Hello everyone!
Sunbelle - I'm good. Sorry haven't been posting here or have the time to read because so much has happened since I got discharged from TMC. Haha.
I sack my CL after 2.5 days because I didn't like the way she handled my baby and the stress she caused me. I wanted to be on total breastfeeding and on the 3rd day I was home, she told me if I don't have 80ml, don't bother. I said I wanna latch cuz nurses and LC at TMC told me I'm doing good. Then when she slept with me in the room, she would wake up every 10 min and said your son still hungry and making noise. And I said no, he's not. He just wants to be comforted or has a dirty diaper. She insist he was hungry so woke him up and he cried of course cuz he was tired. She kept saying how I don't have milk and stressed me out till at 4am, she ask my husband go NTUC buy formula milk to feed him. I cried and she told me confinement no good to cry. Anyway, she nearly wanted to feed him 60ml but I said no because I was latching from from 2am - 4am!!! She gave 30ml in the end.
Next thing I didn't like was when she bathe my son, she squirt shampoo directly on his head like twice. I said no, should squirt 1 drop into bath tub and she said my method is wrong. Then she went to rub his head with shampoo and he cried. Then she squirt another 2 drops on his body and rub. And I said that's not water therapy like what I learnt at Mrs Wong's class. And she ignored me. Then she would toss my son like playing with him and my husband didn't like it. And then instead of using sterile cotton to rub his eyes (and my son eyes are ok, no discharge or blocked ducts), she use the same wash cloth to wipe face and do his eyes.
The final straw came when I decided to change his diaper for first time on Monday afternoon with my husband (cuz he saw I was so upset and stressed out crying) and we found blood in his diaper. Brought him to KKH emergency and they admitted him for 2 nights. I was in tears. Can you believe the team of PDs (mainly housemen) there still ask me why I was crying?! I told them hello! my 4-days old baby has to be admitted!? We saw that there was a small cut/abrasion on the tip of his penis so I was quite upset as this was poorly managed by CL. Only she handled all his changing and cleaning and I saw she's quite rough so while I am not accusing her, i couldn't help but feel lousy I didn't check. I was feeling so stress with her walking in and out and her ways so different from what I was taught by Mrs Wong BB that I cried so badly and my mom asked her to leave.
Felt so relaxed and happy after that. Although it was tiring for 1st 2 nights, now we got the hang of it. Husband & I are very hands on with our little man. He's in a 4 hour feed schedule every night and 3 hours in the day. Also went to TMC parent craft to seek help in breastfeeding and Mrs wong was great. Spent 3 hours there and Wbb even told her colleague off not to allow baby to cry, just let him latch on. He happy can already. And since then, my son is a lot more calm, relaxed, happy...money well spent..
So overall, its been great except the time when son had to be admitted to KKH for 2 nights. My heart was so broken seeing him cry due to someone overlooking care for my son! Its really money spent unnecessarily!!! But turns out it was a blessing in disguise because it made me go seek a 2nd opinion with Dr Ang (who said he didn't even need to be admitted at all), spend time at Parentcraft getting the right information on how to care for baby and overall a happier mother now.
So just wanted to share if anyone's going thru any frustrations now, I'd be happy to share or help with whatever info was given to me.
Meanwhile, hope everyone is holding up well!!!
p/s: milk supply was short initially but slowly but surely I will preserver for more to come in!
. I will see how first, hopefully baby can gain weight for my wed visit.