Don't compare me

Little Andrew has a cousin who is 2 months younger than him and my in-laws are always comparing them. For heaven sake why do they want to compare their milestone. They kept saying why my son can't walk or talk. I'm like HAARRRLOOO every child's development is different.

Why don't they ever say why can't little M wave goodbye? Why can't little M do "carry me" sign? Why can't little M poo in potty? They kept forgetting little Andrew can do a lot of stuff too that little M can't.

I hate it when they compare the 2 babies!!!!

Why oh why?

I think the drinking milk before sleep is now a habit. I thought that Andrew must be too full to drink milk to sleep because I cooked slightly bigger portion dinner. I was wrong!! he ended wanting milk before he sleeps. He was tugging my pillow - there's where he lay down for his milk. Baby, I wish you can talk and tell me!!! >.<

Then in the middle of the night, little Andrew woke up crying! And there is no way I could pacify him and sleep back. He sat up and cried pretty loud. So I gave in, I carried him to my bed and let him sleep with us. Immediately he slept and no crying at all! Hmmm... how am I suppose to get this sleep training on his crib worked out. I don't want to use the Cry It Out technique, it's kind of cruel and pains me.

I guess will just have to keep trying. I don't think he has any trouble sleeping in the crib since he has been falling asleep in there for 5 nights consecutively already. I just need to try harder and nightly until he can sleeps through the night in it.

Back to the crib

I can't even remember when was the last time little Andrew slept in his crib! Daddy took the plunge 4 nights ago to put him to sleep in there. Surprisingly he feel asleep in it and stayed in there till about 2am on the first night. Then 4am, then 6am before crawling out of it. Last night Little Andrew must have a nightmare because he was sobbing in his sleep. So by 3am, he was up and in our bed.

I am hoping for the night he would sleep through the night in his crib. At the same time, I kinda miss having him sleeping next to me. Thank goodness I still can do that during his afternoon nap! I always thought he can't sleep in the crib, seems I'm the one in denial and I'm the one having separate anxiety!

Milk before sleep

It seems to me that little Andrew wants milk again before his bedtime. He stopped drinking his night time milk for a while now, but these 2 days he will fuss until I gave him the bottle!

I wonder if he didn't have enough for dinner. Maybe it's time to increase his diner portion so he won't need his milk before bed. I thought he weaned himself off it, apparently not. If he does means he can stop wearing diapers at night!!! Dream on mummy! He's not even potty train in the day for wee wee! But for big business, it seems little Andrew gets it that he gotta poo in the potty! He can't do it on his back or when he is seated nowadays. I realised that because for few days in a row, he had urged during meal time when we were out and about. I tried putting him on the diaper change table to poo, but he just won't do it! I tried doing it in the car, again he won't do it!

I guess it's a good thing that he knows the use of potty. It just that I need to fix his timing and not every time when he is having his dinner half way!!

Molar!

After so long, the molars are finally out. Little Andrew has been cranky and sometimes woke up in the middle of the night crying. My guess was the molar has got to be coming and I hope it will be soon enough.

And today after his shower, I ran my fingers through his gum and found the top left molar is peeping out! And I opened his mouth bigger and show the white patch appearing on the top right molar too! So two molars are on the way. I have yet to check out the bottom ones but I ran though my finger can't feel a thing yet!

Stand by me...

Oh yes, little Andrew can stand for a few seconds only when he sort of forgets that he is standing. Sounds weird? He won't stand still when you want him to. So he surprises us here and there at the most unexpected moment. I'm still waiting for the walking on your own baby!!

More milestone

Little Andrew amazes me all the time when he reaches new milestone. Even if it is the smallest matter, I'm still very proud of him!

He is getting the hang of feeding himself with picking up the food I left on the tray attached to his high hair. So sometimes when we are out and about and when I feed him, he will want to pick it up from the spoon - not pick up the spoon just yet!

So today's dinner, I let him have some watermelon. At first I tried to put the pick into his hand, he refused to hold it and wanted me to feed him. But to my surprise after a few feed, he wanted to hold the pick. And the happiest moment came when he managed to put the pick into his mouth on his first attempt!!! AND the best of all, daddy was around to see it too!

I'm so glad that there are many times that daddy witnesses all these milestone together with me. I'm worried that he will miss out of all these because I'm at home 24hours with little Andrew! I'm glad he is around to see this today!

More self-feeding adventure to come! Yay!!!

My baby, my hero

Little Andrew didn't sleep through the night for 2 nights now and today he did the same waking at about 1.30am and just wouldn't go back to sleep. Daddy pat pat until he fell asleep first! So as I continue to pat little Andrew to sleep, I heard noises downstairs. I thought it was the irritating cat that kept sleeping on our shoe rack!

But after a couple minutes, it was getting louder and I thought the cat couldn't have been that aggressive! So I woke up the hubs to check downstairs.

Never in my mind that it was burglars trying to get into our house!!!!! Hubs saw their face when he went down and peeped out the window. They were still forcing their way in when he peeped!

I was blind without my glasses when I peeped through the window from the room. By the time I went back with my glasses, they already took off.

My oh my. We stayed here for close to 10 years already and this is the first time any attempt of burglary happened to our house, though there was once our neighbour's car was almost stolen. Stolen cars are common I think but breaking an entry is another story!

I woke up my sis and brother in law, while letting my mom taking care of Andrew while we inspect the damages. We found that our front gate was opened, the front grill was broken, the front door's key hole panel was broken and taken apart and thank goodness it was just the outside was damaged. They couldn't push their way through because we got a good lock that just refused to budge!! And the best and probably what saved us were the 2 safety latch that we slide it lock every night!!!

It was a horrifying experience for us. Thank God that we are all safe and Thank God for watching over us. And the hero here is my little Andrew who decided not to sleep through the night and kept awake until at such hour that I was alerted in time to stop burglary from taking place!

My baby is growing all the time

Today after dinner, gave little Andrew some grapes. As usual, I tried feeding him then after a while, I decided to try letting him feed himself. So I put one piece on the tray attached to high hair. To my surprised, he picked it up and put it into his mouth and ate it!!

It was only yesterday I tried giving him grapes and he wouldn't put into his mouth. He usually picked it up and throw it on the floor or squashed it with his hands. But today he pinched it and fed himself. This is truly a great milestone to little Andrew who is always growing and never fail to amaze me with his new skill!

My baby is now ONE!

