Vi Eligible for NASCAR

As you all know, I work for a company which provides an important component for NASCAR. I follow the races very closely, for obvious reason . I am most fascinated by the act of pit crews who need to change tires, put oil and gas and adjust structure with in 12-14 seconds. They are like a bunch of robots with every move fast and predictable to utmost precision. Put that in context and now watch Vi, she is none less than any of the pit crews the only difference is that she is taking care of a living and breathing baby unlike a car like them.

Deep in the night when the little monkey start rumbling for his next pit stop (I am sorry for his next feeding) from his bed. Momy’s hormones kicks and adrenaline rushes. He’s on his way to waking up and will be ready to eat. it’s a matter of seconds before he breaks out a squeal that can make anybody’s stomach turn. But before that happens Vi acts with a lightening speed..

Step 1: Go downstairs and warm the water.
Step 2: Add formula in the warm water.
Step 3: Add rice cereals in the milk.
Step 4: Take the bottle upstairs

Step 5: Go to bathroom.

Step 6: Prepare the changing area

Step 7: Get diaper and wipes out .
Step 8: Get Neev out of his crib and put him down for a diaper change.
Step 9:.Unhook 100 buttons to finally reveal his diaper, then change it.

Step 10: Clean and change the diaper

Step 11: Snap the 100 buttons (Little monster is on the verge of a meltdown at this point.)
Step 12: Throw the dirty diaper in the disposal

Step 13: Arrange the boppy pillow and put him for feeding

Step 14: Pick up bottle and insert into his mouth.
Sigh. Success. Only a little crying spells she wins again!

I am not at all wrong in comparing her to the pit crews, perhaps she can work for NASCAR once Neev is all grown up !!

Neev in Hospital …

It was Neev’s 2 month check-up and everything looked great except his heavy breathing, which we initially thought was just congestion, is started to bother us. We explained our concerned to the doctor and thankfully he suggested that since this has been going on for our 2 months and we should go to emergency and get him checked. So we headed to the Emergency right from the doctor’s office. We were in emergency at around 6 PM, they did a preliminary check by x-rays etc but nothing showed anything wrong. The doctors then decided to monitor him overnight and conduct more test in the morning. We were assigned a room by 10 PM. What broke our heart was that the little boy would not be able to eat anything until doctor checks him back in the morning. If this was not enough we were also told that he has to be inserted an IV to make sure he is getting the proper nutrients. I was pretty sure mommy would not be able to see piece of her heart getting poked by needles so she stayed back and I took her to a different room to insert the IV. He cried, he cried a lot but I got to tell you, what a brave boy. We came back to the room and he was calm in a little bit…thank to his binky !! Vi decided to stay in the hospital I came back to home at around 11:30 to open my fast.

Next morning 6:30 AM they did a test called Upper-GI where they feed barium sulfate to the baby and take x-ray image continuously. Once the results of upper GI came back the doctors figured that he was having significant acid reflux and that, perhaps, was causing irritation in the throat and hence the heavy breathing. The doctors advised that we mix some rice cereals in his milk to thicken it which should reduce the reflux. The doctors also advised to hold him straight after every feeding for few minutes. After the upper GI he was given milk…he loved it J. They were continuously monitoring his oxygen which was normal also. This was huge that even when he was breathing heavy his oxygen content was OK. We felt so depresses seeing him lying in the hospital crib, after all he is a little kid. He should be laughing, crying and making fuss not lie in a hospital bed …However we were glad that it was nothing serious. We were able to find a cradle in the hospital which made life a lot easier. Vi slept in the hospital that night too and I came home sleep. Next day afternoon we were discharged from the hospital…that was a relief.

Month 2 Done !!

Our little prince is 8 weeks old…Two Months…can you believe it??? Time is flying by and our prince is growing up so fast before our very eyes. We are having a heck of a adventure in parenting and poor Neev is the brunt of our ignorance and eureka moments!

He is seriously growing we were at the the pediatrician last Friday and He is already 9 pounds 11 ounces !!!! That’s a gain of over 3 pounds. He is also approximately 23 inch tall. It is amazing!!! Everything else looked great health wise and yes there were vaccine shots involved but we will talk about it in a separate post. He is doing excellent with his eating and pooping…the only problem right now seems to be the sleeping but he has trained mommy very well by now so she is not complaining!!

He is so cute during his “awake-time”…for the most part he will lie in his cradles seat and stare everything his eyes can catch. He is really fascinated by the center light and does not miss a single opportunity to state at that. Last month he caused a lot of fuss everytime we tried to give him a massage, now he seems to love it. We are surprised by the fact that our little guys can lift and hold his head so steadily. He also seems to know that we like his little movements so he never misses an opportunity to impress us. His staring, his farts, his smile and his crying ..everything is so cute …we love it…

Neev has became the only focal point of our life not too mention our favorite hobby and topic of discussion. Have you ever met those ..yes those who can’t talk about anything else except their kid, the ones we all used to laugh at. I am proud to admit that I am now in that group too…I am sure with this rate people will start to hide if they see me in the hallway. Part of the reason we can’t stop talking because the little monkey seems different every day. As if the God is fine-tuning your looks like he would a radio, trying to get that one perfectly clear frequency to come through. His mood, his schedule and his signals/expression changes every day, and just when we think we cracked the code, he switches it up on us again.

Well things are altering almost daily and I don’t think we can take enough pictures or videos to capture them all. We feel so blessed with such a great baby and we pray that he continues to be happy and healthy. We can’t believe that not before too long Neev will be laughing and smiling at us and soon he will be sitting up and not long after that he will be crawling! Times flies all to fast these days…I am just glad that we are here and able to soak up every moment with our precious baby.

