The curse broke

Apparently Keston knows what I write in this blog. Either that or he reads my mind. Right after I did the I must learn to keep my big mouth shut lines, he went back to his sleep routine. I'm not even sure if I should blog this. So Keston, if you see this, do continue with your beauty sleep.

I know... so unglam but that's my little koala bear :)

My pet human

Somewhere along the line, I've come to realise that I haven't really come to terms with being a mummy. Sure, I can easily sprout about having a baby and all that ladeedah. But deep within me, I still don't see myself as a parent.

I find myself treating Keston like a novelty, a toy....no wait, a pet puppy! Sounds so evil right? Hopefully it's a role I will grow into. Eventually :) Even my own mum says I treat Keston like a doll. Haha

I must learn to keep my big mouth shut!

Alot of old people say babies are v pantang and you shouldn't say anything about them, especially not in front of them. HW always chides me for telling Keston I love him cos he says Keston will bully me (which he does!). And apparently when you say a baby is fat, he/she will get sick or something. Load of bull if you ask me. Before we shaved Keston's head, my mil told me not to tell him we were gonna cut his hair or he'll get all cranky.

Anyways, I did procrastinate about whether to blog about Keston sleeping through the night but I did so want to remember when he started sleeping through the night and wth, it's not like he can read this blog! So I blogged. I did read about people saying that when they talked about their baby sleeping through the night, the magic was lost.

And the same day I wrote about it, Keston woke up at 3+am whining for a feed! Just a fluke? He did the same thing the next night...and this is after weeks of sleeping through the night!!!!

If this was a school of infantcare, I should probably get punished :

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Sleeping through the night

From about the time when Keston was 1 month old, we've heard of teaching babies sleeping through the night and decided to implement one of the methods.

If he wakes up between 12mn to 6am, we wouldn't feed him but would just give him the pacifier and make him go back to sleep no matter what. He's supposed to learn that there wouldn't be any milk given during this time span. It took just 2 or 3 days and I stopped waking up in the wee hours to feed him. I thought we'd suceeded in getting him to sleep through the night! Hooray! Then about a week later, I commented to HW that we're so lucky that Keston learned to sleep through the night. HW said "Sleep your head lah! I always wake up to pat him!" Hahaha...HW thought I was only pretending not to hear Keston crying or whimpering, but seriously, I heard nothing!

Anyway, fast forward to now. Keston has fallen into his sleep routine a few weeks back, possibly about the time he turned 2 months. He now takes just 4 feeds a day, 4 hourly. His last feed would be around 8-9pm and he's play abit and fall asleep about 10pm. He doesn't wake up for a feed till at least 6am, most of the time after 7am! Thank you God!

Keston's a talkative baby. His vocab consists of 'Eh', 'Hooo', 'Ah-Hooo', 'Ah', 'Eee'. Sounds pretty much like he's picking up on his vowels. He's also been sticking his tongue out alot, and I do mean alot! When he does that to me, I stick my tongue back out at him and he chuckles. Or sometimes I stick my tongue out at him and he copies me. HW keeps saying I'm teaching Keston bad things. :)

8 Weeks Check and meeting li'l Jo-ni

Visited the PD regarding Keston's flu and shun bian took his measurements again.

8 Weeks

Length: 59.5cm

Weight: 5.3kg

Our boy is growing so fast. But his hair is growing damn slowly! Still botak after 1 month!!! We're contemplating rubbing brandy on his head...haha

We brought Keston along to Sujia's daughter's full month celebration....and Keston met little Jo-ni for the first time. I hope they'll be friends in the future :)

It's not that obvious here but Keston's got lovely dark eyelashes :)

Blocked Nose

At around 7 weeks, Keston has finally learned to focus and follow us when we move. Hooray for small miracles! I thought he'd never learn! He's also started smiling when we talk to him or play with him....although only occassionally. The cheeky little bugger likes to fuss around wanting to be carried and when I relent, he actually smiles as if knowing that he's won the battle.



The night feeds are killing us. I'm trying to condition Kes not to wake up before 7am by not feeding him when he wakes between 2-7am. But it's so hard to ignore his wailings in the wee hours.

Check out our eyebags!

Keston's been very fussy the past few days, not sleeping much all day and always needing to be carried. He spits out his pacifier and cries incessantly. At first we thought he was hungry and increased his feeds but later realised that he's got a blocked nose and is just v uncomfy. Poor little thing. Thank God he's much better now or I dunno how long more we can tahan!

Back again!

It's been a long time since I last blogged...I think it was 1 month ago??? Anyways, I figured no one wanted to read a blog with no photos and I was too retarded to realise that I could upload photos straight into blogspot. Thought I had to use an external photo storage to link up and couldn't be arsed to do a thing. The old posts have been updated with photos, and I only just realised that there were comments there too! So don't think that I was not replying...So blur!

We're now so used to the little botak that we can't really imagine him with hair anymore! Keston's hair is growing painfully slow. Thank goodness he looks quite cute without hair as well :P But of course that's me being bias as always.

Full Month Party 24th Aug

It went smoothly and was pretty much uneventful for Keston, since he was asleep the whole time!!! He even went without his usual makan time just so he didn't need to open his eyes! I tried sitting him up and disturbing him but he just refused to wake up! We came to the conclusion that he's quite dao and can't be bothered to meet people who want to meet him.

Stats Update:

At 6 weeks, Keston took his 6-in-1 vaccination jabs. At the same time, he kenna abit of flu so he was given some eyedrops. He wailed when the needle went in..and stopped when he got some milk. He was so traumatised by the jab that he slept the whole day away. I've heard that babies either get real cranky or sleepy after taking the jab. Luckily he fell into the latter category.

Weight: 5kg (plus/minus) he basically put on a huge chunk of weight, probably from overfeeding!

Height: 37cm

I started slinging K in the babysling my sis got me from momsinmind. He loves it and almost always falls asleep in it. It's really good for times when he just wants to be cuddled as it frees up my hands to surf the net while still giving him some TLC :)

We realised that K sleeps much better while lying on his front. He doesn't get startled so often. The downside is that we're afraid he'll suffocate so we have to keep watch while he sleeps. He has quite strong neck muscles and can lift his head quite high and for quite long.