Another visit to the Doctor's

As chubs is still having an on-off cough, MIL is rather worried though I find that there's no major cause for concern as chubs didn't cough much during my weekend time with her. MIL thinks that her cough needs to be checked again just to be safe.

Since I was down with fever Fri/Sat, I thought it better not to go to the clinic with them so I got hubs to go with them. What I heard from hubs is that Doctor, after listening to chubs' lungs and airways, find that there's no major concern. Her airways' rather clear and the coughing could just be due to irritation/allergic to dust. So chubs was prescribed with medication to 补her lungs.

Glad to hear that she's been given the all-clear for her bad flu/cough. Now I just have to minimise my contact with her lest she gets any virus from me. God, please give me the all-clear soonish too so I can hug and kiss and cuddle my baby without worries!

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Precious time at my place

Didn't manage to take photos of chubs and my parents over this weekend because we were too busy making full use of the precious time we have with her at my place. Brought her over only on Saturday night instead of Friday because I was still rather sick and didn't wanna pass it to her. So we only had a full Sunday to play with her. Even then, we had to bring her to my MIL's place early at around 4p.m. as I promised to help out a friend of a friend at a wedding photoshoot at ECP later in the evening.

Photos:

On the way back to Nainai's place

Saturday!

Grouchy look

In the series of photos below, chubs actually seemed like she's walking! Funny!

This photo is especially funny cos it seems like she's going to fake-cry. Hahaha!

Great grandmother's birthday

This evening we had to attend chubs' great-grandmother's(maternal side) birthday at her place in Balestier. We didn't take too many pictures because there were too many people there, the place was a little cramped and the weather hot and humid. So just enjoy the few below:

Chubs in Yeye's lap playing with her toy

Looking up at something(her fan, i think) Daddy is holding

Yeye letting chubs play with the fan (!)

chubs with her Cerisi hat(courtesy of Nainai) - had her wear it because it was raining when we were going home

That's all!

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Photolog

Nothing much has been happening lately except for the fact that I've quit and I'm still sick -_-"

Photos of the day:

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Photolog

Playing with her "handphone" - she loves this!

Photos do the talking

Nothing much happened today so I'll just let the photos do the "talking":

   

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FIL's actual birthday

Though I'm still down with flu and was supposed to stay away from chubs to avoid passing on my virus to her, hubs and I decided to drop by anyway as it's my FIL's birthday.

Dinner was shabu-shabu and since I did not have much appetite, I only settled for vegetables and fishballs. But maybe like what hubs said, I was just saving my stomach for the cake from Awfully Chocolate! I even got him to buy their ice-cream for me too. Pretty expensive though!

After dinner and cake-cutting, we stayed on to witness chubs doing her nebulizer thingy. According to my SIL and MIL, she's normally well-behaved during the sessions but tonight she was feeling rather cranky. We attributed it to the warm and humid weather since chubs is someone who pespires alot and loves air-conditioning. Poor little baby have to go without air-conditioning these few days(on doctor's orders). Get well soon darling! Then can sleep in air-conditioned room!

Pictures of the day:

 

Playing with chubs once we reached

Yummilicious cake!

Happy birthday boy with chubs(looks like chubs is blowing out the candles too huh!)

my little darling who kept her gaze on my camera while I snapped away

On the left: The nebulizer machine

On the right: the bottle and cap of medication(not Vendolin as mentioned in previous post)

All was well for ... 5 secs before chubs started to get restless and grouchy

We had to bring out Gui Gui(Gui as in Wu1 Gui1 - tortoise in Mandarin) and distract her with the counting song. Chubs was so cranky it took 4 of us to entertain her and keep her occupied while undergoing the treatment.

Get well soon darling!

xoxo

The day my chubs fell sick - sequel

After Monday's treatment for her blocked nose, we thought that would be the end of it for chubs and she's just going to get better. However, on my way back from work, I received a call from hubs saying she's coughing very badly and has an on-off fever the entire day(I heard this from my MIL too when I called her in the afternoon). They decided it was bad enough to make another trip to SBCC.

I met them there and since chubs was sleeping when I saw them, I thought things weren't so bad afterall. But my MIL said chubs had been coughing very badly through out the day and couldn't lie down properly. The moment she's being laid down, she will start coughing. This time round, we had Dr Ratna(chubs' PD is on leave till 4 Jun) look at chubs. After listening to her lungs, Dr Ratna said that chubs has a lot of phlegm and suggested using a nebulizer for chubs to inhale Ventolin(a medication to clear her airway) since she is not reacting well to taking Ventolin orally. Again, MIL said it's going to be a painful process for chubs and wasn't very keen on it. But this time round, hubs and I decided to go ahead with it as long as it's going to make chubs feel better.

During the process, my in-laws had to be there as they had to learn how to operate the nebulizer since they are chubs' primary caregivers. We had to loan the nebulizer and conduct the treatment on chubs thrice a day until Friday morning in order to eliminate her cough. The whole process wasn't as painful as I'd imagined it to be. With some of the information I found online and what I witnessed, basically it's like this:

- the nurse placed the liquid into the medication chamber of the nebulizer

- with one end of the face mask attached to the drug chamber and compressor, the nurse placed the other end over chubs' nose and mouth. Chubs had to breathe and inhale the medicine(approx. 5-10 mins) and the treatment was completed when the drug chamber had emptied totally.

There was some crying but it was nothing compared to yesterday's wailing. This time round, the treatment is much better because:

 (1) Nothing was inserted into chubs,

 (2) chubs was in my MIL's lap and was held by her, and

 (3) the Ventolin vapour that chubs had to inhale was odorless.

