PY
my mum is an advocate of yao lan but not advisable to let baby sleep in yaolan when he's still so young... his backbones still so soft? the babies in our family will sleep yao lan when they r almost 2 mths old.
dun let the CL tell u wat to do. newborns dun need yao lan now.
alot of old wives tales during confinement say cannot cry, cannot watch too much TV etc... 4 me, i had minor hormonal imbalance int he 1st few days i got home aft delivery. i cry for no reason. but it went away by the 1st wk and gynae says its normal. prob ur body oso adjusting now and thus the hormones might b a lilttle haywire now. dun worry too much.
shugar
u express till the milk jets stop squirting. even when i was expressing every 6 or 7 hrly, each boob max 20 mins only. dun over express. boobs will feel v sore.
glass
each person express diff amt. dun compare and stress urself lah. u r doing well.
gal^
dun walk so much! why u walk fr tmc to novena sq???? tts a long distance & u hv barely recovered fr ur wound. best to rest as much within the 1st 2 wks so wound can heal properly. and there is a saying tt says rest so ur womb wun "drop".
aria jo
ur girl so cute! and yes agree she doesnt look like newborn! so fresh & alert!
hippo
let baby decide how often he wants to feed. If its not feeding time yet, check for wet nappies, temp of the room, is he wearing too much clothings, wind in tummy etc... who is asking u to give pacifier & EBM? i read in the parenting book tt says by giving a baby pacifier, we r essentially telling them to "shut up" and they will nvr learn to "speak" the proper language to us wat they actually need. thou i know in asian societies we all r used to pacifiers etc. i tried giving it to my son when he was 2 mths old but thankfully he din like it. kept spitting out, which i was so glad so tt at least stopped my mum fr promoting the pacifier all the time.
wif regards to EBM, i wun totally oppose it and if u really feel u need to rest at night, then its a gd idea to let someone else take over. personally i feel once u tough it out during the 1st mth, it will b easier aft tt. besides when u let someone give EBM to baby at night, u wld still need to wake up and pump. so wats the diff? might as well latch... u dun hv to pump. juz my thots lah. most imptly, do wats most comfortable to u. dun stress urself. u need to b happy so ur baby will b happy too.
babytum
if gynae is not worried, then u shldnt be as well!