My baby is now a toddler!! Happy birthday to my lovely Andrew. I thank God for you. I am forever grateful to Him for giving us a chance to be your parents, to bring you up, to protect you, to guide you, to cherish you and most importantly TO LOVE YOU! You bring us joy everyday. You have your ups and downs but most importantly, you are sharing all those with us.

Mummy loves you to bits!!!!

New texture

Little Andrew started having bits of rice whenever we had ours. And lately he has been eating more of our rice! So I decided that it is time to stop mashing/ blending his porridge. He started with very runny porridge and slowly getting lumpier and 2 days ago, this is what he gets for dinner.

Super soft rice cooked with chicken bits. I separately steamed the vege and added them into the rice before serving. It has been ok for the last 2 days! Fingers crossed!

I bought pasteurised egg today, so next food to test is EGG!!! Yolk first!

I stand

Andrew wasn't able to pull himself up and stand just yet. But a week ago, he decided to do it overnight! He wasn't even trying all the time before that! Now that he can pull himself up and stand, he is doing it all the time. To the extend that when he wakes up say in the middle of the night, he will make his way to the headboard and tries to stand!

Not only he is standing, he can actually hold on to the bed rail or the headboard and walk about. He's not doing it just yet with the sofa or the coffee table or the bed! But I am pretty sure it will happen sooner than I think. And now next will be WALKING! Or maybe running will happen even sooner!

Gotta buy shoes for little Andrew! There were occasions he wants to get down and walk! So better start now then later when he walks and refusing to wear shoes because as it is now, he doesn't wear socks!

Breast milk vs Formula milk

I am definitely 100% all for breast milk and I was 100% prepared for it too! But it didn't turn out as I wished for (http://antheama.blogspot.com/2012/03/breastfeeding.html?m=1)

There are way too many articles and forums/discussion where BM mommies bashing FM mommies - directly and indirectly by making comments about FM.

Some people chose to FM but there are mommies like me who just can't make it happen! So there is no need to be so mean to FM mommies. Every parents want the best for their children, and every parents will have different view about parenting. You can be pro-BM, but there is no need to bash up FM mommies. The worst comment I read was "human milk for human, cow milk
for cow". If I had a choice I would give MY VERY OWN BM, but I just can't! Stop saying that babies only need very little colostrum for the first few days. But do you know my few is 10 drops per hand express!!!!

So please stop bashing up FM mommies!

Fussy little one

Little Andrew is and always our little Angel. But there are occasions he had been the fussy pot- the lack of sleep or hungry.

Well hungry is easy to "cure" and can be settled quite fast. Nothing a milk can't fix.

But the lack of sleep or wanting to go to sleep is another story. Little Andrew can be quite a fussy sleeper if there is such a term. He sleeps only in certain positions and usually a bed is the best bet. And it's not easy to let him doze off in his stroller- usually involve lotsa pushing around.

He sometimes fall asleep in the car as well. The car seat not only keeps him in place, it also helps him to fall asleep easier than having me to hug him
to sleep.

In fact, little Andrew is not much of a hugger. When we carry him, his hands will go "handsfree" unlike most babies or children, they will hang on to their dear lives whenever the daddy or the mummy carries. So when he wants to sleep, not daddy or mummy can put him to sleep while carrying him.

But I must say, Andrew is relatively good sleeper at night. He sleeps through the night since as long as I can remember. This is attributed to co-sleeping perhaps. Because he can't when we put him to sleep in the crib. I guess he just wants to feel close to mummy and daddy (perhaps mummy more though).

Toes obsession

Last Sunday we were planning to go to Singapore and watch the light show at Marina Bay Sands. But we gave up the notion the moment we arrived, or rather no arriving, the Malaysia Custom building. The queue was extremely long. And I thought it was jam at all since the camera at the causeway seems to be empty!! So no idea why it's so jam!

And the terrible traffic is not helping THE situation - mummy forgot to bring the most important thing, THE BUDDY aka the pacifier!! No idea why I didn't pack it with me. How is it possible that I forgot the most important item! We tried our best not to make it an obsession for little Andrew but he is tired and couldn't sleep because of the standstill traffic (he can fall asleep without his buddy if the car is constantly moving)

The little pillow was already all wet from
sucking, and little Andrew grew tired of having to chew on his dinosaur or anything for that matter, he just want his buddy to help him sleep. Since there is nothing else, he decided to CHEW his toes! He wasn't into pulling up his legs, and never had he tried to chew on his toes!

But today, out of boredom, he found his toes and decided to chew them. He started with just left toes, and then moved onto the right toes the very next day.

So now, he does it from time to time when he is in his stroller. And his daddy find it disgusting so to prevent him from chewing his toes, daddy gave him the pacifier. Little Andrew is one smart fella, he would spit out his pacifier and quickly tug in the toes!

I hope this is just a phase... and this definitely proves that babies are made of rubber!

Baby schedule

Little Andrew's sleeping schedule is slowly working out to be quite routine. But could do a bit more work on his milk/meal time though. The following is the most ideal timing for little Andrew.

8am: Wakes up, do some rolling and crawling on the bed, bubble bath then milk at 9ish
10am: nap for 30-60 minutes
12pm: a bit of snack or fruit purée
1pm: milk (but I prefer it to be closer to 2pm)
2pm: nap for 2 hours (or he will be cranky very early)
5pm : dinner time (sometimes at 6pm)
8pm: bubble bath and last milk for the day
8.30pm : some rolling in the bed and is usually asleep pretty quickly.

Sick baby

My poor little Andrew caught a viral infection from his daddy. He woke up with a mild cough suddenly because he was a-ok yesterday!

The worrisome daddy said to bring him to see doctor but it's a public holiday and our normal GP is closed and will probably be closed for the next few days! So we had to go to the A&E in a nearby hospital.

Our little charmer did his best to charm the MO, the nurses, the administrator and even the pharmacist who dispensed the medicines! He was prescribed with a fever meds (just in case), a flu meds and a cough meds- with one of them being the same meds prescribed to him by his usual pediatrician back in JB. And we were warned that the meds could cause drowsiness. Oh jolly good!

Not~ because the drowsiness didn't even work on this active baby! He is still his usual active self and sleep normal. I had an appointment with my hairdresser and I call him miracle hands! My sis was babysitting him.

When I came home, aside from the leaky nose, he is normal. So after a while, I put him to sleep and he slept for 2.5 hours! Hahaha!

