Last visit

19 Aug

the doctor called to let us know that Minzy will be getting her MRI scan and will need to be anaesthesized before that. usually mri scans are done just before babies get discharged. i wonder why minzy's was done so soon. in any case... she was about 1.85kg, still far from her surgery weight... she was also only drinking 22cc. just nice since i'm only producing 25 per boob T_T they also told us that they have downgraded her respirator to the smaller one so hopefully she will take that well.

22 Aug

Not much difference, she grew 10g to 1.95kg. Maybe when we see her she would be 2kg!

23 Aug

Due to the church-spread covid in korea... our hospitals raised their social distancing level and ban visitors from visiting NICU. a message was sent to our registered numbers on the 21st saying that it will be implemented from monday (24th) onwards. 

i sent it to nampyeon hoping that i had read it wrongly. but it was true. so we quickly called the hospital to verify and told them we would be coming down on sunday for a last visit T_T just before the ban sets in.

we carried one whole luggage of breastmilk over (about 2 weeks worth) since we wouldn't be able to visit once a week anymore (but our space and ice pack was limited so we couldn't carry more). when we reached, nampyeon went in first since it was time for me to pump.

minzy was sleeping so so soundly when he was there. the one good thing since she got out of the box was our freedom to touch (and disturb her). so nampyeon disturbed her.

a cute little yawn

she does like grabbing fingers / scratching hands. i love it when her little hand escapes from her swaddle and she puts it on her face like that.

she gave a little smile at the end! it's a smile right?

when i went in, she was very very much awake.

or rather she looks like she was in shock or surprised. her face was like that from the moment i entered. it was so funny.

the nurse told me that i could carry her after that and i held her for the first time in my arms. unfortunately i couldn't take photos of my first hug of her, but i slowly managed to hold her with just one arm. she was only 2kg, so light, so it was possible with one arm. she looked at me with such shocked, big eyes. however, she started struggling after a while and i wondered if it was because i held her uncomfortably though the nurse said it was ok. my neck got tired after a while and because she was struggling so much i was afraid i would drop her and i placed her back in the incubator. by then she already had one arm out.

not sure why but she started crying and i could see tears T_T poor minzy. her voice was much louder than before and she cried intermittently. i didn't really know what to do except to pat and coo her.

eventually the nurse came and change her diapers and re-wrapped her so she had no more arm sticking out. but she was still sticking out her tongue and making funny faces.

it looked really cute and funny but i sure hope she isn't in pain or anything...! this is the last time i was gonna see her for a long, long time. i hope she doesn't forget me... T_T

since we came all the way to seoul, we thought we might as well do a little shopping and eat some good food. we headed to the express bus terminal and ate at a teppanyaki place. the noodles were so asian! i like it because it reminded me of sg food.

went to get waffles and bubble tea from the basement supermarket as well. it was cold and not so good. sad. the alley forever does not have the crushed crunchy milk tea i want to try. why...

i pumped twice at the nursing room here (at shinsegae shopping mall). it was so big and posh!! spot the tripp trapp chairs there... wow!

there's even a playground just next to the nursing room. it's a kids floor so they've everything moms need~

however, everything was expensive here. still, there was this baby drool cape that i really like, where you could customize the embroidered writing on it. so i got one for minzy. nevermind it's about 50bucks for a piece of cloth that babies are supposed to get their saliva on... it's still pretty!!

after 1.5hrs spent in the nursing room, 4hrs of journey back and forth, we really don't have much time. so we headed home after that. even nursing rooms are closed at 8pm so we couldn't really linger any longer.