Daily Challenges

To be a mother --- there are lots of challenges , especially to be a good mother, to be a responsible mother; and there are lots of things we can do for our kids, it depends on how many or how much we want to do it.

As for me, I am a full time mother for the time being, and somemore I have my mother to help me on taking care of Tze How.
AND because of that, I am pampered as a mother.

Normally my mom will help to bath Tze How, cook for his meal, pat him sleep DURING DAY TIME, play with him etc etc, in other words, I am in fact sort of help out my mom when she is busy with cooking or housework .

When Tze How is growing, he is getting more and more clingy- just like a superglue, especially when he hits over 9th month.

See, when I need to go out and left Tze How for my mom, Tze How will stay very very good boy with my mom, never ask for carry, never cry, never scream, easily get a nap etc etc;
Whenever I am at home, wow ... Tze How will want to be breastfeed other than lunch and dinner, to be carried all the time within 10 min own-play, wake up with tears, express himself with all the funny face expression etc etc.

That's how he bully me .. sigh.

OK, as we are leaving to cheng du, china soon, so I will have to take care of Tze How myself as I am not going with my mother but mother in law, and Tze How is not familiar with my mother in law and he will only want me only for the time being.

There are no problem for me to handle him except the following AND the challenges for me now are:

1. To be able to pat him sleep DURING DAY TIME
- whenever I pat him, he will turn left and right, or roll over and doesn't want to sleep, not even after 3 hours of awake

2. To feed him formula milk with bottle
- he just refused no matter who feed him, using his tongue to block the teat, body keep moving and rolling until the milk splash everywhere on him, scream, cry ...

3. To wean slowly
- breastfeed before night sleep is a MUST now, after the falls, he asks for breastfeed on breaskfast, tea-time, supper and average of 2-3 hours interval during the night time. In a nutshell, he asks for breastfeed all the time except lunch and dinner.

Huh ... sometimes I would think - I rather work, but I know I should be glad that I have chance to grow together with my son.