Blessings from Above

warning: graphic post i've always thought that bfing gets easier (& better) with subsequent children - because you are supposed to know what to do already! unfortunately though, i am still dodged by the same problems 2nd time round... its largely because my li'l prince decides that night feeds are not important & me, being the 'lazy' one, choosing sleep over clearing the milk ducts... now i'm in so much pain that i'm close to shouting out my entire vocabulary of expletives at the top of my voice! doesn't help that dh doesn't appreciate nor empathise with me! and oh, that's milk tinged with blood by the way & not strawberry milk! i had to use needles to poke and try to find the blocked ducts - that's the reason for the blood. no fun at all... i gave up after 15 mins w/o finding all the spots.

sorry i've been so slack in posting entries - can't really find the time to do anything else amidst caring for 2 kids and getting enough sleep. i shall attempt to complete these back entries (not in chronological order) over the weekend... so check on back later! - Chace's full month parties - swimming playdate - Jvel's birthday party - polliwog playdate - swimming playdate @ the club

Are you very different from your other siblings? My two babies are as different as chalk and cheese! Both in appearance and in behavior… but why? from the same factory leh... They may look identical but Claire is fair skinned, petite & lightweight whereas Chace is rather dark skinned at this point, tall, stout & heavyweight. In fact, Chace’s face is now almost as big as Claire’s (He is 6kg+ now @ 2 months’ old). As DH aptly put it – lucky the girl is thin and the boy is fat and not the other way around. We do want to marry Claire off some day! Claire used to wake up every hour or so for milk in the initial months, thus totally disrupting my sleeping schedule. She is a ‘small-eater’ as she takes sips of milk each time she nurses whereas Chace tanks up each time he does. As a result, he is (almost) sleeping through the night from as early as a month ago, waking up only once or twice and its not even to feed – he won’t even open his mouth when I offer him milk – he just wants ...

The last two months was probably very trying for Claire as she adjusts to the addition of a new family member – heck, I think it was trying even for us! Once the only child, she is now an elder sister. She has shown clear affection for her little brother – fussing over him (“mummy, didi is crying”), giving him heaps of hugs & kisses and even helping us take care of him (bringing wipes & diapers when he needs a change, drying his hair after his bath, etc) but having to share our attention ‘so suddenly’ is probably something she never really expected even though we made an effort to prepare her right from the start. As a result of this ‘shared attention’ or maybe to her - ‘a lack of attention’, she suddenly turned into this annoying, attention seeking little gal who cries and whines over every little thing. We have lost our tempers at her numerous times because of this behavior and when that happens, I sometimes wonder if we expect too much from her? She is after all, just a li...

many years ago, a little girl got bitten on the face because she disturbed her sister's poodle... NO PHOTOS AVAILABLE twenty four years later... her daughter gets bitten on the face because she disturbed the family shih-tzu... immediately after being bitten (slightly bruised on the cheek) two days later (visible teeth marks - bruised cheeks) yes, the little girl was me... moral of the story, never disturb dogs (no matter what breed)! don't call animal control, the human was at fault. fortunately, Chewy didn't bite down hard and Claire didn't bleed. dh is of the opinion that Chewy should be castrated because of his recent aggressive behavior but I'm not so sure...