test her blood level. it was heart wrenching to see her cry when the nurse poke her leg with the needle.
She is a brave little baby.. enduring injections after injections.
she's also a very greedy baby.. love to drink milk so I call her #elsathemilkmonster from 30ml to 50ml then gradually to 90ml and soon 110ml. she will sleep 3 hours and wake up for milk. her feeding schedule works like a clockwork indeed! trained from the NICU and SCU in KKH.
all these while, she drink my breastmilk and I have been bottle feeding her myself.
she's a good sucker.. drinking milk and sucking wasn't a problem. I DL her at night and she will wake up every 2 hours to drink. so far so good until my nightmare started when she have nipple confusion :(
she started fussing over the slow flow of my breast. I realised the mistake and quickly change the teat to the slowest flow of 1 with avent natural teat instead of classic.
I started pumping every 3 hours when she drink milk but my breasts have this pins and needles pain from now and then because it's producing milk and it's common to feel that.
she loves water! and love to bathe. she's a clean freak. she love to be clean... dirty diapers will make her cry lots. tried to build her into a routine. wake up, bathe, drink, sleep then wipe in the evening so she know how to difference morning and night. she will keep smiling when she's bathing. sucha my angel :)
we sunbathe her every morning to let the sun cure the jaundice. thank god it helped!
my mil also heard from her friend by putting guinness stout in the water, it will help. somehow, it did went down.
my mil though not very supportive of me latching at night, she's very good with babies or with elsa. she somehow can calm her down and can shower her fast.
wow i didn't know there's so many things to take note of a baby...
bathing, changing diaper, feeding, cleaning her ears, sucking the mucus from the nostrils, changing her clothes, tummy time for her... making her sleep, soothing her down... the list goes on!
1 month to 2 months.
nightmare begin all over again when she starts crying in the evening for no whatsoever reason?
I suspect it's colic and my PIL keep insisting it's coz her tummy don't feel well so we use Ru yi oil to rub her tummy. it helped i feel but she still cried in the evening. so helpless and she cannot communicate to us what is wrong?
now I know how it feels to handle a crying baby without knowing why.. it's really stressful to hear the baby cry nonstop. somehow as a mother, you just can't take it if it's your baby. I used to hear other babies cry but i am totally chill but not with Elsa.
I didn't know there are so many vaccines for babies. it's crazy! the injections they have to endure.
she went through BCG and HEP B. 2 vaccines one shot and my heart shrink when she cry until there's no voice coming out from her.
there's also pneumococal, 5 in 1, measles, chickenpox, hep b 5 doses. being a ks parent, I want to give her the best and protection is my best.
suddenly after the vaccine, her appetite dropped to 70ml per feed and every 2 hourly instead. It all started because I tried to latch her whole day. I don't know if this affects her appetite. basically, my elsa loves bottle instead of nipple. she's really impatient and want things fast. cannot wait one else she will cry her top out.
she also have grunting syndrome. at night she will keep grunting that she cannot sleep and i cannot sleep as well because it's really noisy. I guess because her bones are growing and expanding.
3 months
I realised every baby is indeed different just like everyone of us is unique in our own ways.
they have their own personalities and character and conditions and progresses.
my premie elsa went through the phase of trying to stabilise her neck and head but she still cannot really hold her head properly whereas Javier and fanny son, Clayton can do it already. and he's almost the same corrected age with elsa.
she don't really like tummy time and find it a struggle to lift up her head. she will be unhappy and make noise.
we went to c the PD and realised she have low blood and therefore, need iron drops and multi vits drops.
whatever that makes her healthy, i will give her anything to help my little baby.
she had a slight fever when her first vaccinne of 5 in 1 and rotavirus. so worrying but she's still happy and active. I am happy too :)
during the eye centre check up, so innocent and not knowing what is coming her way.
the doctor use a metal hook to open her eyes and insert a spect to examine her eye. it was the most scariest i've seen. my poor baby :( keith hubby was so scare that he don't want to see it. I have to brave it with elsa together.
at this time, my baby sleeps with me in the same bed. I hope my warmth can make her sleep better :)
she also started to have cradle cap - her scalp skin was peeling so bad! and it's itchy that she will scratch non stop in the middle of the night. heart pain again :(
I change the pureen head to toe soap to california baby organic soap which have many good reviews of being natural and better for baby's skin.
my mil suggested to use sesame oil on her scalp but it really stinks! she will leave it on till next day. I read placing olive oil helps too so i use J&J oil instead. it smells better :) and it works !
so much of baby dry skin came off and it's quite satisfying to see all the dead skin coming off.
there was once her shit came out was black in colour. was so worrying because black shit means blood.
I was wondering if it's cause by the iron drops. KKH PD told us to increase 2 drops per day to 8 drops because of her weight and have to keep giving multi vit drops.
the PD say coz she have low bloodcount and needed the iron drops due to her premature birth.
I was wondering why the other lady premature baby is not like elsa? her baby doesn't need iron drops or multi vit drops.
whatever makes her healthy, I will go ahead and follow pd instructions.
she loves to smile at us.
4 months:
she is starting to recognise faces and smiling all the time :)
she love to scream at high pitch when she's excited. very excitable little baby...
but when she cry, she also scream at high pitch :(
she starts to lick her fingers like lolly pop.. haha..
seems like very sweet and salty.
she can take off the mittens herself! using her left hand to take it off. she might be a leftie?
she is happiest in the morning when she look at me and smile, chuckle and laugh.
she's most grouchy when she doesn't get enough sleep.
her neck will be red from time to time due to her double chin and also could be due to heat rash, milk rash... so we brought her to the PD to check. gave some lotion to apply.
she's like loved by all and everyone is so anxious about her.
one cry, grandma and grandpa will come and hug and carry. she's really used to the attention and it's bad. but sadly i have no control about it.
she is getting smarter day by day. don't know when i can start my flash cards :)
I think she will be a chatterbox because she keep making lotsa noise and sound like trying to talk to us.
whenever we talk to her, she will sigh and make cute sound to acknowledge her presence.
really so cute... awww my angel..
i love this time of parenthood because babies are so cute! so many expressions, smell so good, eyes so bright
it's priceless.... i love being a mother
Labels: baby, childhood, Elsa, me, milestones
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