mama series

Hello All!

Welcome to my new site.  What does everyone think?  I myself am happy with it. Now I can “reply” to each comments, which blogger didn’t allow me to do. Special thanks to my dear friend, Naoko, who did the make-over for me!

This year I actually was on the receiving of Mother’s day presents! It was such a strange feeling to wake up and actually have a present waiting for me on Mother’s Day.  It still feels strange to me that I’m a “mother” now. Andy was thoughtful as usual.  He failed a little (He forgot to wrap the gifts) but he did remember to buy something and it wasn’t a book (there is a story that goes along with that comment).  Anyway We went out to Odaiba on Saturday to do some photo shoot scouting and while there had the opportunity to hit up there awesome shopping spots.  While I was meeting up with a photographer, Andy and Kiko went out on a hunt of there own.  Apparently, Andy brought various presents in front of Kiko and “let her choose”  depending on the sound she made.  Kiko really liked the Coach bag he showed her but Andy told her no because of the price.  Eventually Kiko cooed a happy sound when shown a bottle of Samourai perfume and a teddy bear holding a flower…you can see the pics above 🙂  What did you guys get on your first Mothers Day?  Are you supposed to keep the items?  In Japan they keep every first thing, even the umbilical chord when that falls off. The hospital gave a little wooden box for me to keep the umbilical chord. I actually threw away SK’s umbilical chord when it fell off, which made my mother mad for not following the tradition!

I also I need to give a big thank you hug to Amber of Willow Would for sending Sophia  an adorable set of baby moccasins.  You can see them above.  She wore them more than three times to her little outings already! Amber also sent me a link for the tutorial and free pattern on how to make these tiny shoes here.  I will definitely make another pair when little S.K. becomes bigger S.K.

Thank you for all your advice and encouragement on breast feeding last week! I thought I was the rare one who was having the engorgement problem, so it was comforting to know that other people face the same problem as well. You are right, it DID get better. Although it is not completely pain free, I can see the improvement I made in a week. I think my body is adjusting the milk production to the baby’s needs, and also the baby is drinking more, which helps a lot. I read about the cabbage leaf thing for engorgement help while I was doing some research online. I’ve never tried it since it sounds like a lot of work to prepare, but I read about it all over the place. It sounds like of strange to me that such an ancient method helps!

So here is one of my favorite outfits for Sophia from my father-in-law – lion suit! The suit has a tail as well:p
I can’t believe how much she’s grown in the past two weeks. I can see her getting bigger by the day.

I gained total of 10kg through out my pregnancy. Two days after the delivery, I stepped on a scale at the hospital, and almost screamed, since I only lost 2kg! It was mathematically incorrect – the baby weighted 3.6kg, plus water and placenta (I’m assuming it to be 2-3kg), and I lost twice as much blood than normal during delivery. I was expecting to see 5-7kg weight loss.
But a week after the delivery, I ended up loosing 8kg without doing much – no change in eating or no exercise. Now it’s been two weeks, the last 2kg hasn’t come out yet. Once I get the doctor’s go-ahead, I’m going back to doing a hard work out, so I can fit in to the dress I made for my self for the 1940’s swing dress sew-along!