Caleb @ 1 month

Caleb is now 1 month. My oh my how time flies. I can’t believe the three of us survived one month! For someone who has never ever taken care of a newborn that is a feat!. The day after we were discharged, we had to go back to the hospital to have his blood taken because his bilirubin level was quite high therefore attributing to his jaundice or “yellowish skin”, it was a screaming feast! It didn’t help that he wasn’t a bleeder (like Mommy) so he had to have the needle pricked twice. The next day, he had his first pedia appointment and like a dog ..eerr puppy he staked his claim at the clinic by pooping and peeing on the blinds. My milk didn’t come until the 4th day so we had to supplement him with formula. He was really a sleeper on those early days.

The first few days were a challenge for the three of us, Yiek and I were sleep deprived and I couldn’t move that much because of my stitches. The internet became my bestfriend, as a first-time Mommy, I can be praning so I would search for “rashes”, stool consistency and other things that I would consider not normal, I have also armed myself with how-to videos i.e. how to take baby’s bath, how-to calm baby etc. There are times when I would get soo frustrated that I am sorely tempted to sell Caleb on ebay, my patience does run out you know! Now, he is showing some “attitude”, would scream just because he is bored, would like to be picked-up and swayed and then there are times when he would cry for no reason at all and all I could do is stare at him and scratch my head. He is a certified milk addict, this is the only thing that can shut him up, so if all efforts to calm him fails I’d resort to giving him my breast and like a switch he would shut up. So early and he is a breast addict tsk!

I still can’t believe that we made an angel, a tabachoy angel at that. He takes all our tiredness away and makes our day more meaningful and joyful, yes even when he screams his lungs out!We love how he sounds when he tries to sneeze and he can’t, the way he smiles even though its fake (gas lang daw) , how he puckers his mouth with his eyes so wide that he looks like a lovable parrot, how he stretches his arms, legs and body out and how kunot his face is when he does it, how he moves his head sideways again and again when he wants to take my nippies.

2 weeks postpartum

11/13 more pounds to go (depende kung busug or not)! This is also a don’t-hold-infant-like-this picture. mwehehe.

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A post from the milking cow

I feel like I’m a milking cow! Every 2 hours or less, I have to feed Caleb. I’m really lucky if it goes beyond that. I wake up twice or thrice a night to feed him, sometimes he gets really fussy and wakes up for 1-2 hours with me and Yiek also wide awake. Poor Yiek, can’t concentrate at work. Last night he woke up at 2:45 am, was being fussy and would cry when placed in his crib, I gave up and put him on our bed (not recommendable!) at around 4:00 am.  This morning he is an angel, put him on his bouncer and he slept right away, so unlike the past few days when he’d be awake from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm with me virtually unable to do anything since he likes to be carried up. Sometimes it can really be frustrating. Aahhh the joys of parenthood. Mao na ang giingon, da panganak pa!!! 

Nursery Song

I was singing this while taking a shower, for the some reason  I can’t get it out of my head. (naks parang Kylie Minouge) . Sing to the tune of “I have two hands”.

I have two boob

The left and the right

Hold them up high

So round and full

Squeeze them softly 1-2-3

Small little milk comes out my nippies