wormy's first day out!

okie, technically wormy has get out and about more than once. those visits to PD, shuffle between houses for my confinement period etc. but today is wormy FIRST day out to town. what a pity that he cant really see the xmas decor for what they are. this year's one is simply fantastic - purple & silver - my fav!

anyway, hubbi & i wanted to get some thermal flasks for the house & when we are out on the road. as isetan is having a TIGER sale now, we decided to go n take a look. so how to go out with a time-bomb (one who will wail anytime anywhere anyhow)? we satisfied all his needs in advance! heh. so we bathe wormy, clothed him in nice clothings, feed him till full full then rock him to dreamland before leaving the house. :)


me, hubbi + a soundly asleep wormy!

its also wormy's 1st time sitting in his baby car seat. apparantly, he hated it initially. guess lying in my arms is so much more comfortable than the seat. heez. see how his tiny face scrunged up.

how can someone so young look so old? lolz. hubbi & i like to laugh at him when he makes this face. like a tiny frog with the eyelids popping out!

but before long, the rocking of the travelling car started to sooth him & he fell back to deep slumber again.

frown due to my flash. i know, im a bad mum. :P

all set to go shop shop!

so far, the mini trip has only 2 minor hiccups when wormy decided to wail when we doing the shopping. luckily, he was quickly soothed before putting back to the pram. and when we shift him from the pram to the car seat at the end of the trip, i realised his urine has somehow leaked to part of his back!! so poor wormy has to be partly drenched in his own pee on the way back.

in all, our little mini trip only lasted all of an hour plus. lolz. we were scared that the air-con outside is too cold for him and he'll fall sick again.

oh well, wormy, we'll go out more often when you get bigger and stronger, ya?

poor little wormy... fell sick last week (long post ahead)

it all started on last tuesday night when i was breastfeeding wormy. suddenly i felt that he feels hot to my touch, esp the part where the nape of his neck resting on the inside of my elbow.
using the pigeon themometer we bought last time, i proceeded to measure baby's temperature. *anyway, i hate pigeon themometer! it takes like FOREVER to measure the temperature! not helping at all! bah!*

imagine my horror when the reading said 37.67 degree celcius! still, the instructions behind the pigeon box states that a fever exists only if temperature hits above 37.8. so, a flustered me went to look for hubbi for advise. he's sleeping in another room for he's recovering from a flu+fever (yesh, he's most likely to be the main culprit for passing the virus to wormy!! grr...!). as usual, nonchalent him stated there is no basis for alarm for it didnt exceed the stated temperature of 37.8 & my MIL (mother-in-law) assured me that baby's body temperature is naturally higher than that of adults. ignorant me went with their comments as i didnt want to be a drama queen and rush wormy to the clinic late at night. what a mistake. :( i should have trusted my mummy's instinct. :( no way am i gonna let people dissuade me from what i think best for my baby next time. :(

ANYWAY, come next day and i didnt follow up much as baby seems to be his usual self. fussy for milk and all. but that evening when i was holding wormy, i distinctly felt that he was really hot and so i measured his temperature again even though the rest kept on assuring me that he cant be having fever.. and horrors of all horrors, the reading said 38.2 this time!!
hubbi and i quickly brought him to a GP for consultation which the GP prescribed some fever medicine and advised that if the fever didnt subsided by night, we should bring him to hospital for further check up given that he's still under 1 mth.

so we gave the 1st dose at 6pm and the fever seemed to go down ard 10+ but comes midnight for the second dose, the fever went up again. so we waited no more and rushed wormy to thomson medical for further check up. everything happened in a blur from then on. we were told that he has to be admitted based on the advice of my PD (who's rushing down to the hospital then to check on wormy). and worse, there's no wards available except for 4 bedded room for baby. PD came and checked on wormy and said there's no conclusive diagnosis and that they've to take blood & urine tests of wormy to see what's the cause of the fever.

