Lucas refuses to drink milk

Since we fed him some banana and sweet barley cereal, Lucas is very repulsive to milk.

Everytime when we feed him, he expects us to give him something much more delicious. I fed him apple this evening, he even pulled my arm to make the spoon into his mouth. However, when I just took up the milk bottle, this little man screamed loudly without a second thought, let alone putting it into his mouth.

He is a very choosy baby.

And then, Lucas skipped one time of meal tonight.

Now, he knows there are many delicious food in the world, he is curious to all things that can eat except milk powder. Jeff said we should only feed him milk in the coming days in order to make him forgets those yummy fruits... However, I am just skeptial... what happen if he has good memory?

Smily Baby!!

Last Friday we celebrated Lucas's 5-month birthday at APM. He is so adorable.

Hope he is cheerful always!!

Something you cannot explain

Have I told you that I miss Lucas all the time, even I stay in my own room when he sleeps in his own room? Then you may imagine how I feel when I go for work everyday.

I cannot explain this kind of psychological situation, is it what people call 'motherhood'??

Remember that when I studied Gender Studies, an article called 'Nature or Nurture??' It analyzed whether the first 'division of labour' human practised - men go out and women stay home is based on the physical design or is cultivated by the culture. I believed strongly it was caused by culture, but now I think the physical part, e.g. your hormonal level should be one of the prime factors.

I hope that I feel perplexing just because I am still in a transitional stage, which I will pass through it eventually and reach a new chapter very soon.

Milk powder + rice water

The flu I had last week had not been healed, I didn't take the medicine because I wanted to continue milk pumping.

However, the flu was getting worse in last weekend and BB also got transmitted. Therefore I started to have the pills these two days and threw away the milk I pumped out.

He had much more milk powder than before. My mom-in-law suggested to use rice water to dilute the powder, which adds some nutrients and remove the heaty.

He tried once today, seems not bad.

Stay with Lucas for less than an hour everyday

I can only spend less than an hour with Lucas everyday because of the OT work. However, what can I complain about when my colleague work until the mid night everyday?

What kind of life we are having? What I want is just some family time, some enough sleep, some decent dinners with my family, it is not something luxurious, is it?

I should make some change, but not in the soon future. It is too unfair to my husband and my baby.

Rice Cereal

Lucas started eating cereal for two weeks, he likes it a lot. Now is drinking some milk powder also.

Am still feeding him breast milk, people always say he is sturdy and handsome, I am proud of it. At least this whole exhaustive breast milk pumping exercise is still worth.

We will let him try juice in the fifth month.