I came across these lines in a book and found it really interesting ..

Men may work from Sun to Sun…But Women’s work is never done

Here is what The Econmist has to say about this

…..Throughout the world, men spend more time on market work, while women spend more time on homework. In the United States and other rich countries, men average 5.2 hours of market work a day and 2.7 hours of homework each day, while women average 3.4 hours of market work and 4.5 hours of homework per day. Adding these up, men work an average of 7.9 hours per day, while women work an average of—drum roll, please—7.9 hours per day. This is the first major finding of the new study. Whatever you may have heard on The View, when these economists accounted for market work and homework, men and women spent about the same amount of time each day working. The averages sound low because they include weekends and are based on a sample of adults that included stay-at-home parents as well as working ones, and other adults.

Does this prove that feminists are wrong to say that women are oppressed by housework? Not necessarily. If men get to have high-powered jobs that women don’t have time for because they’re too busy scrubbing out the soap scum in the bathroom, this seems like it’s still a problem. Moreover, one wonders if there are differences in the way that men and women describe, say, child care: do men regard taking the children to the movies as “babysitting” work, while women regard it as leisure? Still the results can’t automatically be dismissed, and they are surprising even if not as strong as they first appear.

Whoever says whatever ..God Bless My wife Vi’s heart, she works tireless all day with no complains at all. Now you guys know I can be a mess and with a little one on top on that (who is even messier) ..that is hard..that is some real goddamn work !!

Meet Our New Friend

This post is pretty self-explanatory, but for the slow ones please refer to my post of bubble’s sleeping problems !!

“Sleeping Crisis” or the “Crisis Who Won’t Sleep”

Out little monster is having some serious sleeping issues. He is hardly sleeping 10 hours, but according to books he should be sleeping 16 hours. He is such a restless fellow in sleep and even when awake. Whoever comes to see him notices this in few minutes. His unusual sleeping habits are taking toll on our sleeps. Its going to be worst when the vacations are over and I have to go back to work. A word of advice for all you “wanna-be-parents”, the theory that sleep when your baby sleep is a bunch of bull…it is so far from reality that its not even funny. If we were to sleep when baby is sleeping when would we do things which are necessary for us to survive like cook, eat, pee, poop, laundry, socialize and what not !! Above all aren’t we suppose to keep an eye on the dude himself so that he doesn’t end up having his cap on his nose !! For all I know every time somebody is going to use the phrase “slept like a baby” is going to get a deep look from me that’s the biggest oxymoron on the face of the earth. We are planning to check with doctor on what we should do. For now we have questions as to “ Is it okay for the kid to sleep in the cradle as that seem to be only friend we got right now ??”, “ Is it okay to let the baby cry for sometime even though you have to put a 100 ton stone on your heart ??”

I and my dear son have been in situation where the dude has been up for 6 hours with periphery of the eyes being completely pink indicating the desperate need of some sleep. The monster completely discard the suggestion from his body and rather is interested in play “Who Will Sleep First” with no intention of loosing. As the clock is ticking eventually somebody goes to sleep and most times that is ME. Many people have given us ideas on taking him on a ride or putting him on a running drier but we haven’t yet tried any of them. I and Vi already had our fair share of discssion on these topics and we have tried letting him cry it out but it ha not worked so far !!

But for now we both just dream of the days when we hardly even have to rock him help you fall asleep. The day when we will lay him in the crib and he will grab his blanket and snuggle right into it. Dreams does come true !!

Crap Will Be Crap !!

This was one of the most useless god damn piece of Chinese crap; God forbid if they will ever make anything which will last/perform decently. I hate to say this but I am not even sure if they even have a concept called quality. I know you all must be thinking if I am so mad why did I buy Chinese. My answer to that will be where the hack I go to find things which are not made in china !!! The worst part is little chunky-munky just got used to it and started to enjoy it but so much for that dream. It not only broke but hurt my finger badly while I was trying to turn the freaking knob.

Christmas Wishes

I, Vi and little Neev wish you all the very best this holiday season. Whatever you may believe and wherever you may end up, be safe, and enjoy that holiday festivities. I am going to be off from work until 5th January so it will be nice to enjoy some father-son bonding while Vi gets a much awaited break (If you call it a break :))

Santa ..Not for Me !!

We took our little man to see the Santa other day but he could not have been less interested. Everybody there was so nice but expression on his face was like “whatever!!”. By the way, please don’t think that he is sleeping ..he is wide awake…just making faces !! I don’t know what to think of that …may be its not such a bad thing as I can now say No Santa-No Gifts

The Poop Dilemma

Little monkey is pooping regularly now, I guess it was the Lipil which was making him “no go”. The boy would sit there and make all kind of face but poop would not pass. However, with the Prosobee formula he pooping like there is no tomorrow. I am kidding it was bad earlier but now its getting better he poops around 4-5 times a day and averages around 6-7 pees a day. It does makes me happy and relieved just knowing that his system is in check. Its funny we kept a poop/pee/feeding log in the beginning and showed it to the doctor. We are not keeping log any more. Peculiar thing about the poop is that he creates a lot of fuss while having one, While applying pressure he is really fussy. I guess he doesn’t like the feeling of being muddy down there. Unlike poop, pee doesn’t provide the same rush. However, on two occasions he caught us unguarded and pooped right one me during diaper change. I was actually proud as if its medal of honor.