Little Andrew likes holding onto mummy when he sleeps and he definitely sleeps better that way. And I'm enjoying it even if it means I will wake up with a weakly elbow and numbness in my hands! He will soon outgrow sleeping with mummy and will soon hold onto his girlfriends rather than mummy's. So yes I'm enjoying every bonding moment withy little Andrew. I love him to bits!!!!

Get well soon my baby!

9 months already

At each milestone, I will repeat this, "Babies grow too fast!" Yes indeed they grow up too fast. It felt like yesterday, ok last month sounds less dramatic, that little Andrew was born. I just cannot believe that he is already 9 months old already! Very soon my baby will upgrade to toddler soon. Sniff.

He can tripod very well on any surface now. The only problem is he always think daddy or mummy will always "catch me when I fall!" He will just go backflip on us not realising we are
not there to hold him. It's ok when he does that on our bed, but it's dangerous when he does it on his crib or on the floor!

He sits pretty firmly on all highchairs but hates sitting in them for too long. I really got to do something about this!

Little Andrew crawls but at times he needs to be motivated to climb- phones, iPad, REMOTE CONTROL etc. I hate the idea he crawls for the remote control. Do you know how much germs are there!!! And I also hate the fact that he thinks he can have the remote control and only to be taken away from him - which makes him angry.

He is definitely trying to walk! Thank goodness I didn't buy him a walker. Otherwise he would run into everyone's toe all the time.

He LOVES food. Or wants to try to eat. He wants what we are drinking or eating. He eats his food but sometimes depending on his mood he couldn't finish it.

Little Andrew is a people charmer I must say- but then again it depends in his mood! Why are babies so moody!! He likes people-watching but it's not all the time he will let you carry him.

I know I'm bias but my little Andrew is really the cutest baby in the world! So please don't grow up too fast!!

no4 already?

By 8.5months, little Andrew is sprouting his 4th teeth already. I can feel it breaking out of the gum already yesterday.

Little Andrew gets cranky sometimes so I wonder if those were the time that his teeth were the cause. So far no fever or diarrhea as some night experience.

At night he sometimes would let out a loud cry, I wonder if he was just dreaming or could it be the teething. I can't be blaming everything to the teething right?

Anyway, little Andrew is back to sleeping in our bed. He still can't sleep in his crib for long. We have tried letting him sleep in our bed and then moving him to his in the middle of the night, it worked at times and at others he would wake before dawn. He definitely sleeps better when we co-sleep. He can sleep through mostly, only these couple of nights, leakage caused us to change him in the middle of the night. But after the change, he would go back to sleep without any problem.

When he was younger, if we woke him to change, milk is the only way to put him back to sleep. And even after milk, heavy patting is required. But now, it seems he can go back to sleep without much patting.

With the 4 teeth and non-stop chewing and gnawing and biting, I wonder when is it gonna end!

Crawling? Not much

Little Andrew is 8+months now but his crawling skill is still very commando style. He doesn't lift himself up - hands or legs. He just crawls with his tummy and flaps his legs. And the head dive still happens, though he is getting better.

He loves to "walk" and I'm not doing the hold n walk thing. But I do let him try to stand holding onto the sofa edge or the bed. Everyone says he is gonna walk soon. And in my heart I thought, he can't even pull himself up- from his back to seated position. How is it possible he can walk soon?!?

Some mothers amaze me

I've recently joined one of the mothers group in Facebook and it amazes me how some mother really rely on what others say rather than going by their own instinct and sometimes sad to say common sense.

If your little one has diarrhea for 7 times already, do you still post online to ask what other moms what you should do? By the time the 2nd "wave" I will probably raise a red flag and be prepared to bring my little one to the clinic/hospital! And by the 3rd one, I will panic and rush out of the house already!

Don't get me wrong, I think all these groups out there is good for connecting all mummies. But sometimes as you get too hooked up and ask every common sense question, then you are "addicted" and not let your mummy instinct tell you what to do!

Infertility taboo

Before I have Andrew, I hated it when people around me kept asking about when is junior coming. Before knowing my infertility problem, I dreaded being asked. After knowing, it just hated it and sometimes despise the person for being insensitive.

Do you ask because you really care or just for the sake of asking? If you know a couple who are married for more than 10 years and still no sign of kid, have you ever consider that the couple is keen in telling you that they are having infertility problem or they never plan to have kids. Because either way, you will have more questions like, "Why?" or "How come?" or even telling you what you should have done.

If you have no infertility problem, you might not feel embarrassed or stressed. But to people who are quietly suffering, we always hated it. I have made it a point for a very long time not to ask- even to my closest friends or my family.

Nappy rash

On Monday we were out for shopping and I kind of went crazy overboard with shopping for baby's clothings :)

After I went crazy and it was time for early dinner. Little Andrew was seated in the baby chair and I let him have apple juice and a cookie. Then he was satisfied for a while but soon after he was becoming restless. And I found that his romper was kinda wet.

I quickly brought him to change his diaper and romper only to found out he pooped in his diaper >.< It must have been in there for quite a while. I changed his diaper before we left home so it's at least 3 hours already!!!! Little Andrew would never poo without making noise so I was caught by surprised. Anyway, after this incident, little Andrew got nappy rash!!!

It's been good 7+ months and sigh... I never bring any diaper rash cream out so I had to rush to Mothercare and bought the Bud's Nappy Rash Rescue Cream. I used it for 2 days and not much of improvement.

So I started to use the Earth Mama Angel Baby Bottom Balm. On the second day, it seems to have improve. I hope it will continue to get better.

After this episode, I have become more vigilant about checking on baby's diaper. Today little Andrew managed to poo in the potty again.

I realised that if it is time to go, he will sit there willingly and do his business. But if there isn't anything to poo, he will make so much noise and won't sit still even for a minute! As soon as it is the right timing, he will straighten his legs and go "mmmmmmnnnggg" and push! :)

Enjoying solids

Since starting little Andrew on solids, he had tried a couple of ingredients. In early stage, we gave him rice cereals by Organix. He loves it very much! Maybe because it will after all contains his milk. We tried both the banana and apple flavour and he seems to enjoy the banana more.

For fruits, I always purée apple for him- his first taste, his first love. Other than that, he had pear, mango and blueberry.

I have also began cooking for little Andrew as soon as he turned 6 months old. I have been making him porridge based food- Carrot porridge, zucchini (& peas) porridge. And starting yesterday I gave him potato. It was meant to be mashed potato but I guess using a blender, gives you a very fine texture. And since I had 60ml of his milk, it looks more like potato soup! Which he still loves! :)

After the 4 days, I will probably diced the potato into his porridge. And slowly add other ingredients.