Her crying was more of a panicky cry and could be due to the following reasons:

 (a) the sound of the machine,

 (b) she could see clouds of vapour in front of her, blurring her vision,

 (c) MIL held on to her and restricted her movements, and

 (d) the face mask was over her nose and mouth.

As with yesterday's treatment for her nose, we could also sense an improvement in her cough and breathing after this nebulizer treatment.

Upon reaching my in-laws' place, we all felt chubs feeling better and my MIL said that as compared to the afternoon, chubs is now coughing much lesser and her cough sounds much better. Not as "tight" as before. Chubs looked and felt as active as before and when hubs and me left for home, she was rather smiley and alert and that set my mind at ease. What a relief!

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The day my chubs fell sick

I was on leave today and planned on going over to my in-laws' later in the afternoon. As I was still lazing in bed, I got a call from my MIL saying chubs wasn't feeling very well and coughing rather badly. She also has a very blocked nose and can barely breathe well, resulting in a disturbed sleep. They(both chubs and MIL) couldn't sleep well for the whole of Sunday night and Monday as chubs was coughing and gasping for air and very cranky. As much as she wanted to suck on her pacifier, she couldn't do it as she's now breathing through her mouth. Sucking the pacifier would mean not being able to breathe.

Decided to bring chubs for consultation at SBCC and took a cab to my MIL's so we could go together in 1 cab. As chubs' PD was on leave, we had to make do with another PD who was standing in for him.

Weighing in at 7.5 kgs

Once we got into the consultation room, the PD(Dr Goh) could hear right away that chubs' nose is way too congested to take the normal medication. He suggested using a machine to clear all her mucus as nose drops will not do the trick for such a blocked nose. According to my MIL, it's a painful process to watch as it's super uncomfortable for babies. She wasn't in favour of it as she can't bear to see chubs go through that. After confirming with Dr Goh that it's the best way to make her feel better, I decided to go ahead with it no matter how painful it's going to be. Boy, was I in for a heartbreaking session.

MIL couldn't bring herself to go into the treatment room with chubs and so only I was there with chubs and the nurse who's going to administer the treatment. The machine works like a vacuum cleaner and has a thin, long tubing which goes into babies' nose to suck out all mucus. I cannot even imagine how uncomfortable it will be to have that machine work on my nose, let alone chubs!

The nurse laid chubs on the bed and the moment she laid down, she wailed because she couldn't breathe well and mucus just "flew out" from her nose. The nurse had to swaddle her to prevent her from kicking and once she's under control, the nurse put the tubing into her nostrils and switched on the machine. The noise from the machine and the suction from the machine coupled with the fact she had no control over her body(cos she's swaddled), chubs began wailing REALLY LOUDLY. Not to mention heartbreaking. I have NEVER seen/heard her wail that way before. I held on to her feet tightly and kept telling her “妈咪在这里，不要怕！” ("Don't be afraid, Mummy's here!")  My heart just broke and I began sobbing along with her. Even now as I'm typing this, my eyes welled up as the scene re-run in my mind. I was even wondering if she's thinking why mummy is doing that to her. After what seemed like eternity and sucking out a whole lot of mucus later, it's finally over. I quickly held her in my arms to comfort her and calm her down, letting her know everything is over. Immediately I could hear the difference in her breathing. She could breathe a lot easier and her wheezing was reduced drastically. As painful as the process was, I was glad I opted for that.

She felt so much better after the treatment that she fell asleep(which she had to failed to do so since yesterday night) in my arms on the way back to my MIL's place. Although the nap was a rather short one, we were glad she managed to get some rest and good thing was, she wasn't lethargic and was back to her active, bubbly self.

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Long Sunday!

Sunday was lined-up with 3 activities namely: a trip to my parents' place for their weekly chubs time, going to Cayla's, my cousin Aiyun's baby girl, first month celebration and dinner with my in-laws in celebration of my FIL's birthday(his birthday is on the 20th).

After we woke up, lazed around for a while and washed up, it was noon. Quickly, we packed chubs' stuffs for the day and headed to my parents' place so they could enjoy some chubs-time before we proceeded with our busy day.

After hanging out with Gonggong and Popo for a couple of hours, we set off to Baby Cayla's celebration at Sengkang. Baby Cayla's first month celebration was held at the function room at Aunty Yvonne's condo. It was rather crowded with adults and children alike and the buffet was rather yummy! Too bad chubs can't enjoy the food yet. Soon, OK darling?

In her pram while daddy mummy are eating

Playing peek-a-boo with my elder bro, chubs' Dua Gu

Gong gong loveees to hug chubs

My bro having a go at carrying chubs but .... failed as evident from the pictures above. She cried at both his attempts. Not sure if she cried because her pacifier dropped or my bro was smelly that day. HAHAHA...

Later in the evening, we proceeded to Senki Japanese Restaurant at Killiney Road for my FIL's birthday dinner. She appeared rather lethargic and wasn't in so much of a chirpy mood and we thought she was just tired. Little did we know a flu/cold was slowly brewing ...

One half of the dinner group

The other half

One of the people who lovesssss chubs to bits - her Da Gu

Both my MIL and FIL looking happy with the little imp

Upon looking at the pictures of the day, I realised that whenever we attend any gatherings, there would only be a couple of pictures or none taken with only the 3 of us(hubs, chubs and me).  It's always of her with others. Guess it could be due to the fact that we're often the ones armed with cameras and going around taking pictures of her or probably because people think that both of us must have taken lotsa pictures with her whenever we spend time with her - which is not the case because most of the times, we would only take her portraits and only sometimes, either one of us will be in the picture with her. Note to self: Must improve on this and remember to take more family portraits! :)

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