Thursday, July 14, 2005



It has been a week since I started feeding JiXiang rice cereal.
I guess you can say things have gone fairly well.
She is not devouring the food. She eats probably only half a teaspoon in total, but she is not spitting it out, and most importantly, not choking.
Last night she did really well and probably ate over a teaspoon. I am feeling quite proud about this. And relieved.
Breast feeding is actually very hard and requires a ton of patience and will power. This is doubled if you are crazy like me and returned to work after only 6 weeks and are trying to pump every day.
To put it mildly - my tits are tired.
The worst is that, due to catching a terrible cold a few weeks ago that knocked me off my feet, my freezer supply dwindled right down and I am now fighting to keep a day ahead in the freezer. Personally very stressful.
Thankfully Monday is a holiday and my poor battered tits can have a day of rest from the pump and maybe return to normal.
I need to survive three and a half more weeks, then I have week long holiday and lots of tit recovery time.

We tried to weigh her the other day on our piece of shit scale and she is a tad over 7 kilos. I am sure she is more but our scale sucks. We also tried to see how long she had grown. Our best estimate with the tape and a VERY wiggly kid is 67cm, which would explain why some of her clothes now fit a little tight.

She has such long legs and gives them a very good work out.
We had to roll up the tatami mat carpet in the living room last night as she is now capable of pushing herself over there and trying to eat it. My first bit of art work has been moved into the closet as she keeps wanting to inspect them and flip them over. The rice cooker had to find a new home as she is now strong enough to flip it over. (She almost did when it was on. Thank GOD I caught it in time. HOT WATER!!)

Things are so normal it is almost boring but I am not complaining as it is keeping me sane at the moment.
Tomorrow is Friday. YAAAA!!!!!
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