The Milk Front

I am pleased to share that my milk supply is finally meeting J's needs!!! YEAH!! :)

But, all men are greedy and I am starting to think about freezing excess milk (where available) so he gets breastfeed for longer than 6 months. NN mentioned that supply tends to fall after returning to work and I am hoping that this will not be the case... either way, good to start banking some milk now! :P

Going Solo

means looking after J with my mum's help in the day n G's help in the night. This is also my excuse for not updating my blog recently since pumping, feeding and washing up takes up a lot of time. And I try to take short naps whenever possible!

But, being confined at home has reached a limit and I have attempted successfully to bring J to the nearby bakery on my own and he seems happy to be strapped in the carrier :) Hopefully, longer trips out will be possible in coming weeks before I return to work!

A missed post....

Just realised that I had drafted this post sometime back but I had forgotten to publish it due to cow duty plus never ending washing of pumps and laundry, soothing colicky J etc...

Honestly, I feel lousy when J cries/screams incessantly at night if he is colicky. I try to laugh at the situation like what a friend suggested but I never could find any funny side at these times... maybe I lost my funny bone for now? Thankfully, J is typically happier in the day. He has also learnt to coo and laugh in response to our antics. It simply feels great to be able to make him laugh.

One month celebration

The first month passed so quickly. We had a celebration for relatives and friends last sat and I just managed to have some time to post on this... this is a picture of J and me taken on the day itself. Unfortunately, he was not too well on the day itself (I attribute to his nanny leaving... poor chap missed her)...

After spending one month with J, I have learnt that he needs to be fed immediately so I have to pre-empt when his next feed will be. As a result, I have taken to expressing milk and leaving it out for his next time instead of refrigerating the milk. It is not as if my milk supply is abundant anyway! At the same time, J has an independent streak in him. He likes to explore his surroundings and tends to move his hands around during feeds. On a few occasions, he was able to hold his milk bottle on his own:

We also visited his pediatrician for his 1 mth check-up and hep B shot and his pedi commented that his growth has been "very fast and he looks like a 3 mth old..." In any case, I have added a section on J's growth in my blog to track his growth...

J also sports a new look now! I miss his crop but hopefully his hair will grow back nicely in time to come. The picture was taken in his sarong (we are using one now in the hope that he will sleep for longer periods during the night... so far, it has worked for 1 feed in the night...):

Growing...

J weighs more than 5 kg already! and he has outgrown a number of his clothes that are meant for 6 month old!! GOSH!!!

As for me, I am looking forward to his one month celebration this sat. Will upload more pics after that but meanwhile this is all I can manage to post for now since 1/4 of my time is for expressing milk, 1/4 for sleeping (or just lying down trying to sleep) and the rest is spent carrying J!