Daddy & Daughter

EG loves to talk to his daughter. Since now Eunice can lift up her head quite steadily, we let her have her tummy time on her playgym often to further strengthen her neck muscle.

One day when EG was talking to his precious again, I thought it looked very cute and I took our camera and snapped a few pics. I was trying to get one clear picture but Eunice kept moving.

When I download the pictures last night, funnily the pictures can form a sequence of some form of story. I posted in facebook and put some funny captions. But here, I'll let your imagination go wild on what are the conversation between daddy & daughter. :)




I love the last pic the most. Eunice is smiling. It's so nice. As if she enjoys talking to her daddy so much. :)

I just love to see how this loving daddy spending time pampering his daughter. :)

Sleep Train Adventure II

Eunice is now 3 months old. Time really flies. But I always feel that she has been with us for really long...

We're spending a lot of time with her after work to catch up what we've lost while she's at babysitter and we're working. :)... And now we're better in "controlling" her and reading her signs to meet her needs - either she's hungry / wet diaper / sleepy / etc - to make her a happy baby. :)

However, sleeping her is still a challenge as she'll fuss before she sleeps though she's really sleepy. We tried to find all info in internet and found out babies need to wind down before they sleep, and the winding down process is the tough one that makes them fuss.

Babysitter taught us a way to let her sleep on her tummy during her naps. Eunice didn't like it before she went to babysitter but I dunno how they can make her like it again. :P... So we did that and she really sleeps very well.

We also noticed that we can sleep her easier at night during weekdays. Later we found out that if Eunice has enough naps, it'll be easier to sleep her at night as she's not over-tired. Besides that, we also found out this little pampered cutie pie needs air cond to sleep! Gosh.... even babysitter told us the same thing - she said Eunice will fuss and be restless if there's no aircond for her to sleep.

So, we moved her playpen from the living room to our study room so that we can on the 1HP aircond for her when she naps (instead of the 2HP aircond in the living room - save cost! :P). Besides, it's also more convenient for us as we can watch tv or do some housework while she's sleeping in the study room... EG is extra happy with this decision because he can surf net in the study room with air cond while his precious is taking her nap.

We recently bought Lampe Berger Eucalyptus essential oil to help Eunice with her running nose. And somehow she can sleep better now. Not sure if it's because of the oil, or because she had enough rest during day time. Also, we read that a 3 months old baby needs 10-11 hours of sleep at night. That means Eunice needs to sleep by 9pm till 7.30am the next day. So instead of sleeping her at 10.30pm+ previously, now we'll sleep her around 9.30pm to make sure she has enough sleep.

If she's in good mood, and no over simulation, and she's wind down, EG will be able to sleep her in 30 minutes, but it'll take longer for me because Eunice will look for my breasts for comfort... =.=. But we're trying to make this routine fix so that she'll get used to the time. So far it works well.

However, she still doesn't sleep through the night. She'll wake up 1-2 times for feed (that's still OK) but sometimes she'll wake up and starting talking / shouting - expecting ppl to play with her... that's hard on us... but thank God that it doesn't happen everyday (**pray hard**)...

Besides that, my electricity bill also almost went up double since we on it earlier for her to sleep earlier, and can't off it too early as if it's too hot, the cutie pie will wake up and complain and end up no one can sleep... =.=

Bottlefeed vs Breastfeed Part II

Follow up from the previous entry.

When we picked up Eunice from the babysitter few weeks ago, babysitter told us that every Monday, Eunice will protest whenever they bottlefeed her with breastmilk. But of course after a while she'll give in and drink on the following days. However, thinking about her crying for my breasts while feeling hungry breaks my heart.

So, I told EG we have to try to bottlefeed her during the weekends in the day time.

And so we did.

Initially, the little cutie pie will CRY~~~ but later on she'll suck on well. Then later we found out that she will only drink well when she's VERY HUNGRY. So, we always make sure that she's really hungry before we fed her in bottle. And also, everytime after her feed, she'll look at EG with her two big eyes - as if she got cheated big time. EG had to apologize to her many times and explain to her that bottlefeeding is to help her better when she goes babysitter on Monday.


Later on, it gets easier and easier to bottlefeed Eunice. And EG the daddy also developed his skills to bottlefeed her better. He'll cool her down, sing to her, praise her saying she's a good and smart girl, and burp her in between if she can't drink well. Slowly, Eunice has developed trust over EG and now, she'd smile to EG after feed - at least that means she's happy and contented. :)


Everytime when EG feeds her, I will try to hide everywhere in the house so that she won't see me. Whenever she wakes up from her nap, I'll have to call EG to pick her up if she fusses and prepare the milk beforehand so that EG can feed her straight away, and she won't see me and she won't ask for my breasts.

One Sunday, we tried to bottlefeed her before we went church, but she didn't want to drink (guess she wasn't hungry yet). So fine. I wasn't very happy coz I didn't want to throw away my 4.5oz of precious breastmilk and I brought the bottle out in case she's hungry within an hour. And viola, the little one started to fuss when we're reaching church. And I thought since EG has been bottlefeeding her for the past few weekends, she should be more accustomed to bottle so I stuffed in the bottle for her and expect her to suck and drink.

BUT... she didn't! :(... She only sucked for 1 second, then pushed out the teat with her tongue, making some unhappy noise, then turned her face towards my breast. :(... In the end, I had no choice and let EG fed her with bottle in church while I went down to car park to bring up her stroller (and because of this he skipped his prayer meet) and the little monster finished all the milk!

So now because EG has been meeting her needs to feed her during weekends day time, Eunice has officially became a daddy's girl...

And I think Eunice misses her daddy very much on Monday because babysitter told me Eunice cried a lot on Monday... :( .. and asked if we keep holding her during weekends... :P

And her daddy misses her like crazy especially on Mondays since he has been feeding her during the weekend...

And mummy is very jealous because she can't bottlefeed her baby.... and she feels that Eunice is more attached to her daddy now.... hmm....