Time to potty train

A day after Little Andrew's 7 months old, he successfully poo in the potty!

Not long after his morning milk, as I was done washing up his bottle, I heard the familiar "mmmmggg" and quickly carried him out of his crib! As fast as I can, I unbuttoned his romper and got rid of the diaper and ran into the toilet! Not long after I sat Andrew, he went on to "mmmmggg" and the facial expression, non-kicking legs, motionless body, YES!!!! The poo is coming out! All done in less than 10 minutes from the first sign of "mmmmmmmggg."

Since Andrew came home from hospital, he hardly poo in diaper. First of all, Little Andrew refused to poo in his diaper. No idea why but he would only poo when I opened up his diaper. Secondly, his cues were quite obvious. Since coming back from hospital, he will go "mmmmmmggg" when he wanted to poo. I have no idea where he learned that! Thirdly, this mama hates cleaning up the mess he made in the diaper, especially those explosive ones that he had due to his teething >.<

Well, there were times I missed his cues because I was too late - scrambling to find the baby room in the shopping center or we were driving in the middle of no where or I was totally "out of range."

I'm proud that my record has been good so far and the credit should go to Little Andrew :)

2 front teeth

What a Father's Day present from little Andrew to daddy. The second tooth or rather line had been there for days and as I begin to wonder if it was just all my imagination... the second pearly white finally shows up today when I checked it before bed time.

And today I ordered these Amber Teething Necklace and hoping that it will help ease the baby's crankiness and drooling. Will have to wait and see if it works. I also bought one bracelet/anklet, maybe I can try putting it on baby while he sleeps at night. Who knows it might help him sleep through the night better.

Little Andrew currently (for a few days now) wakes up around midnight and around 3am-4am. The midnight waking is easy to settle with just a few pats. But if he wakes later, say closer to 4am, it takes longer. 2 nights ago, it tool me 1.5 hours to pat and sooth him back to sleep! I didn't give him milk, so not wanting him to get used to the idea of waking up and get milk!! I let him have a sip of water though.

He used to sleep through when he co-sleeps on our bed but I don't want him to get used to it and will never leave our bed. So one might I decided to go cold turkey with him and let him fall asleep in his crib. So far so good! Even if doing so means retraining him to sleep through the night, at least I get my much needed space in my bed to sleep!!! :)

Is it safe?

Little Andrew never tried to "escape" his crib until recently. He can't crawl just yet, but he would roll and stretch and wriggle his way around- be it his crib or our king-size bed.

I used to leave him in his crib when I wanted to do a quick dash to the toilet or do some cleaning up. But lately he has been grabbing the crib or sticking his limbs out. It's kinda scary. He should not get stuck because the gap is quite far apart. But he might lodged himself in the most unexpected position right?

I reminded hubby we need to get the next room ready for little Andrew. With furnitures and decos more of his age appropriate! So it's a safer environment where he can move around safely and freely!

Great holiday!

The three of us were off to KK for a week of holiday and it was a great one! I enjoyed seeing how my parents bonded with little Andrew and how he never cease to entertain his grandparents. I am glad that I decided to go for family getaway to the mountains and to the beach!

I wasn't looking for activities or sight-seeing during the trip, I wanted my parents to enjoy little Andrew all by themselves, away from others. So I chose to getaway. I am sure if we stayed in KK, there will be too many people visiting us and taking that precious time away from my parents.

I wanted little Andrew to remember his grandparents - my parents, and I wanted my parents to be able to play and bond with little Andrew. And I am glad I achieved what I set out to do for this holiday. I am glad my parents enjoyed the time together and I am pretty sure little Andrew had a great time - from all the swimming and pampering and playing!

The first pearlie ^^

When I was getting little Andrew ready for his evening bath, I checked his gum again (I've been doing this all week!) to see if there is any sign on that first pearly white coming out, I FINALLY see it coming out!

I actually thought I saw something last Saturday already, but I wasn't sure. And today I finally saw it! It looked like a little cut on the gum and you can just see the little white tip sprouting out. I believe this is the left one (bottom front centre).

You have no idea how long I have been waiting for this! Hahaha! I read that the baby could get fever and diarrhea, so far nothing yet and I'm hoping it will stay that way as we are going to take a flight tomorrow.

I hope I have packed everything for the baby. I'm not too worried for us adult as we can make do with what we don't have but not the baby! And in the end, the baby's luggage is heavier and more than daddy and mummy's combined. I am pretty sure I overpacked for the baby but better be safe than sorry right?

Besides having to worried about he luggage, I'm also worried about the diaper bag that we will be carrying with us on he plane.

What's in the diaper bag:
- 6 diapers
- 2 change of clothes (one long sleeve, one short sleeve rompers)
- 3 handkerchief
- 1 muslin
- Baby wipes
- Tissue paper
- 3 empty milk bottle
- 3 servings of milk powder
- 1 drinking mug (planning to fill it with apple juice)
- Hot water thermos (not quite sure of I can fill it up yet, TBC)
- lotsa toys for entertainment for the 3 hours flight
- 2 pacifiers

I might have overdo on the diapers, well, you'll never know right?

Success!

Today I served the other half portion of the carrot porridge, and this time it was a success! Little Andrew finished the bowl of porridge in no time. So I guess it really wasn't the taste that he didn't like yesterday, it must have been he was cranky/moody. 

I read many websites to give baby formula first then the solids, I never really do so. I tried to time baby's feeding schedule, I always try to feed him at least 30 minutes before his meal. This way he is not too cranky (oh believe me the baby can be very cranky when he is hungry!) to finish the solids I gave him. And I didn't want to add milk into the porridge I made, so he will get the real taste of food and not relying too much on having the milk taste in every food that he takes. 

So for now, his "meal" time has been"

- 180ml milk if he wakes up around 7am (if not will skip this) so he will go back to sleep

- 180ml milk after his favourite bubble bath around 9am-10am

- fruit puree 30mins before his lunch time milk

- 180ml milk for lunch around 12noon- 1pm

- 180ml milk for tea time around 3pm - 4pm

- porridge/baby rice around 6pm - 7pm

- 180ml milk before he goes to bed

It's 4-5 times milk, one fruit portion and then one solids meal for a day.

Carrot Porridge

Technically, this is not the first time using the Beaba Babycook, I made Apple Purée for Little Andrew before this.

Yesterday was the first time I used the Babycook with rice cooker. I wasn't sure how much rice or carrot to use so it's all experimental for me and Little Andrew.

