Two sick babies

At 4 months old, this is the first time Olivia is sick. She caught the flu and cough virus from Isabelle. Even we have tried so hard to separate the both of them, they still pass the virus to each other. Belle is more cranky compare to Olivia. Both of them has a mild fever too. Is really hectic trying to take care of two sick child. :( Really hope both of them will recover very soon

Olivia 3 Months 3 weeks old

Olivia is 3 months, 3 weeks old now. She weights 5.6kg and Length 59cm.

Fuyoh ! Break my own record of EBM on 2nd Aug

It was the mid-night of the 2nd of August. I overslept waking up at 4am ( I was suppose to wake up at 2am) to express my breast milk. Which means instead of a 5 hours interval, it became a 7 hour interval pump. My breast was so engorged and I was so worried that it might be blocked. But thank god it went smooth. This is the first time I manage to yield almost about 10oz of milk in a session. I'm so happy :D

Olivia growing

My BM supply

Can't believe my milk supply is coming in so well. Actually I'm not sure too how come I manage to have so much storage of milk. By right baby drinks them all and at most will only have some extra to store. Feel so proud of myself this time that I've successfully produce more than enough milk for my baby Olivia. Having said that, I hope she would not refuse to drink frozen milk otherwise all these would end up being wasted.

Olivia started drinking 4oz at 5th or 6th week. 

This is as of 27th June - Olivia 2 months old.

My milk production

Breast feeding is definitely not an easy journey. I told myself that I would try my best to give Olivia breast milk at least up to 6 months old. Olivia is 6 weeks old now and she is fully breast fed. My supply is enough for her. It takes a lot of determination and sleepy hours to do so. Pumping milk every 3 hours and slowly I extended  from 3 hours to 4 hours so I can get some extra hours to sleep. 

This is my storage so far. I hope I can express more milk each session so I can have more storage and I could stop pumping sooner. 

Now I can yield 5-6 oz milk each session. My right side usually can yield more than the left. I'm hoping I could yield 10oz each session then I can accumulate more storage in my freezer. Not sure how long more I can last to continue the pump session especially the midnight session. It is really quite dragging to wake to pump. So so so sleepy. 

19th MAY - Olivia 18 days old

A blink of eyes is already 18 days since I gave birth to Olivia. Confinement lady had given Olivia sun bathing about 5 times and she's finally satisfied that baby's jaundice is almost cleared. I'm actually quite worried after all the sun bathing, baby might end up having dark skin :(

Right now Olivia can drink up to 3oz every feed. Not sure if its too much or not but when she doesn't get enough, she will cry and ask for more. I guess she knows very well how much she want and how much she can drink. Lucky now that my milk supply is still enough for her. I'm not sure why but it has been a week and my milk production is only 3oz no matter if I pump after 3hours or even 4 hours. I'm not motivated enough to carry on waking every 2 hours and pumping mid night if I don't see my milk amount increasing :(

I've started taking fenugreek capsules since last Thursday (4 days). Some say it would take a week or maybe 2weeks before seeing the results. I hope I can see results of milk increasing soon otherwise I'm really not sure if I can carry on the breast feeding journey.

But I'm lucky that at the earlier days when Olivia is only drinking 1-2oz, I've manage to keep up to 7 bottles of 5oz BM in the freezer :D I'm proud if myself for this. Hehehe. 

I'm also glad that Isabelle has been accepting baby Olivia very well. No jealousy at the moment. She loves baby very much and she always want to kiss and sayang baby. Am so happy to see that.