Day & Night
Thank God Joey survived her first day after her jab with absolutely no fever at all! Her appetite is still good and she still sleeps as much, in fact better than the past 2 days. She has a little bit of diarrhoea though, but i'm not even sure if it's diarrhoea cos she did not pass motion many many times, just once yesterday morning and early this morning, both more watery than usual but still alright.
And I think she is beginning to realise the difference between day & night. During the day, she will fidget a little before going back to sleep after her milk and she'll automatically wake up every 3 hours. But after her last feed between 10pm-12 midnight, she will only wake up at about 4-5am, about 4 to 5 hours apart. And after her feed, she will fall back to sleep immediately. This is really good news for me because I will be going back to work soon and I really will need more quality sleep. I pray she will get better & better and will start to sleep through the night soon.
That day in church I was chatting with Jiahui about our baby's sleeping patterns. She told me that En en had already started to sleep through the night when she's about 1-2 months old, but after she fell very sick when she was about 6 months old, all her sleeping habits were disrupted and she went back to the schedule of waking up every 2-3 hours in the night, like a newborn. Oh my, that's really tiring for the mother.
Imagine being pulled wide awake when you are in deep slumber by the crying of your baby. And the next thing you know, you are scrambling to get the bottle, hot water, cold water, milk powder, and at the same time mumbling under your breath that you wish your still-sleeping husband will finally wake up to pacify the baby. (Oh, I'm not referring to my husband of course. I'm referring to OTHER PEOPLE'S husbands. Isaiah usually wakes up faster than me during the night cos I am just a sleepy piggy.) All these done when you are still half asleep.
Anyway, I am adjusting better to my lack-of-sleep-lifestyle I hope. It used to be that during the day, I'll be quite zombified and wish I can sleep & sleep but cannot, cos still got to watch over joey and wait for her feeding time. But now during the day, I am quite awake and can afford to skip naps altogether. There're exceptions of course. Sometimes I can take many small naps during the day. hee hee..
Oh, did i mention that I only saw joey's BCG scar yesterday at the clinic?? I've never seen it even though the nurse at the hospital mentioned to me that she's had her BCG injection on her 2nd day of birth. Nowadays, the BCG jab is no longer on the arm, but on the buttocks. And Dr Jane showed it to me yesterday. I can't believe i missed it all the time when I was bathing and changing her for the past 6 weeks! But it's quite cute lah, just a small bump.
And I think she is beginning to realise the difference between day & night. During the day, she will fidget a little before going back to sleep after her milk and she'll automatically wake up every 3 hours. But after her last feed between 10pm-12 midnight, she will only wake up at about 4-5am, about 4 to 5 hours apart. And after her feed, she will fall back to sleep immediately. This is really good news for me because I will be going back to work soon and I really will need more quality sleep. I pray she will get better & better and will start to sleep through the night soon.
That day in church I was chatting with Jiahui about our baby's sleeping patterns. She told me that En en had already started to sleep through the night when she's about 1-2 months old, but after she fell very sick when she was about 6 months old, all her sleeping habits were disrupted and she went back to the schedule of waking up every 2-3 hours in the night, like a newborn. Oh my, that's really tiring for the mother.
Imagine being pulled wide awake when you are in deep slumber by the crying of your baby. And the next thing you know, you are scrambling to get the bottle, hot water, cold water, milk powder, and at the same time mumbling under your breath that you wish your still-sleeping husband will finally wake up to pacify the baby. (Oh, I'm not referring to my husband of course. I'm referring to OTHER PEOPLE'S husbands. Isaiah usually wakes up faster than me during the night cos I am just a sleepy piggy.) All these done when you are still half asleep.
Anyway, I am adjusting better to my lack-of-sleep-lifestyle I hope. It used to be that during the day, I'll be quite zombified and wish I can sleep & sleep but cannot, cos still got to watch over joey and wait for her feeding time. But now during the day, I am quite awake and can afford to skip naps altogether. There're exceptions of course. Sometimes I can take many small naps during the day. hee hee..
Oh, did i mention that I only saw joey's BCG scar yesterday at the clinic?? I've never seen it even though the nurse at the hospital mentioned to me that she's had her BCG injection on her 2nd day of birth. Nowadays, the BCG jab is no longer on the arm, but on the buttocks. And Dr Jane showed it to me yesterday. I can't believe i missed it all the time when I was bathing and changing her for the past 6 weeks! But it's quite cute lah, just a small bump.
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