Confinement

Confinement.. wat a scary word. Being pregnant is such a wonderful feeling esp when you add the freedom that comes with it. Child birth is such a torture. 1st, there is the painful labour with the pushing and tearing and than straight after that, the discomfort and occasional pain from the stitches and bleeding below. Now, when my breast starts to get engorged and feel like they are going to explode or when my milk ducts are clogged and i starts to get fever from Mastitis, i really wonder What's next?

I've read alot about it but when i experience all these myself, it can be so overwhelming esp when it come with the lack of sleep.i should be considered the lucky few already. with my darby helping with the house work and my mom helping with the baby in the day, I am indeed very very lucky :)..
Really wonder how those who dun live with their parent cope with all these.

I'm still adjusting to sleeping when the baby sleeps and expressing milk every 4 hourly. My baby now totally feeds on breatmilk but he still refuses to latch on cos when he was in the NICU he was already given the bottle :(. Actually this could be a blessing in disguise for me so my mom, sis and darby can help out with the feeding, and i can actually measure out the amt of milk that he consumes.

Baby Tristan is gaining alot of weight now and he has definitely grown longer. I have no time to weight him yet, will do so and update his length!

Now Abt confinement, My only complain is not being able to wash my hair and bath as often as i like and drink water as much as i want. Other than that, i'm eating well cos my mom makes yummy food for me but currently am overdosed with chicken already so will avoid chicken for a while after this mth! Luckily it's only 1 mth!!!! hee hee