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<\/a><\/p>\nShe is now 5 months old based on her age. Physically she is like a 2 months old baby except that she is still quite floppy and unable to support her head yet.\u00a0 Still\u00a0wearing\u00a0newborn sized diaper and clothing.<\/p>\n
It has been a month since Samantha was discharged from GHKL.\u00a0 She is tolerating milk via the feeding tube as mentioned in my earlier post<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I resumed breastfeeding\u00a0so that my breast won’t be an alien to her and also to keep my BM supply going which has been decreasing.\u00a0 We also offer her water through bottle to stimulate her sucking reflex and in case she is able to go back to bottle feed again.\u00a0Her doctor disallow us to BF and bottle feed her as afraid that\u00a0she may get choke but so far she\u00a0has been taking it well. (Shhh…can’t let\u00a0the doc know).<\/p>\n She gained some weight from 3.3kg to 3.65kg within a month.\u00a0 Not much but this is consider a good progress despite her condition.\u00a0 It will be a long way for her to catch up with babies\u00a0of her age. She looks chubbier now. She can sleep better and for longer hours too nowadays. On and off, she still whine\u00a0and cry unconsolably\u00a0which could be due to\u00a0colic, reflux or\u00a0soiled diaper.<\/p>\n Talking about soiled diaper,\u00a0Samantha is\u00a0really a\u00a0princess! She wants to be changed\u00a0IMMEDIATELY once her diaper has soiled else\u00a0she will not stop crying. Sometimes, she just want you to check on her diaper eventhough the diaper is not soiled.<\/p>\n Her big brother Jonathan adores her so much. He likes to kiss her, smell her, carry her, hold her hand and\u00a0sleep\u00a0beside her. He will take her hand\u00a0to caress his face. And recently, I have no idea why he feels like biting her fist…love bite? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let this be the first good post of Samantha. She is now 5 months old based on her age. Physically she is like a 2 months old baby except that she is still quite floppy and unable to support her head yet.\u00a0 Still\u00a0wearing\u00a0newborn sized diaper and clothing. It has been a month since Samantha was … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news","category-samantha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n