It is a day of labour today. I woke up, bathed Alyssa, fed her and started my activities. Actually, just one activity - the washing of her clothes. Not that I've never washed her clothes before, just that today I washed her cute little rocking chair too (not the entire rocking chair, just the seat but that's enough). She's been puking on the chair so it's really time to clean it. The rocking chair is sort of my saviour. It has helped to put Alyssa to sleep many times when she simply refuse to sleep, especially at night. She loves the rocking chair. She could be wailing away as if I've robbed her of her milk but she would stop crying once I put her on the chair and rock her. Maybe the rocking chair makes her feel as if she's the womb floating around, thanks to the rocking action (this is my theory as to why she likes the chair). Anyway, whatever the possibility may be, the chair works. It's my miracle chair. After all the washing, I had to keep those dry clothes and feed her again (she's like a bottomless pit) and she wasn't a very happy baby after the feeding and was screaming her head off. I think maybe she wants to go out again.
I brought her out yesterday with my sister, TFG, to meet my ex-colleagues for lunch. I had to bribe my sister with lunch and ice cream before she would agree to come out with me. Anyway, a little on my ex-colleagues. Nicholas left my company half a year ago and is working overseas now selling coffee (not really selling coffee but whatever he does lead to coffee being sold). He's back to Singapore for Christmas and has headed back to wherever today (I think he's reached wherever already). Haz left a couple of months after Nicholas and has been extremely busy ever since so I hardly met up with her after she left as well (ok, I was part of the reason why we couldn't meet up. I didn't have a pram to bring Alyssa along. LOL). It was nice to see the both of them, until it was time to feed Alyssa. Don't be mistaken peeps, they didn't stop me from feeding Alyssa. It was just that Plaza Singapura isn't that baby-friendly. There was only one nursing room in the entire building and each time I need to feed Alyssa, I had to wait for at least 15 mins for the mum and baby before me to finish feeding or whatever they were doing before I could use the nursing room. It's ok if there weren't any crying baby but the fact was that, there was. The baby was screaming the nursing room down the whole time I was waiting and the crying really got my hair standing. What's amazing is the mum only told the baby one time to stop crying (how calm can she be). I would have scrambled to go home if Alyssa was crying like that. Anyway, in addition to the fact there was only one nursing room, they didn't state where the nursing room was on the directory. Haz and I had to ask a couple of ladies who work there where the nursing room was, got the wrong directions and had to finally approach a cleaner to get the right directions. Now, luckily I had Haz with me and she was helping me with my bag and I had left the pram at the restaurant with Nicholas and my sister. Can you imagine what would happen if I was alone? I would have probably gone mad and resorted to feeding her in my car instead.
Other than that, Alyssa's been a darling, well, most of the time at least. I reckon she loves crowd, the different sights, sounds and smell. She didn't cry a bit when we pushed her around in the orange pram of hers, obviously enjoying the ride. One could tell that she's a curious girl as she looked around in wonder. I think she enjoys the Dior counter the most. It was amazing how she sat through my makeover at the counter without crying. Usually she hates being left alone. She loves attention and would want people to carry her around. I feel bad though, the makeover really took quite a while and Haz, Nicholas and TFG had to stand around and wait for me to finish the makeover. Also, we only managed to go to the Dior counter at centrepoint and didn't do much shopping (oh no, now that I think about it, did Nicholas say he needed to do some shopping too? =X). We probably would have been able to make it further if not for the baby-unfriendliness of Plaza Singapura and I could have gotten a couple pairs of mittens for Alyssa too.
Overall, I realise how difficult it is for me to go out alone with Alyssa. Luckily I had TFG with me, otherwise I wouldn't be able to cope at all. I'm wondering whether to get a carrier so it's easier for me to handle Alyssa when we go out. I also need to consider going to more baby-friendly places the next time.
Shall see how it goes the next time we go on a shopping trip.
Note for mums:
Baby vomitting (from Babycentre)
According to Babycentre, most babies vomit small amounts from time to time and may also bring up small amounts of milk when they burp. This is known as posseting and is usually nothing to worry about. More frequent vomiting or vomiting large quantities, may be due to gastric reflux.
The stomach lies just under a muscle called the diaphragm and both the diaphragm and the oesophagus act together to keep stomach contents in the stomach. This system sometimes doesn't work too well in young babies and the stomach contents can come back up the gullet, including some of the acid from the stomach.
Don't worry about that too much. There are various ways to help the baby, e.g. change position of the baby during feeding.
Not sleeping at night
This is a common problem but with a long list of suggestions. I shall address this in detail some other time.
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