breastfeeding

I’ve been back at work from maternity leave for about 2 months now. It’s been a journey coming back to work, to say the least. First of all, I’m SO HAPPY to be back at work! I took exactly 3 months of leave, and will save the rest of the baby-bonding leave for a family trip to Taiwan for 4 weeks. For me, the first month of leave was necessary for the body to recover, and the second month was more of a getting-to-know-the-baby time, and the third month was the real baby-bonding, mainly on sleep training the baby, learning to get out of the house and travel a bit, and that was when I started to crave for human (adult) interaction and when I started to write this blog :) [Read More]

For the first month of my baby’s life, I struggled through the whole breastfeeding thing. I don’t want to go into too much details, so some bullet points of events/struggles: The baby was born early (but full term), so he was very sleepy, preferred sleeping over eating. He wasn’t latching on correctly (although, he was always too sleepy to actually tell if he had a good latch or not). Pediatricians worried about the possibility of jaundice since he lost 11% of his birth weight in 3-4 days of life. [Read More]