Didn’t manage to catch a nap this afternoon because Jayne was not able to sleep well. She had a long sleep in the morning after her bath till about 1pm. I fed her milk but she fell asleep only after drinking one-third of the milk, and no matter how I tickle her, shake her or twitch her face, she refused to wake up to drink any more. No choice, I let her sleep, knowing she’d wake up in an hour’s time probably for another feed.

True enough, at about 3plus, she woke up crying again. This time round, she finished majority of her milk, and I even burped her successfully twice. But not sure why, she regurgitated the milk and I had to change her diaper cloth, her clothes, her diapers… Let her lie down on the bed for a while, and she regurgitated again! Sigh… all in all, she regurgitated three times! By now, she was hungry again after throwing up most of her milk, so I had to feed her again. 4plus by now. Finally, after this last feed, she went back to sleep and is now, thankfully, soundly asleep.

In between while she was lying on the bed, I could do nothing except take photos of course! Hahaha…

These were taken after I wiped her face & hair with a wet cloth. Her hair looks weird, I know. Haaha..

Day 11.

The air-conditioning in my bedroom has always been set at 25 degrees Celsius because I heard before that it’s the most comfortable temperature for a bedroom. But apparently, it’s too cold for Baby Jayne.

Babies generally cannot take the cold very well. Even in a room ventilated only by a fan, she will also sneeze if we don’t cover her with blankets. Jayne is that scared of the cold.

And so, in order to give her a good sleep, we adjusted our air-conditioning to 27 degrees Celsius and it seemed comfortable for her, if we pile on 2 blankets at least. Haha.. no choice, she’s just too frail and small right now. Without the air-conditioning though, it gets too hot for mummy to get any sleep at all. =P

By the way, do you think Jayne has put on some weight? Her cheeks look more chubby to me now. :) Hope she’ll gain weight faster and soon hit the weight that Baby Joey was born with. Haha.. what a big gap… but I think she’ll catch up soon. She now drinks close to 90ml of milk at every feed. I think that’s quite a jump from the 30ml she had been drinking in the hospital, and she’s only slightly more than 1 week old now.

I have to get used to the feeding time she takes to finish one bottle of milk though. I am so used to Joey’s super speed that now that Jayne takes one hour to finish one bottle of milk including burping really takes a toil on my patience, especially during the night feeds because I just want to get back to sleep! Imagine spending one hour to feed & burp, then sleep for barely 2 hours before the baby wakes up again for another one hour of feeding & burping. Siong! But thank God Jayne’s timing so far has been quite good. Before I sleep, I would feed her either at 12am or 1am. Then she’d sleep and wake up for just one more night feed at 3am or 4am, then she’ll sleep till the morning around 7am or 8am. It’s very good already! At least I just need to wake up once during the night!

How does this look to you? Pretty innocent huh?

Look closer.

I don’t even know how to describe how BITTER this thing is. It’s some tonic that will supposedly purge the toxics from my body and let my body recover to pre-pregnancy state as soon as possible. But doesn’t even the look of it put you off?

Super yucks, I tell you. And it does not help that it has to be drank on an empty stomach. Imagine waking up in the morning to this thing? Not much of a motivation eh? Still, I had to drink it because firstly, it’s good for me. Secondly, it was boiled over 2 hours from 3 bowls of water to 1 bowl of water. I don’t even want to go into how concentrated the whole liquid is.

Thank God, after a super yucky and bitter tonic, I got rewarded with something I really like.

Ginger & Chicken Fried Rice!

This is super yummy! So fragrant and every mouthful bursts forth with the fried garlic, ginger & shreds of chicken! I don’t mind having this everyday!

The 2 sisters are pretty similar in many aspects. Let’s look at the LOOKS department first:

The same kind of yawn.

The same sleeping style.

The same angelic face.

Other than their looks, their PERSONALITIES are somewhat similar too. Even at such a young age, I could already tell that Jayne’s going be a very determined child. Here’s how I knew.

We had been letting Jayne sleep chest down so that it provides a greater sense of security and she’d sleep for longer periods each time. Of course, that would mean that we need to keep watch over her incase she flips her head and gets stuck with her face down buried in the mattress. It was a little nerve-wreaking for me the first few days because I kept worrying whether she’d get suffocated. To my amazement though, at 5-day-old, she could already turn her head & navigate so that she can flip to face the other side! I was shocked to see her facing one side one moment, and the next moment, she was facing the other side! Strong neck she’s got! And strong determination!

But of course, being 2 very unique individuals, they have their special traits & differences. Joey, for one, finishes her milk at record timing, but Jayne drinks a lot slower and takes her own sweet time to pause, look around & dunno-do-what. It could be due to the fact that she’s much smaller in size compared to Joey too though, so I am not too sure about that yet. Joey is also not as 小姐 as Jayne. She would not complain if her diapers are wet or soiled. Jayne, on the other hand, cries immediately when her diapers are a little dirty. Talking about their crying volumes though, Joey definitely wins hands-down, even though she is not as cry-baby as Jayne.

