Potent Flu Bug

I think Lil Shauna might have passed on the flu bug to me. I can feel a sore throat coming. Arrggghhh.. I dun want to fall sick, I want to go out on Friday night! I hope drinking lots of wter will help to chase the virus away. I hope Lil Shauna recovers by then too. If she doesnt or becomes worse, I will feel like a lousy mummy - enjoying while my baby jostle with the big bad flu bug.

I wonder if Lil Shauna has got the sore throat too, but unable to voice it out. Ouch, poor baby. But she appeared to be better last night. She slept thru' and her nose appeared to be less choked, after Daddy Lim and I fought with her to apply the nose application. Nightmare, nightmare... I hope she doesnt get flu anymore. If falling sick is part of growing up, then maybe flu can come when she knows how to blow her nose; or at least allows us to wipe her nose. Haiz.

Mummy Lim

Flu Bug

Lil Shauna is sick again. She has been caught by the big flu bug. I have never seen her so sick. The last time that she caught the flu from YingXuan, she merely sniffle a little bit. This time, she caught it from YingXuan too, but YingXuan appears to be very fine where Lil Shauna is constantly leaking mucus. My SIL says that maybe it is bcos she is off the BM. See lah, BM so powerful. The mucus has started to turn green. -.o" I will be bringing her to the PD in a little while.

She's actually quite fine, not particularly fussy, but her milk intake has dropped a little. However, she look super pathetic (oh, I just heard her cough). Her right eye is still swollen due to the blocked duct. Then her nose is mucus-smeared. We go into this tugging game when we tried to wipe off her mucus cos she simply hate it when we touches her nose (hmmm... maybe she's a dog and not a mousey). She will struggle, push our hands away and turn her head from left to right. So the mucus spreads onto her face. -.o" When we try to hold her down, she will start crying and we ended up with more mucus. Haiz, poor baby.

I hope she doesnt pass back the flu virus back to YingXuan. Bcos they are about the same age and are constantly playing together, with the same toys, it is definitely a challenge to restraint the virus. Aiyo!

Mummy Lim

Updates:
We are back from the PD. Luckily we were there early, in fact even before the clinic was opened. We are the typical kiasu Singaporeans. We were 2nd in-line (yes, somebody else is even more trur-blue than us). Before the doctor arrives, there were at least 10 in queue. It pays to be kiasu sometimes.

Lil Shauna's nose is badly blocked up. We were given 3 types of medication. A nose spray, a nose drop and an oral drop. Lil Shauna struggled badly over the nose application. Haiz.. nightmare not only to her but to us as well. But she seems to enjoy the oral medication leh. I think it probably tastes sweet. hehe.

Lil Shauna's Update

Lil Shauna went for her routine follow-up appointment at NUH today. She's 3 days to 8 months' old. She weighs 8.4kg, 70cm long and has a head circumference or 42.6cm. According to the growth chart in her health booklet, she measures 50 percentile for height and head circumference, but is at 75 percentile for weight leh. Oh no, I can no longer say Lil Shauna is ideal weight when people say that she is fat. She is not only pui pui but a shortie. -.o" Ok, she has got Daddy Lim and my fat gene, but what happened to our tall gene?? Hmmm... It must be bcos she's constantly hungry. Even the bib tastes delicious. ;p

Her right eye is a little bit better but still bad. The PD had asked if we wanted to let her see the eye specialist in NUH. The down side is that the appointment will be in the day time and the waiting time is superb. That will mean that I have to take whole day leave whenever she is due for her appointment. The plus point is that this eye specialist that we will be seeing specialises in babies and kids. Since we have no plan for big overseas holidays this year, I will have lots of leave to spare for such stuff and so we asked for an appointment. Lil Shauna will be seeing the NUH eye specialist on 3 Feb. Bcos I was in B2 ward while delivering Lil Shauna, all follow-ups for Lil Shauna at NUH are at highly-subsidised rates. Thank God for His detailed plan. :)

I do hope that the NUH eye specialist will concur with the 1st eye specialist that we have seen - that it is merely blocked eye duct. We pray that the eye duct will open up by itself soon so that Lil Shauna can avoid the sound-very-painful procedure. Poor baby.

