Reflux... :(

Baby Sunny has been having acid reflux... he doesn't just throw up... his vomit projects straight out, like all the milk he just drank. Two nights ago, I was holding him downstairs after a nice bath, and the 4 ounces of milk just gushed out from his mouth. I was trying to catch it to not get it on the floor while rushing upstairs to the bathroom to wash again... poor baby.
Doc prescribed Zantec. Seems to stopped the crying, but still threw up twice today... hope it'll stop soon.
Also switched to Dr. Brown's bottles. Works very very well at reducing gas! I got the wide neck ones, they're on sale at Amazon! Wide necks are easier to wash.

The doc also gave us some other types of formula as samples (similac soy and sensitive), but we looked at the ingredients, the first one is corn syrup... sigh, the greatness of the American Food Industry. We're going to try to switch to Baby's Only Organic from Wholefoods. 

Oh and last thing, all the mamas out there, sign up for Amazon Mom for free, no obligations, and you get free 2 day shipping, plus 30% off diapers and wipes!! What a great deal! My Dr. Brown bottles came in within a day!! 

yawning...

dissatisfied customer

Video Slideshow of Birth preview

New Diapers

I got these new diapers yesterday... LOVE them! They are adjustable from 8 lbs to 36 lbs, these are the only diapers I'll need from birth to potty train! They are super soft, super absorbent, and the layer that's touching the butt is super dry! So I bought 24 diapers, enough to last probably 2~3 days before I have to do laundry, and they cost $184 (though I found them cheaper somewhere else). That's the cost of only 2 months of disposable diapers! I didn't like the disposables (pampers) because they leave a residue on Sunny's butt, and it's so hard to clean off.  Oh I also use cloth wipes with water to clean his butt too. Talk about save money! and no chemicals either! Except when we go out, it's easier to throw away.

First day back at work

Today is the first day I went back to work and left baby Sunny with daddy... I called home a few times to check on the boys, and every time I hear Sunny crying in the background... I wonder why. Last night I had daddy practice taking care of Sunny by waking up to feed at 6am. I had gotten up to feed at 3am, and got done around 4, went to sleep at 4:30. Sunny started crying at 6am, and Allen was like "Didn't you just finished feeding him? Why is he crying?" I was like "uhm, it's 6am and he's ready for the next feeding..." Allen was like "whoa, time goes by so fast!" I was thinking yea, now you know why I'm so busy every day, and you said I'm so slow and wasted all my time...

I realized that daddies aren't born with the instinct on how to take care of babies. Last night, Allen was like, taking care of baby is so easy, I can do it. Then, he changed his diapers, he was like how do I change him? I had to show him how to use the waterproof pad, then when he took the diaper off and was getting the other diaper when Sunny pee'd all over himself! Then Allen was like uh-oh, where's his clothes? How do I wipe him? He panic'd. I just sat back and watched him to see if he could do it, but then I couldn't, so I intervened. Long story short, he was just so lost.... Poor daddy.

Bright eyes, like his Chinese name

naughty face

Ah, woke up from a nap with crazy hair!

Why do I have so many pics of
baby and daddy sleeping together?
They share the same hobby...

ooooo... milk!

this one took a few tries, since Allen
never takes pics of me and baby..
had to do it myself.

Ah, I can't flip over yet!

First video of Sunny!

Bath Video!

I finally got this uploaded! Giving Sunny a bath!

More Pics

compared to another baby a month older than Sunny

half his size!

I love this boppy pillow!

It's so big and comfy

And this boppy swing!

Diaper washing day. I love clean diapers!

9 LBS!!!

Hey Sunny's 9 lbs today! Today is the day he was supposed to be born. He also got his 2nd Hepatitis B vaccine today.

 

oh and the rocker/glider we have is AWESOME! Sunny was fussy today after the vaccine.  I changed him, fed him, burped him and he still kept fussing. So I sat on the glider with him and he fell asleep within a minute and he slept for 4 hours. 

Breastfeeding isn't meant for everyone...

Breastfeeding has been the most difficult part of the child rearing process for me...

Before Sunny was born, one of our church sister Betsy came to give us a child CPR class. She also brought her breastfeeding book to go over with me. At time, I thought, I already went on Youtube and found videos on how to breastfeed, and women have been breastfeeding since cavemen time. I mean, back then, they didn't even have lactation consultants right? How difficult can it be? Women who worked on farms who had 10 children all breastfed fine. I, who has a master's degree, should do fine! But boy I was wrong....

