We were discharged on 18 Dec 2009, actually Dr WK Tan wanted me to stay for another night.. but i ask her if i am able to go home? then she asked me if i am able to take care of baby cos tis is my first baby... i say ok.. one thing i really feel uncomfortable staying in hospital and also staying for another night, i will need to pay 600-700+ more... so y should i? the hospital bed is too high and i climb up & down, my wound feels so painful... before we went home, we went to visit you long zi for gal gal chinese name... nightmares begins when i reach home... my whole house is not ready to welcome gal gal yet... bedsheet for gal gal's cot not done... luckily we wash already just tat we haven lay the bedsheet yet... so we quickly tidy her room and let her rest in her princess cot... keke... i was busying tidying her room, walking here n there... my wound feel so painful... n worse of all we haven buy formula for gal gal yet... luckily everything was more settled the next day... but due to my mum is not used to my house things, i have to tell her and help her to get used to it... the second night i am home, my breast begins to engorge... it was so painful tat i cant move myself when i sleep... n i even have fever... so in the midst of the night, i took out my medela pump and started to learn how to use it.... n i begin to learn how to pump milk.... after pumping for few times, then my engorgement went off... i put cold cabbage on my breast... it helps a bit when its cold, but very fast, the coldness will goes off... so i will still feel pain... my pain last for around 2 weeks... until doctor took off the stitch for me then i feel better after tat... the initial pain was so painful tat i wanted yong to buy me a float... but he cant get it.. haha... he saw me wif pain tat he ask me does gal gal still will have a didi or mei mei? haha my reply was dunno.. haha...
Confinement was a very boring process and it takes a month... oh my god... i simply cannot dun bathe.. initially when i came back, i almost bath everyday lor... my whole body stink lor if dun bath... haha... i m used to bath every 2 times a day... how can i dun bath?? haha... its only in week 3 then i started to settle down and took care of baby at night myself...
During confinement, it's really not easy to learn how to cope wif ur baby, learn breastfeeding and coping wif the milk supply... and also food is the most sian thing... everyday almost eat the same kind of food... and cant even drink plain water.. haizz...
For the malay massage, i started doing it a week after i gave birth... i do it for 5 days and wrap... still not bad, especially when she help me massage my breast n clear all my blockage... as for my tummy, i think the wrap did help me reduce but actually till now, i still have my little tummy...
Coping wif breastfeeding is the most stressful thing... cos my milk supply is not very good... initially start, i could only pump 20-30ml a time... it was so pathetic lor... one day i could only feed 3times of my breastmilk only... so ard 1/3 on breastmilk & 2/3 on formula... now, my breastmilk increase a bit liao... ard 2/3 on breastmilk and 1/3 on formula... i m still hoping to see one day where i can fully feed her on breastmilk... pumping milk for tis one month, i really feel myself like a cow... pumping n pumping... every 2-3 hours pump one time... the process was so tiring... initially i make myself so miserable by hiding myself in my bedroom and stare at the pump to pump... then it really makes me feel pumping milk is a boring thing... so thereafter i feel i must make myself enjoy more in pumping milk... so i pump in my study room while using pc... so life really got better... haha.... maybe more used to it by now...
During confinement, there's lots of things to do lor.. learning is a long process... we named our baby 陈思豫 after long discussion... finally do up her birthcert on 30 Dec 2009.. keke...
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