My baby has arrived!

Finally we met our baby, it was such a delight. Almost 13 hours of contraction and 2 hours of labour, now that she's almost 1 week old, I seem to forget all those hard work and felt so blessed that she's here. I had an episomy as baby was not in the correct position (maybe I prefered to sleep on my right or other reasons) and had to use the vaccum. The head shape came out a bit funny but now it's getting better.

For the first week, it was hectic. Trying to heal from the wound and handle all these new things to me, luckily I had many help from the midwife & mostly my family. The hospital encourages breastfeeding, and for the first 5 days, I haven't got much, and the baby was sucking hard and I felt so painful. Cracked and sore nipples was a must.

I haven't got enough milk so have to top up with formula, my baby is drinking soy-based formula, but just found out an article from the Ministry of Health, maybe need to change to a cow's milk-based.

Some recommend me to feed baby with water if feeding on formula, but the midwife recommends not to, and also found an article: Drinking water may harm babies.

A friend's advise of using disposable nappies for the first month is really useful, as I'm so tired, really haven't got enough time to add extra stress of washing & drying to the schedule.