baby experiment #1.01: my smelly clothes

Yup, you read right. Smelly cat clothes.

Problem: LA not wanting to settle in her cot.
She falls asleep on the breast all the time and as I slowly moves to put her in her cot, she startles herself and wakes up. I used to swaddle her and that probably works better, but she is getting to big to swaddle and apparently swaddling after the first month limits her movement abilities. We definitely don't want that.

She can be gently swayed to sleep - just not by me. She probably smells the milk or the breast and likes to comfort-suck. In other words, I can't put her to sleep voluntarily. It takes more than an hour to sway and gently pat her to sleep. It didn't even take me THAT long to sleep (Lie: Yes it does, maybe it's hereditary?).

Most of the time I gave up and let her sleep on me*. This can't go on forever though, so the right thing have to be done.

Action: Putting the shirt I was wearing together with her in the cot.
Last night was the peak. I tried putting her down since 6pm and she stays asleep, alone, for less than half an hour each time. By 11pm I was going crazy, and decided to put the said item under her head.

Result: She woke up at 5.20am!
I was almost finished with my sahur when she started crying. She initially wakes up at about the same time she was born this day two months ago - with the time difference (7.14am in Melbourne!)

Verdict: Won't jinx myself, will let you know in three days!

*I know I will regret this in the future, but, confession: I love it when she sleeps on me. It hurts after a while, my wrist, my arm, my chest and her spiky hair tickles my nose, but maybe I have developed my supermom powers and became immune to it all. I actually miss it when she doesn't.

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It's my first day of puasa today. I am still bleeding but it has been 60 days and apparently it's not considered nifas anymore*. I've missed 19 days of fasting that I sometimes forgot I am fasting today. I still have about 3 and a half hours to go and we'll see how I can take it with the breastfeeding.

*Imam Syafi’ie dan mazhabnya mempunyai pandangan berbeza dari pandangan jumhur di atas di mana menurut beliau; tempoh maksima nifas ialah 60 hari. Jadi, jika seorang wanita darah bersalinnya berlarutan selepas 40 hari, mengikut pandangan ini; darah itu masih dianggap darah nifas sehinggalah 60 hari. Dalam tempoh 60 hari itu jika darah masih keluar, tidak harus ia mengerjakan solat, puasa dan sebagainya lagi dari ibadah-ibadah yang mensyaratkan bersuci. Jika selepas 60 hari darah masih lagi keluar, maka ketika itu barulah ia dianggap darah penyakit dan tertakluk dengan hukum-hakam istihadhah dan sulasul-baul sebagaimana di atas. Imam Syafi’ie berhujjah berdasarkan pengalaman, yakni menurut pengalaman dan pemerhatian beliau; terdapat wanita yang pernah mencapai tempoh nifas hingga 60 hari. Adapun tempoh 40 hari yang disebut oleh Ummu Salamah dalam hadis di atas, itu adalah tempoh kebiasaan nifas bagi kebanyakan wanita, bukan bermaksud tempoh maksimanya. (from here)

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LA is two-months old today. And look what she can do!

@6weeks 2days

@6weeks 4days