Time Flies

I didn't realise that my last post was nearly 10 days ago. Time really flies. I have been so caught up with work that I don't have the time and energy to write. I think the babies are really getting adorable by days and I just have to take more pictures of this cuteness and remember it for the rest of my life. Their heads are pretty firm and are attempting to crawl already. The below pictures were taken when they are 5m9d.

We are facing challenges for each of the babies lately. Josiah always have problem on the feeding part and Joshua on the sleeping part.

For every feed that we gave Josiah, he have to take several attempts to finish the whole bottle, sometimes over an interval of half an hour or over 1 hour. If he don't want to drink, he will stretch his whole body backwards and start shouting as a way to reject his milk. His hands will sweep all around and we have to grab his hand while feeding. I think I'm probably the most experienced person who knows his drinking patter n now.

As for Joshua, he seems to be a real light sleeper. He wakes up at the slightest noise and I have to act like a ninja in my house. His cot was beside me and I have to pacify him whenever he wakes up. One easiest way to pacify him is to stuff the pacifier into his mouth but the problem is the he likes to spit or sweep the pacifier off his mouth when he is in his nearly sleeping mode. When the pacifier is off, he will be easily disturbed and wake up again. For some nights, he can start making noise every 30-45 minutes and I have to search for the pacifier to stuff into his mouth before I go back to my bed. Its pretty tiring actually as my sleep are badly interrupted throughout the night.

Felin complained that she is really very tired after the weekend. She can hardly grab any sleep and yet have to meet the demand of work and yet needing to spend so much time on expressing milk. Her weight had dropped to only 45kg recently. Before pregnant, she is about 49kg. At peak of pregnancy, she is about 66kg. 45kg is probably the lowest she ever reached ever since her schooling days. She told me that she really want to stop the breastfeeding soon as its too taxing on her.

One simple gesture I can do for her every evening is to prepare her breast pump with a glass of Manuka Honey every 11:30pm before she start her routine.

I had also suggested to her to reduce her expressing from 4 to 3 times daily. Currently is 12-6-12-6. I'd proposed 5:30-1:30-9:30 pattern and she agree to implement it in July. This new pattern allows her longer stretch of sleep.

We are going to JB this weekend with the babies for MIW's birthday and its a challenge for us as they are no longer babies and they may find it more difficult to sleep in a unfamiliar environment. Well. Hope all will turn up well eventually...