and they took him to a room and asked us to wait outside while they take the blood sample. i was so upset when i started hearing wormy's screaming in the room and the whole thing continued for a good ten minutes. by the time i was allowed into the room, wormy had gone all quiet and had a daze look. i was so sad seeing him like this. :( apparantly, they had drew the blood amount they required from his feet and taped this plastic thingy round his privates to collect his next urine. i was instructed to check every hour urine output and call for nurse when that happen. and they actually had wormy hand on driP!! for antibiotics purpose. sobz, im so sad he had to go through this at so young an age! and dripping antibiotics hurt like hell!!
then hubbi & my in-laws left as only 1 parent is allowed to stay and there;s no point in hubbi staying for he's down with illness too. :(

so, imagine my lonliness in the 4 bedded ward, cold and with my sick wormy who was lerthagic from all the pain & medication. :( luckily we changed to a 2 bedded ward the very next day which is the same as a single since the other bed is not occupied.

wormy actually stayed 2 more nights (thursday + friday) as the fever comes n go and we need to monitor it. luckily, the blood + urine tests came back okie & PD concluded he just got throat infection which leads to the fever. so poor little wormy has to consume cold, cough + fever oral medicine, nasal drops 3 times a day + put on antibiotics drip once a day for the whole hospitalisation duration.

the whole time, i was totally tired out, esp at night. he was irritable and refused to sleep and i've to feed him at approx. every 2 hours interval & change his nappies for him etc. i thought i was going to fall sick as well! and the darn hospital is so godamn cold!

on fri, his fever seemed to subside so PD said to stop his fever medicine to see if the fever comes back so we gave the last dose of medicine at 4pm. and he was well untill midnight when the fever shoots to 37.7 again. :( so he gave him one more dose at 1am. sat morn comes and PD checked and informed that he seems okie (no fever) and we just got to continue with the cold+cough medicine will do. so i requested for discharge even though PD advised one more night for observation. but i thought the cold air-con was actually making it worse for wormy so i stuck to my decision.

when back home, i was like on tenterhooks! i took wormy's temperature like every 2 hours intervals to check if the fever is coming back. alas, the fever came back on sat evening ard 7pm (18 hours after his last fever medication dose). i panicked and immediately administered fever medication to him as per PD's advice. and inwardly, i started to regret my decision to discharge so fast. :(

but there's nothing i can do but continue to monoitor. LUCKILY, till the next check up at the PD's clinic yest morn (mon), wormy's fever didnt come back and PD gave him the clearance too. :)))

the whole episode has been a terrible ordeal for me. now i hope for nothing but the best for his well-being.

anyway, we are now back in redhill but we wont be receiving guests so soon given wormy's just recovered state. hope you guys understand!

okie, got to go catch up on some rest before he wakey up for his next feed!

more pixs of wormy!

not sure of the chronological order of the above pictures taken. it seems like wormy looks change alot over the course of 4 weeks and sometimes not that cute. lolz.
but to me, still v cute lah. heh.

i just hope this ordeal will be over soon. :(

some pixs of wormy!

pappy burping "old" wormy. look at the lines on his forehead. lolz.

one of my fav. photo!

food for thought

read this off a magazine and thought it hits closer to home than we think:

COMEDY IS TRAGEDY WITH DISTANCE.

hmm...

now that im soooo free the whole day (apart from the almost hourly feeding to wormy! bleah.), i've been catching up with 戏剧情牵25！

lolz. now my staple shows for the week consist of:
1) 边缘少年
2）珍珠街坊
３）豆腐街
4) 谜离夜

cannot believe there is a time where 宏荣　is the male leading role! and 20 years ago, 李南星is really 不是乱盖的帅！

okie, im just being bo liao here. but i really dig local shows!! at least the old ones. so, losing respect for moi??

for all those uninformed...

wormy's name is 黄勇智！ :)

smart nephew!

my fav nephew is the smartest!


when i asked him :"where does baby 弟弟 come from?"
he actually said:"from 婶婶's tummy!"


fancy that coming from a 2 1/2 years old little boy! and taught by NO ONE!
im truly amazed.
wonder if wormy will be as smart as his 堂哥 the next time? heh

umbilical cord can be...

traumatising for parents, really.

the baby book states that most cords will fall off by themselves between 6-10 days. some websites stated it can take as long as 3 weeks. parents said within a week.

not sure which to believe in and can only wait patiently/anxiously for it to fall off. but wormy is not helping by peeing on himselF when we changed his diapers for him. on the cord somemore!
:(

then the cord began oozing a little pus/blood and emitted a weird foul smell which the paediatrician (PD) assured is perfectly normal.

and FINALLY, it fell off and got stuck in wormy's top after his bath yesterday. it took all of FOURTEEN days for it to come off. hmm, and so ended the worrying ordeal.

my MIL insisted i kept the cord and though not keen, its now safely stored in a red packet waiting to be tossed out by me dont-know-when. :P

terrible 1st night back home!

