It's been a while since we did a progress report for Chloe. So what has happened since our last update.
1) A change of location...
1) A change of location...
... for Chloe's baby cot. Since mid-February, we have moved Chloe's cot into our room.... Ah-ma just had a cataract op and doctor's orders was for her to refrain from bending down or carrying heavy objects, 10kg babies included. To help out, Daddy, Mommy and Ah-gong took turns clearing leave to help out at home with chores and to take care of Chloe. Daddy and Mommy also decided that Chloe's days of sleeping in the living room should als be over. In the begining, it was intended for Chloe's cot to be placed outside so ah-ma can help to take care of her in the night, tending to her early morning feeds. With the relocation, Daddy and Mommy now took over the duties of coaxing her to bed every night and preparing her early morning feed.
Initially, the transition wasn't entirely easy for her or for Daddy and Mommy. Chloe has been used to sleeping on Ah-ma's bed most times at night, often late at 10 plus. Now we have to get her to sleep earlier, and on a different bed as well. Funnily, we are now sleping earlier as well; when Chloe sleeps, so do we. Well we need to. These days,we wake up earlier to feed her at 5plus. Since we can't get back to any reasonable length of sleep, we might as well just bath, dress up and go to work early... this saves us from the ERP charges and we get to start the day early.
And of course, having Chloe sleep with us also gives us more bonding time. Where she would cry in the past if we tried to make her lie down on our bed, now she is quite ok to hang around with daddy and mommy, even sleeping the whole night with us on our bed on a number of ocassions.
2) The baby who doesn't like milk
Since probably her 4th to 5th month, Chloe has refused to drink milk from the bottle while awake. We resorted to feeding her milk when she was asleep. Later on, we even tried spoon-feeding when there were times when she woke up halfway thru the feed and absolutely refused to cooperate. Lately, it has gotten more difficult to feed her either way. She would squirm and wiggle her way out of mommy/ah-ma's arms when we tried to feed her while she's asleep. Spoon feeding is no better as she would cry the minute she ses us with milk bottle kept warm in a cup of hot water. I think she is absolutely teriffied of the metal spoon we used to feed her milk with.
Vexed and concerned over her phobia of drinking milk, we sought advice, going all the way to Jurong East to visit a TCM phyisian who would massage her and prepared some powdered medication for her to take. This seemed to have worked for now as Chloe had been more cooperative during the milk sessions. A marked difference from the time when 3-4 of us are all needed to spoon-feed the milk/hold her down on the rocking chair/perform tricks to keep her engaged/cajole her to drink. Here's hoping that the improvement continues.
I dunno if this is a result of her teething issues. Chloe has 7 teeth now, and it might be possible that the teething pain is causing her to dislike drinking, tho strangely she is ok with her solid food. One thing for sure, she likes to bite at things these days, like her clothes, our clothes, any hanky, even her own socks... oh we gotta wipe the floor more often too... her dripping saliva is all over the floor as well.
Still all in all, Chloe's doing allright. She is not drinking as much as we would have wanted, and she is still not interested to learn to crawl - she can walk if assisted tho - and she is developing a bit of a temper as well. But her weight/height are above average still, and she is now more at ease going to tai-ma's house, becoming less clingy and allowing others to carry her... Talking about carrying, she is just super fond of being carried, and when she wants to be carried, she will pat the nearest one of us to get our attention and raised her arms, ready to be carried.
2) The baby who doesn't like milk
Since probably her 4th to 5th month, Chloe has refused to drink milk from the bottle while awake. We resorted to feeding her milk when she was asleep. Later on, we even tried spoon-feeding when there were times when she woke up halfway thru the feed and absolutely refused to cooperate. Lately, it has gotten more difficult to feed her either way. She would squirm and wiggle her way out of mommy/ah-ma's arms when we tried to feed her while she's asleep. Spoon feeding is no better as she would cry the minute she ses us with milk bottle kept warm in a cup of hot water. I think she is absolutely teriffied of the metal spoon we used to feed her milk with.
Vexed and concerned over her phobia of drinking milk, we sought advice, going all the way to Jurong East to visit a TCM phyisian who would massage her and prepared some powdered medication for her to take. This seemed to have worked for now as Chloe had been more cooperative during the milk sessions. A marked difference from the time when 3-4 of us are all needed to spoon-feed the milk/hold her down on the rocking chair/perform tricks to keep her engaged/cajole her to drink. Here's hoping that the improvement continues.
I dunno if this is a result of her teething issues. Chloe has 7 teeth now, and it might be possible that the teething pain is causing her to dislike drinking, tho strangely she is ok with her solid food. One thing for sure, she likes to bite at things these days, like her clothes, our clothes, any hanky, even her own socks... oh we gotta wipe the floor more often too... her dripping saliva is all over the floor as well.
Still all in all, Chloe's doing allright. She is not drinking as much as we would have wanted, and she is still not interested to learn to crawl - she can walk if assisted tho - and she is developing a bit of a temper as well. But her weight/height are above average still, and she is now more at ease going to tai-ma's house, becoming less clingy and allowing others to carry her... Talking about carrying, she is just super fond of being carried, and when she wants to be carried, she will pat the nearest one of us to get our attention and raised her arms, ready to be carried.
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