The greatest thing about having a blog is that I’ve had the privilege of knowing some truly amazing people whom I never would have dreamed of knowing. Thank you for reaching out to me, thank you for the virtual hugs, thank you for the tips and suggestions, thank you for listening me out and offering to help, thank you for giving me hope, thank you for your friendship. Sometimes, all we need is a little lurving…….

THANK YOU.

I am feeling much better about baby T2. It is the doctors who started this mess and turned me into a wreck. We have consulted with 4 pediatricians to date and a breastfeeding consultant. They all have different recommendations, all of which we have tried. We have done some tests and have been recommended to do more. However, I have a good feeling today. My gut tells me that T2, for all that it’s worth, is just a damn small baby. She’ll catch up at some point.

The reason I feel this is because I decided to screw the doctors and pay very close attention myself to her eating habits, consulted with a nutritionist and  monitored her progress. This week is a work in progress. She suddenly started eating again 2 days ago. I am now feeding her lots of protein (edamame beans, red beans, lentils, quinoa, soya beans etc on top of beef, chicken and fish). She wants to eat what we eat. She is sick and tired of her own food. She wants new things all the time. She does not want to eat the same thing today, tomorrow. In short, she is just a bloody fussy baby. She also wants to feed herself and wants finger food. No purees for her, thank you very much. She’s a big baby now. So I’ve been experimenting and working round the clock with my baby gourmet chef’s hat on. It seems to be working for now. We’ll see if her weight picks up in a week.

Her all time favourite food is bread and croissant. Everything else has to come and go, mix and match, but bread and croissant always works.

I’ve read the entire menu and nothing takes my fancy. Sorry…..*My folks keep feeding me dog shit*

Formula-wise, I’m still stuck. She has tried all bottles, all teaspoons, all cups, all brands of formula. We have spent too much money on doctors and trials that I’ve finally decided to listen to my baby. SHE WANTS THE BOOB AND NOTHING ELSE. So die if I must, I shall give her the boob. I have sacrificed my sleep for the last 10 months, what’s another 10. Despite the fact that I detest the taste of milk powder, I have started taking breastfeeding milk supplements to boost my milk quality. BLEAGH. Make that a DOUBLE BLEAGHHH!!! I am also going to eat more and better food just to produce better quality milk. And of course, that means me growing even larger than I already am! What a blinking sacrifice!!!

My breastfeeding consultant showed me a video where a newborn baby, NEWBORN (straight out of the vagina!!!), instinctively CRAWLED her way up to her mother’s breast. This was to show me that it is human nature that babies are naturally gravitated to the mother’s breast, just like piglets are to pigs and puppies are to bitches. I still can’t get over the fact that a newborn baby could crawl UPWARDS towards her mother’s breast!!! And then with her eyes closed, instinctively smelled out her mother’s nipple and started latching on. Amazing. NEWBORN!!! She told me to have faith that I am doing the right thing (not that formula Moms are not). Breastfeeding will not be forever……

Can I have that in writing? The day T2 is weaned and sleeps through the night will be the happiest day of my life!

If eating well and large gives you more milk, do it. Now is not the time to lose weight. *my face had this look of horror*

And they make me wear big, flouncy dresses…..now you know why I want to start talking. So people  start understanding what I’m saying and know what I’m feeling!!!

So trust in God I shall, that he will one day return my hourglass figure.

See? My arms were much smaller before and I could actually strut a cheongsam! Now? Hohoho…..the same cheongsam won’t even go up my one thigh.

I don’t think there is anything wrong with T2. She may be a little slow in the crawling department but I think it is because she is SO SPOILT that she is always carried and not given the opportunity to work for what she wants. She knows that if she whines, someone will pick her up. SUCH A PRINCESS. Her mental development is pretty up to mark though. She can follow more than 10 instructions when in the mood and we have verified that it isn’t coincidence (wave, pull off pants, pull of socks, stick out tongue, high five, kiss, clap hands, bang music, shake head, show she’s full, play aeroplane) and speaks correctly with her words (Dada, Mama, Booboob, Bye-Bye etc). She is at a fun age where she generally likes copying what we do and copying what we say. She followed me say poo-poo today and she’s said Che-Che before, like a little puppy dog. She observes our mouth actions very closely.

Following T1’s primadonna footsteps at the kids spa……now what colours for my baby toes pedicure? Blue stars on a white sky?

Her distinct personality is to be reckoned with. She is fiercely determined. When wanting to pick food up with her spoon, she flatly REFUSES any help and keeps going at it till she gets it (of course, before she succeeds, she screams and bangs the food a few times like she’s scolding it), yet when presented with every new toy under the sun and asked to crawl, she looks at us with you guys are so boring, drop dead. I am not moving. She is a lazy baby. The Hubs says she is like me. Only likes to exercise the mouth but not the body. *pout and flings hair away*

Oh Bugger. They need me to perform that army crawl stunt again….

T2 dislikes her mouth being wiped. And her bum being cleaned. The bum I can understand, because she’s a little constipated (from the formula possibly? We add some into her food) and it hurts, but the mouth??? There are banshee wails of protest at every single meal! Yet, when T1 cleans her mouth, she sits quietly and allows her to get on with it. She totally adores T1. She is excited everyday we pick T1 up from school. If I were to bring her into T1’s room when T1 is asleep, T2 will automatically babble at loud increasing decibels and gestures for T1 to wake up.

The two of them are really sisters in love……very sweet.

Best friends forever and ever……………..

The only thing T2 will crawl to willingly is the boob. Army crawl that is. Her arms aren’t strong enough yet for a proper crawl although I’ve noticed her trying to pull herself up to standing position. So I’m not sure if she’s just super lazy.

She whines a lot. And loves to scream when she doesn’t get her way. Sometimes I scream back at her, but most times I am her slave. Because she is a little baby, albeit a demanding ferocious one. So really, do you think there is anything wrong with her? To me, she is a happy and active baby, although lazy…..grumpy and smiles only when she wants to, alert and observant, did I say lazy? She knows how to chuckle and laugh out loud when tickled or whilst playing with us, especially with her sister. Oh, and she is starting to become a TV addict as it is the only way I can get anything done around the house.

Watch this space as Mamapumpkin strives to feed her baby back to normalcy without going insane.

Pray for me.

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Who is Mamapumpkin?
Mamapumpkin is a former Design Architect turned Multi-Million Dollar Digital Entrepreneur. She sets out to prove to all that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.

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