1st night back at mum's place was terrible! the day passed by relatively unchaotic with wormy waking up for feeds (still formula feed at intervals of 3-4 hours as specified by the nurses).

but the nightmare really began at night when wormy refused to sleep THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. nothing we do can sooth him back to sleep. we carried him and rocked him and just when we thought he's asleep and try to put him to his cot to sleep, he started wailing again! my mum, hubbi & me took turns to carry him but it was really very tiring and stressful. both of them wanted me to rest and refuse to let me carry him but i just cant bring myself to sleep when he bawling away in the living room. :(

finally at 4+, after his feed, he manged to quiet down BUT NOT ready to be settled in his cot. so poor hubbi carried him in his arms from then till 6+ in the morning when wormy is finally tired out by his own nonsense and was so fast asleep back in his own cot that no noise can rouse his from his deep sleep! *sigh*

anyway, we finally know the reason for the crying. he was simply HUNGRY but we never thought of feeding him as we were sticking to the formula feed of 3-4 hours so rigidly that we forgot that we were supposed to feed baby on demand. arg! so now, whenever he cried, 90% of the time is cos he's hungry and he's easily soothed and remains contented after a good feed.

well, we all learn through the hard ways at times, no?

to end the post with a swaddled up wormy. hubbi & i found it funny when he's all swaddled up like this. but not recommended for long in stuff spore weather:

post-natal depression is...

REAL!

i was having the blues like on the 2nd day at my mum's place. :(
why? stemmed from the following:
1) total loss when wormy started crying for no apparant reason (now we know why but let's talk about this next time)
2) over-zealous parents with no parenting experience. im talking about my dad here. he has no experience with babies yet his concern for wormy is driving me MAD! whenever wormy cries, he'll keep on asking me why wHY WHY?! im a new parent myself and admist the wailing, im trying to establish the reason behind it and he's really not helping with his incessant asking. he's making me feel bad with being a lousy mum.
3) wormy has jaundice. though most babies have it, its really sad to see that in your own baby. and being a year-end baby, wormy lacked the good fortune to have sunny sun. and this is not helping with the jaundice. he needs sunlight to flush it out of his body! *sobz*

lucky ah long was around for the first week to help me out with every other stuff. and THEN, i started getting the blues when i recalled that he's going back to work from the 2nd week onwards. :(

anyway the 1st week was really terrible and i found myself in tears sometimes for no apparant reasons (or for all the reasons in the world). *sigh* lucky now progressing into the 3rd week, im getting the support im needing and getting the hang of things (albeit slowly), the blues are slowly dissipating.

now, im just living day by day and hope that i will be a better mum as time passes and wormy will grow up healthily! :)

the first few days

so i ended up spending 3 nights at thomson before discharging on 29th oct. time passed in a flash esp. on the 27th when our friends popped by to give their well wishes. really appreciate that! think i received the most chicken essence/bird nest/DOM any person will get in their lives. lol.

dun know when can finish them all. its like 1 dozen plus of these in all! madness, if you ask me. i ALWAYS thought people will buy baby clothes etc for us but obviously i thought wrong. convenience is still the preference for most. lol.

on the 28th, we began a crash course to learn to take care of bee bee wormy. as my milk has not yet started, we have to feed him on formula milk first but the nurse specified that i should breast-fed wormy to stimulate the flow and let him familiarise with that etc. we learn to change diapers, bath etc (like watch only) and everything really look very intimidating and overwhelming! im getting worried that we cant cope when we got discharged. now i fully understand the importance of having our parents around to help out.

still, it was really fun to bring wormy out of the nursery to our room to play with him and carry him around (though most of the time, he just sleeps). so now, the challenge really begins when we discharged from the hospital!!

anyway, some pictures below!:

one of my fav pix where wormy opened his both eyes like for the first time.

