You’re a very easy baby, once fed and full, I wrap you up in a tight bundle and you usually sleep quietly in the bassinet for an hour or 2.
Feeding has been hard though. We checked out of hospital on day 3, your weight was 2.88KG. We were lucky to get into the midwife at home program. The next day a lovely older midwife called Gill came and visited us. She weighed you and you had put on a little bit of weight, weighing in at 2.9 KG. So that was just from breastfeeding.
She had a very thorough method for latching you on, it didn’t seem very nice cause I had to push the breast into your mouth, but seem to get a pretty good pain-free lunch, at least on the left side. On the right side of my boob hurts so much but we manage to find a way to lights on that was tolerable. You are pretty happy once you are on sucking away contently, big cups of milk.
The next day she came back and we wait you, you were 2.95KG. At first The scales said 2.92, and Jill was very confused because she could see and feel the heavy wet nappies you had done the yellow poos that were coming out, which all meant you are getting a good amount of breastmilk. We put the scale down on the floor to different places and finally got a slightly better reading and she was satisfied. I really liked our experience she was and how she challenge the numbers to understand cause-and-effect.
That was yesterday, today is Wednesday and another midwife won’t be back till Friday. Last night was pretty tough, following Jills technique I would put you on each breast for 10 minutes to rounds, first round cross body hold, second around the football hold. Then I would pump a little bit and give you the expressed milk and then put you down to sleep. When I follow that process, it’s UK about two hours to complete. That was very hard throughout the night, even though you do manage to sleep two hours between the end one feed in the start of the next I really struggle to get up and do all that all day and night.
I manage to get a little bit of sleep during the day while grandma and dad looked after you cuddled you and settled you.
What’s the most beautiful unsurprising is how much your brother Riley simply love you. He’s always calling and asking for you saying Meimei. Once he finds you, he would kiss you and give you gentle pats on the face. He just can’t get enough of you.
Grandma, or Laolao, just loves looking at and cuddling you and saying silly things about you how pretty and how lovely you are, and how much trouble you’re going to be.
Dad has always got the gentlest voice for you, cradling you in his arms all on his belly telling you to shush as well as how gorgeous you are. It’s very sweet to see you guys together.