I diced up a carrot and put half back to the freezer. I use the Babycook to steam the carrot (Setting no3). And after which I leave it aside to cool. Then I prepared 1/4 cup of rice with 150ml water and steam it in the Babycook rice cooker (Setting no3) and steam it twice making sure the rice is properly cooked.

After which I blended both he carrot an the rice. I added in water from the residue of the carrot and rice since it was already boiled and probably containing the nutrients from the carrot and the rice. I didn't blend it too fine leaving some texture to it.

After blending it, I leave half for afterwards and other half I freeze it for tomorrow.

During feeding, Little Andrew lost interest half way eating. My guess was he just woke up from nap and was way pass his feeding time, he was a bit cranky. I wasn't sure was it because of the taste or rather lack of taste since I didn't add any milk to it.

Anyway, I have another half in the freezer and I will try it again. In fact, little Andrew got to try it for another couple of days!

It's always touch and go...

There are days that little Andrew would sleep through the night and there days he will wake up a couple of times. Sometimes he needs milk, sometimes he just want extra attention.

On good nights that he sleeps through, once his buddy (i.e. pacifier/soother) fell off he will not need it back. On some nights, he will need his buddy to sooth himself back to sleep and will not require any patting or milk. Some nights will require extra patting. Worse case scenario is when he refused to go back to sleep after giving him his buddy and lotsa patting, and he will starts crying for milk.

Obviously my favourite nights are the nights he would sleep like an angel until the next morning.

I'm trying a new routine. Because I realised lately if he has his last meal (baby porridge) even as late as 8pm, he will wake up in the middle of the night. Sometimes he needs milk to go back to sleep. So today I'm letting him have his porridge as his second last meal of the day, then give him his bubble bath and play a bit before giving him his last bottle of the day.

I'm trying to see if he will sleep through his way. Because I wonder if he wakes is really due to hunger or is it something else, like teething that could wake a baby or keep the baby up all night.

Separate room

Since the day Andrew returned from the hospital, he has never sleep separate from daddy and mummy. I am not sure if I want that day to come.

Well, I'm worried! What if I can't hear him cry? What if he fell off the bed? What if he wiggles and got trapped in between the bars of his crib? So many what ifs.

Or maybe I have detachment issue! I just want to e close to my baby. Sooner or later, eventually one day, he will not want to sleep with me anymore, right?

I know it's for the best of the parents to sleep separate from their babies/children. But what if it's not the best for the babies/children?

Bubble bath!

Little Andrew absolutely loves his bath time! It's easily his favourite time of the day when he soaks in the warm water filled with bubble.

Since he was born, he loved his bath time. He will never resist bath time. You can bath him any way and he will never complain. Little Andrew just LOVES bath so much.

Because I had c-section, his daddy bathed him daily for the whole of first month. And daddy did a great job!

Since Little Andrew loves water so much, we brought him to Singapore for tub swimming experience.

When is the first tooth gonna come?

Little Andrew drools so much and it makes me wonder where on earth the drool comes from?! The amount of saliva is just crazy! It's never ending wiping it off this fingers and his mouth, and it's so much that it even drips down to his neck and rompers!

I wonder if his first tooth is coming out soon. Besides the drool, he BITES everything- from his fingers to anything that he can get his hands onto.

There is no fever so far. I read that ear pulling and cheek rubbing are also signs of teething - he tugs his ears when he is falling asleep and will rub his face on us whenever we carry him.

I am so excited and can't wait for the first white cap to appear.

Sitting up

Little Andrew can now sit up with support. And he is loving it!! He is now applying his roll over and sitting up skill when he's in his stroller! That's not good! And he likes to roll to his side whenever he had his diaper change.

He likes sitting up in the car. He likes sitting in the edge of dining tables (my bad for letting him). I also let him sit (supported) on my bed and watch some TV while I do some works nearby (of course watchfully all the time and cushioned with pillows).

I can't wait for him to sit on his own, especially during meal time in his high chair!!

Afternoon Nap

Little Andrew has no problem sleeping through the night BUT he has problem napping these days.

He used to nap after his morning bath for about an hour or more but he doesn't do that anymore. In fact, his nap time is all over the place and it's mostly not more than half an hour. What can I do in that short time? Wash his bottle. If I'm lucky, I can run downstairs and throw the laundry into the washing machine. There is not much time and only the essentials can be done.

Taking care of the baby in the day is no joke especially if he is not keen in self-entertaining for too long.

Little Andrew allows very short time of self-entertaining. So again, I can only do the essential stuff.

Oh and napping means I've got to stay near him when he naps. And he needs heavy patting, sometimes he wants to be carried. And of course this will require his beloved buddy - the pacifier. If I leave his side, he will wake up. If his buddy dropped, he will wake up. If I stop the patting, he will wake up.

Such is the drawback of having to sleep through the night.

Sleeping through the night

I'm glad that little Andrew is back to sleeping through the night. He now sleeps by 9pm-ish and wakes up for a feed between 5am-7am and will head back to bed for another 2-3 hours before I give him a morning bath.

I'm so happy that little Andrew is able to sleep through the night already. I've heard from friends that their babies don't sleep through the night until they are 10 months old or even 1 year old!!

Did I really train him to sleep through the night? Nope not really. I didn't let the sun shines into the room during the day, nor did I purposely put up noises for the day to teach him the difference between day and night. I think the baby's job is to grow an not stress about day time or night time.

The only thing I did was letting baby wear short rompers during the day and long sleepsuits during the night. Other than that, the curtains were drawn 24 hours and even I sleep all the time! I need to sleep during my confinement so I didn't care if it was day or night, I sleep as much as I can. And I let the baby be and sleep whenever he wants.

Once his stomach and body clock is ready, he will miss one feed at night by the time little Andrew is 1.5 months. And by the time he is 2 moths old, he sleeps through the night occasionally. By the third months, he is already sleeping through the night!

Lucky me? Or maybe because baby is formula fed kept him full for longer time and he is more regulated by it. I admire all mommies out there who breastfeed and had to wake up every 2 hours to breastfeed for the longest period.

First purée

On 25 March, little Andrew had his first taste of apple purée! And he seems to be loving it!

I made the purée with my new toy- Beaba Babycook! It can be used to defrost, reheat, boil/steam and blend baby portion :) It's really easy to use.

I first boiled the diced apple then blended it to fine purée. It was watery and not too chunky since this is baby's first time. The purée was still hot so I had to let it cool a bit. But I didn't want it to be too cool so at least it is just like his milk (temperature).

