Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Fish, Fish, Fish

Baby loves fish. Dead or Alive.

She loves seeing little fishes swimming in the aquarium.

She loves feeding grandma's peacock fish on every visit.

She loves playing with the fierce little blood parrot fish at hometown which charges back when baby tap on the glass.

She loves visiting the fishmonger and

She loves eating fish.

She will request for fish whenever there's fish served on the dining table. She can finish almost 1/2 of the salmon steak served at IKEA, sitting obediently and eating on her own.

Switching back to Porridge

Baby has not been eating her rice recently especially after a few weeks on and off illness. I am having a hard time feeding her with rice. Running after her all around the house and only managed to feed her a few spoonful of rice. Hence we decide to switched her back to porridge. The porridge as before, consist mainly a small piece of pork or chicken, some carrots, tomatoes, cauliflower and broccoli.

It's really happy to see her finishing at least 1 1/2 bowl (rice bowl size) of porridge during dinner time now although some chasing around is still required but that usually happens after she wallop up 1 bowl of porridge.

Dressing Up and Down

Few months ago, baby had learned to take off her diapers before each bathing session.

Recently, she had learned to take off her pants too! All by herself.

Few days ago, baby surprised me when she managed to wear her own pajamas pants without me helping.

She will sit at the side of her bed, put her little legs through the hole, stand up and pull the pants up. The back part of the pants will usually get stucked under her diapers tough but it's really a big achievement for baby.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

C.O.L.O.R.S

Baby is very fond of drawings and colors.

She started scribbling with pencil and color pencils when she is 18 months old.

Later when she is introduced to crayons, she went mad about it. However, what she enjoys more is to peel off the little piece of wrapper on the crayons!

To make drawings more fun, i put up a very big cardboard on one of the walls in our study room and draws all sort of pictures that baby is familiar with. She loves to request me tracing her little feet and hands. I even managed to traced baby from head to toe in one of the corner. It acts well as a measurement of her height.

Recently, baby is fond of watercolors. She doesn't really color a lot but loves to mess around with the bottle of water instead. Pouring water into the color plate, spill in onto the stack of newspaper and draw with her little hands. Maybe i should start doing handprints with her. Lets see how it goes.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

High Fever of 39 - 40c

Baby was down with high fever a day after our trip back to Johor.

The fever came suddenly when baby woke up early in the morning.

7 December 2010
8:30am - Baby was a bit heaty but she remains cheerful and plays well.

11:00am - Baby's temperature goes up to 39c. She was given a dose of 3ml PCM.

2:30pm - Baby's temperature remains high. She was given a dose of Veron.

4:00pm - Veron takes effect. Baby's temperature finally subside.

6:30pm - Baby's temperature rise again. Veron which is supposed to work for 6-8 hours had failed.

7:30pm - Baby was brought to the child specialist. Her temperature reaches 40.5c and she was given another dose of Veron. Doctor diagnosed baby as having viral infection.

10:30pm - Baby's temperature remains at 38c level. She was given a dose of 3ml PCM.


8 December 2010
3:30am - Baby's temperature rosed to 39c again! She was given a dose of 3ml PCM however both me and hubby started to get panic and decided to sent baby to the Hospital.

4:15am - Reached hospital and baby's temperature remains at 39.4c. Doctor at the emergency ward gave her another dose of Veron.

This time, the medication finally succeed in lowering baby's temperature and she managed to sleep well throughout the journey back home until the next morning.

We will need to send baby back to the hospital for blood test if the fever boils up again. Pray hard that baby will recover soon.

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Advise on the use of Veron.
 - Max tablet per day = 3 (use one at 8 hours interval when necessary)
 - If fever strikes before 8 hours time, use liquid PCM instead  and only use Veron 4 hours after liquid PCM.
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Updates 1:

Baby sleeps through the whole morning. The last dose of veron works for 8.5 hours and high fever of 39c strikes again around 1 noon. She vomited half way through her milk intake and had smelly, black poo.

1:30pm : Another dose of Veron is given to baby. Baby is weak as she had only consume water and some soup for the whole day. Her body is slightly colder than normal temperature.

9:30pm : Baby encounter slight feverish at around 38.3c.

10:30pm: A dose of 3ml PCM was given as baby is refusing Veron. She don't even allowed me to touch her diapers and clean her buttock.

9 December 2010
1:30am : Temperature check - hoovering around 37.8c to 38c.

7:30am: Temperature check - hoovering around 37.8c to 38c. Baby given a dose of 3ml PCM.

Although baby is not fully recovered, the improvement makes everyone felt relief.
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Updates 2:

Baby is finally recovered from fever. However, she is still bloated and vomitted during her afternoon milk.

She is still eating very little and is reluctant to sleep at night.

She is having nightmare for the past few nights where she screams her lungs out and kicking hard for at least 10 minutes.

I Am Not Afraid Of The Wave

Hubby's hometown is surrounded by wonderful beaches. Everytime we went home, we will surely spend some time at the beach.

1st visit to the beach, baby was terrified. She won't even dare to put her legs on the soft sand.

2nd visit to the beach, baby managed to sit on the sand and play with her sand tools.

3rd visit to the beach, baby managed to walk on the sand but still reluctant to go near the waves/sea.

4th visit to the beach (few days ago), baby runs on the beach and managed to stand at the sea side waiting for the waves to wash her little feet.

I think the next visit to the beach, baby will runs towards the sea without me holding her hands.