Thursday, January 13, 2011
Thank goodness for MOMS
So today, I was planning on making Shabu for dinner. Did all the shopping and was going to start on making the sauce. But my Mother-n-law wanted to come by and visit the baby, and with her she brought over dinner. God Bless your soul. It's such a time saver, and really helped me out. (I think I'll take a nap after this post) The baby has been up all afternoon, and for some reason would sleep for an hour and wake up. Well actually she's been doing that for the past week after 6pm. I call her Princess Fiona, cuz she's a princess during the day, and after 6pm her Fiona (Shrek) side comes out. Everyone whose been a mom keeps telling me that her sleeping habits will get better, and that I should start training her. I try, but that girl has got herself on another time zone. Cross my fingers that her sleeping habits will change and that my sleep deprivation would soon end. Happy Sleeping Everyone!!
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Baby Has Arrived..
So it's been about almost 2 months since I last posted. And may I say, a lot has happened. Baby has finally arrived after 40 weeks and 1 day (Nov. 23, 2010). It has been quite an amazing & life changing experience.
Where to begin.... Well labor alone was about 20 hours. Went to the hospital at 2:30am and had her at 9:17pm. You know what they say once you had a baby, you've experienced it all. My idea or plan birthed was to be strong and have the baby naturally, but the pain was unbearable. The worst that I have ever experienced. I don't want to scare any woman, but for me it was not one of my best memory. Eventually throughout the day, or should I say at 1:30 pm I had to get an epidural. After that I was in heaven. Serval hours later had the baby. Oh yeah did I mention that throughout all the pain and almost 20 hours in the hospital, I was not allowed any FOOD or Water. Just Ice Chips. The Ice Chips (aka: crushed ICE) is another story.
Now that she has finally arrived, the first month was very exhausting. Well it's still exhausting today, but it's a tad bit easier. She's sleeping longer through the day and night now. She entered the world at 7lbs and 3ounces and 19 inches. People were shocked that she was that big for my size considering I gained no more than 28lbs-30lbs for the pregnancy. It's a good thing most of the weight was for the baby.
Month 1:
So in my culture (Hmong) we have this crazy special diet. After birth, every woman is suppose to go on this diet. (I'm surprised I made it through the whole month) It's called the chicken diet. Not any kind of chicken diet, BOILED broth Chicken with rice - 3 meals a day and with hot boiling water to drink per meal. I can honestly say that I missed REAL food so bad that, hey, I had to cheat ever so often. But it wasn't like a big cheat, it was more a bit of chocolate here and there, or a few fries here and there. Never a full meal to cheat with. And on top of the chicken diet, I was not able to leave the house for 30 days and had to cover myself from head to toe. And was not able to brush my hair. I think this is a bizzare way to recover after birth, but hey, it's been done for centuries with my culture, so I had to follow it, per my mom. After all "mothers know best". All in all, I can honestly say the diet helped shed off alot of the post baby weight.
Month 1 and a few days later:
So people have been asking me during my 30 day diet what my first Real meal was going to be? Funny thing was I had this whole idea of places and food that I wanted to eat first thing after my 30 day, but my first meal was McDonalds (2 cheeseburgers, fries, and coke). I know not very impressive for my first celebration of real food. But reason being for the McDonald was that after my 30 days was over it was 3 days away from Christmas. So on my first day out of the house, and able to consume what I wanted, I had major Christmas shopping to do. So that's why I had to eat McDonalds as my first real meal. Sad huh... Also it's my Hubby's favorite place to eat, go figure huh!
Present time:
The baby is now over 10lbs and over 21inches long. She is amazing. At 2 weeks she was able to hold her own head. Now her head/neck is stronger then ever. She's aware of things and is such a brat now. She's talking and smiling and always wanting attention. And her aunt and uncle makes fun of her cause she fake cries just to get attention. (She's definitely a tiger baby)
Where to begin.... Well labor alone was about 20 hours. Went to the hospital at 2:30am and had her at 9:17pm. You know what they say once you had a baby, you've experienced it all. My idea or plan birthed was to be strong and have the baby naturally, but the pain was unbearable. The worst that I have ever experienced. I don't want to scare any woman, but for me it was not one of my best memory. Eventually throughout the day, or should I say at 1:30 pm I had to get an epidural. After that I was in heaven. Serval hours later had the baby. Oh yeah did I mention that throughout all the pain and almost 20 hours in the hospital, I was not allowed any FOOD or Water. Just Ice Chips. The Ice Chips (aka: crushed ICE) is another story.
Now that she has finally arrived, the first month was very exhausting. Well it's still exhausting today, but it's a tad bit easier. She's sleeping longer through the day and night now. She entered the world at 7lbs and 3ounces and 19 inches. People were shocked that she was that big for my size considering I gained no more than 28lbs-30lbs for the pregnancy. It's a good thing most of the weight was for the baby.
Month 1:
So in my culture (Hmong) we have this crazy special diet. After birth, every woman is suppose to go on this diet. (I'm surprised I made it through the whole month) It's called the chicken diet. Not any kind of chicken diet, BOILED broth Chicken with rice - 3 meals a day and with hot boiling water to drink per meal. I can honestly say that I missed REAL food so bad that, hey, I had to cheat ever so often. But it wasn't like a big cheat, it was more a bit of chocolate here and there, or a few fries here and there. Never a full meal to cheat with. And on top of the chicken diet, I was not able to leave the house for 30 days and had to cover myself from head to toe. And was not able to brush my hair. I think this is a bizzare way to recover after birth, but hey, it's been done for centuries with my culture, so I had to follow it, per my mom. After all "mothers know best". All in all, I can honestly say the diet helped shed off alot of the post baby weight.
Month 1 and a few days later:
So people have been asking me during my 30 day diet what my first Real meal was going to be? Funny thing was I had this whole idea of places and food that I wanted to eat first thing after my 30 day, but my first meal was McDonalds (2 cheeseburgers, fries, and coke). I know not very impressive for my first celebration of real food. But reason being for the McDonald was that after my 30 days was over it was 3 days away from Christmas. So on my first day out of the house, and able to consume what I wanted, I had major Christmas shopping to do. So that's why I had to eat McDonalds as my first real meal. Sad huh... Also it's my Hubby's favorite place to eat, go figure huh!
Present time:
The baby is now over 10lbs and over 21inches long. She is amazing. At 2 weeks she was able to hold her own head. Now her head/neck is stronger then ever. She's aware of things and is such a brat now. She's talking and smiling and always wanting attention. And her aunt and uncle makes fun of her cause she fake cries just to get attention. (She's definitely a tiger baby)
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