Honeymoon Plannings

We are stuck! STUCK! Still debating if we should bring our munchkin on a cruise since he’s still very young. My original plan was to go on our honeymoon last August/September when I was pregnant with him but I got so sick. Never knew I can get that sick. I thought it would be a one week thing but I ended up puking for the entire month every day!! If I wasn’t as sick – I think we would of gone on our honeymoon last year. Now that our munchkin is here – it’s so hard to go on a vacation. I calculated – in order to go on a ONE week trip – we gotta bring at least 100 diapers! Is that crazy or what? Hopefully we can figure out this vacation plan soon because I’m in need of a vacation!!! I need to get out of Toronto!!!

“Happy Wife – Happy Life”

That’s right – you gotta make your wife happy in order to have a happy life. LOL. This year will be our four years together. These past four years has been the best time of my life. Never do I regret being with him – never was I unhappy. I could share absolutely anything with him – my frustration, my heartaches, my happiness, my everything. I never met a men as understanding as he is. I love how patient he is, I love how he respects everyone and absolutely everyone around him, I love his humor, I love his everything. “When you love someone – you love everything around him.” – sometimes it’s not true but sometimes it’s true. I grew to love the people around him.

There’s never a time he would miss a kiss and tells me he loves me in the morning before he heads out for work. I really can’t ask for a better partner.

Munchkin’s grandparents

We are blessed to be living with the in-laws. I enjoy watching munchkin and his grandparents bond. Not a lot of families can do that – having three generations living in the same house. Although we live in the same house – we still try to do everything on our own because we feel like it’s our responsibilities. At times they do play with him and feed him. But other than that – we take care of him most of the time. It’s always nice to get help once in awhile. Sometimes Hub and I would run out to run some errands and munchkin would stay home with his grandparents. I want him to grow up with relatives around him. I never really grew up with any relatives because we live so far. So in the future if we do move – I want to stay close with the in-laws and out-laws.

My Labour Experience

Not going to have much pictures in this post because I wasn’t expecting labour so early.

I remember the night of my contraction. Hubby and I had to go for our last 2 prenatal classes and we had Harvey’s after. The night went by smooth and Hubby slept around 1 in the morning!  Right when he fell asleep – that’s when my contraction started. I thought it was just something small because it didn’t hurt much. But the point was I kept going to the washroom so often. I thought it was nothing and continued watching my TV in bed. I woke Hubby up after 3 to 4 hours of my contraction. I still felt like it was false contraction because it wasn’t painful at all. I felt like it was just period cramps. Till I saw brownish liquid coming out down there. At this point – the pain was bearable. I took a warm bath before I called the hospital. I got dressed and took my hospital bag.

As I wasn’t expecting it to be “real” contraction – I didn’t even bother bringing my camera nor my phone charger with me. I should of though!

During my car ride to the hospital – my contraction got a lot stronger. To the point it really did hurt. It was about 2 minutes apart. I didn’t forget – it was an icy night driving down to the hospital – very cold too. Hub drop me off at the emergency doors and parked. After he parked – we walked to the baby center. At this point – the contraction was insane! We arrived to the hospital around 4:30AM in the morning.

The nurse checked me up and told me I was “3 centimeter dilated”. I asked her “What does that mean? Does that mean I’ll be giving birth today???”. I was beyond scared at this point and her answer was “Yes”! Than I told her “I’m not ready for this yet…………………”. She gave me a funny reply “ready or not hear it comes ”. Than she sent Hubby and I out to sit till the nurses got the room ready for us. When she sent us out to sit – that was the worst contraction feeling! No lies – it was hurting bad. I couldn’t sit nor stand. I didn’t know what I could do at that time – contraction was every two minutes apart.

Twenty minutes later – I was finally given a room. Told me to change into a gown and the epidural doctor was right there for me. When the epidural doctor was preparing his needle – I kept saying “I’m soooooo scared – I’m sooooo scared”. The nurses tried to calm me down and Hubby was holding my hand. After the needle – I was shaking so bad because it felt so cold. I shake for about a couple hours. The epidural worked like magic – I stopped feeling the pain after like 5 minutes! Everything got back to normal – I just waited and went on my phone to update news on Facebook. I was pretty much relaxed by than.Nurses told me that I was dilating really quick and my cervix is thin – so its easy for munchkin to come out.

By the afternoon – the in-laws came to visit. Munchkin wasn’t out yet – we were still waiting. But I did start pushing here and there. So much energy is required in order to push this baby out. I didn’t even eat anything. I ended up puking a lot of water out while I was trying to push.

My last push was at 3 in the afternoon. How did I do it? Well – the doctor threatened to use the kiwi vacuum to take the baby out because I couldn’t push. So I gave it my ONE last push – than there it is. My munchkin came out very slimy but with no blood on him. He didn’t cry much though. Too bad I didn’t have my camera with me! Or else I would of snapped a lot of photos of him while still slimy! He came out weighting 6lbs and 2oz.

My labour experience? Not a tough one I must say. Why? Because I heard worst! Way worst – like those women going through 24hours of pain. Or the baby wasn’t co-operating and needed a c-section. Yep – I was only in pain for a very short period of time – thank god! I have to say – no more than an hour of “real” pain. Really got to thank God for an easy and fast labour experience!

