11 Days of Edric Yap Bao Rui

Thanks to all the well wishes for baby and our family. Appreciate all of it.
While the delivery has not been exactly a bundle of joy, but baby is a joy to be around for sure.. !!

Today just went to the Doc to check on the wound again and to tie up the loose ends by snipping off the knots.. and Doc prescribed this over 100 bucks cream meant to prevent the scar from becoming "nobbly" (i.e. not have skin folding across/ leaving a deep imprint) - in short, to make the scar looks nicer lah.

Think Doc Yeoh really feels very bad about the C-sect, and was really concerned with how I was coping with the C Sect.

You know I believe in signs, and while it was written in the horoscope that this delivery will be a difficult one (I am supposed to avoid the hospital this month according to the Fengshui book or I will have health related issues..).

When I delivered En and Xuan, everything was the same, from the inducement, to even the same midwife who helped. Even the delivery suite faced the same direction. And of course we had the same confinement auntie for En and Xuan then.

This time, we were ushered to a delivery suite that faced the opposite way, a different midwife, a different confinement auntie, a different cot, etc.. oh well.. it sounds a bit silly but we kinda know this baby is gonna be different.

Of course the costs incurred for him is extraordinarily different as well.. the emerg C Sect, the last minute decision to be in a single ward which amounts close to a 5 figure sum (while it was a good move ultimately since I needed help to do every little thing and needed NJ to be around round the clock), and CNY period which made confinement nanny's fees close to 5 figure for 3 mths of wk..

Well, but looking at Baby Bao Rui, one will smile at his cuteness.
He seems a relaxed baby, sleeping without a care in the world with hands stretched above his head or beside his head (very adult like), and even when awake, will be quietly observing the surroundings with his dark eyes.

He makes lots of little sounds when sleeping, but we learnt that he is usually not awake, just sounds accompanying his movements as he turns or moved his arms. And i love his little smiles when you speak to him, his assessing look when he tries to locate the sound of voices, and how he will purse his lips like a gal!

Weighing 3040g when delivered, he was down to 2915 when discharged. But a wek later he was weighting 3205g when he went to the PD to be cleared for his jaundice!! With his huge appetite, drinking a mightly 90ML at barely 2 weeks old, it is no wonder!!

And here I am with a hard time trying to catch up on his consumption.
My only regret is really the time he spent in NICU, and me in my bed due to the severe C sect pain. That delayed the latching for a good 3 days. That is my greatest regret. As Bao Rui is a patient baby, unlike En, and he suckled very well, much like Xuan, so it will have been really easy to feed him. however, with his jaundice that was so high, he was given formula to help flush out the bilirubins. And that made latching him challenging, especially with his huge appetite.

However, I have not given up, i am slowly building on the volume through pumping, and as of today I manage to pump half of his feed each time. If he is not such a big eater, it might have been quite adequate.. however with time, i am sure I will catch up.

I just regret not being able to latch.. with him, I miss that closeness when I am not latching him..
Maybe cuz he is so sweet.. yeah, I am partial to sweet guys!!

As for how the brothers are coping, many have asked..
Well, En is really affectionate with baby, stroking his head, patting and holding Bao Rui's hand, and telling visitors about Bao Rui who is his brother. He is well aware he has 2 brothers now and enjoys calling baby Bao Rui.

As for Xuan, he calls Bao Rui "bb" and will say "cry" even when Bao Rui is not crying. think he associate Baby with crying since he first heard the baby through the baby monitor. And in his usual rowdy rambuctiousness, sometimes we are worried that he will accidentally hurt baby, so we will usually restrain Xuan or keep an extra close eye when he is nearby.

So far so good.. it is a bit tiring with the regualr pumping and the middle of night alarms to wake and pump, but the post birth this time has been much better, if not for some other issues I had to grapple with.. sigh.