Layla Daily Specials: Week 2 (Age 7 weeks)
7 Dec
Continuing journey as Singaporean by visiting 2nd mall of her life - Parkway Parade! Dad and Mum took advantage of morning quiet to get some mee rebus in the food court, and Layla was very well-behaved in the Baby Bjorn the whole time. Good girl :)
8 Dec
Grandma is back today! We went to the airport to pick her up and Layla was a peach for the 1st time in the car seat. Must be the soothing engine sounds and the motion of travelling - she literally knocked out and slept the whole way. Getting carried in the arms was probably less comfortable!
9 Dec
Seminal day! Layla lost her hair today. It took 2 hours plus 1 diaper change plus 2 pairs of hands cutting and razing and 1 pair to hold her, and a very important pacifier. She had a great time at the bath with grandma after the haircut so mummy is now wondering what she was doing wrong for Layla to be so upset before. Good thing we shaved the head though, as much as we loved her punky hair - we now can see some cradle cap and rashes on her scalp. We then visited an aunt who exchanged lively old wives' tales with grandma about how to treat rashes - see detour blog post Old Wives' Tales. Dinner at a food court later, we were finally on our way home - what a long day.
10 Dec
Mummy was not feeling well. Layla was hard to put down after 3am feeding but eventually fell asleep - but mummy ended up with a runny nose and a terrible sore throat. She slept in and Daddy took over the morning feeding. Today we applied baby oil to Layla's scalp for cradle cap and some powder for her rashes. Really weird carrying her with no hair as her stubble chafes the arms - but strangely the lack of hair makes her look bigger :)
Good day at the bath! Mummy thinks she may have figured out (for now) what was bothering Layla before... so let's hope we can repeat it tomorrow :)
11 Dec
Mummy had her first massage in ages today - neighbour makcik came up and did magic with her fingers. Hurt by the abdomen area but not badly - interestingly right-side of the abdomen a lot more sore than the left, which according to makcik is normal as girls sit on the right of the uterus whereas boys sit on the left. Another theory to be tested on oldwivestales.com!
Layla rocked tummy time today - lifted her head clean off the mattress and almost pushed her chest up with her arms. This girl is strong! Rashes are getting a little too angry-looking for my comfort so we're
going to monitor it for tomorrow, then decide whether to take her to the ped. Bath time was so-so - went well for the first half but a draft spoiled all the good work in the second half. Mummy had another mini meltdown at night - resentment at Daddy's free time to play PS3. Mummy needs to get out or she'll go mad - just watch.
12 Dec
Layla had a visit from Chian Ying, Ee Chian's daughter - who is now a whopping 5.5 months old! She can turn over on her own, and seemed to have great fun staring at Layla. The 2 girls synchronised their poop - one went right after the other, so courteous so they could take turns using the diaper table, probably. Layla also took her stroller out for a test drive today - at dinner with the Gang. Not the easiest to
manouver given the stickiness of the equipment (not difficult to assemble at all) but she seemed to really like the car seat. The spotlights at the restaurants fussed with her a bit, but getting rocked to sleep by aunty Eggie and aunty Candice seemed to work for her :) Dad noticed that there were many many strollers in Marina
Square that night - or where there always many strollers and he only started to notice now? PS. Apparently Chelsea had a DRAW with Spurs - for which Layla is kinda excited about :)
13 Dec
We're visiting the ped today - Mummy wanted to take Layla there on the MRT but Daddy wants to drive us there. Grandma is coming over to cook for Mummy again - duck soup this time! The ped was a different doctor in the same clinic - who congratulated Layla on now at a hearty 5.2kg, then made mummy's heart sink when she said the bits behind Layla's ears were a rather bad skin infection. Waves of guilt made her blood run cold. After all the effort we made, and there was still an infection? Thank goodness for Daddy's nerves of ice who made Layla giggle and reminded mummy that surely it can't be all that serious if the antibiotic ointment prescribed only cost us $6. Nothing like price-value relationship to help mummy put things in perspective.
When cleaning and applying ointment on the infected areas that night, poor Layla was in pain and cried whenever the Q-tip touched her. Putting it in perspective, I suppose some other babies would have cried long before and long after, our girl just put her arms and legs to good use to kick and swat everyone but stopped once the Qtip left her skin.
It's heartbreaking to hear her cry - the level of impotence that one feels is crippling. Yet in a strange way I'm comforted by her swatting and kicking - my girl's got spirit, much like me when I was hospitalised at age 4 for pneumonia. Apparently it took 5 nurses to give me an injection each time - 2 for my arms, 2 for my legs, and 1 to inject. The genes will tell.