Would I do it again? I doubt it. This one wasn’t as painful but who knows if the second one would be painful right? I’m so not good with pain!!!

My Mommy Life

Our Munchkin is now two months old. I feel like these two months has been one of the busiest time of my life and time is flying by twice as fast than before. Overall – it’s a joy taking care of my little munchkin. The one thing I want to slow down is his growth – WHY do babies grow so quick? He’s now two months and is weighting about 9 pounds. I wish newborns can stay  small for a longer period of time because I won’t be holding another newborn.

Remember how I was so determined that we’re ONLY having ONE kid while everyone says – that’s not going to happen. I do have second thoughts because labour wasn’t as bad and painful. But to be honest – I do want to stick to what we planned out. A kid is a lifetime commitment – there’s no taking a break. When their here – their here forever. Hub and I are not really spending enough alone time together already and with two kids? We gotta say goodbye to our alone time. There’s just so much in raising a kid. We’re always worried about this and that. I do want another one but there’s too much to handle. I never imagine us having two. Maybe one is enough?

How “mommy life” like these days? I’m enjoying it now before he knows how to crawl and walk. He’s a sleeper like his mama and sleeps a lot. Which is a good thing because I get to sleep a lot too and wake up in between to feed him and pump milk. We sleep around 1 in the morning and wake up around 1 to 2 in the afternoon. Yes – I still try to sleep as much as I can. *hehehehe* Can’t help it – I love my sleep too much.

My Mornings or you can call it afternoon – my schedule is according to the time he wakes up in the afternoon. Right when I wake up – there’s a billion things to do. Feed him, change him, pump milk, make the bed, brush my teeth, collect all the bottles, wash bottles, and than I can finally make my lunch and eat it. Yes – I come last now! Even if I’m deadly hungry – I gotta do all that before I eat. That’s my life as a mother – but at the end it’s all worth it. It may seem busy now but it will get more busy when he sleeps less and knows how to crawl and walk around. Than my eyes will be on him 24/7 instead of sitting here doing my online stuff or socializing with friends.

Scrapbook for Special Events

I’m still enjoying my hobby! I feel like scrap-booking is the only creative side of me these days. I can’t draw or paint – so putting things together is the creative me. Do I still have time for it? Yep I do – scrap-booking doesn’t take too much time. All I need to do is print/pick out the photos and pick out some pretty decorations. I say a page would take less than half an hour for me now. When I started with scrap-booking – each page took about an hour but now that I got used to scrap-booking – it’s not as hard anymore. Do you scrapbook? I feel like scrap-booking is something fun and relaxing for me to do nowadays.

My Work Station

I’m still blogging and working online! So here it is – my work station and taking care of a newborn at the same time! Sometimes he wants to be hold and sometimes he’s alright sitting on that cradle. But the thing is – I can never sit for a good two hours of work. It’s either he’s crying, he’s hungry, he needs a diaper change or I need to pump milk. That’s my life now and I know I will only get busier when the munchkin knows how to move around. Than I’ll be doing my blogging/online work during the night while he sleeps or when hubby is home from work. The sacrifices of taking care of a kid eh? Joy or what?

Hubby is a proud Papa

You really don’t need to hear my hubby saying “he’s proud” because it’s planted on his forehead already. Hubby’s been really supportive and helpful when he comes home from work – can’t ask for a better hubby. I take care of the munchkin during the day and night. When hub is back from work – he take cares of the munchkin till he sleeps. So far – this schedule is working pretty well with us. On his work day – I’m the one waking up in the middle of the night – so he won’t be too exhausted at work. I actually don’t mind waking up in the middle of the night because I’ve been an night owl for so many years BUT mornings is what kills me. I wonder how am I ever going to fix this sleeping schedule eh?

Mother-in-laws Birthday

Yeppers – mother-in-law is officially a grandma this year for her birthday. We celebrated her birthday with having dinner with her and buying her a cake that says “Happy Birthday Grandma” – thought it would be cute because it’s her first year being a grandma. Grandparents are always happy meeting their first grandchild huh? Munchkin doesn’t really see his grandparents much – even though we do live in the same house but we live downstairs and he’s always sleeping during the day. But when he gets older – he’s sleeping upstairs and I hope he can bond with his grandparents and see them more when he’s older.

Enjoying Motherhood

I’ve always dreamed of being a young mother and yep – my dream sure did come true. No one said raising a kid is easy and I never thought that way. If I did think that way – I think I will be pulling my hair out by now. It’s not an easy job being a mother and I was prepared for that. Having a kid is a life time commitment because you are constantly worrying and worrying about them. Even if they are 30 – you are still worrying.

Although this job as a mother is SUPER tiring – I’m still enjoying every bit of it. Munchkin is a month old today and he’s been an alright-baby. Not too fussy and doesn’t need to be hold 24/7. From the day he was born to three weeks old – he’s been an easy baby to take care of because all he did was eat, sleep, and poop. No fuss at all – I even have time to do some organizing and cleaning around the house. But after three weeks – it got a bit harder because he’s awake more and he moves more. I’ll be more busy when he knows how to crawl and walk! That’s the life of motherhood right? Can’t complain.