I have alot more to discover about my 2 girls as they grow up day by day. What an adventure. :)

A blogger-mum-cum-photographer once shared in her blog before, that when taking photographs of kids, you need to keep snapping and snapping so that in that pile of hundred photos, you will get some really fantastic shots.

Sometimes the angle looks a little off & image a little blur

 Sometimes you catch them with half-open eyes…

Sometimes you catch them looking really unglam

Sometimes you catch them at the wrong moments

But with a little patience… you may catch them with a big wide smile.

And it makes everything worth it. :)

Day 9.

Poo-ing: An act of excreting bodily wastes

Marathon: A long, extended race or event

Bet you have not heard of this marathon before eh?

Jayne was discharged from the hospital on Monday morning, and for 2 whole days at home, she did not poo at all. Drank lots of milk, and passed a lot of wind, but just no poo. We got a little concerned and asked Dr Yip about it when we brought her back for the post-natal checkup on Wed. Dr Yip said that she should be poo-ing soon in a day or two and we should not be too worried about it.

True enough, she started to poo on Wed night itself, and she never really stopped. That night, I think she poo-ed no less than 5 times! The whole night, I was just changing her diapers, feeding her, changing her diapers, feeding her (cos after a poo, the baby usually gets hungry).

The marathon did not end there. It continued the next day on Thursday, and almost every time we change her diapers, there’s poo there. It got to a point where I got pretty amazed at how many times she had poo-ed. I was not really worried because her poo was not watery at all, so it’s not diarrhea.

Either she had stored up too much poo in the two days that she did not poo, or her digestive systems were just too good. She could poo after every feed! My MIL said it’s normal for babies on full breastfeed to poo after every feed because breast milk is easily digestible, but for Jayne, her main source of milk still came from formulas, so it's really quite amazing.

I have no idea when the marathon might end. =P

Like all daddies & mummies with more than 1 kid, we also used the same strategy of buying Joey a gift from ‘Jayne’ in an attempt to establish a long-term cordial relationship of goodwill between the 2 sisters. :)

This is what we got for Joey:

A Big Barrel of Play-Doh!

Ever since the gift had been presented to Joey, she had been asking her daddy where’re her OTHER gifts everyday. Sigh.

We might probably get down to opening that barrel tomorrow. :)

 

I say, the greatest gift that Jayne gave to Joey is that she made her an elder sister. :)

This morning both Jayne & I went back to Gleneagles for our check-ups. Thank God everything went very well. My wound is healing very fast and Jayne’s jaundice is also recovering well.

On the whole, Jayne is a much more alert baby compared to Joey. Joey didn’t even open her eyes more than 10 times throughout her 1st month! She was just sleepy all the time. And we even had to ask her PD what should we do to get her to open her eyes. Turned out her fluid balance inside the brain needed some time to adjust, so she didn’t open her eyes much till after her 1st month. Those of you who attended Joey’s baby shower could testify that she slept throughout the party!

Jayne, on the other hand, opened her eyes immediately when she was taken out of my womb. There are also many waking moments after her feeds. She generally likes to look around, though she can’t see far now.

Took many photos of Jayne on the way to the hospital because she was real alert!

Such an innocent angelic face. :)

Yawning is a common action now..

Told you she loves to smile….

      I am very blessed to have 2 beautiful girls in my house. =D

This morning my MIL told me that Joey was talking in her sleep last night. Guess what was she talking about?

“以心！以心！”

Haha… she keeps thinking about Mei Mei even in her sleep.

When she woke up this morning, the first thing she did was to walk out of her bedroom right into my bedroom calling 以心 again.

There she is, wanting to play her toy with Mei Mei…

 

The highlight for her today was to push Jayne’’s cot into the living room because we promised her that she could do it if she lets Mei Mei sleep until she wakes up by herself.

   She’s such an enthusiastic sister! =D

So what have I been eating these few days?

Mainly this dish: Ginger yellow wine chicken

Everyday, I will definitely have this dish at my meals. It’s chicken pieces cooked in yellow wine (neat, no water!) and lots of the ginger prepared earlier on by my hubby. This is very yummy, so I don’t mind that it’s my staple food. I eat it with rice.

On top of this dish, I would usually have another dish. So far, I’ve had pork in vinegar, different kinds of fried veggies with ginger, fried eggs with ginger, steamed fish with ginger, etc.

This is the fish I had for lunch today. My MIL tells me that tonight I’ll be eating black chicken. Cooked with ginger of course. :)

On top of all that, after every single meal, I have to gulp down a glass of DOME to get my blood circulation up & to keep my body warm.

You can ask my hubby. After meals of such high alcoholic content, I usually blabber nonsense and had to go to sleep because I am drunk. Haha!

Her many looks!

Trying very hard to open her eyes… after a feed, very sleepy!

Jayne smiles quite alot! It’s one of her common facial reflexes!