Baby B

im in my 15th week with bub #2. I've stopped feeling nauseous, bt at night i wake up way too many times to pee. Yesterday, i peed before leaving the house, but the minute i arrived my destination (5mins away), i needed to go again!

Bub #2 is making me do things like:
1) Eat too much ice cream
2) Drink cold drinks ( i normally HATE cold drinks, but now only ice cubes n ice water will do)
3) Be hungry all the time
4) Crave for nasi lemak bungkus (served in plates will NOT do)
5) Want noodles/pasta for dinner vs rice. Im totally off rice for dinner and malay food is unappetizing, though i can eat it).
6) Get emotional. Watching Discovery Home & Health doesnt help. I cry over almost everything on that channel, and i cried watching American Idol (pathetic).

Things to be concerned about are H1N1. Being in the high risk category cos of the pregnancy is scary!

Weaning - Days 4, 5 & 6

I can safely say that Ciku's been weaned off her go-to-sleep feed! Days 4-6 were a cinch! On day 4, she fell asleep at 10.30!! She decides for herself when she's had enough of the books and rolls around the whole bed to find a comfy position. Normally Daddy's never in bed when we are, except for last night, so she had a biiiig problem with having him in the way. She ended up pushing him out of the way and fell asleep when he made way for her :)

Weaning - Day 3

This is proving to be easier than i imagined (fingers crossed, touch wood etc)!! Last night was a breeze compared to the other nights. I think Ciku fell asleep between 12am-12.30am. I read about 4 books, then she decided that she was too tired, turned around and fell asleep! She slept right through the night and woke up at 7.40am.

I dont know wuts wrong with me cos again, i could have had great sleep, but woke up at 6.40 and couldnt go back to sleep! Ended up having some big dream on my extended family and Tok Chak's big house.

Weaning - Day 2

The weaning process has taken a twist! It seems that ciku now expects to be read to sleep, which means mummy reading her a book over n over n over again!!!! I had warned hubs to prepare himself for a night of tears, bt there were none. Ciku didnt expect to get boo at all, but instead kept choosing book after book for us to read to her. She fell asleep at 12.30am, while daddy fell asleep wayyyy earlier! Hmph! Thought he could read to her all night instead!

I did give boo to her at 2.30am, and as production has stopped (i think), she kept switching boobs like every 10 seconds!

Cant wait to be 'boo' free!!

The arduous process of weaning

Inspired by Munirah's process of weaning her son off night feeds (feeding to sleep), i decided to kick off Day1 with ciku last night. I dont know wut hit me, but i just felt that yesterday was the day when i'd begin the 5 day programme. I figured that i wasnt going to put up with 4 straight years of sleep deprivation, and that i had to deal with the problem once n for all. I've been putting off weaning ciku cos it's so convenient to fall asleep as ciku suckles on me, and to pull up my shirt whenever she needs me in the middle of the night.

Im a wreck from last night - physically and emotionally. This morning ciku woke up before i went to work, so i was hugging n kissing her and telling her that i loved her cos i felt so darn guilty for depriving her off boo last night. She seemed absolutely fine, so i dont know whether she remembered just how much she cried last night. We were in bed at 10.30pm and finally slept at 1.30...so that makes it 3 hours of me reading all 5 of her favourite books:

1) Huckle's good manners
2) The hungry little caterpillar
3) Peter and Jane have fun
4) My best friends
5) Topsy n Time little lost rabbit.

Ciku refused to fall asleep without boo, so instead, she made me read those books over n over again. In between, i had to comfort her, i tried to get her to sleep by carrying her, singing songs. She cried for Opa, "Call Opaaaaaaaa!" That was at 12.08am. At 1am, she cried, "See Oma & Opaaaaaaa!" Every time she alluded to wanting boo, i'd tell her that "mummy's boo ouch," which it actually was. At 1.15am i was very near to lifting up my top already cos she was crying so broken heartedly, but whilst reading Topsy and Tim, she fell asleep!! She was so tired that she slept all the way through, and i gave her boo when it was morning.

I should've slept well, but i didnt. I hope i'll be prepared for tonight...denying my child is such a heartbreaking thing to do, and it's not her fault that she's been enjoying the comfort of boo before bed for the past 21 months :(

Ciku's vocab update

Banana - "Nana Tamish" (bananas in pyjamas)
Pak Su - "Pak Pu"
Luna - "Nuna"
Maryam - "mayam"
Juice

Sentences:
"Mia tired"
"Ee thaaaat?" (what's that, who's that)
"Mia eat tatarice"
"Mia feeeet!" (when Luna bites her feet)
"Oma's frend"
"Eet mummy" (sit mummy)
"Mummy cooking"
"Put chili, garlic" (when someone's cooking, she describes the cooking process)
"Daddy look. Mummy hold Mia. Mia go stairs" (Look daddy, mummy's helping me up the stairs).