Nowadays, our attention has been pretty much focused on feeds. naps, diaper change, poo and pee. And watch out for that sneeze, or warm sticky poo will land on you!
I've also realised that Karine has established her own kind of routine, an hour after her feed, she'll need her nap or she'll be really cranky. I'm so thankful that I've started to be more diligent in recording her naptimes. Also, she usually takes 1-2 longish naps like 2hrs or so and abt 2-3 shorter naps, which can last anytime from 15-30 mins. I'm glad i started her on a routine and she's managed to lay down for her longer sleep at night after her last feed, which is usually at 9-ish. So far, waking up for one night feed.
Am reeaally looking forward to the day sleeping thru occurs! When when?!?! She did sleep through the nite before, and my body suffered for it.
I'll explain why.
People are right abt bbs being our gym. I've never did so many squats and lunges and walks with a 5kg weight so many times! now, it makes up like 80% of my day! Ok, I may exaggerate a bit, but it seems like 80% of the time. I sleep like 20% of the day . Anyway, back to why my body suffered. So since Karine slept through, i didn't wake up and move my body right, so by the time I woke up, 7 hrs+ have passed and body has "stiffened" liao. You know, like how you exercised a lot the day before and the next day your muscles ache like anything. So that was the way it was the whole of yesterday. Damn sng!!! But heng, my massage lady came yesterday, which i totally wasn't prepared for cos I didn't receive her confirmatio sms, which she said she sent, and the session was really solid. Damn painful but damn shiok! ok, i'm sick. Some of you already know that!
Ok, enough about aching bodies. Back to sleeping through. when when when! I thought it could be repeated last night, but Karine was just too sleepy to be woken up for her 9pm feed, that i let her sleep on. And I said hello to 2am feeding again. But my body didn't ache that much today, so I guess moving that butt out of bed and back again helped!
The other milestone that Karine reached was her 2mth vaccination jab. I've been stressing out over that and preparing myself for bouts of fever and fussing, but all that came to nought. She took the jab pretty well, thanks to Dr AAT's quick draw! Before Karine realised the jab, the needle was out and the plaster was on! She started to cry abit and it was time for the rotarix vaccine, which is taken orally. And she was comforted by that, happily sucking away!
When we returned home, i was monitoring her temp almost 2 hourly, which hb thought was kinda excessive. thankfully, her temp didn't peak more than 36.8 deg, and the thermometer still maintained a smiley face! all that worry for nothing! which is great!
After the jab, I felt more comfortable in bringing bb out to more crowded places. I've been quite hesitant about bringing her out before her jabs as it's the year-end festive period with loads of people and of course, year end bugs. so the sights Karine's been taking in were trips from home to Grandma's and trips to the PD and the greenery view from the windows! call me paranoid but I'd rather believe in prevention than cure for now!
Well, BB has since gone for dinners and lunches out with Grandfolks at Swenson's and Tung Lok. So far, she's been great to travel with. I'm so blessed! We also had a Christmas lunch at Perlyn's place. Roast lamb - yummy!
Snug and asleep in the trusty sling!
Darn camera, not very easy to capture leh! look here!
Cousin Emmanual paid us a visit too! And he's fascinated with Karine's mittens! So cute! Those mitts have since come off, need to give those little fingers some air-time! But they go back on at night, cos she wakes up with scratches on her face! There was even one time she scratched her own eyeball and I had to bear with looking at a little red tiny scratch on her eye white. It was probably more painful for me than her!
I'm so looking forward to shopping for a new wardrobe for work, doing my hair (yay, can colour liao after 9 mths!) and my much-missed facial!! Need to make appts for my pedi and hair spa too...which i miss so so much! Haven't gone for my facial after my 7th mth, too uncomfortable to lie down for long. And the sales are now on! yay!
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