Continuing journey as Singaporean by visiting 2nd mall of her life - Parkway Parade! Dad and Mum took advantage of morning quiet to get some mee rebus in the food court, and Layla was very well-behaved in the Baby Bjorn the whole time. Good girl :)
8 Dec
Grandma is back today! We went to the airport to pick her up and Layla was a peach for the 1st time in the car seat. Must be the soothing engine sounds and the motion of travelling - she literally knocked out and slept the whole way. Getting carried in the arms was probably less comfortable!
9 Dec
Seminal day! Layla lost her hair today. It took 2 hours plus 1 diaper change plus 2 pairs of hands cutting and razing and 1 pair to hold her, and a very important pacifier. She had a great time at the bath with grandma after the haircut so mummy is now wondering what she was doing wrong for Layla to be so upset before. Good thing we shaved the head though, as much as we loved her punky hair - we now can see some cradle cap and rashes on her scalp. We then visited an aunt who exchanged lively old wives' tales with grandma about how to treat rashes - see detour blog post Old Wives' Tales. Dinner at a food court later, we were finally on our way home - what a long day.
10 Dec
Mummy was not feeling well. Layla was hard to put down after 3am feeding but eventually fell asleep - but mummy ended up with a runny nose and a terrible sore throat. She slept in and Daddy took over the morning feeding. Today we applied baby oil to Layla's scalp for cradle cap and some powder for her rashes. Really weird carrying her with no hair as her stubble chafes the arms - but strangely the lack of hair makes her look bigger :)
Good day at the bath! Mummy thinks she may have figured out (for now) what was bothering Layla before... so let's hope we can repeat it tomorrow :)
11 Dec
Mummy had her first massage in ages today - neighbour makcik came up and did magic with her fingers. Hurt by the abdomen area but not badly - interestingly right-side of the abdomen a lot more sore than the left, which according to makcik is normal as girls sit on the right of the uterus whereas boys sit on the left. Another theory to be tested on oldwivestales.com!
Layla rocked tummy time today - lifted her head clean off the mattress and almost pushed her chest up with her arms. This girl is strong! Rashes are getting a little too angry-looking for my comfort so we're
going to monitor it for tomorrow, then decide whether to take her to the ped. Bath time was so-so - went well for the first half but a draft spoiled all the good work in the second half. Mummy had another mini meltdown at night - resentment at Daddy's free time to play PS3. Mummy needs to get out or she'll go mad - just watch.
12 Dec
Layla had a visit from Chian Ying, Ee Chian's daughter - who is now a whopping 5.5 months old! She can turn over on her own, and seemed to have great fun staring at Layla. The 2 girls synchronised their poop - one went right after the other, so courteous so they could take turns using the diaper table, probably. Layla also took her stroller out for a test drive today - at dinner with the Gang. Not the easiest to
manouver given the stickiness of the equipment (not difficult to assemble at all) but she seemed to really like the car seat. The spotlights at the restaurants fussed with her a bit, but getting rocked to sleep by aunty Eggie and aunty Candice seemed to work for her :) Dad noticed that there were many many strollers in Marina
Square that night - or where there always many strollers and he only started to notice now? PS. Apparently Chelsea had a DRAW with Spurs - for which Layla is kinda excited about :)
13 Dec
We're visiting the ped today - Mummy wanted to take Layla there on the MRT but Daddy wants to drive us there. Grandma is coming over to cook for Mummy again - duck soup this time! The ped was a different doctor in the same clinic - who congratulated Layla on now at a hearty 5.2kg, then made mummy's heart sink when she said the bits behind Layla's ears were a rather bad skin infection. Waves of guilt made her blood run cold. After all the effort we made, and there was still an infection? Thank goodness for Daddy's nerves of ice who made Layla giggle and reminded mummy that surely it can't be all that serious if the antibiotic ointment prescribed only cost us $6. Nothing like price-value relationship to help mummy put things in perspective.
When cleaning and applying ointment on the infected areas that night, poor Layla was in pain and cried whenever the Q-tip touched her. Putting it in perspective, I suppose some other babies would have cried long before and long after, our girl just put her arms and legs to good use to kick and swat everyone but stopped once the Qtip left her skin.
It's heartbreaking to hear her cry - the level of impotence that one feels is crippling. Yet in a strange way I'm comforted by her swatting and kicking - my girl's got spirit, much like me when I was hospitalised at age 4 for pneumonia. Apparently it took 5 nurses to give me an injection each time - 2 for my arms, 2 for my legs, and 1 to inject. The genes will tell.
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