Started full day

HL started full day at nursery this week. So far, he is very happy every time we fetch him. He talked non-stop on the way home. I am happy too because I can see my boy right after work. Can't wait to go home everyday. :P

Sick & work from home

After 2 nights of pumped and fed, I was finally down with flu and worst still I had gastric.

Yesterday, after prepared our home cooked lunch, hubby remember that he had to go to subcon and not able to make it for lunch. So I invited one of my lucky collegue for lunch. (The rest envy. Hehehe!!!) She is a small eater so I ate more than usual. To my surprise, I was hungry around 3pm. I thought it was impossible so I ignored the sign and continued working. After my pumping session at 4.30pm, the nurse in the clinic gave me some home-made bread. So I happily consumed it. Then I started to had gastric half and hour later. :(

So today I worked from home.


My company is using google mails and I am able to choose themes for my backdrop. I changed it whenever I like. This week I select a very childish/girlish theme, Candy. Looked at the top right, there is a upside down girl holding a condy.

The good news is HY had recovered. Last night was the first night he latched on for the midnight feed. Luckily, if not I don't know how am I going to pump with my condition. Then this morning I woke up with a happy baby.

First time not crying after woke up since the ulcer incident.

Today I had a good lunch. Hubby prepared some food for me before he left for work.

Sweet corn and potatoes. I did not eat the sweetcorn yet. Too full. Will save it for tea break.

Salted meat and steamed egg with enoki (Japanese mushroom).

This one I cooked by myself, porridge. I love porridge.

My poor baby 多灾多难

HY had an ulcer due to a fall. He started drooling on Friday night. I thought he was teething. (But he never drooled before, arg....)

Since he was not feeling well, I did not cook porridge for him on Saturday morning. I cooked barley and used the barley water to cooked oatmeal for him. He refused to take but wanted bread. I was angry.

Lunch, I decided to cook porridge for him since he did not want oatmeal. Again, he refused to eat. I was mad. I scolded him. Papa scolded him too.

Later on while he was playing, I noticed that he had a big ulcer. Arg.......

Refused to latch on, I started pumping milk for him.

Dinner, I made some banana yogurt for him. He had a slice of bread with the banana dip.

Saturday midnight, refused to latch on.

Sunday morning, again he had a slice of bread with the banana yogurt dip for breakfast.

Lunch, another slice of bread. Eat with tears on his face. Did not cry but his eyes were red. Did not request for durian while we had durian. Just like the Cantonese say "自己知自己事" (zhi kei ji zhi kei si). Poor baby, must be very painful for him.

Dinner another slice of bread.

Did not latch on for the whole day until the night feed.

Midnight, again refused to latched on. I pumped and fed.

Monday morning, cried for half an hour after woke up.

It was so hot lately!

Two weeks ago both boys took early naps so papa decided to bring them to the waterfall about 20min away from our house. The climb or should I said the walk or the path to the waterfall is quite easy, so HL had no problem going up. But for me, it was not easy carrying a baby. Luckily I brought my sling along. I don't like to use sling but I don't know how am I going to do it without a sling. We played at the shadow sites/lower stream. HL was a bit reluctant to go down initially but only took a second when he saw HY was having great fun. The water was quite deep, about at HY's chest, so HY could only walked around. I was so tired because I was bending holding his hand the whole time. The water was so cold that I took HY up after 15min. After I dried and dressed him, he still insisted to go down. I tried to extract him but failed. So he went down again. After awhile we had to leave as it was really to cold for the boys. No photo to share as the boys were naked.

Then last week, we went to play at a stream. HY still remember our trip to the waterfall. He was so excited when he saw water flowing. He wanted to go down and play immediately.

This round it was more relaxed for me as the water level was more shadow and HY could just sit and splashed the water. HL was still naked because I could not find his swimming trunk.

Chocolate chip cookies

Last Friday after afternoon nap, I made some chocolate chip cookies with HL. He helped me mixed the butter, flour and sugar with his hands. Then I shaped the dough into small balls and he pressed the balls down with fork. According to him, he made roads on the cookies. After that we took a bath and brought the cookies over to Ah Mah's house to share with everyone. Ah Mah said it's GOOD!

Nursing strike-The end

Finally HY latched on smoothly last night. It was such a relief for me. Weekends is coming and if we did not overcome this, we are going to stay at home the whole weekend.

However I noticed that he is still a bit sensitive. I need to be careful and help him to relax.

He was actually not feeling well last night. He started walking up every hour after 1am. I think he is teething. So today I am taking half day off in the afternoon to go back and sleep. Hopefully everything will goes well over the weekend. Wish me luck.

Nursing strike-Day 3

Same like the day before, I sent him to the bedroom half hour earlier than his bedtime. I cleaned and changed him. Switched on the air-cond and dimmed the light. Played with him to make him relax. I did not heat up any ebm hoping that I would be able to direct feed him. I tried to carry him in the nursing position. He pushed away.

I let him tossed on the bed and I undo my bra. He thinks that my nipples were interesting, he pointed and even pressed several times but refused to latch on. He was really sleepy then, I tried to carry him to sleep. I even tried to go topless so that we had skin to skin contact as suggested here. He hate it. So I put my clothes back and carried him for ahwile.

I tried to nurse him again. I managed to pushed my nipple inside his mouth when he was crying. (Most of the time he kept his mouth shut tightly and turned the other way.) The moment my nipple went in, he latched on unconsciously. My poor baby. I know that he was so comfortable and secure at that moment. I was so happy.

I slept in again with him. Later, he woke up at 12.45pm, 4am and 6am for feeding. All went on smoothly, no more fighting. Hopefully tonight will be the same.