Oh, Daddy Lim and I went swimming today. We had planned to go swimming on Tuesday, then Wednesday, then Thursday bcos things keep cropping up at work and we have to delay our plans. Finally, we got to swim today. We started small, only 10 laps, but a definite good start. We hope to make it into a weekly affair. No choice, I still feel pregnant and Daddy Lim looks 5 months' preggy. Hehe.

Mummy Lim

Stuck in Office

I am working late today. I was targeting 8pm, but I am still here at 8.30pm. The chance of leaving at 9pm seems remotely possible. My colleagues and I are doing increment upload and the system is painfully slow. If it is too late, then we wun be able to bring Lil Shauna home tonight. Lil Shauna hasnt stayed over at popo's place for a long time. I hope she doesnt fuss and give popo a hard time.

Oh gosh, I am missing her. Sob!

Mummy Lim

Lil Shauna's Bad Eye

Lil Shauna's right eye duct is still blocked. her next review with the eye doc is about a week away. Basically, there is nothing that the doc can do (I think) but to advise us to constantly clean her eye of discharge and to make sure that it is merely blocked duct and nothing else. We will have to wait patiently until she turns one. If it is still blocked then, the insert-wire-to-clear-duct procedure will take place. Ouch. I do hope that her duct will self-clear by then.

Recently, the discharge has been bad. When I brought her to Joshua's bday party on 31 Dec 08, I had to keep repeating that it is blocked eye duct thus the loads of discharge. I felt like a bad mummy and a broken recorder. Haiz.

Her eye has been very bad these few days. I had to resort to using the strong eye drop containing steroid. Lil Shauna has also grown cleverer. She knows it when we come with the cotton and will squirm, turn left & right and hit/ push our hand away, making it difficult to wipe her eye. It gets even trickier when we try the eye drop. It takes alot of distracting and most importantly luck to get the eye drop into her eye. She even knows how to close one eye now. Faint.

The area around the eye has turned red and swollen. We are not sure if it is bcos of the discharge eating into the tender flesh or due to the constant wiping. It is probably not as painful as it seems cos she doesnt fuss or cry, but it pains us like mad. My Mum even suggested us to bring her to the eye doc today, but I dun see what the doc can do to make it better. Well, it is a wait and see game.


Her poor eye is all red & puffy. It looks much worse then the pix. Dear uncles and aunties, pls pray for Lil Shauna, for the bad eye to go away and that the duct will open by itself so that we dun have to go thru' the awful procedure. Lil Shauna will reward you all with her famous saliva-filled muaks.
Mummy Lim

Security Pillow

Security pillow/ blanket is common with babies and kids. I own one too. A little pillow that was fondly known as "xiao bao bei". I owned it for as long as I could remembered. I also remembered how I would wake my mum from her sleep to help look for the missing xiao bao bei. I would fuss until mission accomplished before allowing her to proceed with her disrupted sleep. Then, there were the countless "tickle-my-fingers-with-the-pillow-edges". I would drifted to sleep satisfyingly after tickling all my 10 fingers. As for the aroma... Daddy Lim can vouch for the powerfulness. :)


As I grow older, I would hug it less. The pillow also grew smaller as the cotton wasted away. So, I would simply hold the little pillow in my hand and drifted off to dreamland. After I was preggy with Lil Shauna, I hugged it even lesser for fear of inhaling toxic fumes that emit from the pillow, thus harming Lil Shauna. After Lil Shauna's arrival, there is simply no time to even count my fingers, let alone do the time consuming "tickle-my-fingers" act. I could almost fell asleep instantly.


Finally, just a week ago, I decided that the pillow will go, after its 20 over years of companionship. Yes, the pillow is that old. I no longer hug it and it is simply fighting for space with the rest of the soft toys, bought before Lil Shauna comes along. They now lined the top of the bed frame bcos the bed simply has no space for them.


So, there goes my xiao bao bei. Lil Shauna is not particularly attached to any blanket/ pillow/ soft toy now. I wonder if I should intro one to her... better not. I dun want to risk having to wake up in the middle of the night, looking for some darn cloth/ pillow/ monkey! Lol!

Oh, I managed to let Lil Shauna nap in her cot on Sunday morning. A pity that she was awaken by the HP merely 15 mins later. Good attempt though. Jia you!
Mummy Lim

New Year Resolution Part 2

After I read about how one determined mummy managed to wean her little boy off the yaolao despite his deafening screams and cries to attempt to terrorise, I have decided to add 2 more resolutions.

