Best Birthday Gift....

Today, i celebrated my 31st birthday and it is no longer just me and Mui. This birthday will be the most memorable as we celebrated it with Ray and the three of us as a family.

Because i am still in my confinement period, the celebration was done on a small scale. But of cos i am not complaining cos i held Ray in my arms and pa pa mui sung me the birthday song....


And when it came to cake cutting time, look at Ray and his cheeky expression.


And my birthday wish....is that Ray will grow up all healthy and strong.

Shower Me with L-O-V-E

Ray has been staying in the hospital for the past 2 weeks becos of his jaudince and everytime i go visit, it will be mainly to breastfeed him and to bond with him. The most i would do is to change his nappy but to bath him.....Oh no no no....i have to hand it to pa pa mui who have been through classes to know the hands on. Why am i clueless? Cos the trainer always stress that bath time should be left to the daddies partly to do bonding with the baby and as well as rest time for the mommies.

So here is the pic of pa pa mui having fun with Ray at their first bath time.


Pa pa mui sure is having fun....but Ray has this intense look on his face....Help Me.

And me....i towel the baby dry!!

Finally...

Yippee!! Ray has finally been given the green light to come home with us. As we brought him back into house, and lay him into his cot, he was still fast asleep thus we quickly seized the chance to settle his stuff into our room. The moment we were done, the two of us were hovering around his cot waiting for his wailing....his wailing is our command now.

It is weird, suddenly we have Ray back into our very own home and i would jump and run immediately to him the moment he made the slightest sound. Life is not the same anymore. I used to sleep like a log but now i literally JUMP at his every breath.....oh no, i am slave to my son now.

Breastfeeding has got more intense now, with feeding at ard every 3 hrs, no more sterilising of bottles and expressing bottles of milk, i am now able to feed direct and the feeling of being able to provide for Ray is really great. And pa pa mui has been the greatest help also, helping with the 2am nappy change.

We are losing sleep....but its manageable and we are definitely enjoying it.

Fountain of Pee

We have been reminded alot of times in our antenatal classes that boys will tend to "ambush" the parents when it comes to diaper changing time. How? By creating a "fountain". We had our first "fountain" today as we removed Ray's diaper and this huge stream of pee followed....human instinct caused me to shield by using my hand and the pee got all over Ray's body and his cot was all wet and he wasnt quite happy about it, of cos.

In fact, it really was a quite pool of pee was we have to push the cot back to the nursery to ask for a new cot as the old one was just too soaking wet.

Moral of the story....never change the new born baby after a feed as the bladder is still unable to control the urine thus whatever goes in will come out almost immediately.

ONE more!!

Managed to feed Ray twice today...tiring as i spent half a day in KK hospital. But then again its all worth while, seeing Ray looking at me as i feed him and him making all the expressions as i talked nonsense to him. Ray is seriously such a joker. Look at this pic, it was after his feeding and pay attention to the finger.

ONE more feed, mom!!

Latching Ray

Ray has been feeding well and we have also managed to have some quality mom-son bonding time as he drunk straight from my boobs. The nurses at KK have been most helpful as they always offered me help to latch Ray. But each time the nurse helped and its like my boobs not longer the function it used to be....it is now like a feeding channel for Ray. Boo boo....and the saddest part, i actually feel its ok when they pinched my boobs!! Arrgghhh!!

Ray has been really responsive these days. Every time before he feeds, his 2 eyes will open widely and stare at the person holding him, its like he is trying to make sense out of the person. And every time we talk to him, he will smiled, frowned, raised his brows etc.

It has been more than a week now and his jaundice level is still high.

Cheeky Fella

It has been a week since Phieng Phieng as appeared into our lifes. And today, it marks a special day as we went to get Phieng Phieng's new name register.

He will now be known as 梅 江 睿 （Mei Jiang Rui) or aka Ray. And look at this cheeky fella and his smile. Pa Pa mui said Ray suit him to a T as he has such sunshine feel to his smile. Oh....there we go, parents singing praises of their own son but you cannot blame us!! hahaha.....


Ray is still in hospital so we make a trip down to the hospital everyday to talk to him and to update him abt our lives and of cos each time i have this strong urge to bring him home.....he loves it when we talk silly to him, he will have alot of facial expressions and he never fails to crack me up.

Patience patience, just one more week....and we can have him home.