10 Aug 2014-2nd day of eating cereals

My baby is sooooo cute. Today is the 2nd day of him trying semi solids.  He looks so interested in eating the cereal and keep wanting to eat it, haha.

22 Aug 2014

Coming to 6th month postpartum, my period seems like returning.  There is some brown discharge when I wipe myself after urinating, didn't expect it to come back now as I am still breastfeeding.  Googled and realise that period could come back for a few reasons, one of it is that when baby starts solids..maybe that's why..

08 Aug 2014-Final Jab

Today is Caydon's final jab at his age.  He weighs only 6.8kg and height is 65cm, growing only 25percentile which I find it's too little but the nurse said that it's consistent, his growth is slow and steady, haha.

10 Aug 2014-Training Caydon to self soothe and away from yaolan

Today is the 1st day we started to train Caydon to sleep in his cot instead of yaolan, without any rocking.  It was in the afternoon around 12pm+ when he has finished latching and was sleepy, I carry him and placed him in the baby cot, switched on the cot mobile and see his reaction, at first the was starring at the cot mobile intensely.  After a few minutes, he start to cry and the cries get louder and louder, he flipped and flipped until one corner of the cot, I just sat on my bed, a distance away from his cot and look at him.  I was very heartpain to see him cry out so loud and perspiring.  10minutues gone by, finally he stopped to rest for awhile, and continue again... super heartpain but my hubby told me if I really cannot bear to see him cry, I can go and carry him.  But inside me I was thinking if I carrry him now, the past 10minutes of crying would have gone to waste.. So I endure..walked in and out of the bedroom...once he saw us, he will cry out loud again..Looking at the clock, he finally stopped after 20minutes of crying and fell asleep.  He was so tired that he slept for 3hours+

In my mind, I was thinking how many times of this cry it out method do we have to use before succeeding?  At night, we tried again.  Around his sleeping time (9pm), after feeding him cereals and breastmilk, same thing, I put him in his cot, this time I didn't stay in the bedroom, I went outside to do my things.  Very heartpain again to hear his cries and shouts/screams.  But to my relief, he stopped after about 5 minutes and fell asleep!  I wipe my hand against his hair, which is wet from perspiration and shift him to the centre of the cot as he has flipped to the corner again.  Have we succeed?  Is it that he knew that no matter how hard he cry, we will not pick him up or is he too tired and fell asleep?  Whichever the case, we are glad that it only took him 5mins.  Surprisingly fast that he has learnt to self soothe in only a day, thought that he will need a few days.  Will try again tonight.