24 December 2006, Sunday

It had been a week and a day since you were borned. The three days stay at the hospital was very much like we were on vacation. The nurses only brought you to the room when you were hungry. Upon the completion of feeding, you were wheeled back to the nursewry. They would keep you in the nursery up to 3 hours. During that period, Daddy and Mummy would get a good rest.

At the same time, Mummy's stitches were healing very well so this time round, the delivery and recuperating part was easy.

Then came the difficult part - going home! Once home, we had to handle things on our own. On top of that, there was the routine of housework, Ashlyn to take care and work to be done.

Once home, you were put in your playpen to continue your baby sleep. Daddy and Mummy went about getting the house organised. Packing up, washing the milk bottles and breast pumps, sterilising them.

The first day at home seemed to go well. You fed and slept but you usually drank from one breast and would fall off to slumber land. I attributed that to the fact that you were having a little jaundice. (Jaundice can cause a baby to be very sleepy). So the first night was not too difficult for us to handle.

It was the same on the second day home, Tuesday. Due to your sleepiness, the day was relatively okay and everything went well. The problem came when it was night time. When everyone was sleeping you realised that you were hungry and needed to fill your tummy. So you slept little and drank almost ever hour.

On 20th December, Wednesday, you were scheduled for a check-up with the paediatrician. so we bundled you up ensuring that you were kept warm, we set off to the clinic. Because you were showing more sign of jaundice, you had to take a blood test. We were asked to wait around for the test result. After waiting for 2 hours, we were joyful that your jaundice level was around 10 and hence there was no need for you to be admitted to the hospital. We just had to suntan you everyday in the morning.