Oh baby!
Agastya seems to be very smart and cunning, but clueless as well sometimes. He sleeps when we want him to eat and he doesn't want to sleep when we desperately want him to sleep. He has this Elvis Presley "uh-huh-huh" noise most of the time when he's annoyed. [His hairstyle nowadays matches Elvis' too!]. He feeds like a cookie monster. We're trying to regulate his feeding time so that it's 3 hours between feeding in the afternoon (yes, we are cruel). Otherwise he just keeps his "feeding for little now and have a little bit again later" habit which we don't like. We'd rather him feeding continuously for 6 oz and satisfied. If it's not 3 hours yet, I go and put on this baby carrier and take him around the block for half an hour at least. Somehow he doesn't mind the cold and sleeps all the way! I have a photo to proof:
It works like a charm everytime. As I'm writing now, Nagi's walking him around the block. You see why I get the chance to blog now! :D
He also finds bath time relaxing. Especially if we massage baby oil all over his body afterwards.
I seem to be obsessed with breast pump since my breast keeps producing milk all the time. I definitely need more than one. First we bought this Avent Isis Breast Pump, which is great and works very well but it's manual and I thought 30 minutes of breast pumping 4 times a day is quite tiring. I need a spare pump anyway because the sterilising business also making it impossible to have just one. I would end up pumping and sterilising the whole day! Hence I bought another one, Babies'R'Us breast feeding system, which is okay but it takes the same amount of time as the Avent Isis, and it makes my nipples sore. Another trip to Babies'R'Us. I saw this Tommy Tippee Freedom Breast Pump and bought it, and what a blunder that was! It doesn't work at all. Maybe the cup doesn't fit my breast properly or something, but it just doesn't work for me. I tried it for 10 minutes and milk just splashed everywhere, and only less than half an ounce went inside the bottle. I was so annoyed. It could work for others though, maybe my breast is just weird. So if anyone wants to try it, I'm willing to give it away for free, since I'm not going to be using it.
There's one thing good coming out from buying that Tommy Tippee breast pump though. The pack came with Tommy Tippee breast pads, which I found excellent. I tried
Avent Disposable Ultra Comfort Breast Pads and Johnson's, this Tommy Tippee is the best. I've even tried Avent Isis Comfort Breast Shells, Avent washable breast pads. I have itchy breast (not the nipples though) problem. I think it started out because I used Avent's and Johnson's breast pads. I needed to use something to keep milk from leaking all over the place. The breast shells make it less itchy but when the breasts are full, the shells become full very quickly too, hence leaking all over the place. Doesn't really solve the problem, does it? The washable breast pads don't make it itchy either, but i keep changing them at least twice a day, they become impractical. This Tommy Tippee breast pads don't make my breast itchy for some reason, and they're big, enough to cover the whole area so they prevent leakage better.
Agastya is doing very well. On his 3.5 week when he was weighed last time by the Health Visitor, he weighed 4.5 kgs, 1 kg more than when he was born. I bet he's at least 5 kgs now, because I can feel he's becoming heavier and heavier everyday, it hurts my tiny hands everytime I lift him (which I do very often since he needs to be winded a lot of times during the feed). My mom said when I was a baby, so were my two sisters, after feeding and burping, we were all satisfied and went to sleep. My Agastya is no ordinary baby. After feeding (a lot), he will need some good burping, and there he'll burp, then he'll want some more milk, and some more burping, and this will go on and on until he thinks he's satisfied.
Oh, before I forget, for those who celebrate, I know it's a little bit early, but as you all find out I don't get a lot of chance to blog nowadays, so Happy Chinese New Year!
It works like a charm everytime. As I'm writing now, Nagi's walking him around the block. You see why I get the chance to blog now! :D
He also finds bath time relaxing. Especially if we massage baby oil all over his body afterwards.
I seem to be obsessed with breast pump since my breast keeps producing milk all the time. I definitely need more than one. First we bought this Avent Isis Breast Pump, which is great and works very well but it's manual and I thought 30 minutes of breast pumping 4 times a day is quite tiring. I need a spare pump anyway because the sterilising business also making it impossible to have just one. I would end up pumping and sterilising the whole day! Hence I bought another one, Babies'R'Us breast feeding system, which is okay but it takes the same amount of time as the Avent Isis, and it makes my nipples sore. Another trip to Babies'R'Us. I saw this Tommy Tippee Freedom Breast Pump and bought it, and what a blunder that was! It doesn't work at all. Maybe the cup doesn't fit my breast properly or something, but it just doesn't work for me. I tried it for 10 minutes and milk just splashed everywhere, and only less than half an ounce went inside the bottle. I was so annoyed. It could work for others though, maybe my breast is just weird. So if anyone wants to try it, I'm willing to give it away for free, since I'm not going to be using it.
There's one thing good coming out from buying that Tommy Tippee breast pump though. The pack came with Tommy Tippee breast pads, which I found excellent. I tried
Avent Disposable Ultra Comfort Breast Pads and Johnson's, this Tommy Tippee is the best. I've even tried Avent Isis Comfort Breast Shells, Avent washable breast pads. I have itchy breast (not the nipples though) problem. I think it started out because I used Avent's and Johnson's breast pads. I needed to use something to keep milk from leaking all over the place. The breast shells make it less itchy but when the breasts are full, the shells become full very quickly too, hence leaking all over the place. Doesn't really solve the problem, does it? The washable breast pads don't make it itchy either, but i keep changing them at least twice a day, they become impractical. This Tommy Tippee breast pads don't make my breast itchy for some reason, and they're big, enough to cover the whole area so they prevent leakage better.
Agastya is doing very well. On his 3.5 week when he was weighed last time by the Health Visitor, he weighed 4.5 kgs, 1 kg more than when he was born. I bet he's at least 5 kgs now, because I can feel he's becoming heavier and heavier everyday, it hurts my tiny hands everytime I lift him (which I do very often since he needs to be winded a lot of times during the feed). My mom said when I was a baby, so were my two sisters, after feeding and burping, we were all satisfied and went to sleep. My Agastya is no ordinary baby. After feeding (a lot), he will need some good burping, and there he'll burp, then he'll want some more milk, and some more burping, and this will go on and on until he thinks he's satisfied.
Oh, before I forget, for those who celebrate, I know it's a little bit early, but as you all find out I don't get a lot of chance to blog nowadays, so Happy Chinese New Year!
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