Papa & Mummy Yammie are tired..

How time "flies". Baby Kayla is now 2 weeks old. Day in day out both Papa & Mummy Yammie are busy fussing over the baby, and the house. Especially we've "fired" our confinement nanny mid of this week, reason being that she has started to show bad attitude especially after we give her some feedback. She even vented it out by not washing the milk bottles thoroughly. This is one of the infuriating things that we have to bear with her. There was a time whereby Dear wanted to carry the baby when she was crying, and he even say out twice, but she ignored him totally! How frustrating that is! We are the baby's parents, so we have the priority and the right to carry the baby and soothe her when she cries. We feel its a pressure having her to continue staying with us, especially she takes care of the baby totally at night. So we asked her to leave after speaking to the agency. We felt more relieved, although more tired now as we have to do everything by ourselves, without her posing as a "threat" in the house. Other than only us, we have my mother-in-law and cousin-in-law helping to cook and clean the house every now and then. Really appreciative of them rendering help to us even at last minute's notice.

So with the confinement nanny not around, we have to take up the responsibilities to take care of the baby earlier - for e.g. bathing the baby, changing diapers, dressing and undressing the baby, coaxing the baby to sleep, waking up for night feeds etc. It's not easy for both of us, especially with the baby crying so loudly when we are slower in our actions. It's also heart aching having to hear the baby crying so pathetically, with her whole body and face turing red, when she seems to be scared.. How we wish we know how to pacify her in the right way, and not causing her so much distress...

Other than the above, Baby Kayla also have her updates! She has more cutesy facial expressions now, and sleeps lesser in the daytime now. Of cuz she is more demanding in her milk intake and despite my milk production has gradually increased, I have still not yet catch up with her demand yet! So breastfeeding her is such a long & tiring process...Without the constant encouragement and support from Dear, I would really want to give up and just give her formulae milk instead.

We need a good long sleep and I badly need a breather soon (coped in the house for the past 2 weeks which is considered a very long period for me liao ). How nice when we can just shut ourselves inside the room and just not bother about anything (but can we?)

That's the "duties" of new parents I guess.