6 week review

We went to Milton surgery yesterday to have mine and Agastya's 6 week examination. He's compoletely fine. All hips, testes, heart, eyes, etc are fine. He weighed 5.45 kg (75th centile). This time the doctor measured his length which was 58 cm (75th centile). His head circumference was 39 cm (50th centile). Glad to have some sort of reassurance that he's growing very well.

He's been producing all sorts of different sounds lately (I mean more than before), and he can return my smile now :D I find him more enjoyable to hold although he's getting heavy every day I need to get some exercise to get myself fit. His weight has taken its toll on my hands (especially my left arm) and my back. I really look forward to going home to Indonesia and get myself some soothing massage all over my body!

The doctor suggested not to limit his feed 3 hourly, and give him milk whenever he wants. Around 3 months his behaviour towards feeding will change anyway. I'll try and see how this "on-demand" feed work.

I'm a bit worried about the flight. The doctor said not to put anything in his ear (cotton wool/ear plug, etc). She said breastfeeding will eliminate the chance of getting ear pain. What scares me is that he'll cry frantically throughout the flight, I'll get some angry annoyed stares from the whole passengers and air-hostesses. Wish me luck!!!!