1. To make Lil Shauna sleeps alone in her room
2. To teach Lil Shauna to sit in her car seat while travelling

Woohoo! I hope Lil Shauna obeys like a little doggie. Wish me luck!

Mummy Lim

Happie New Year

Daddy Lim and I tot about our new year resolutions for year 2009. This is Daddy Lim's 1st ever set of new year resolutions wor. Last week, we managed to sneak some "us" time over dessert to share on the resolutions.

His:
1. Continue to love Mummy Lim & Lil Shauna more

2. Exercise 1x per week

3. Quit gaming (if possible ir at least become un-addicted)

4. Quit swearing at motorists

5. Bring Lil Shauna to West Coast for picnic once a month

Mine:

1. Pray with Daddy Lim & Lil Shauna at least 3x a week

2. Go for 1 overseas trip as a family

3. Lose weight: target 55kg (arrrggghhhh.. my constant battle. I actually put on some weight after I stopped bf-ing even when I cut down on my food intake -.o")

4. Take care of myself!

Common ones:

1. Find a church that offer evening services and attend church as a family

2. Spend at least 1 "us" time w/o the baby once a month

Yeah, let us work towards our resolution.

Pappy, can you pls add "quit smoking" as one of your resolutions? Hehe.

Mummy Lim

Things to Give Thanks for in Year 2008

Daddy Lim did his list some time ago and this is mine.

I wanted to give thanks to God for the following wonderful people/ things/ incidents for year 2008.

1. Daddy Lim - my pillar of strength. Pappy, I noe you have tried your very best to be a good hb and pappy. May our love continues to grow and deepen. Muaks.

2. Lil Shauna - God's precious gift to us after all the trials and obstacles. She really brought much joy to our lives despite being difficult at times. I just have to remind myself that she will grow up soon and will be easier as she grows up (or at least I hope lah).

3. My Mum - Lil Shauna's main caregiver and my weekend-walk-aimlessly-around-the-mall kaki. W/o her, I would have gone crazy caring for the baby long ago. Although I still throw tantrums at her sometimes, but I really love her.

4. My sis - my shopping kaki. If you are reading this - I really treasure the close kinship that I share with you. I love you too. :)

5. The SHSS girls - I noe that you all will always be there for me. God has watched us grow and He has blessed the bond and friendship that we shared.

6. God's protection and blessings during my pregnancy. It was a difficult pregnancy, but God only used it to show us His realness. He has been protecting me thru'out the pregnancy and even allow me to be admitted to NUH instead of TMC and helped us saved on loads of vitamin M.

7. Good working relationship - The challenging work and the girls at work leaves me with no Monday blues (but I do suffer from other-day-blues occasionally). ;p

8. Family - God helps to pull the family (both Daddy Lim's & mine) closer with the arrival of Lil Shauna. It is such a blessing to know that there are people who are earnestly praying for us.

That's for all for now. Goodbye year 2008. Although it has flew by, I know that I have achieved much. Lil Shauna is the evident.

Mummy Lim

Teeth

Lil Shauna was cranky on Sat evening while we were still outside. She couldnt stop squirming, was sucking on everything, especially her hands and was drooling buckets. I usually have no issue with her sucking on her fingers, but her hands had been everywhere and she couldnt stop banging tables. Then, she drooled so much as a result of sucking. The worse was that she sucked on her fingers so hard that she almost regurgitated. -.o" I looked with envy at Baby C who was sitting quietly in the baby chair and then quieting on the mummy's lap. Haiz... I had some peace when Lil Shauna finally felt asleep in the car, on the way home.

I had long suspected that she was teething. Drooling is one of the signs. But then again, she had been drooling since she was about 4 months old and her drooling had actually improved recently. I tried to feel her gum and was surprised to feel something sharp. My baby is teething. :) I bet her gum is swollen and itchy, which explains the crankiness and persistent sucking. We applied tons of teething gel. That night, she tossed and turned on the bed and went "ng... ng... ng..." for at least half an hour before finally falling asleep. Then she woke up at 4am and started crying. The teething gel is a life saviour. Haha.

Last evening, I was checking on her gum again and was surprised to see 2 and not 1 tooth! Hehehe.

Mummy Lim