bbTara arrives!!!
For most of you who alrd rx the news, livingstone and I had successfully delivered bbTara to this earth last Saturday, 1st Nov 2008. =)
It's been a week, and we are still adjusting to life with our newborn. Lack of sleep, checking and changing diapers, cleaning her, making her to sleep, feeding her, feeding her and still feeding her....are common things we do for the past few days. It looked short on the calendar, but it was quite taxing, the fact that we need to wake up every other hour in the wee hours to feed her, can be quite traumatising. We have decided to give her breastmilk, so that explains the frequent feeding. And as she is a big bb weighing 3.675kg at birth, she now demands more milk from me. However, as my supply is not enuf for her demand, we have turned to formula milk for the nite. So that, livingstone and I can rest longer (hopefully). I do feel guilty when i feed her with formula milk, cos total breastfeeding was wat we desired, but well....livingstone is right, we hv to be flexible, until my milk supply comes full swing.
I salute mothers who breastfeed exclusively for months and years. The cracked and bleeding nipples caused by breastfeeding can be very demoralising. However, on the other hand, when u see ur baby latching on and sucking like there is no tml (sometimes smiling when sucking)....brings satisfaction and encouragement to mothers. Breastfeeding is not easy.
For my experience during delivery, my water bag burst on halloween nite, after we had our dinner with our frens. I admitted into the hospital and the contractions started at 12.30am, all the way to 7.30am. I remember livingstone was so cold in the delivery ward, while i felt hot. The contractions came every 1-2 mins close to 4am, and my back was so aching that I tried all ways to overcome it (obviously to no avail). When the midwife came to check how i was dilating, I was so sad and disappointed to hear that I was only dilated 1cm for that bloody painful 7hrs! That makes it a total of only 4cm (I admitted with 3cm dilated). I gave up at that point, and asked for epidural. The good news was, i dilated fully (at 10cm) after the jab. And when my gynae arrives, he said i was ready to push. bbTara arrives on the morning of 1st Nov 2008. And I first breastfeed her in the delivery ward with the help of my midwife.
From the time we conceive, the 38 wks, till D-Day (wea livingstone witness the entire delivery process, and also cut the umbilical cord), it was an amazing and awesome journey for both livingstone and I.....
Now, back to the little new member in our house, we are trying to work out a schedule soon, so that all things will be in place.
For more updates and bbTara's pictures, you can refer to my fren's blogs who have came to visited us during our stay in the hospital:
- Nerdybabe
- Iroiro
- Dreamver
- Verybubbly
- Carelessandforgetful
For now, I wouldn't have the time to edit the tons of pictures ..... bear with me.... =)
It's been a week, and we are still adjusting to life with our newborn. Lack of sleep, checking and changing diapers, cleaning her, making her to sleep, feeding her, feeding her and still feeding her....are common things we do for the past few days. It looked short on the calendar, but it was quite taxing, the fact that we need to wake up every other hour in the wee hours to feed her, can be quite traumatising. We have decided to give her breastmilk, so that explains the frequent feeding. And as she is a big bb weighing 3.675kg at birth, she now demands more milk from me. However, as my supply is not enuf for her demand, we have turned to formula milk for the nite. So that, livingstone and I can rest longer (hopefully). I do feel guilty when i feed her with formula milk, cos total breastfeeding was wat we desired, but well....livingstone is right, we hv to be flexible, until my milk supply comes full swing.
I salute mothers who breastfeed exclusively for months and years. The cracked and bleeding nipples caused by breastfeeding can be very demoralising. However, on the other hand, when u see ur baby latching on and sucking like there is no tml (sometimes smiling when sucking)....brings satisfaction and encouragement to mothers. Breastfeeding is not easy.
For my experience during delivery, my water bag burst on halloween nite, after we had our dinner with our frens. I admitted into the hospital and the contractions started at 12.30am, all the way to 7.30am. I remember livingstone was so cold in the delivery ward, while i felt hot. The contractions came every 1-2 mins close to 4am, and my back was so aching that I tried all ways to overcome it (obviously to no avail). When the midwife came to check how i was dilating, I was so sad and disappointed to hear that I was only dilated 1cm for that bloody painful 7hrs! That makes it a total of only 4cm (I admitted with 3cm dilated). I gave up at that point, and asked for epidural. The good news was, i dilated fully (at 10cm) after the jab. And when my gynae arrives, he said i was ready to push. bbTara arrives on the morning of 1st Nov 2008. And I first breastfeed her in the delivery ward with the help of my midwife.
From the time we conceive, the 38 wks, till D-Day (wea livingstone witness the entire delivery process, and also cut the umbilical cord), it was an amazing and awesome journey for both livingstone and I.....
Now, back to the little new member in our house, we are trying to work out a schedule soon, so that all things will be in place.
For more updates and bbTara's pictures, you can refer to my fren's blogs who have came to visited us during our stay in the hospital:
- Nerdybabe
- Iroiro
- Dreamver
- Verybubbly
- Carelessandforgetful
For now, I wouldn't have the time to edit the tons of pictures ..... bear with me.... =)
Labels: bbtara, experience, pregnancy