pappy learning to burp wormy after his feeds.

the actual delivery - 26th oct 2007

bee bee wormy was delivered in Thomson Medical Hospital on 26th Oct 2007! :)
warning: long post ahead
as mentioned in earlier post, i was having severe rash that comes from nowhere! esp, on both hands n upper trunk of the body. they itch so terribly that i cant sleep at night and kept having to wake hubbi up in my irritation.

according to the gynae, its pregnancy induced and mainly cos of hormones imbalance. should i be glad that its not PUPP (for those not familiar, PUPP is a skin condition that plaugue some mothers during the last trimester) and that i suffered only 2 days of it before the delivery clear it up?

anyway, took urgent leave on 26th oct, fri, for my routine check up and partly no mood to go to work with the irritating rash. hubbi was late for the check up as he had to rush from work. the clinic was relatively empty so i decided to go on my own 1st, thinking its the usual amniotic level & dilation check.

imagine my shock when gynae informed that im 1cm dilated and water level was on the borderline low and he suggested that we go induce the very day! hubbi arrived soon and we began discussing. we made the decision to go along with doctor's advice since i'm already 38 weeks + and baby considered full term. hence, soon we were on our way to hospital!

my labour started at 3pm officially when the nurse put me on drip to induce the delivery. ooh, how i hate that! i never done drip before and its really a BAD experience having something inserted in your vein. eeks. watching the tiny bubbles within te drip tube , i kept on imagining the worst that one of them gonna reach my heart and kill me instantly. arg! i seriously HATE drips!

anyway the contractions started coming regularly + frequently. im not sure if im taking the epidural so i was monitoring to see if i can take the pain. so from 3-6pm, i was bearing the pain and thought myself doing great since the pain is really kinda bad but not enough for me to choose pain relief yet. but when my gynae came in ard 6+ to check my dilation, the pain was quite bad when the contractions peaked. feels like my back is breaking into two! really, contractions pain is more at the back than anywhere else!

so imagine my horror when he said im only 3cm dilated!! another 7cm to go, and thats when i know epidural is the way to go. i didnt even opted for laughing gas or other pain relief injection but just asking the nurse for epidural IMMEDIATELY. and it was then i was informed that it required 30 mins for the anesthetian to arrive to administer the shot. i almost cringed on the spot for the contractions were coming in fast and furious at 2-3 minutes intervals. *sobz*

after the shot, everything is really a breeze. its just a waiting game after that for the cervix to dilate to the required 10cm before pushing can be done.

the pushing started ard 10+ but it was a long labourious one. according to my gynae most were over in 10-15 mins but mine took nearly an hour! no thanks to my stuffy nose. never, never deliver when you are sick (but not like you can choose anyway). i had blocked nose and cough, unlucky me. so i was gasping for air for the pushing and not progressing as fast as i should be. *sigh* still, when bee bee finally came out, i was so overwhelmed with relief and i dont-know-what-feelings that my tears just free-falled when they placed him on my chest, wailing away. :)




bee bee wormy just delivered! see the rashes on my chest. bleah.

after that its a blur. bee bee was taken away to be measured his weight+length. while my gynae continued to do his stuff: 1) take cord blood for collection 2) deliver my placenta (not a pretty sight 3) stitched me up etc.

then bee bee is given back to me and we were wheeled back to my suite to rest for the night. bee bee was taken to the nursery to be cleaned up and feed while the nurse set up a temporary bed for hubbi to bunk with me for the night. and the first thought i had after all the ordeal was : IM FAMISHED! i have no food at all since my breakfast in the morning so imagine my gratitude when they delivered tuna sandwich + milo shortly after. *yummy*

hmm.. that kinda sums up my delivery day & bee bee wormy's birth date - 26th oct.
will update on other misc stuff when free!

pappy with his wormy. so wormy look like mummy or pappy?

arrival of bee bee wormy on 26th oct!

hullo everyone! im still around!! now still in my confinement and trying my very best to adjust to motherhood. nobody told me you'll get even more tired during your confinement. :(

oh well, may i cope better with time.

okie, here a photo of newborn bee bee wormy. will update with more recent photos when im more free! he definitely dont look like this now. lolz.