I decided to give him the purée 30 minutes before his next milk. So he won't be too hungry and ended up not trying it at all.

So by 7.30pm, he was ready and so is everyone! I sat him in my lap for the feed and in went the first mouth - NO REJECTION!!! Woohoo!!! Success!

Unfortunately I have no idea how much did I feed him! :D I didn't really read the units on the side of the container I fed little Andrew with. I think I should start noting down how much I gave him.

At first he was just licking the spoon but after a few spoon, he was so gullible. He couldn't wait and moved his head forward before my spoon reached his mouth! Hahaha! Oh yes! He is definitely loving it!

It was messy (in his face and clothes) because we didn't have a bib. I totally forgotten about getting the bib. (We bought one the next day!)

I would say baby's first "meal" was a success!!!

Roll baby roll!

Baby is 4mo last week and he finally rolled over from front to back for the first time. I thought the day will never come because first of all he hates tummy time (besides ON me) and he is hardly on tummy to "practice" the rollover.

2 days ago, as I saw he was on good mood, I put him on his tummy on our bed. He wasn't complaining which is good sign. So I sat next to him and continued talking to him. He was facing his right but I was seated on the left. And I guess he must have been trying to look for me so he instead of just turning his head, he rolled over!!

It was over in 2 seconds!!! And luckily the ever-shooting-baby's-photo-mummy got the phone in hand and in time to document baby's first rollover!! HAHAHA!

And today little Andrew surprises mummy once again! I was putting him to bed and was patting him. He just turned his head upwards and towards me and I can see that his body is trying to rollover. So I got out of the way, and he just rolled over from back to front. This time it wasn't caught on camera because he was getting ready to sleep and the lights are dimmed and my phone wasn't with me.

Again I tried for "seconds" but I guess it was times up and baby wanted to sleep already. But not 2 minutes later - no, he didn't rollover, instead I knew he need to poo! Well true enough, after a bit of "encouragement" (a bit of mmmm-mmmm), baby pooed out a foot-long sausage! Since his birth, I think he had not poo in the diaper for more than 10 times. He didn't like it and I didn't. And so happen that mummy can pick up his signal most of the time and let him poo "outiside" his diaper.

4 months already?!

It has been 4 months already? Where did time go? It felt like only yesterday that Andrew was born!

Let's see what can he do now:
- Lift his head steadily and turn left/right
- Grip his mug holder, though still need more training in the aiming
- Learning to grab hold of (familiar) stuff
- Kick hard and beginning to curl them
up
- His hands can now reach his toes! (Wonder if he will ever grab them and suck them!!)
- Sit assisted
- (I think) recognises daddy and mummy now
- Wails when he is hungry!!!!!
- Feeds every 3 hours when he is awake, and rarely 4 hours.
- Sleep through most nights now, between 6-8 hours. Then he will drink up his milk and sleep for another 2-4 hours.
- Enjoy watching tv and thank goodness it's only for short time and he is not demanding it!

Loves:
- Bubble bath (First love)
- 如意油 (Chinese oil)
- Sucking his fingers (Maybe fist more like it)
- Birdie
- Giraffe (he has a thing about giraffe!)
- SMILE!!! :)

Hates:
- Heat
- Water (That's what the mug is for!)
- Spraying his nose
- Sleep in the crib

That's all I can think of at the moment :)

Tomorrow little Andrew will be seeing his doctor for his 4-month check up. And I hope doctor is ok with trying him on some solids!!!

Tummy Time

I previously blog about little Andrew sleeping on his tummy (http://antheama.blogspot.com/2011/12/sleeping-on-tummy.html?m=1). Now to follow up on what happen after that...

He never sleeps on his tummy ever again. I'm not sure why but he is just not one that sleeps on his tummy.

Older folks kept telling me that sleeping in the tummy means baby can sleep longer and will sleep through the night faster. But I don't need sleeping on the tummy for little Andrew to sleep longer or through the night sooner. He already is doing great. He started sleeping through when he turned 2 months old. So I think he is alright.

I didn't want to force him to do things that will agitate him. I let him lead the way, he will pace himself and whenever he is ready he is ready. If I ever force him to do things the way I want, he is going to hate it even more. So baby steps and he might just surprise us! Just like how he got to steady his head now. He was wobbly for 2-3 days and the next thing you know, he got the hang of it!

I haven't done much of tummy time on the bed with little Andrew. Up until now he still doesn't like tummy time. Not sure if it will be better if I do it on the floor but I need something on the floor to keep him safe/warm/clean. He can't be doing it ON the floor... so I'm thinking of getting one of those foaming alphabet floor mat for him.

Is it really important to have tummy time? If he doesn't is it really going to hinder his motor skill development? I'm not sure.

I'm really not too keen to force Andrew to do tummy time. Let's see what his doctor says when we see him next week.

What happen to sleeping through the night?

It has been 3 nights that little Andrew waking up between 2am - 3am for milk. What happen to sleeping through the night? I would love to sleep uninterrupted again baby.

Lately even after his milk, he sometimes cried. This makes me wonder if he is really hungry or he is just making a fuss. At times he would just go quiet after giving him his pacifier - which signify he wanna go back to sleep. Sometimes he would need a bit more coaching to calm down. And of course there are times he is satisfied after the milk.

If he is always kicking a fuss after milk, I would think he is ready for solids but he isn't doing it all the time. So makes me wonder if I should give him more milk? But he sometimes spit out quite a bit so that's why I'm hesitant in giving him more milk. As it is, little Andrew is drinking 150ml. I doubt he can drink more than that. Will have to monitor a couple of days more and see how it goes.

Little Andrew will be four months next week. I will check with the doctor to see if I can try some solid food with him :)

Breastfeeding

I was just reading an article about this mama who didn't breastfeed because firstly she didn't like the feeling and secondly her supply ran dry sooner than she thought.

Well I can reply to her sentiment. I wanted so much to breastfeed little Andrew and God has other plans for me and it didn't happen at all (if I may say).

When I was still in the hospital, the nurse tried to show me how to breastfeed. But when little Andrew was (and still is) hungry, he couldn't wait at all! When I tried to breastfeed him, due to my low supply (trust it was hopelessly low), he just couldn't wait and has not patient in trying to latch on. He would wail and shout and cry when hunger struck (and yes he still is).

