I think I should start putting down in e-pen on my daily life with Elijah. Might find something useful or memorable in days to come :)

For starters, here’s today’s events so far:

1) Wake up and wait for Elijah’s feed before cleaning his eye lids with Chui. Elijah has some significant discharge building up around his eye lids. Doctor’s advise was to keep it clean a few times a day and if it’s still there after a few days or getting worse, it’s time to visit him. So I guess it’s time to visit him on Friday since 2 days have passed and still no improvement.

To clean his eye lids (not eyes!) use boiled water (and cooled down to warm) and soft cotton/wool buds. Use a fresh bud on each eye.

2) Next was a quick breaky before we had a visit from Auntie Merilyn. We had a nice time of fellowship with Aunty Merilyn, Chui, our mums!, Elijah and myself. A prayer and word from the Lord for Elijah and also some catch up time, especially great news and testimony from Pastor Manja.

3) Well, the day passed by quickly, next was sending the mums’ off to some shopping before rushing back to help clean his eyes again. Today was the first time Elijah held a long smile… almost 30s! :) So it must be a smile! Not one of those muscle twiches.

Some other highlights the new gifts from Auntie Merilyn and also one of Chui’s best friend all the way from US! Wow… thanks.

Experiment: Well, today we tried using the waterproof nappy cover. We found that the traditional cloth nappies tend to get soaked through! This often spread to our clothes in the process of feeding and cuddling. So the cover actually did work! We can also reuse the same cover over the next few fresh nappy. Now to get a few more to cope with the miss fires and also daily washing.

This “water proofing” won’t work with the modern nappies if we combined with traditional nappies. The modern nappies will soak up a bit and reusing it will spread the wet stuff back to the new fresh cloth nappy. Best to use the modern nappies with the modern inserts.

The covers are usually just covers with no soaking capability and are also water proof. So those are the best solution to cover over wet nappies.

Oooo.. forgot to mention laundry!! Morning is usually the time I put all the baby stuff to run a load in the machine and hang dry. Evening I’ll collect the dried ones and hang up the urine only rinsed nappy for drying. We don’t really use any special disinfectant for laundry. Just normal clothes detergent to soak the soiled nappies. Less detergent overall for baby stuff.

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