6 Day Old EThan Ryence

ER's umbilical cord fell off this morning right before his bath. I had been looking for his alcohol wipes to wipe his cord area since we shifted in last Fri but it was nowhere in sight. Dr Tan said during his checkup that there's a little smell coming from the cord and reminded us to keep cleaning it. By Sat during the checkup, it was already hanging by a piece of skin looking ready to fall off.

Day 6's Ethan is still a sleepyhead but he seems to be more alert when awake, more often than his jie jie used to be (maybe coz AN had jaundice at this time of her life and she was born few days younger, so effectively, her 'life' began later?), and he smiles more. AN was more cool, less smiles.

He's sleeping and waking at quite regular intervals to nurse: every 3 hour. He doesn't suckle for very long (Except once in a while) but he sucks strong and well.

He sleeps quite well in the night up to past night. I can't really tell yet if he is a deep sleeper but he has been sleeping through his jie jie's loud voice when she plays. Past few nights, he woke up 3 times for feeds only. Very objective purpose for awaking: to have enough milk and then continue sleeping. He woke up quite a lot last night though.

Pictures have to come later. Mr Liow uploaded them in the laptop but I've no time to sit and load pictures into blogger yet. Will try do that as soon as possible.