breastfeeding a newborn-part2-confinement piriod

Written on Thursday, November 01, 2007 by mummyvaio

After spending a night in hospital,we went back to mum's house.the first day at home,i fell in mybathroom..the floormat was some how slippery...luckily my stitches are not torn...luckily,since i had quite a long stitches...( only swells a bit..but it did made sitting much harder...) my baby spent most of her time sleeping..n feed when she is hungry...however during the day when she cried,her cries were weak sounding to me...i feed her every 2-3 hours...n my milk has started to come in...n boy...my breast felt so heavy...n starting to ache every morning...i would gladly feed my baby every morning to make it less heavy..haha..eventhough she slept a lot she was very good at breastfeeding..she suck so fast..everyone was amazed that this little girl could eat so much,so fast.( she is one strong baby )..then my hubby had to go away for a course in penang..n that was the time my baby started to cried so loud during the nights...it started bout 11...n end about5 or 6 am in the morning...she was unconsoleable...we changed her diaper,bounce her,rock her,sing to her,read her ayat2 al-Quran,walk her in the house...nothing would work...at that time she had reflux...she will spit out,almost every feeding..thus my mum said not to give the breast everytime she cried...n try other method first.,but the only thing she wanted was the breast...once her lips touched the breast,she was quiet n happily sucking..she kept waking every one to one n half our...n cried..n again we will try everything to console her...n failed...only the breast will comfort her...at that time i knew my baby use my breast not only for feeding,but as a source of comfort...like a pacifier..n she would not take any other substitute!(clever girl!) the extreme crying went for a week...n i was sooo sleed deprived,by the end of the week...n was practically begging my husband to come back because i don't think i can manage alone...yet some how..i survived..so everytime she cried,i'll offer the breast first,n when she is asleep again i'll check her diaper n changed it if necessary...n get some sleep after that.the motto breast first,others later become my motto...n it worked everytime...the only thing that remains are her ear piercing cries..( until now )..she never cried with low volume...but with the highest volume..that when she cried people willthink that she is hurt or sick..n for a few weeks...i could predict when she will wake up..n feed her...my stitches still hurts at that time...but making sure my baby is well was more important...a few days before the confinement piriod end,we went back to parent in law house..n the night cries started again...but only for a shorter time...everyone keep suggesting that she was kembung...or hungry...but both were not the case...she just want to suck for comfort...or org utara called 'menggonggong'...she suck for for full one or two hours..n wouldn't want to be put down...i fell asleep half sitting with her on my breast...well that time was hard..but we survived.

moral* no matter how hard the situation might,u'll survive..hehe...

new about sayangku:
yesterday,for the first time she said abah when she cried..usually when she cried,she said mama..n said abah or babah when she is happily playing..

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