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Saturday, May 5, 2007

Mittu and her Mom -- A Recap from day 1 to day 90


Our days with Mittu are equally filled with joy, fear with a question "is it common for all babies?" , releif after hearing doctor's words, sometimes doubting doctor's experience :-), excitement on seeing her doing new things . Till now each and everyday is very eventful. Everyday She looks different , physic wise and also activity wise.Its better described as "naal oru vannamum pozhuthu oru meniyum". I have jotted down most of the happenings in the first 3 months, her 4th trimester :-).


  • 1st day till now: I fly, even do somersault in air, when somebody said that she looks exactly like me
  • 1st day till now: I feel like crying with her when she says ma while crying
  • 1st day,1st minute,1st second: The minute Mittu was brought out..yes, its a c-section. As soon as i hear my little one's first cry, i became crazy. i lifted up my head and shoulders to see her (which iam not supposed to do amidst of an operation :-))and made the doctors go crazy :-). My god... i was not prepared to take that exciting,thrill,expecting kinda experience. she is with my blood all over her body,crying in high pitch(may be it seemed like that b'coz of the pindrop silence in the OT)
  • 1st day,5th minute: Nurses showed Mittu to me. I was almost on tears. That was the most sentimental minute in my life
  • 1st day, 20th minute: I longed to take a good look at my baby, but I couldnt, as she was wrapped completely, except the face... bad bad nurses....And i couldnt even think of getting up and holding my baby, as i had c-section. And the trips on my hand, made things even worse.Cant they just give the trips to swallow??
  • 1st day, 1st hour: i felt myself as a very responsible mom, when the nurses made mittu lie over me and presed her little mouth on my breast.
  • 2nd day : I stubbornly told the nurses not to feed Mittu formula milk, when she couldnt latch on and cried out of lungs for milk.I am sorry mittu.. even though its for her goodness, i behaved as a heartless mom (i read somewhere, if the baby tastes formula milk, she wont prefer breast feeding)
  • 2nd and 3rd day: I pestered the nurses again and again to help me feed Mittu ,when she struggled a lot to latch on.
  • first 5 days: It was fun to see my baby's poop in blackish green colour (meconium) .
  • 5th day:I treated my mom as my sworn enemy, when she tried to feed mittu with formula. Actually, that was the day we got discharged from the hospital, so b'coz of some stress or tiredness, i didnt have milk secretion that time. My goody mittu didnt take much of formula feed.:-)
  • 5th day: After discharged from the hospital, we were expecting the poop to change colour to yellow and of meconium consistency(greasy). But what we got (!?) is watery with yellow substance.we got annoyed and called the ward duty doctor over phone in the midnight, as the frequency of watery motion increased. He said its absolutely normal for breast fed babies. we didnt beleive him as he said that in a sleepy voice :-). Next day we went to the hospital to hear the same from our peadiatrician in a non-sleepy voice!!!!
  • 8th to 20th day: since it was winter, we used to bundle her in her wrap up bed . It was an art to climb over the cot without disturbing the sleeping baby in hands and put her in the wrap up bed. As soon as i put her to sleep, after a slow 10 -20 mins walk to make her sleep and careful climbing and bundling, i use to come to my hubby and say "thungiyaachu"(slept). By the same time, we could hear a "sinungal" (mild cry). Again the whole process has to be repeated,but this time, its my hubby's turn (oh yeah..he is my "best"-half). My little princess's little bed occupies three-fourth of the bigbed over the cot..So i lie at the edge of the bed, very cautious and keen,that my hands or legs shouldnt hurt mittu.
  • 8th to 20th day: She will scrutiny each and every part of the room ceiling as if she is going to certify the labourer for good art work in the ceiling.
  • 10th day: She started playing very actively by moving her hands and legs. Watch out for news - Mittu with mittens competes the boxing champions in the world ;-).
  • 14thday: I cant forget those days, when my sweet heart cry in pain, whenever she passes urine and motion. Nothing could releive her from the pain including the milk. She is said to be a colicky baby. i hate the word " colic" to my heart. peadiatrician said some babies will have this problem while their intestine grow and it will go off as she grows. But imagine,how it would be, to simply watching my baby crying out of her lungs. Fortunately, As doctor said, her cry seems to be reducing as days passby.But she (so we) suffered till her 40th day.
