Our Little Rainbow: March 2006

No Breast Milk!!! :(

The fridge at the infant care broke down!

Faith was on formula the whole day. She was glued to me for 2 hours -- feed, sleep, cry, feed, sleep, cry... :( When she finally fell asleep, she keeps turning sideways and sleep holding on to my sleeve with her two hands...so poor thing.

Her teacher at the infant care told me she had been very quiet for the last two days. She's moody at home too. Still laughs and cheers up when I play with her, but not her usual spontaneous self. Both the teacher and I feels she misses Daddy.

Well, Daddy will be home tomorrow and Faith will brighten up again. :)

Daddy's Not Home

Daddy's in camp for reservice till Friday. Faith looked kinda grumpy after we left the infant care. She's usually very giggly and cheerful when she sees both Mommy and Daddy at the infant care centre in the evening even though she'll be quite tired by then...not so this evening. Took Mommy a long while to cheer her up. Good thing she still wanted to go to bed at her usual time at 8.30pm. She woke up briefly, crying from her dreams I guess, about an hour later. Couldn't calm down with just hugs and pats, so I had to nurse her to sleep again. She fell asleep again within minutes and have been sleeping since.

Hmmm...we miss Daddy... :(

New Sleep Association

Been teaching Faith to associate sleep with other objects and conditions so that she can learn to fall asleep at night without Mommy or suckling. She fell asleep tonight for the first time without suckling! Yeay! :) She fell asleep after rubbing her beanie pillow against her cheek for awhile...look so cute hugging the pillow.

When we were out shopping this afternoon, she calmed down and dozed off not long after I passed her the pillow too. Daddy tried it after one of her feeds while I was at work this morning too, and the same happened. Think she's growing fonder of her beanie pillow by the day!

Other sleep associations we've tried so far are:

Transferring Faith into Daddy's arms after she's dozed off but not yet totally asleep while feeding on Mommy's breast, so that Faith learns it is safe to fall asleep in Daddy's arms instead of Mommy's.

A nice warm bath before feeding and bedtime.

So far, so good...interesting indeed. :) I'm having lots of fun with this!

Fun at Gymboree!!!

Faith had good fun at Gymboree this afternoon her twin friends, Angeline and Andrew. All 3 babies fell sound alseep in their prams after the session! :)