Category: Cassandra

Choke Whilst Nursing

Baby C tends to choke when I nurse her lately.  My confinement lady (who was once a midwife) says that it’s because my milk supply has increased, thus the choking.  I think it’s quite true coz this did not happen at the early stage when I started to breastfeed her.  Lately, my milk supply has increased and she tends to choke half way through nursing.  Once, she choked and seconds later, she puked like  water flowing out from the faucet.  She really scared me out of my wits.  Now, each time she coughs while nursing, I will pull her mouth away from my teat spontaneously and pat her chest or burb her.  It’s really terrifying to hear a small, fragile and helpless baby coughing, sometimes as if she’s gasping for air.

Does that happen to your baby too?

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Safe Up There

That’s where we placed the bouncinet with Baby C sleeping on it – on the crib so that she will be out of bounds from her 2 rambunctious sisters, especially Sherilyn.

When I tried putting the bouncinet with Baby C sleeping on it on the floor yesterday, Sherilyn the rascal couldn’t keep her hands off Baby C and kept touching her sister, kissing her, bouncing the net and she even crawled under the bouncinet!  Can you just imagine what would have happened if no one was watching and she stood up from under the bouncinet?  Unimaginable!  I had to drag Sherilyn out from under the bouncinet and warned her never to do that again.

Alycia just could not resist touching her little sister’s head by climbing on a stool to reach her baby sister. 

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Baby C @ Day 20… And Enjoying Her Bouncinet

That’s Cassandra @ day 20 and this was the first time we put her on the comfy bouncinet.

Cassandra now spends more time awake and demands that she be carried or talked to. This morning I did not know what she wanted. I had nursed her and had talked to her for quite some time but when I placed her back in her crib, she started to whine “eeeee eeeee aaaaaaa aaaaaaaa” again. However, the moment I placed her on the bouncinet and bounced the net gently, she stopped whining and was instantly lulled to sleep. I guess the crib must have been too hot for her to fall asleep.

“Blue eyes…. babies have blue eyes….”
That’s one of my favorite songs. Sher commented that Baby C has blue eyes, which is quite true. I notice many babies tend to have light blue eyes but the tinge of blue gradually turns white as the baby grows too.

I can only place Cassandra on the bouncinet when both Alycia and Sher cheh cheh are asleep, otherwise, they will surely bounce baby off the net.

As I am typing this post, Cassandra is fast asleep in her comfy bouncinet. Daddy had brought Alycia and Sher to Mega Kidz @ Mid Valley this morning and will be back anytime. I better get my forty winks now before the 2 rambunctious monkeys are back. My urut lady is also coming at 3pm for my 2nd session of urut.

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Finally, Alycia Gets To Carry Her Baby Sister

When Alycia and Sherilyn were sick last week, we forbade them from getting near Baby C…..but still they tried every way they could to get near their baby sister and even tried to kiss her. Their hands were practically all over their new baby sister each time they see me breastfeed her. The 2 gals were really upset that they could not touch or kiss their new baby sister. They just would not buy what I told them about spreading their virus to the baby.

2 days ago, Alycia finally got her wish granted when I allowed her to cuddle Baby C, with my CL holding the baby. She was grinning from cheek to cheek and was really contented that she could finally cuddle her baby sister.

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Drunken Baby

After reading Vien’s post on her drunk Cassie, I thought I want to post one on my own drunk Cassie. Yes, our gals have the same name – Cassandra!

This is how Baby C normally looks after a session of mummy’s milkie……

The content smile….

and a drunken look…


But the moment Baby C is placed back in her crib, her eyes will be wide open and then she goes “eeee eeeee…… aaaaa aaaaa……” whining again for mummy’s breasts.

And she can never ever get enough of mummy’s milkie.

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Baby C @ Day 16

That’s Cassandra at day 15

and day 16

Baby C’s legs are very thin, they were even thinner at birth, just like skin wrapped round her bones. Sherilyn even commented yesterday that baby C’s legs are like ‘chicken legs’, how very right she was in her description, LOL!

I’ve been nursing Cassandra all day and night till my teats feel so sore. They even feel sore when they touch my clothes. My sil from HK has given me a very good Lanolin cream for nursing moms to apply on the nipples. Perhaps I should try them today, else I will not be able to nurse Cassandra anymore.

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A Little Update On My Life As A Mum To 3 Kids

I have been nursing Baby C the whole day today….. non-stop and it is really tiring me out.  Sometimes, she just wants to suckle my teats for comfort and not for milk, otherwise she wouldn’t go to sleep. 

Sherilyn is also desperately seeking a lot of my attention lately. She has been resisting our instructions and would bawl and roll on the floor when her whims and fancies are not met. When I wasn’t nursing Baby C, I was reading to Sherilyn.  When I wanted to get some rest or coach Alycia in her homework, I put on a DVD for Sherilyn to watch.  Watching TV is the only time she would sit still.  Alycia’s homework is also very heavy this week. That’s because she was absent from school for 3 days last week as she had high fever.  Coaching Alycia in Math, especially in abacus and mental calculation are the toughest as she seemed very lost, not to mention my non-familiarity with using the abacus.  She had missed too many classes lately.

Did I also mention that last week both Alycia and Sherilyn had high fever and throat infection?  Gee, it really ain’t easy having to take care of a newborn baby and care for 2 very sick toddlers.   I was also worried sick that Baby C would catch the virus.  Sherilyn is still on antibiotics now.

I just could not find much time to blog lately.  My earnings will definitely drop this month as expected.  Hopefully it will pick up again next month when things are more settled. 

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Baby C @ Day 14… And She Has A Name Now

Today, daddy finally went to JPN to register Baby C’s birth. Finally, daddy has settled for the name Cassandra Yap Kay Lee. So Baby Callista, Caitlyn or Caeley is now called Cassandra or Cassi in short.

Baby C is starting to get addicted to my teats. For the whole of this afternoon, she has been whining away, but not exactly crying, you know, the type of whine that’s pestering for something. The moment I picked her up and carried her, she turned her head left and right, seeking my breasts. When I let her suckle my breast, she stopped whining but did not exactly suckle for milk, but suckled for comfort, as if it was a pacifier.  The minute I placed her back in her crib, her whining started again.  When my CL fixed her an ounce of formula, she spat the milk out, closed her lips tight and whined….. until my breasts took over. This went on the whole afternoon.   

Alycia and Sherilyn did not help either when both of them fought for pillows and bolsters and both wanted me to lie down and turn sideways facing them during nap time. I went ballistic when all 3 of my kids bawled at the same time!

Doesn’t Cassandra look like a boy here?

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