Two Months

At two months old checkup, my baby girl weighs 3.65kg, having gained about 1kg since birth and 53cm long. At her second month, she stretches a lot to the extent where her grandaunts were so worried and decided to bring her to the paed (her second trip this time after the booger issue when she was barely a week old) to get some reassurance from the paed that she was not in a great pain :).

She nurses more efficiently these days and is getting a lot chubbier, from a double to triple chin, her grandaunts jested. That certainly gives me the ‘ticket’ to breastfeed her exclusively (finally) and I really thank God that her weight gain has definitely opened up everyone’s eye in the family. Breastfeeding my own daughter can be aptly taken as a privilege especially when you are surrounded by a big family who were not brought up in a breastfeeding friendly environment. Thanks for the constant support from my hub and eldest SIL. I may have given up after their several attempts ‘enticing’ her with formula. I certainly know that they did this out of good will but I was just determined to provide the best that I could for her.  

Her hair is rather thin especially on the top side which is almost bald, that makes her to be mistaken as a boy most of the times. According to her grandaunt no.4 (she has 5 immediate grandaunts altogether, excluding those from the extended family), her rather long little fingers, feet and thin hair has the highest resemblance with her aunt (grandaunt no.4’s daughter) besides her daddy. 

She has outgrown most of the shirts, pants and mittens which were especially made/altered by her grandaunt no.4 and is finally able to put on most of the newborn/0-3m hand-me-downs from her cousin brothers. Her grandaunt then made her a brand new set of ‘uniform’ (checkered cotton) pants sufficient for one week span to be worn at home. On top of that, her grandparents thought that her baby cot at home and MIL’s shop is too ‘big’ for her thus her grandaunts ‘designed’ her a makeshift ‘bed’ modified from new bread trays, underlain by a custom sewn plywood with a mini set of comforter (checkered one again) for better ventilation. How I wish that I can be this creative and this Missy is such a lucky girl. I have all this documented so that she’ll know how much her grandparents/aunts dote her.

She started cooing and responded to our voice when she is in her jovial good mood. She exceptionally loves Old Mc Donald song and never missed cooing along when we make different animal sounds.  She socialize better as she open up her eyes most of the time these days but still, she wouldn’t allow herself to be carried for long even by the in-laws whom she meets on a daily basis at the shop. She particularly loves to be carried up straight and ‘draped’ against the shoulder especially on daddy’s broad shoulder.

On her sleeping habit, she cries and fuss when she is tired or sleepy and this happen almost every night. Most of the time, I will let her to suckle for comfort until she drops asleep. Occasionally, she can easily fall asleep on daddy’s broad shoulder while he is on the desktop or while walking.  At times, when I have errands to work on, she has the privilege to join daddy when her uncles came over for movie night or PSP gaming session in our living room and fell asleep comfortably on her daddy’s long lap. These days, her sleep lasts on a longer stretch and usually wakes up twice for her feed after midnight.

She loves her Moses basket or perhaps car ride or gai-gai (outing). Nothing soothes her better from putting her into her Moses basket. She would stop crying almost instantly and easily dozed off during a car ride. We ‘upgraded’ her to a Chicco carseat when we think that she had better support on her neck few days prior our trip back to KK on Nov 2^nd for her to meet up with the other half of her relatives from my side. It was her maiden air trip at the age of 2.5 months. It was such a huge relief when she likes her carseat as we foresee that we’ll be going out daily, with or without my family throughout our trip.

On her few firsts, she had her first bathe by papa on, had her first two nights without daddy and her grandaunts offered to stay with us alternatively for both nights. That had also marked her first lights-off night. The boss and I have been leaving the lights in our bedroom on every other night before this :P.  Despite smiling occasionally, she shoved her first social smile and chuckled in a high-pitched shrieking sound on 20^th Oct 2014 (exactly 2mo), had her first trip to KK by air (50 minutes flight) on 2^nd Nov 2014 at (2m13d) and finally had her first longest period without mommy when I was on a 2 weeks course for work on 17^th November 2014 (2m27d).