Diaper Years

I (& My parents) will remember my younger years as diaper years. For in any given day, i could have used up to 10-15 diapers or more. No thanks to my inability to control my bowel. Passing motion (& urinating) is quite an automatic process. If i have to go, i have to go! And right after doing my business, i will make sure my parents know about it (by crying out loud!).



Interestingly, we (babies) tend to answer the call of nature more often than adults. And we don't answer it on a schedule. We have routines but none is really on fix time.


ps. I am using napkins too, especially daytime.
Note from daddee : If babies can be potty-trained, diapers manufacturer can go bankrupt!.

My Anne Geddes pose

This is my so-called Anne Geddes baby pose. It's also my favourite burping pose. Daddy says it's just like Mummy when she sleeps with hands under the chin!

Yellow Banana Boy

I developed jaundice on my 3rd day. They poked my foot with a needle and took some blood for me. It is painful.

Mummy cries because she was ready to go home and yet I can't go home. I have to be under this blue light called phototheraphy. It's so hot under the blue light and they cover both my eyes with black mask like Zorro. They also covered my head with white strofoam, the ones that people use to wrap around apples or pears at the fruit shop.

I have to be under the light for 24 hours. Even when I'm awake, I can't open my eyes because of the black mask. It is horrible because I can't be wheeled to Mummy's room anymore. I get to see Mummy and Daddy only for 10 minutes, three times a day. Mummy decided to stay back because she can't bear to go home without me.

The next day, they poked my foot again and tested my jaundice level. It was still 10 and the doctor said it's better to be under the blue lights for another 24 hours. Mummy said the doctor just wanted to earn some money because I wasn't that yellow but anyway, just to be safe, Daddy and her stayed another night with me at the hospital. Mummy's got baby blues because of this and every time she thinks of me under the blue lights, she cries.

Thankfully, my jaundice level went down after two days after phototheraphy. I went home with Mummy, Daddy, Grandma and Grandpa. That wasn't the end of my jaundice though coz I was so yellow again after that. I'm trying my best to be pink. Grandma holds me under the sun every morning till I get tanned. I am no more the little pink baby. I am so tanned, almost like Mummy was when she went sunbathing in Bali.

New tricks

I learnt that I was always wheeled in to Mummy's room whenever I started howling even after I was fed. So that night, I howled. I was fed by Mummy and wheeled back into the baby room. I tried a new trick - howling half hour later and true enough, I was wheeled to Mummy again. The nurse told Mummy that I wanted to feed again - hahaha. Mummy was surprised and tried to feed me lying down. It was funny coz I wouldn't feed but slept under Mummy's armpit right away.

My Day

I was taking my morning nap in this early morning on the 6th of May, 2008 as usual when I felt a cold drift of air. A pair of hands carried me out of my warm habitat. That was when I knew I was out of my comfy home, into this thing called World. Why? Why can't I stay till I decide to come out?

I howled like crazy, missing my old comfy home. The 'terrorists' did some IQ tests on me. Hey, I ain't stupid you know. I practiced all these in my habitat for 38 weeks. I scored 9 out of 10..hmmph...I hate my doctor already. Daddy was cooing at me as soon as he saw me. I was cleaned and brought to see my Mummy just for a while. Oh...so this is how she looks like...

I decided to keep on howling till they release Mummy out 45 minutes later just to spite the terrorists. I was later brought to Mummy's room where I can hear the whole clan of family cooing at me. It's cute how their language turns into baby language when they see me.

I was only wheeled in and out throughout the day coz Mummy could not move her legs. I'm so gonna miss the evening walks that Mummy usually takes with me.

I learnt a new trick that day. Whenever I howled, they wheeled me to Mummy. So, I howled...the whole day through. Haha...