Take a bath!

Kai likes to take bath. He is always so peaceful in the bath and he always cries when we get him out of the bath. It's interesting to see the two videos of him taking bath when he was 4 days old and when he was 29 days old. You MAY notice his body fill up with strong muscles, and possibly also the controversial man boobs. : D



Hint: Take a careful look at the second clip and watch out when Kai raised his eyes and became more alert: exactly at the moment when he heard the word "Dad". Was it because of my raised voice or Kai's bond with his father? : D

Why was I born so entertaining?

For me, Kai is the perfect entertainer. It's so lovely to watch him making faces.

I don't like it!

I told you I don't like it!

What?

What did you say?

I'm tired!

Don't wake me up!

I told you not to wake me up!


(I am getting better with Blogspot. You see, now I can add captions to pitcures and drag pictures to wherever I want. A small progress!)

Kai's man boobs

Kai is developing perfectly. On the 18th day, he weighed 3.32 kg (7 pounds 5 Ounces). He has gained 5 ounces after a slight weight drop during the first few days. The weight gain didn’t sound much, but it was good enough to remove the terrible thought from my head that my breasts were not producing enough milk or I was not doing well. Well, a real relief!

Kai looks much fleshier now. Over the last days, we have been watching his body grow bigger, like a balloon slowing blowing up. His breasts are slightly swollen. I call them “man boobs”. : - )

Sorry Kai, mum is showing your topless body now. No wonder, you were not happy in the picture – you must be protesting against peeping into your man boobs. : - )

Mum tells the untold story – Kai’s birth story

After endless waiting, I gave up and relied on Tuesday’s induction. Funnily, on Sunday night, just two days before the induction, I began to have more and more regular contractions. I was not sure if it was the real thing. The admission of the hospital told me to make the way in, I still couldn’t believe that I was going to have a baby. Right there and then!

Having difficulties in coping with the contractions, I was examined by a hospital midwife. She transferred me directly to the delivery suite, as I was 8 to 9 cm dilated already! The delivery room I was using is my dream room with a large birthing pool. The midwife’s words broke my dream “It will take about half an hour to fill the pool. You would give birth by then.” What a miss! All the breathing technique I learned from the yoga course was useless too – I simply skipped a great deal of the first stage. Before the midwife told me to push, I coped all right with Gas and Air, which made me really dizzy and left me wonder where I was. The push bit was dreadful. I made such an effort to push, but still hadn’t had any success. The baby’s head was just not going to come out!!

It turned out the baby became distressed and needed to be got out quickly. A surgeon with Romanian accent came in and conducted the Ventouse delivery for me. I didn’t escape from the fate of episiotomy either, which I always feared.

Jonathan was such a great supporter. He caressed me, held my hands when I was in pain; gave me praise when I really pushed hard; reassured me when I was in doubt. The midwife, Kerry Foot, and the surgeon were also very nice and helpful.

After two to three hours’ fight in the delivery room, the baby came out. He was such a handsome young boy. I loved him straight away. From that moment on, I realised the boy is worth all the waiting.

Kai's first mission

Jonathan is off to China tomorrow.

Jun was sitting in the armchair in the dimmed light and feeding Kai who was sucking vigorously. Thinking of being apart from Jonathan for the next 3 months, Jun felt blue and cried some tears. Jonathan noticed it and came to give his wife and child a dear cuddle, then he began to talk to Kai gently:

"Kai, take care of your mum when I am away. Take her to China to see me in 3 months."

From 07.02.08 19:00

Dirty nappies; Sleepless nights

Dirty nappies: TRUE

From day 4, when I began to have mature breast milk, not colostrum, Kai started poo and wee a lot. I was a little bit overjoyed at the beginning, as yellow poo means Kai had been fed well, which I was hoping for. With the time, when Kai got more and more poo in his nappies, and the interval between nappy changes seemed to be shorter and shorter, the happiness starts to wear off. At one point, when Kai weed and pooed on the changing mat when I was changing nappy for him, I felt disgusted. Fortunately until now, there hasn’t been such an instance that Kai wees “fountains” into my face, the worst scenario so far is that Kai weed onto Grandma’s trousers.

Not nice to talk or hear about wee and poo, is it? But generally Kai is lovely. He doesn’t complain about dirty nappies at all. It has been always others who spot his dirty nappies.

I found a really cute Japanese cartoon potty training video, which I could use for Kai when he starts potty training. http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2007/japanese-toilet-training-p1.php

Sleepless night: FALSE

The first night with Kai has been a disaster. After giving him a feed, as soon as I put him back into the Moses basket, he started to cry. It seems that he didn’t like to be left alone. The first night was awful and made me really feel miserable about the future nights with Kai.

From the second night, I put him onto my bed, under different cover though. After finding out that Alex is stilling doing the same to Tara, I was really relieved and didn’t mind to be a rebel (Almost all midwives hate the idea of sleeping with babies). At night whenever Kai needs a feed, I give it to him, so he has unlimited access to my breast milk. It works really well. Kai is definitely happy, I am happy as well, so does Jonathan. No nasty baby cry at night any longer. Frankly speaking, I get some precious sleep at night, but not really as deep as before. As in my subconscious I am not only a sleeper, also a mum who needs to be available to my baby whenever he needs me. As a result, I have vivid dreams throughout the night. I like adventurous dreams, so from this point of view, I am happy too.