Day1 Taking Care Isabelle alone

Today is my first day taking care of Isabelle alone at home day time. Luckily yesterday me and hubby manage to get few hours of sleep cause Isabelle also manage to sleep well. Isabelle has alot of gas/wind in her stomach that is making her very uncomfortable and cranky. Sometimes she can't sleep well because she keep on have to push the gas out and fart. It's emotionally draining for me and baby to see her going through this. She grunts, writhes, shrieks and cries while trying to pass gass. For the past 3 hours I've been trying to put her to sleep but she just can't get settle down and sleep soundly. I wish there is a tool where i can just suck out all the wind in her stomach to relieve her discomfort :(

This is not getting easy for me. Is this what I am going to do every other day for the next 2 months before I send Isabelle to babysitter? I really hope she gets better tomorrow and pray to god hopefully all goes smoothly for me and for Isabelle. God bless us both.

Isabelle's Fullmoon on 23rd October 2010

inally have a few minutes spare time to update Isabelle's fullmoon day.

Time flies. After all the blabbing and complaining about confinement and confinement lady, atlas I'm free now! The morning before we adjourn to the party venue, mother-in-law came and help trim Isabelle's hair. This is her first hair cut :)

Look at how Isabelle look at the aunty.. "What are you all doing to my hair..."? hahaha

Isabelle getting frustrated already :)

We had the full moon party at Giza Mall @ Moe De Cafe. Many friends and family relatives came to join us. It feels so good to be out and have so many friends together for a little chit chat and catchup session. Though today is the day I'm free from confinement, it also means the day to start my next challenge which is to take care of Isabelle on my own. This is going to be tough.

Isabelle's Stroller and Balloon from Isabelle's daddy

Buffet catering food

Family and Friends

A gift from Grandma to Isabelle

Isabelle was very patient and good girl on her fullmoon day. She was awake for 2 hours and she did not "lau gai" at all. She knows that is her big day and I think she likes being out seeing so many different faces and voices.

Happy Family Potrait

21 days old

Finally registered and got a birth cert for her. Her chinese name is Chew Shin Ling. She is now 21 days old. I was watching Isabelle this morning while she's still asleep, I notice she has put on a bit of baby fat on her face. I can see she has double chin now :) Confinement lady has been feeding her a lot especially at night. I hope Isabelle won't end up being a fat baby.

Yesterday night, Isabelle poop 4 times in 4 hours. I really pity her cause almost every time when she need to poop, she cries. Not sure if she's crying because it hurts or is just her style. But there are also times when she poop, she's quiet. But pooping 4 times in 4 hours is really too much. I seriously suspect is my breast milk that is causing her to poop so much especially is the ginger juice that I drank everyday. I will try to stop taking ginger juice for a day to see if it makes a difference to her. Finger cross.

13th day - 6th October

My milk supply is getting slightly day by day. Now I will wake up at about 7:30am+ to pump the first batch of milk after a long night sleep and rest. Morning is when I will get the most milk supply. Hopefully one day my milk supply increases and I can just easily pump 2 full bottles of milk at 1 time.

These are my achievements. I need to "jia yu" to get more :)

11th day after delivery - 4th October

Isabelle's umbilical cord finally fell off today :) Yay!!!

My wound is getting better. It doesn't hurt as much as the first week. Now whenever i cough a little, i can still feel the pain a bit. Hopefully by the end of 2nd week i can be back to my normal state and be walking around smoothly with no pain. Today went back for my wound check-up at the Hospital. Dr Yong says the wound is healing quite well and forsee no problem. Phew...

Today we also bring Isabelle to paediatrician to check on her rashes. She has heat rashes under her chin and neck.

2 days back I notice the rashes and asked confinement lady about it. She keep saying that it is just hormone pass on from me to baby and it will go off in no time. After 2 days i see her rashes gets worse so I couldn't help but must take baby to doctor and check on her. True enough doctor says those are heat rash. Nothing to do with hormone. The confinement finally keep quiet when she hear from doctor about the heat rash. Some confinement lady just trying to be smart and thought they know it all. I realise we must be very careful the changes on baby and make sure we do enough research or ask around so that we don't just hear from the confinement lady alone.

After a few days of observation on Isabelle, I notice whenever she wakes, she tend to cry not just because of hunger for milk but also crying to want to poop. I wonder the reason she cry when she wants to poop is because it hurts or is just her habit. Also, she seem to have wind quite often. Certain times after feeding she can't go to sleep easily even after a clean diaper change. She'll just cry and cry. I have to carry her for a while and if lucky she'll just doze off. Isabelle gets hiccups everyday. This is again I assume is because she has wind in her stomach. What can I do avoid wind in her and can make her feel much comfortable?