Daddy-Withdrawal-Symptom
Monday, 13 June, 2005
General | 笔者: Twinsmom
As long daddy by our side, who afraid of storm?
Right now the girls already 2 and the half years old, they still co-bed with us at night, me and Twinsdad sleep in the middle, Isabelle on Twinsdad’s right hand side, Annabelle on my left hand side.
Every middle of the night Isabelle will wake up looking for her daddy, then rest her upper body on daddy’s chest or tummy continue her dream. Sometime she sees me and daddy cuddling, or sleep very close together, she will squeeze in between two of us, this result in the morning we found she is in the middle of us.
After we came back from Cherating, Twinsdad down with flu, to avoid pass it to the girls and me, he sleep in the living room like before.
That night I sleep with the girls alone.
Middle of the night Isabelle woke up, she know I’m not her daddy, she sit up looks across me see her daddy on the other side or not. Nope, not on the other side.
Looks around then found daddy not in the room at all. She started whining:
“Woo…woo…woo…daddy…”
“Daddy go work work already, come mommy here.” Try to hold her to sleep on my tummy.
“NO! Don’t want! *whining* woo…woo…woo…”
“Come here lar, daddy not here lar.” Try to carry her.
“Don’t want, don’t want, don’t want…” Hand keeps waving brushing me away and keeps whining: “I want daddy…woo…woo…woo…daddy…daddy…”
I keep repeating the same old reason, and she just keeps do the same respond to me. Minutes later she got tired, search for her water bottle slept on my chest.
Half an hour later start all over again.
4-5 times, last for about 2-3 hours in total, until dawn she got really tired fell in sleep until morning. Next day she and mommy all became panda bear.
This is one of her daddy-withdrawal-symptom.
Another type of daddy-withdrawal-symptom usually happens in the morning when Twinsdad start going back to work after weekend, or his long annual leave.
During weekend and daddy on leave, Isabelle sees her daddy by her side every morning when she woke up, she and Annabelle will gives thier daddy a big smile and greet him:
“Hi daddy!” then jump on his tummy giggling.
So they hates their daddy not around when they woke up, especially after few mornings seeing daddy around.
This morning again, Isabelle cried and cried because daddy not around, *breath in, breath out* took me whole morning to calm her down. Tried to use all sort of things to distract her, in the end I saved by the
Whereas Annabelle not so bad, she will wants daddy carry too, but reason to her few times, she will be happily settle with a hug and kiss.
Twinsdad said this is very heart breaking for him, he so wants to stay and cuddling them, but he has to go to work, so every time this situation happen he will say he is going to buy lottery.
Like some of the contemporary doting dad (can name a few in blog sphere 
) Twinsdad spend a lot of time with the children, beside the office hour, he see the girls day and night and even lunch time (Twinsdad come back for lunch everyday, the office just too near from home), he amazed his friends by looking after the girls for two night when they was 2 ½ months old (blog about the detail, how a man look after a pair of infant), while I off to Singapore attend my youngest brother’s wedding.
Sometime during afternoon nap the girls one will sleep on his chest, one on his tummy.
That is a reason the girls so attach to him.
I think Msau’s Fatty did that too, but can’t find the picture.
These apply to mommy too, but this blog I just want to talk about bonding in between baby and daddy.
Beside me taking care of his diet, Twinsdad has to take care of himself too, because he is very important to the family, especially to our girls, emotionally.
Happy Father’s Day to Twinsdad,
Happy Father’s Day to my dad,
Happy Father’s Day to my younger brother and all the daddies.
(psstt…seriously, which weekend of this month is the Father’s Day?)
Yaloh, very important to build when kids are small. My bonding with my dad also not strong and it was very very bad when i was small, especially throughout my 6 years in primary school.
Err, I think it is this Sunday ler.
Jason, I think usually father a bit strick to son lar, you see your dad more manja your sisters or not? don’t you think so?
oh, this sunday kah, I thought last sunday :P, thanks wor.
cute little girls
its this sunday!
so sweet…daddy and isabelle..
mommy no jealous hubby is in love with another ‘woman’ meh?
et
hah…I think daughters have special bond with their fathers. Same case in my house. My girls,especially the eldest, very manja with their abah. Maybe also because their mother is sometimes like dragon, so garang. Hehehehe
hehe..same like my twins. Carol love her daddy and Carrie love me so much..our son love us so much too.
Luckily both of them sleep with me.. left site is the twins and right site is my son, 1+2dad next to my son.So all of them stick with me, if not when 1+2dad got business trip i banyak susah lor if they want to find daddy.
If got long holiday, my son also like Isa will ask for daddy. But he not like Isa wont believe me, after i told him he will go back to sleep
Very nice pic, twinsdad and 2 cuties watching the rain.
twinsmom said…
Jason, I think usually father a bit strick to son lar, you see your dad more manja your sisters or not? don’t you think so?
oh, this sunday kah, I thought last sunday :P, thanks wor.
Milly said..
erm…. i kinda agree bout this.. see, my dad more manja wif me instead of brother… mummy will more on brother… but all the time, i’m the 1 who manja alot… uhuhu…
luckily when i small i din do that to dadibee when he go to work.. if not mamibee will beat me, cos wanna train me mah.. at nite will sleep at dadibee chest n listen to the heart beat… haha..is kinda nice ler..but very hot..!!
the bond wif daddy like loosen abit nowadays, dunnoe is becos he always not at home.. or what..i dunoe.. but stil can say daddy’s gal!!
Kancil Killer, *beaming* thanks.
ic3_que3n, thanks, you are in marketing field should know better :D.
ET, I never jeles wan, seriously, nothing make me more happy that the girls adore their daddy so much, even more than me.
along, hahaha…I guess that might be the reason the girls want to be more close to daddy, mommy so fierce!
1+2mom, so you are the “center attraction” liao? LOL.
SS, I curi your photo :P.
Milly, when grown upalready the way to bond will be different lor, not much hug and kiss I guess, I still hold my dad’s hand when crossing the road, this is another way of bonding lor :-).
I see you not only very manja to daddy, very manja to mommy too leh :D.
yalor..previously our papa really didn’t carry us wan ler..now always carry SQ here & there..haha..
I let Fatty carry SQ when he with me..(altho fatty complain about SQ’s weight liao)..hahaa..SQ love to play ‘ride cow cow’ with her papa..Wish to bond them lah..like tat I mai free lor..hahahahaa
My daughter also has better bonding with daddy than my son but both of them stick like glue to me. If they got daddy-withdrawal-symptom, I would be happy, becos like msau said, than more free mah. Hehe.
msau and MG, tsk tsk tsk…more free time wor…lol…true also lar.
The world terbalik liao!!!
Hahaha…Mr.Kiasi, no lar, the world where got terbalik, you staying in south pole right?
Strange, why you and twinsdad sleep in middle and the twins sleep at the sides? Won’t you scare they fall down? When I let Ian sleep with us, he is always in the center.
lazybone, we put the mattress on the floor, one queen size and one single size, just nice from wall to the storage, so no problem lor :D.
erm..last tiem is very manja to dadibee now is manja to mamibee..
erm..stil got hug n kiss..ehhehe… stil do it every day when dadibee is at homelar… but seldom to mamibee..cos she dunlike o.. haha… now more on mamibee lar… aigh..sad to tell that..!! see my blog u will noe what happen to mamibee..
Hehehe!! twinsmom.. this weekend.. my dear..
I also got a picture of chloe sleeping on MrT..