Oh hell yes. Time flew past. In 6 days time, Ayra will be a month old. But as for me, I felt this confinement thing is dragging on FOREVER. Sheesshhh I hate confinement. On the other hand though, my mom went home after 2 weeks, and ho-yeah ho-yeah I’ve been following my own rules since then. Lantak la org nak kata apa, pantang takleh tu takleh ni. Not that my mom was ever THAT strict anyways. There is nothing I wasn’t allowed to eat, only my mom advised me to try them first to see if there is any reaction. If there ain’t, go ahead and indulge! In your face, the rest of the world who had to go through strict pantang periods hehehe. But not to say that I haven’t been following it not at all, there was one night when I was suddenly struck with high fever. Really, it was sudden. I was fine one minute and the next I was burning up! My mom was sure I did something I wasn’t supposed to, but yeah of course I felt it was only fatigue. It went away the next morning anyways.

But my mom is coming back next week. But then, it is almost over. I wish I wish the next 15 days will just fly past!

Life with Ayra has been a bliss, watching her grow, watching her change daily, watching her gain some weight and some flesh, and well, just watching her. Of course it IS bloody tiring, but this doesn’t last forever. She will be embarrassed to be seen holding my hand soon enough, so I am enjoying the moment while it last. Do take note that I am trying to console myself here too, as I chant “this won’t last forever” at 4 a.m. when Ayra decides to wake up every hour and didn’t want to sleep. But seriously, I try as much as I can to savor the moment.

We have a bible we keep referring to, large, thick, 767 pages of it. Just so u know, we can be kept informative on the changes in our daughter’s life. But it seemed easy enough to try and do as the doctors suggest in the book. Only your child has ideas of her own. And you’ll start thinking, damn, why did it sound so easy in the book? But of course the book did keep our paranoia at bay. Whenever something weird happened, as in Ayra kept panting for breath or sounded like she’s snoring in her sleep or all these pimply things started growing on her face, we referred to the book for hopes that whatever she has is normal. And of course they are. As hubbs put it simply, “In this book, EVERYTHING that happens to a newborn is normal”. Hehehe. I have to agree. And thanks to the book too, that we finally found out that there is NO such thing as Parenting 101. Instead, they have diapering 101, breastfeeding 101, bathing 101, putting-baby-to-sleep 101, burping 101,
carrying 101, even how-to-clip-newborns’-fingernails 101. Ouh to be a master u would have to have at least a dozen kids I think. And even that wouldn’t make u a sifu.

This blog is beginning to sound like one of them parental blogs doesn’t it? Sorry, can’t help it. I face the baby 24-7 and I haven’t been out to the world except the doc’s so.. bear with me yeah.

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