Sunday 19 June 2011

Cake anyone?

Not sure if any other mommies out there are experiencing this, but for my 2 year old, 'birthdays' = 'cake'. Let me explain further, we were at a friend's son's birthday party a few weeks ago, and between each line of 'happy birthday', you could hear her whisper the word 'cake' which only got louder and louder with impatience, that by the end, the entire party could hear her! And lately, we have been attending many birthdays, and it seems that children around this age are obsessed with cake and it goes beyond just taste. There is what the cake looks like, and the excitement of candle blowing and cutting it and finally of course tasting it. Extra brownie points if it's chocolate! So now whenever I need to reward my daughter, it's followed by 'you'll get cake if you finish this'. Whether I choose to reward her is different but it certainly gets her attention!

Soon after cake, came ice cream and it has the same highly pleasurable affect. The different flavours, the cold texture in the mouth which eventually dissolves and once again if it's chocolate then even better! And this is just the beginning of a lifelong love of sweet things...


Tuesday 7 June 2011

I'm back...

I have been away for several weeks now since having my little boy at the beginning of May and its been a huge adjustment in terms of recovering, nursing, sleep deprivation, and hormonal changes. My daughter has taken well to her brother, with many kisses and cuddles on a daily basis.

As far as 'feeding' is concerned, the biggest eye opener is how different my two children are. When nursing my first one, I experienced it as difficult, painful and my daughter was simply not a big eater so her weight gain was slow and steady. Waking her up to nurse ever 3 hours was a common occurrence in the first six weeks. I found it stressful and I was constantly worrying about her weight. Now take child number 2, from day one fed every two hours to the extent he would wake up from his sleep and feed and go back to sleep. I was so anxious that this baby would be very much like my daughter that from day 1, I kept a log of all his feed times. I am happy to say that after he was weighed on day 10, I no longer keep the log and I am a stress free mama! I am pleased to learn that each child is different and perhaps being the second time round, nursing does get easier? So far so good on that front...