my mum is on leave this whole week, and she volunteered to take care of yuanze. so we decided to put yuanze with my family from yesterday (the vesak day holiday) until this saturday.
the game plan is that darling will leave tampines in the afternoon. then i will stay with yuanze for a night so that if he becomes cranky at night, at least i will still be around if my mum cannot cope.
unfortunately, the game plan failed terribly yesterday night.
at 630 pm, my in-laws miss yuanze alot and my FIL told darling that he want to facetime with yuanze.
and so the facetime happened. what shocked both me and darling was that the moment yuanze saw darling, my in-laws and enxuan, he gave a very sad face and was about to cry. then when enxuan saw his sad face, she also gave a sad face.
in the evening my parents gave me a little shock, saying that they are going to a wake later at night. which means i will be alone with yuanze. actually i am totally ok with being alone with yuanze, as i am alone with him before, and i still can manage feeding him, changing his diapers, and putting him to sleep.
so at 730 pm i start to feed him milk. prepared 150 ml for him and he drank 140 ml and didnt want to drink the remaining 10 ml despite several persuasions and change in locations. we always need to change a few permutations in order to "scam" him in drinking his milk, for example prepare toys, mimick sounds of animals, read storybook, change his location from bedroom 1 to bedroom 2 to bedroom 3 and to living room, etc etc.
745 pm start to put him to sleep, and to my relief, within 10 minutes he fell asleep. the funny thing is that he was sucking his pacifier very hard and i dunno whether is he feeling hungry again. then i went about to do some chores such as cleaning his milk bottles and sterilising the milk bottles.
810 pm i peek at him. still sound asleep. so i went to the sofa to take a look at my hp. and at 815 pm he suddenly cried. so i rush to the yaolan and start to shake his yaolan and comfort him. it didnt get any better. his cries was getting louder and louder.
i was feeling helpless and at 834 pm i called darling for SOS. on the phone to speaker mode, and she start to sing twinkle twinkle little star. that did calm him down, but only for about 5 min. and the crying continued. so i carried him in my arms and swayed him, following exactly what darling did whenever he cry, but it did not work. he was still crying at the top of his voice. called darling for help again. on the phone to speaker mode again. but it did not help. so i told darling to come down to tampines.
and then i called both my parents for SOS. and both of them didnt pick up the phone. and they took my car to go to the wake because my little sis took my dad's car. GG liao lor. because the moment when i told darling to come down, we decided to bring yuanze back to woodlands. no more staying at tampines.
darling suggested bringing him to my parents' bedroom to on the aircon. because all the while he is sleeping in aircon environment. in tampines he sleeps in the dining room which there is no air con. so i brought him to my parents room and on the air con. then darling also told me to play a particular video of him and enxuan interacting, which he likes watching. so i played the video for him to watch, and for 5 minutes, he stopped crying. but after that, he start to cry again.
and i dunno whether is he hungry a not. so with him in one arm, i made milk with my right hand. so i created quite a mess. feed him, but he dun want to drink. so darling said why he suck the pacifier so loudly is because his gums was very itchy due to teething.
and thank goodness darling finally arrived in her uber car at 915 pm. and off we went to woodlands.
so here it is. the worst 45 minutes of my life.
