By one month old, Mika’s can lift up his head from left to right. I discovered this while exploring ways to put him to sleep. He seems have difficulty to fall into sleep as I am fully breast feeding him after his first month. When the confinement lady around during his first month, she will feed mika’s as long as he is not sleeping well… yeah the reason is breast milk will not satisfy hunger and have to feed formula milk in order to have deep sleep….. My baby eat all the time and grow up very fast and also make me worry that she overfeed him and have bad impact to his stomach….. I am very angry with the confinement lady after found out that she simply feed mika to get an easy way out. She was feeding Mika’s 4 oz milk with a gap less than 3 hours when he is 2 weeks old. Sometime my heart melts when seeing Mika having difficulty to gulp the milk when she bottle feed him. At one occasion, Mika’s was crying out loud… seems like overfeeding. The problem is Mika’s will drink everything whenever we feed him, probably he had a bad experience during his early days. He has to bear hunger for more than 24 hours as I don’t produce any milk for him yet.
After many attempt to put him to sleep, one fine day I just get him to sleep in just one second by putting him lying on his stomach. This is through try and error and it’s amazed me as he is just stop crying and totally switch off and going to deep sleep immediately. This is when I discover that he can flip his head left and right and when he is hungry, he will put his head right on the mattress attempting to latch on and make some noises ehh!!! ehhhh ehhhh. This is so cute. Sometime I just watch him doing this for a while before feeding him. Will this make me a bad mother? I really enjoy this special moment, to watch his nature instinct to search for food and his satisfying look with great smile when he is full. No though sometime he will have this “pick chick” look or fierce look whenever my milk supply is low. Really scare me like wanna fight with me.
Now Mika is able to do a mini push up – to lift is head and shoulder up. He has mastered this skill two weeks ago when he is two and a half month old.He started to learn to lift his head at 45 degree when he is two month old during our visit back to Muar. He lifts his head up high in front of all the uncles and aunties. My husband commented…. “our son is showing off and doing a good PR”. Yes, he said the same when we visit our baby sitter the day before I started to work. Mika is responding with great smile and talking (making gurgles and coos sound) while I am talking to the baby sitter. I guess he has mistaken that I talk to him but my husband said he is doing PR. yeah like daddy, so “kay po” and me? Of course Mummy is cool and not like daddy. Wait and see Mika’s is inheriting me or my hubby character.