  • Till 21st day: I donno where the milk Mittu drank went, but her weight gain was poor .
  • Till 21st day : Mittu's grandma used to take her to see surya prakash everyday , since she had mild jaundice in her early days.
  • 35th day: we were all excited when she looked eagerly at the sound of her rattles and her eyes followed the fingers.
  • 37th day midnight : she frightened all of us by crying continuously for an hour. We went to the emergency ward by 1AM. Ward doctor examined her and told that same old story without any twist :-( , hmmm....it seems her intestines are still growing. We left the hospital without any solution how to calm down our baby. Anyway, she didnt frighten us again by her long cry. But her sleeping routine has changed .She became very active from night 11'o clock till nextday morning 5'o clock, without any cry. So we were happy about that cry part and managed take care of her in shifts. My mom use to take day shift as the great couple sleep for life. My hubby's shift started from 10 Pm to 2 am. I was involved in all the shifts as i am the milkmaid :-) and also I took care of her from 1am to 5am.
  • 42nd day : We were due for her first vaccination. I watched till the doctor cleaned Mittu's thigh with cotton and took the injection in hand. I had no guts to see it prick her. I was told to hold her tightly and that blood thirsty needle pricked her. I simply watched my little one cry with her whole face go red and her eye brows go green.what else i could have done. I said to myself, its for her goodness only.... anyway,she didnt suffer much after vaccination, as we had given crocin in advance. One good thing also happend out of this vaccination. Her sleeping routine has set right. She slept from 9PM till 5AM and took breaks for milk by midnight . How nice to hear ha :-)
  • 45th day: I was surprised to see her safegaurd her eyes, by shutting it when something comes near her eyes .
  • 48thday: Mittu started smiling on seeing faces. Till now, i didnt know,how she is managing to smile on seeing her dad's face also, which i am scared to see :-))
  • 50th day: We travelled with her to my native place by air. She have too many maamas, athais, paatis,thaathas...... So for 10 days then, she was busy in impressing everybody with a smile and collecting minimum of 50Rs. for a smile... good deal, right? :-)
  • 52nd day:When we were in my native place we bought a merry-go-round. My goodness... when the merry-go-round was fixed over her craddle, She enjoyed it like anything, .we are having fun till today, seeing her kicking her cradle and make her toy dance and she laughs and again a kick-laugh....
  • 60th day: She came to know that in this world nothing can be expected until we voice out for it... yes.. she started to voice out for her milk (ungaaaa).
  • 75th day: She started laughing on seeing her mom,dad,grandma talking to her. I couldnt find words to explain the feeling when she laughs and responds to our talks.
  • 78th day: She finds games in each everything she sees and plays on her own. Her new playmates are fan and curtain. she is trying to talk with loud vague sounds. Its funny to see her playing with fan especially while feeding.
  • 80th day: She could hold her rattle on her own and playing in full josh.
  • 86th day: She turned to her side, trying to roll.The first thing i did when i saw her doing that, is ran for the camera. The photograph came out very nicely....I guess it would be one of her best pictures
  • 90th day: Mittu is laughing loud,when i talk to her. I donno what she is finding funny in my face ..hmmm :-)

4 Comments:

Maggie said...

Wow! You remember all this in so much detail! Far more than I remember about Moppet - those first few weeks were just a blur for me :-)

Congrats to Mittu on turning 90 days old!

noon said...

Hi! Just saw your comment in my site. Visited yours just now. Like moppet's mom - I too fid it amazing that you remember so much detail! Incredible!
You may have read my mother's day post - but I was so the opposite on the first day - I felt bad on the days leading up to it and on that day that I felt quite blank...and hardly any of those emotions. Amazing how we all react so differently. Look forward to reading more about Mittu...

Poppins said...

Wow that's a really detailed summary I don't remember most of it Waaaaah
Anyways, thanks for dropping by and you're a C-Sec too :(

அ. இரவிசங்கர் | A. Ravishankar said...

u r a bad mom !!! instead of taking care of her, u r writing diary, taking notes and photos !! u will have to answer a lot when mittu could read this blog !!