Sunny was born too small, his mouth was too small for me to latch him on properly, so in the first day, he's already bruised my nipple really bad.  After that, the lactation consultant came daily to help me with breastfeeding. We've got lots of gadgets like the nipple shield and the SNS system that has a tube that you put on the nipple and a bottle to fill up with formula so that it drips onto the nipple as the baby feeds, and she even gave me a larger size pumping cup for my nipples so that they don't chafe against the sides...

nipple shield

SNS system

In the hospital, since I only had colostrum, I really didn't feed a whole lot. I had to supplement with formula anyway since Sunny had jaundice.  When I came home, breast milk finally came and I just pumped and then bottle fed Sunny.  But I had problems after problems... clogged milk ducts that are really painful that I had to massage out constantly, engorgement that are painful, sore and bruised nipples (the nipple cream really helped), not pumping enough milk, waking up at night to pump etc.

Well, these couple of days my milk has decreased significantly, probably because I'm not breastfeeding, just pumping, so I'm trying to start nursing again now that Sunny's a little bigger. But he doesn't like it. He flares his arms around, turns his head back and forth as I try to stick the nipple in his tiny mouth squirting him all over the face with milk! And he's bitten down hard on my nipples a few times, really really painful. They say nursing help moms bond with baby... hm. somehow I don't think it applies to me when he bites down hard and I'm screaming my head off trying to get my nipple out of his mouth... it really doesn't help me bond with the baby when I feel like smacking him ugh! And the few times I've succeeded, Sunny falls asleep after a couple of minutes on the nipple and I can't wake him up. At least he can finish all 4 ounces on the bottle...

So bottom line. I'll keep trying until my milk stops coming. But formula is so much easier.

Wide awake from 3am~6am

he always does that with his hands
while feeding

Sunny in his crib

I think this is what he looks like
in my belly

Daddy thinks I'm an elf

Me and my lovey

All I do is sleep, eat, and poop...

Wow... I have to do his laundry every other day... and I'm always so hungry after pumping.  I can't find food around the house to eat... want some noodles!

yawn...

feed...

burp...

fun!

Diapers are so expensive!!!

We already went through 2 boxes of diapers and we've only been home for 2 weeks! That's $20 per box! Wow.  The cloth diapers were too big for Sunny when we brought him home. 2 days ago his belly scab fell off and I was able to put the cloth diaper over him, though it's a little too big still but it will sure save a lot of money.

I've got a normal belly button now

cloth diaper

Crying face. I just don't like diaper changes!

Wow. Can you see the resemblance?

The man who got me out of mommy's belly.

Funny faces

Pictures from our photographer!

Here are some sneak peeks of the pictures our photographer took:

http://earthmamaphotography.com/blog/2010/08/09/sonny-july-29-2010-dallas-richardson-plano-birth-photographer/

We will be getting a CD of all the pictures she took shortly. I can't wait!

Reality of parenthood still slips away sometimes...

I guess it's the amount of responsibilities that I'm faced with... diaper changes, feeding, pumping, etc, that sometimes I forget that this little thing is my son... It's kind of like when you first got married, you forget that the other person is your husband/wife because you've been so used to the girlfriend/boyfriend status and the mental change just hasn't set in yet... sometimes I look at the little baby and somehow just feel like something is missing... yes the baby is cute and all, but it just feels like we went to the store and got it last week... feels like a tamaguchi pet (if you remember those back then). weird. May be it helps if the baby looks more like me? He's starting to look like daddy more and more every day.

Gotcha!

I think this is a smile! And this is the only piece of premie clothes I've got, didn't think the baby would ever going to wear it. I kept it to put inside the scrapbook, but I guess we're using it after all. He's almost outgrown it though :)

Fussy Baby

Yawn....
Sunny cried for almost an hour today... I was so lost, didn't know what to do. I fed him, burped him, changed him, and still cry cry cry... so it turned out that he wanted more food..

Look how flexible I am!

Hey look where my foot is!

Super Healing Powers!

Went to Dr. Lin this morning, and guess what?? Jaundice dropped from 18.8 to 10.3!!! Yay! Sunny is alright now! No more need for treatment (hopefully)!!! He's also eating more (which means I'm staying up more often to feed, change, burp, etc). Let's see... last night to now, I managed 3~4 hours of sleep...

Look, I've got giant hands and feet like Daddy!