Confinement-Break

It's been 2 weeks into confinement and already I look forward to our doctor's appointments cos they give me a reason to get out of the house with just DD and little Noey in tow. How sad is that?

Anyway, we've thus made 2 excursions back to TMC over the last 2 weeks, the first for Noey's first review with the Paed on the Wednesday following his birth, and the second the following Wednesday to our O&G doctor to get me checked out. I'm very encouraged that our baby has shown himself to be fairly easy to bring around -- as long as I'm around to pop in a feed when necessary!

Here he is, barely a week old here, sleeping (and looking rather scrunched up) in his car seat...



...and sleeping in Daddy's arms while waiting at the clinic



... and half-asleep through a feed while we wait for our car. (My first breastfeeding-on-the-go session down successfully!)



By the way, the breastfeeding turned out to be really useful when it was time for him to get his blood taken for the jaundice and metabolism screen -- I happened to be feeding him at that time and as a result, he didn't even flinch when they poked him to draw blood. Whew.

Now I find myself dreaming of jaunts out of the house with baby once the month is over. Can't wait for confinement to be over so that I can get my life back again -- meet friends, run my errands, eat non-Chinese food, have more English conversation... My confinement nanny speaks only Chinese and there's only that much conversation I can carry on in Chinese. I already think my Mandarin has shown some signs of improvement over the last 2 weeks!

Then again, once confinement is over, I'll be left to cope on my own and I'm not sure how I'd fare! Guess I'll just have to take things as they come. Wish me luck!