No WATER, Pls

I had a hard time of feeding water to both of my children. My baby girl didn't drink water partly because of my fault. I feed her only breast milk for a good 5 months. After that, I started to feed her water but she refused to drink even till now. According to expert, you are not supposed to feed your baby water when you breastfeed them exclusively. We use syringe, spoon, or bottle to feed her water. She is stubborn and hardly drink. She has no problem to pass motion because I still breastfeed her at night.

My poor son is having problem to pass motion. It's getting worse when he didn't pass motion for a consecutive 4 days. We're damn worried. He refused to drink water ever since we change the bottle nipple after it was spoilt. He will only listen to my husband and drink water at night. His stool was so hard and sometimes got blood. Headache:( How can I feed them water??

Reading book

My son is a book lover. He will spend some time to read book everyday although he doesn't know the words. I felt guilty of not teaching him how to read. Sometimes, I did teach him some words but he doesn't want me to teach him. He will flip through the book and ignore me. :(

His sister likes to grab book from him and put into her mouth. Eating book is her favourite.:P

Rub Feet = Naughty

My son started to rub his feet when he was 3-month old and my daughter rubbed her feet after month 6. Both of them are meant to be v difficult babies. Old people believe that babies that rub their feet are v naughty. This is CORRECT!!! Watch out if your babies do that.

My daughter rub her feet fiercely when she threw tantrum until her feet was injured with scratches all over her feet. I was wondering how she can withstand the pain when her skin is peeling off.

Tidy Vs. Messy

I learn from my son that his neatness is inborn. I've to admit that I'm not an organised person and I can't lead my children by good example. :P In fact, he is my role model and he taught me how to clean-up the house. He has damn good memory. He'll always prompt me NOT to leave things everywhere. He'll direct me to put my old newspaper in the store room and put my magazines back to the rack, hang back my coat, put my handbag on the cabinet, ...................
Hmmm................ I've to change bcoz of him. :) He is my headmaster...

1st Fever

My little girl has finally fallen sick yesterday when she developed high fever at night. We quickly fed her the fever syrup. She is more difficult than her brother when it comes to feeding medicine. One person got to carry her, another person got to fix her head from moving left and right and another person got to feed her medicine. Luckily, the fever was subsided after that.

We took off her thick jacket and lower the temperature. I felt so cold till I was sneezing. Before she recovered, I was already down. She slept soundly until 3am in the morning when she was hungry. After breastfed her, she was so wide awake and played besides her brother. Her poor brother was disturbed by her – scratching his face, touching his head, climbing onto his body, etc. I’d to accompany her till 5am. I fed her more with infant formula to make her sleep after two hour waiting. Finally, she slept.

So tiring! Luckily I got yellow card which allows to start work later… :P But, it’s only once a month.

This morning, her fever came back again. :( I’ll need to standby again tonight. Hopefully, she will recover soon. Best of luck!!!

Once I stop breastfeeding exclusively, she is sick. Sigh!

Free Ride

My little boy took a free ride from her poor sister. A 8kg baby needs to carry a 12 kg toddlers. At times, he will push her walker until she cried. Terrible brother! My friend told me to be patient as toddler below 3 years old doesn't know how to share things with others. She advised me to buy two sets of toys for both of my children. Unfortunately, I won't do that just because of budget constraint.

Breastfeeding Journey

I still remembered vividly how tough the situation was when I started breastfeeding my son. He was hungry most of the time and required long hour feeding before he dozed off. I almost went insane as a result of sleep deprivation with additional stress from the smelly hair, itchy scalp and heaty food that made you sweat excessively. Luckily, I survived through the first three months.

With second baby, it was slightly better where I only suffered it for the first month. She could sleep through the nite most of the time and she can sleep by herself. Unlike her brother, we still rock him to sleep until now. He is just too pampered by us.

It is only strong determination make successful breastfeeding. A lot of my friends gave up so easily even in the first week when the babies need nutrients to develop their immune system. Breast milk is the best nutrient and it is easy to digest and absorb by babies. They always said their supply was not enough. In fact, it’s an excuse as they never sought help from friends/lactation consultants. I am not better than them but I insisted to solve the problems as I went along. I regretted giving-up breastfeeding for the first child too early and he is now easily get sick frequently.

But, I’m glad that I managed to do it for the second child. I have successfully breastfed exclusively for 7 months. Hooray!!