On the day I was discharged, little Andrew was already hungry as soon as we got home. And so I tried to breastfeed in my room. Along came my mother-in-law. She came into the room without knocking (or she did and I couldn't hear because of little Andrew cries) while I was trying to let Andrew latched on! OMG!!!! It was such traumatic moment for me! I don't know why I was ok in the hospital when the nurse (a complete stranger) stood there and even helped me to press my breast. But for my mother-in-law to see my exposed boobs was really unexpected and very traumatising for me. I wasn't sure if that traumatising event caused me my breastfeeding function. Is it possible?

Anyway back to trying breastfeeding. I also pumped with the electric breast pump in hope of increasing the flow. Failed.

I tried having those milk tea which claims to help increase your breast milk supply. Well, I must say it kinda helped. You see... before having to try the tea, my supply was 2 drops (sadly it's that little) each time I expressed and none at all when I pump. But after having the tea for a couple of days, my supply increased to... wait for it... 20 drops. Sigh...

I tried to pump or express every time after I bottle feed little Andrew. But the more I tried, the lesser the supply. So I tried once a day and that was when my daily quota of 20 drops fill up more of the tiny container. I still feed the baby with the 20 drops!!!! Better than nothing right?

After a while, the supply was slowly diminishing. Until it was back to 2 drops each time.

To those who can breastfeed their babies, some will never understand why some mummies (like me) just couldn't breastfeed. To some, it came easy. Some tried harder and got the flow working. But there is still some (like me) who just tried every possible way and just couldn't get it to work.

So for all you naysayers out there, be more considerate and don't assume people like us (me) do not breastfeed because we didn't try hard enough.

When the baby fell sick

Last night I didn't sleep well. I woke up almost every hour to check if little Andrew is ok, if he is still breathing. I'm worried that with his blocked nose, he won't cough or cry or wake up. When I hear him cough, I felt better. If not I would get out of the bed and placed my hand over his chest, checking on his breathing.

Little Andrew did very well last night. Well, maybe some credit to the cough syrup. He slept by 9.30pm (last milk was 8.30pm) and woke up at 5.30am for milk. He slept for solid 8 hours. He still slept through even when he cough, which is good. I want him to sleep as much as he can because he is gonna all the rest he can so he can recover faster.

My poor little Andrew.

He is still in very good mood throughout the day even when he is sick. I guess babies don't know what sick is. I pray for his speedy recovery and I pray that he will stay healthy.

Sick again?

Poor little fella is sick again. His cough at 6am woke me up. He wasn't just coughing once and stopped but was easily continuously for a few minutes (and it felt like forever).

He wasn't complaining about the cough as he was still sleeping when I peeped into his crib. I woke him up to comfort his cough. And I gave him some cough syrup which he hated it. It's then time for milk. He went back to sleep after milk.

Little boy must have been so drowsy and sleepy that he slept till 10am, which is quite rare. He normally wakes up by 9am for next feed and his favourite bath time.

Now that he can sit up supported, we decided to sit him up in his baby tub to bath him. Little Andrew LOVES bath time and best if it's bubble bath!!! He used to stay quite still in the tub but now he is beginning to kick and wave so much! He is totally enjoying it!

After his bath, we called the clinic to schedule an appointment for noon.

Little Andrew is such trooper. No crying during measurements and examination. In fact he enjoyed the examination table at the doctor's clinic. You see, Dr K has this bouncy animals hanging over the table. And little Andrew totally digs animal now so he is loving it!!

Dr K prescribed the same cough syrup we still have at home as well as seawater solution for his nose. Oh and plus the nose drops.

I like the way Dr K described the function of the seawater and nose drops. He mentioned that the nose is like a drain and now it's blocked. So you use the seawater to flush it. And the nose drop is to dry up the wet drain after it's flush so that the drain will flow smoothly.

I hope little Andrew will get well soon. I felt so miserable when I heard his cough this morning.

Hair gone, all gone

Today is the day little Andrew had his hair shaved. Maybe I'm biased with my little Andrew, he still looks cute without hair. In fact, even cuter than before.

Traditionally, Chinese shaved their babies hair by the end of 30 days. I heard that it is to get rid of the "dirty hair" that the baby is born with. And thinks that after shaving, the hair will look thicker and nicer.

I never really wanted to shave little Andrew's hair- never for esthetic reason. But lately he is losing his hair so much. I see them all over his pillow, on my clothes, sticking to my arm after I carried him, onto his towel... just everywhere his head run against or rest on! And it is getting patchy with bald spot here and there.

And the other day while shopping, we saw this shop that helps you to make souvenir out of your baby's hair! Now that is interesting!

So we decided to shave little Andrew's hair for memory reason. I really think he looks cuter now. My dad calls him the Shaolin Master 少林大师 :)

Back to his bed

We have successfully return back to sleeping in his own crib! Yes!! What a huge success.

One night about a week ago, I decided little Andrew is taking up too much space in our bed. Before he fell into deep asleep, I tried putting him on his crib. To my surprise, he didn't resist much. He gave out a few grunt and fell back asleep! I thought to myself, "SUCCESS!!!"

I am glad I let him sleep with us because he needed lots of TLC and "immediate" reaction to every cry when he was sick. I think it helps him to feel secure and less fussy. In fact he had trouble falling asleep at that time so we let him sleep with us in our bed. And that allowed him to sleep longer hence speedier recovery!

I knew eventually we had to let him go back to his crib. And I am glad he didn't make a big fuss when the time came :)

Sleeping with the baby

Ever since Andrew fell sick, coughing, he never really return to his bed. He is now permanently sleeping with us. I certainly hope he will eventually sleep in his crib - but I really doubt that is gonna happen anytime soon.

When we put him to his crib, even though we were so sure he is in deep sleep, he would instantly wake up the moment we put him down! It's as if there is a special perimeter sensor embedded somewhere alarming him whenever we move him from our bed to his crib.

And I think we both hate to see little Andrew cries. So we just let him be. Hi daddy will always say put him to his crib, let him be and cry it out. Well you see, the thing is I can't bear to see him cry. So is his softy daddy. This is also why he always end up sleeping in our bed. (And yes he is now sleeping in our bed) Attachment issue? Maybe.

I know co-sleeping in dangerous and needs to be extra careful. He refused to be "walled up" against us. He wants to touch us, even with the tip of his finger, when he sleeps. I guess he just want the assurance that we are there for him.

I am not sure if he will ever go back to his crib but slowly I will attempt. A friend of mine has an older toddler, he will not sleep in his own room but definitely not allowed on her bed. So he now sleeps with his parents, on the floor in a separate mattress.

