When Dad was in Yuncheng, he kept commenting that Amanda is quite a fussy baby.
“Not easy to look after…” he said.
Here’s an update on Amanda since the last, 3 weeks ago.
Its because of my C-section that she has such a cute round head.
I kinda like it!!!
Amanda’s sleeping quantity and patterns is still our main concern.
Remember how she used to be very alert and cranky in the morning, well, when the weather cooled down about 10 days ago, she’s back to sleeping well on her own in the morning.
Some days, she would still want to be carried when sleeping and is awake when put into her crib.
She used to have a pretty good idea of day and night, when younger but have somehow lost it.
Her ‘night’ seem to extend into mornings, sleeps very little in the afternoon and is now alert in the evening.
She wouldn’t retire for the day till 11.30pm.
We have tried keeping her up all evening but she still wouldn’t sleep till 11.30pm.
Today however, she’s been sleeping all morning and afternoon. Hope she will be not up all night.
On a good night, she wakes up once for her feed. And her next feed would be after 7a.m.
Some nights, she wakes up every 3 hours!
On a good night, her eyes were shut and was probably sleeping through her night feed.
Some nights, she’s cheeky and playful and wouldn’t sleep for the next hour or two after her feed.
When awake, she wants to be carried and wouldn’t let you sit.
And with such sleeping habits, I am really glad to have nanny’s help!!!
Look! I can lift my legs!
Amanda used to drink very well from the bottle but have recently refused it.
Crying very very loudly as though we are feeding her toxic… even when its expressed milk in the bottle.
Her cries were so loud that it leaves us with no choice but to give in.
We will however persevere till she back to drinking from the bottle like a pro.
Lately, she seems interested to interact and is responsive when talked to.
And sometimes I thought I saw her smile when playing.
The nanny claims that she was giggling, a few days ago.
I am looking forward to her very first distinct social smile!
She used to hate the swing and wouldn’t sit in it.
But decided to like it when she was 31 day old.
Some days she would fall asleep in it and on some days she would only sit in it for 10 minutes.
But I believe she is gradually falling in love with it.
A day after her full month.
Looking small in her swing.
42 day old.
Filling the newborn insert very quickly.
My eyelids are getting heavy…
So are my cheeks.
Amanda’s grandaunt who visited a few days ago, couldn’t stop commenting how much Amanda has changed since she last saw her 10 days ago.
And thinks we are feeding Amanda too much when she saw her round tummy after her bath. haha!
Indeed, Amanda is putting on very quickly after her full month. She now weighs 5.6kg.
Amanda had her many First-s this week. Including her first sniff of the King of fruit, Durian.
She had her first afternoon stroll within the estate with Dp and me, in the baby carrier.
Yay! She no longer look ‘lost’ in it!
While her previous outings were to Grandpa Dong’s house in the estate, we got adventurous and brought her out of the estate.
A trip to the supermarket and to visit her Grandaunt.
I wasn’t too sure if she would hate car rides like me, when I was a baby – crying non-stop.
Turns out she enjoyed the view through the sunroof and fell asleep shortly.
She stayed asleep throughout our grocery shopping.
We finally found time to set up her safety car seat base today.
She was also very cooperative when we were adjusting the safety belt positions, even when we kept putting and lifting her in and out of the car seat several times.
I can now sleep safely during car rides.
When we were done, we could tell that she loves her seat. She looks safely snugged and comfy in it..
And seem to enjoy when Dp carried her in her seat around the house.
We took out the car seat’s newborn insert but kept the head insert for support.
Our baby girl isn’t a newborn anymore and is growing up very quickly.
Like the Chinese saying here, 有苗不愁长！
