Month: March 2005

Breast pads

Olga tried a few brands of breast pads. Out of all of them, Chicco was proclaimed the best. They absorb milk between feedings better than any other brand, leaving nipples dry and comfy. Being dry is an essential thing for nipples if you don’t want them to hurt.

A box with 30 pieces of Chicco breast pads costs about 3.50 CYP and can be purchased almost in any farmacy (in Limassol that is).

Pity and pride

Maxim makes me have a lot of feelings and emotions throught the day every day. These are mostly new to me, so I’ll try to blog about them. This will help me understand myself better and might even provide some entertainment for you.

The most common feeling by now is pity. I feel enourmous pity when something is wrong with Maxim. When he has a running nose or when gases in the stomach give him pains or when he can’t go to sleep – all of these make me feel miserable. I would wish for anything to happen to anyone in the world, even to me, but not to him. Every time I try to cope with this pity thing and every time it gets all over me.

Today I’ve got a new feeling – a feeling of overwhelming pride. Maxim had pains because of the air bubles in his guts. He couldn’t sleep. He couldn’t calm down. He was in pain. I took him in my hands and was massaging his belly for about an hour. I gave him a sip or two of the special tea. I warmed him up a bit in my hands. He calmed down and fell asleep. He was comfortable. He felt good. I put him back to bed and he didn’t even wake up. When I saw him sleeping in the bed with a half smile on his face I felt a lot of pride. It was like I singlehandedly won the First and Second World Wars.

Tricking the baby

Usually, when Maxim is hungry, he is greedily jumping on to the tit and sucking it like there is no tomorrow. He behaves like this when there were three or four hours since the last feeding. Sometime though we feed him just after a couple of hours and his behaviour is totally different. He is not very hungry and can afford some time for food preparation. He is jently licking the nipple before sucking on to it. He moves a bit trying to find the most comfortable pose. Etc.

Today he wasn’t very at all hungry for his 8:00pm feeding. He ate a bit and started playing with the tit. He was taking it into his mouse, licking, and pulling it, but not sucking. When Olga would take the tit out he was crying immidiately. So Olga went for a little trick. She put Maxim in his usual feeding position, layed near him like she usually does, but instead of the breast she gave him the soother. You just have to see it! Maxim was sucking on to it, but there was no milk coming, so he was increasing his sucking speed and power while grumbling at the same time with the soother in his mouse. This was totally hilarious. Basically he wasn’t hungry but just wanted to suck on to something. 10 minutes was enough for him to realize that he wants a change of activity.