Jet has grown stronger this month and more active too. His neck now is strong enough to keep his head straight, his back is also getting stronger, thus we are able to sit him upright for a period of time.

He’s quite active while he sleeps. During sleep somehow he likes to move closer to Lina. Lina also claimed that Jet tried to wake her up by gently stroking her face and muttering some baby words.

No longer Jet puts the whole hand into the mouth (maybe it’s getting to big to put into his mouth), but he now selectively picked his right hand thumb as his favourite sucking object. This is something that we are trying to prevent him from doing. One way to prevent him from doing this is to put a mitten on, however he has discovered ways to take off his mitten.. He usually suck his thumb whenever he wants to sleep, Lina is trying some things to prevent this from becoming his sleeping habit.

Jet dislikes playing by himself for a long period of time, when he’s bored he will shout for attention. Hm, beginning to act like a small boss..

Jet has also been known to laugh louder and longer now. He’s easily amused and hence we are able to make him smile on most of his pictures.

Jet’s traveled overseas for the first time of his life. Thank God he had been very good on the plane both on the way to Indo and back from Indo. He also had no health problems whatsoever which is very good.

Jet did a photo shoot on a kid photo studio. The result was really good and cute! My favourite is Jet dressed as a watermelon.

Coming back home, it’s decided that his patchy hair does not look good and thus a shaving of the head is needed.

Now he’s plontos, Lina called him Jet Gunawan (gundul menawan). Hm.

That’s Opa, Jet. When you got out from the womb, the first thing that I noticed was your nose, it’s Opa’s nose. Oma said it too when she first met you. Opa meninggal yesterday, it’s too bad you’ll never know him well. He would be a great Opa for you, just by the look of his face, I know he loved you so much. My hope is Jet, that I will be even a better father than him.

2nd month, Jet is getting more chattery, if he’s in the mood, you might be able to get a conversation out of him.

It was an emotional day for lina, me (to some extent) and her parents. Ama and engkong left today after 2 months staying with us, helping out with things so that Lina can concentrate on Jet.

Jet has started to making sound, he used to make a “la la” sound, now his favourite sound is “genggeng” (in indo pronounciation), sometimes he makes a “inggih” sound too (which means yes in javanese). Can’t wait for his first proper word.

When people ask how is it going with the baby, our response was always “oh the baby is good, we are able to sleep through the night” etc2, well it hasn’t been the case for the past week or so. Jet is restless after the last feed of the day (around 11pm – 12am) when he’s supposed to start sleeping, sometimes it takes 1 hour just to get him to sleep. Not sure whether he is sick, better check with a doctor/GP soon.

We had some fun today, dressing up Jet and taking pictures.

Jeremiah is one month old today. Bought a cake, with a thought of taking family picture, but home tonight was not a perfect picture taking night, so we’re saving the picture taking session for tomorrow.

Jet’s hair has fallen quite a bit, he’s gonna be bald soon I guess (hm bald.. dad’s worst nightmare). Jet skin’s seems to be improving now, the redness has subside but the “pimples” are still there.

Apparently 1 month is a big thing for Indo ppl, mom in sby has been sending out gifts to relatives and close friends. Lina and her mom made some red eggs to share with ppl too, maybe with Pelitan ppl.

I’m blogging this with my right hand while holding jet using my left, boy this is hard work. Hm, when Jet gets heavier maybe I can use him for my weight training, now that I have even less time for exercise.

Jet smiled more often starting 2 days ago maybe he already got over the birth trauma, or maybe he just knew that he can actually smile, boy the smile really melts my hart. People (read family) have also noticed that his eyes are getting larger now, so large that sometimes he gives us that ‘evil’ stare, creepily cute.

Someone gave us “a toy” that can play those kid tunes, Jet didn’t like it, he covered his ears (at least that’s what i think) whenever we turned it on. He doesn’t mind my normal music, which include a healthy dose of rock music, but I also try to include classical music to balance it out.

Friday night 21/05/2006, the contraction started to feel a bit different than usual, was prepared
to go, but the contractions weren’t sustained, they subsided on the following Saturday morning.

Saturday 22/05/2006, we just stayed at home. At night the same story happened, more contractions,
quite regular and the pain was increasing. But just like the Friday night’s the contractions didn’t
last. Lina managed to sleep just 2 hours starting at about 4am ish, by the time she woke up, the
contractions were irregular and decreasing in intensity, we were dissapointed. And it’s quite obvious that the lack
of sleep has started to taken its toll on Lina.

Sunday 23/07/2006, we skipped church today, Lina was quite cheerful today, she managed to watch
Full Metal Panic the whole afternoon, and me playing Call of Duty. The basketball wasn’t on, which is probably a good thing
as of Sunday night was the beginning of the tough journey for both of us. Sunday night, like before the contractions
were there, again it was increasing in intensity compared to the day before. The fact that Lina
hasn’t been able to sleep properly for 2 nights, make the pain even more painful for her.
On the
5th call to the hospital (starting from Friday), the hospital finally told her to come in for a check.
It was about 9.30pm. The result of the check, was quite dissapointing for both of us (and our family
who were eager to get the show going), the contractions in 2-3 days only produced a 1cm dilation (which means Lina was still in pre-labour stage, a long way to go they said).
Lina was given pain relief and asked whether she would like to
stay on the hospital or going home and try to get sleep and rest, we opted for staying home.

Monday, 24/07.
At home, the pain killer didn’t really help with the pain, at 2.30am, Lina still in terrible pain,
she found a trace of blood, we called the hospital and again we came to the hospital, this time we
were staying in.
Today the contractions were quite regular (to us, but apparently not for the hospital people), the intervals were shorter, the only thing that’s irregular is the pain intensity (the pain was definetely far greater than before, but it is not always increasing with each contractions). They kept on telling us: “it’s still going to be awhile”.
As a husband, it’s quite tough experience to see you wife is pain and you really can’t do anything about it, if we husbands can share half of the pain that would be great wouldn’t it?
Tuesday 25/07.
Jet was born on 6.23am. He cried after came out, he wasn’t as loud as I expected, and he didn’t really
cry for long.
It’s time for dad to face up early challenges. With quite tired, managed to assemble the stroller.
I doubt that we will use it soon, but I think it’s a good idea to have it handy anyway.

Wednesday, 26/07
In the afternoon, finally the car seat’s instruction booklet started to make sense. I tell ya, it was
a poorly written booklet. Install it in our car.
Came to visit Lina and jet again. Attended a bathing class at the hospital, I was the one who bathed
the baby, as Lina’s hand is not allowed to get wet as she’s got a wound from the IV.