3 months

Weight: 7.2kg

Length: 65cm

Feeding: 3.5 oz 3 hourly with 1.5 scoop milk powder. We started to control his milk intake after the last visit to the clinic as his weight was at the upper spec limit of the growth chart. I used a breast pump 4 times a day to express breast milk for him. My company had just prepared a lactation room for nursing mum. He would cry for the pacifier after every feed.

Sleep: He normally sleeps for 2 hours between feeds. Then he will play for around 1 hour by himself before crying for milk again. Sometimes he will sleep for 5 to 6 hours straight without waking for milk during night time. Or if he does wake up, he will straight away go back to sleep after drinking milk. But sometimes he has difficulty sleeping and will start crying. I found out a good way to coo him to sleep is by singing him lullaby.

He will give us a very big smile when he is happy. Sometimes he will play with the rattle toys by his baby cot, and make lots of noise. We often bring him out to dinner or shopping complex using a stroller. He would sleep in the stroller when he is tired. And the pacifier is a must when he is sleepy. 

2 months

Weight: 6.7kg

Feeding: 3.5 oz 2 hourly with 1.5 scoop of milk powder. Mixture of Similac milk formula and breast milk. I started to stop him from directly latch on for breastfeeding on Day 40, and used a breast pump instead. He had a hard time falling asleep after that, as normally I breastfed him to sleep.

Sleep: His sleep pattern changes week by week. There was a week that he slept very soundly during day time and stayed up whole night. Sandbox and I had to take turn working night shift to entertain him. I would have to sleep early, around 9pm and sandbox will take care of him till midnight. Then I would take care of him from midnight till around 5am. He needed to suckle in order to fall asleep. We had no choice but to introduce him a pacifier. At first he refused to suckle on a pacifier, and we had to bottle feed him some water. Then we changed to the Avent pacifier instead of Tommy Teepee, and he would suckle it till he falls asleep.

Nappy change: We use cloth nappy with a diaper cover on him during the day and disposable diapers at night. We started to use cloth diapers on him during night time around Day 50. We need to change it 2 hourly to prevent a leak. The cloth diapers were unable to hold his poo because he always pass watery and seedy poo in big quantity every 2 days.

He is able to hold his head up when we put him face down sometimes. He loves listening to others talking, especially when there are visitors. When we talk to him, he can respond with a smile or say 'Ang Goo'. He can play with the rattle toys we put at the side of his baby cot with his hand. He is able to move his head and eyes towards the source of sound.