Penny For Thoughts

It has been a fulfilling 2 weeks spending quality time with Baby Garreth with Hubby Goh together. It was not easy, but I'm proud to say that we have achieved much without the help of anyone, just ourselves. It's kind of a shock that the CL we have hired, having spent nearly a month of her time with our baby, doesn't seem to be able to identify his wants and needs till the last day of her service. Two weeks was all we need to understand our boy and now he's a little contented baby, although at some point of times he still throw his occasional tantrums, refusing to sleep and pisses us off. But there again, we told ourselves, he's just a baby and it's a passing phase, this is all temporary and things can only get better the next day :)

List of stuff I have learnt so far:

1. Differentiate Garreth's various cries. Most of the time, he just wail for milk, otherwise it will be he is sleepy and needs some cuddles or pat on the butt to go into deep sleep or he poos or pees.

2. Bathing him is a breeze now. Back then when the CL bathes him, he doesn't like it and will always cry, but with my magic hands, Garreth boy now not only enjoys his bath, he will also smile when I lay him on the changing table after his daily bath.

3. Our baby likes to suck for comfort before he sleeps. In order not to let him cry too much, we have succumbed to the evil of giving him the pacifier. It doesn't feel good seeing him sucking the ugly piece of thing in his mouth, but the amazing part was the pacifier do really helps to get him into deep sleep faster and easily. The hindside is that Baby Garreth doesn't suck long on it, usually he will spit it out when he is about to go into deep sleep...which is good!

4. We have kinda established a daily routine for Garreth. If he is fed on breastmilk, he tends to get hungry after 2hrs, sometimes even 1.5hrs. But with formula, usually is 3 hours, on good nights, he could hold his hunger for even 4 hours. Of cos, it will be great if he can sleep through the night after his last feed at 11pm, but well, I guess I shouldn't be asking for more if he allows me to have at least 5-6 hours of sleep every night. And yes, I think I will stop expressing my milk for him soon cos' my supply has decreased due to lack of sleep, time and nutritious food. Not that I'm selfish, but coping with all the housework (washing laundry, sterilising milk bottles, etc) and taking care of Baby Garreth's needs alone, is really stressful and it has so far taken away my "ME" time, don't really have the time to do the things I really want (like going to Mango Sale!!). But I'm not complaining, what is this little sacrifice as compared to having a cute little son like Garreth..hehe..

Feel kinda sad cos' Hubby Goh will be returning back to work tomorrow and it's all home alone for me and baby. Though my mum said that she will hop over to helpout, but still, I don't expect her to take over the CL role and there are still things which I have to manage myself and not depend on her. Well, whatever it is, I will try my best and give the best to my little prince.

Oh yah, already bought a digital weighing scale the other day at Best Denki. Just weighed the boy yesterday and he has already passed the 5kg mark! Wa lau eh...