They say being a mother is the toughest but most satisfying job a woman can have..
My first day of motherhood certainly wasn't easy for me.. Well, first of all, i wouldn't consider the first day of motherhood as the day Bria was born. Cause at the hospital, i get all the help i can from the nurses there.. So there's isn't much work to be done. But when baby goes home, it's a whole different story. But of couse, C helped me a lot.
Bria was very good during the day of my discharge. But during the night, she cried almost every hour until 8am in the morning. C and I had to keep getting up to breast feed her and soothe her. We both ended up not sleeping at all. I was exhausted, and still had not entirely recovered from my cough. And my stitches were hurting. I told K to buy milk powder the next morning. I was prepared for the same thing to happen again the next day. And deeply disappointed cause i had thought i would be able to survive the tolls of breastfeeding without using formula.
The second day at home was totally different though. At almost 1am, the non-stop crying started. I know my baby isn't the type to cry for attention. And wasn't about to adopt the whole "let the baby cry and don't spoil her" advice. So i tried really hard to think what could be wrong with her. But she wasn't hungry and her diaper wasn't soiled. Then C told me she suspect there is something wrong with Bria's nose cause she had heard some soft snorting noises coming out. Then i remembered K mentioned the same thing during the first night. So K tried to use the nose pump on Bria, and we managed to extract a huge chunk of goo-ey stuff from her nostril. Bria slept throughout the night for 7 hours straight after that = )
In fact, at 7 plus in the morning, she was still sleeping. I got so worried that she would be hungry that i woke her up to feed her. The rest of the day was pretty smooth.
Unfortunately, the whole sleeping for 7 hours thing didn't repeat itself yesterday. Bria woke up again like every 2 hours to either feed or poo and pee. C and I got so exhausted, and i kinda run out of breast milk. So the tin of formula was finally used, much to my disappointment. At one point, my stitches hurt so much from all the walking, and getting up and down over the last few nights that i couldn't get up from my bed. I had to communicate with C in the other room by shouting. Sigh.. if only she can sleep for 7 hours straight every night.. = (
My first day of motherhood certainly wasn't easy for me.. Well, first of all, i wouldn't consider the first day of motherhood as the day Bria was born. Cause at the hospital, i get all the help i can from the nurses there.. So there's isn't much work to be done. But when baby goes home, it's a whole different story. But of couse, C helped me a lot.
Bria was very good during the day of my discharge. But during the night, she cried almost every hour until 8am in the morning. C and I had to keep getting up to breast feed her and soothe her. We both ended up not sleeping at all. I was exhausted, and still had not entirely recovered from my cough. And my stitches were hurting. I told K to buy milk powder the next morning. I was prepared for the same thing to happen again the next day. And deeply disappointed cause i had thought i would be able to survive the tolls of breastfeeding without using formula.
The second day at home was totally different though. At almost 1am, the non-stop crying started. I know my baby isn't the type to cry for attention. And wasn't about to adopt the whole "let the baby cry and don't spoil her" advice. So i tried really hard to think what could be wrong with her. But she wasn't hungry and her diaper wasn't soiled. Then C told me she suspect there is something wrong with Bria's nose cause she had heard some soft snorting noises coming out. Then i remembered K mentioned the same thing during the first night. So K tried to use the nose pump on Bria, and we managed to extract a huge chunk of goo-ey stuff from her nostril. Bria slept throughout the night for 7 hours straight after that = )
In fact, at 7 plus in the morning, she was still sleeping. I got so worried that she would be hungry that i woke her up to feed her. The rest of the day was pretty smooth.
Unfortunately, the whole sleeping for 7 hours thing didn't repeat itself yesterday. Bria woke up again like every 2 hours to either feed or poo and pee. C and I got so exhausted, and i kinda run out of breast milk. So the tin of formula was finally used, much to my disappointment. At one point, my stitches hurt so much from all the walking, and getting up and down over the last few nights that i couldn't get up from my bed. I had to communicate with C in the other room by shouting. Sigh.. if only she can sleep for 7 hours straight every night.. = (
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