The thing is Andrew might just hate to crib because it's more confine or even perhaps claustrophobic. I guess we have to continue trying putting him in his crib or get him a separate mattress. I have many friends who still co-sleep with their children, even if they are 10! I'm not sure if we will want that.

Well, I guess we just have to figure this out as our baby grow. He might want his crib tomorrow right? Hopeful.

Projectile poo

Little Andrew had a good day today!

I bath him and he must be missing the bubble bath he had in KL! I could almost see it in his eyes the disappointment.

As usual I poured the pitcher all over his body in the end if there was any leftover. Only this time he was busy kicking and waving, and his left hand hit me and I accidentally poured the water all over his face! And he gulped down a good mouthful. Sorry baby!

I knew he was gonna have tummy ache or some sort of diarrhea eventually.

In the afternoon, he was having his milk and suddenly he went "mmmnngggg" Oh so it's poo time. So as usual I put him in the changing mat and opened his diaper to let him poo.

Unexpectedly... he released gas with some very watery poo and it hit me!!! Man, I'm covered in poo!!!! (Well, maybe I over reacted but his poo did hit me!

Maybe it was payback from him! Hhhhmmmmm...

All is good

I'm glad that the fever is finally gone and hopefully stays that way. Since the coughing and now the fever Little Andrew has been sleeping in our bed. We decided to give in and let him sleep with us because when he is sick, I'm sure he needs extra TLC for recovery. Little Andrew is suppose to sleep in between us, but every morning he would end up nearer to me - taking up my space. Once this morning, I woke up to use the bathroom, he managed to wiggle himself to 50% of my already small space!

I managed to put him into his crib again at the morning feed, usually 6am. Now am giving it a go to see if he can stay in his bed for the rest of the night! Fingers crossed!

There is no sleep

When a child is sick, is it always the mother that has the sleepless nights and days?

To be fair, the hubs got to go work so obviously the mom had to take the graveyard shift AND the daylight shift. Oh and that means 24 hours!!

Little Andrew had fever since yesterday morning. And after visiting the doctor, it is confirmed that Little Andrew has bacterial infection and had to go in antibiotic because his fever wouldn't go away after 2 dose of paracetamol.

Now after 1 more paracetamol and 2 ibuprofen, the fever seems to be under control. Little one was not interested with milk and was sleeping mostly before that. But now after his 3am meds, seems to be normal again because he cries loudly (his usual self) for milk ;) I am glad that he is asking for milk, otherwise I would have been worried.

Silent Acknowledgment

As I pushed Andrew's stroller through the crowded shopping mall, I see other mothers, I realised we silently exchanged a little smile as if acknowledging each other's effort. I admit that kinda give you a pat in the shoulder for doing a good job.

To all mothers out there- there is no right or wrong upbringing of your child, there is only your technique because you know your child best.

What's with the poo?

Little Andrew has been on formula since his first feed. It's unfortunate that I don't have any - well there is but it's way too insignificant, like 0.2ml each time I expressed.

Formula fed means less poo because it will take time for the little tummy to process and make poo. Little Andrew used to do it once a day but we find that they were way too "hard" so we thought we should change his formula.

He started with Anmum Infacare. Besides having hard poo, baby is also feeling kinda "heaty" with lots of prickly heat on the face.

Then we changed to Mead Johnson's Enfagrow. Little Andrew either didn't like it or his tummy wouldn't agree with it. He spit out way too much after each feed. The texture is smoother compare to Anmum's and it's less milky smell.

Since he spit out too much, we decided to try Abbott's Similac. I find this way too chemical- not only the formula but baby's poo smell chemical. We didn't like it at all.

So in the end we decided not to try other brands, we went back to Anmum's. Since we find it "heaty" we will just have to give Little Andrew more water between his feed.

Oh and his poo turned to GREEN colour ever since he had Similac >.< We were quite shocked the first time because he had been passing out yellow poo and all of a sudden it turned green!!! You should see the horror and the worry on my face when I changed his diaper or rather when I see the green poo coming out!!

After asking around it seems normal. We waited until Little Andrew's doctor review to ask Dr K. Dr K assured us that it is normal - because we showed him pictures. He said green poo means high fat content in the formula that he is drinking. Phew! Now we can finally breath a sign of relief!

The green poo reminds me of his early poo that was BLACK and scary~~~

The pacifier (Update1)

Little Andrew has been having the pacifier for a while now. I'm not sure if it's because it's too small (but I think they are all the same size for 0-3 months), it keeps falling off him! And we have become the slave holder at times.

I must say the pacifier sometimes does help soothes the baby.

The other reason why we let little Andrew has his pacifier - The pacifier is easier to get rid off than his thumbs!!! Some people will tell you not to give because you will have problem getting rid of if. To me, you can still get rid of it one day but you can't stop him from sucking his thumb!

First passport stamp

We decided to cross the causeway and stayed a night. It wasn't easy packing for the baby! We got Andrew his first luggage- a Tumi duffle bag. It's big enough to hold all his stuff: clothing (4 sets), diapers (20 pieces), milk bottle (all 6 of them) and formula and toiletries- all these for an overnight stay.

The trip was to shop for baby's stuff and of course to meet up with a big brother (my bestie's 2 years old son). We ended up buying a portable bath tub (we needed it of we plan to travel more to Singapore, as well as trips back to Sabah) and some clothing items (in fact, a lot coz everything is so cute and I just couldn't resist). I also managed to squeeze sometime out and bought a watch :)

Little Andrew was alert most of the time during the shopping around. I'm not sure because he looked around a lot or he couldn't sleep well in the stroller from all the humps and bumps! He probably did enjoy it too :) At night at the hotel, he slept with us instead of in the cot provided by the hotel because i find it was way too hard for his soft body. I don't want my poor baby to waking up he while night from discomfort! He ended up not sleeping through but his normal 3 hours cycle.

Routine

I'm trying to get little Andrew settle into his daily routine so that he will be happier and me will have more time to do my stuff.

It's roughly like this:
Midnight: Last feed
5am: Breakfast 1
8am: Breakfast 2
10.30am: Bath time
11am: Tea time & play a bit in the room
2pm: Lunch & play downstairs
5pm: Tea time & nap
8pm: Dinner & wipe down & nap/sleep
11/12am: Last feed

That's standard routine but of course it changes as we go out. but so far the feeding time is every 3+/- hours except for at night where he will sleep longer (5+/- hours)