Rainbow Baby

What does weaning and toilet training has in common?  A toddler have to go through it once in a lifetime as part of growing up. Weaning My girl has been nursing to sleep till lately.  I have tried earlier to wean her by putting some bitter powder on the nipples and her reaction to it hurts me.  For a moment, she paused and stared at me.  I told her 'chut chut' is broken now.  So cannot use anymore.  That afternoon, she slept without it but it hurts me. After that I read something online about not to put bitter stuff on the nipple with the intention to turn off nursing.  Because the boobs had created such a beautiful connection and comfort for the child and you wouldn't want it to turn into bad memories for the little one.  I felt so bad after reading that and went back to letting her suckle to sleep. Few days back, I caught a cold.  In order to prevent it from spreading to my girl, my mom took her to bed with her that night.  It was Day 1 of weaning. The

As most Malaysians celebrate a new Malaysia, a colleague of mine grieved for her elder boy, who was 4 years old, who passed away after a short illness on Mother's Day. I cannot imagine the pain and heart wrenching situation she was in as she is also 9 months pregnant and due in 2 weeks time.   Meanwhile, some of us are clueless as to what had happened.  Some said it was meningitis, some said it was some bacteria infection that made the brain swell, some said he had sleep fits before he died.  I don't want to speculate, but the thought of my girl too had fits before scares me. Because of all these, I am going to take back all the things I said about my girl.  I am becoming paranoid and I am hoping she grows up well and healthy.  No more health scare.  So, from now on, I am not going to brag about my daughter, no matter how smart she is.  We certainly don't need the negative attention on us.   OK, back to the new Malaysia.  Would like to document our ex

Malaysian General Election No.14 is today.  Have you voted?   This year few of the people I know can't vote and I feel for them.  I know they wanted to do for the country but can't.  One is bed-ridden due to old age and illness, another is in confinement and having chicken pox at the same time, then another 3 overseas at the moment for a trip and won't be back until June.  So it really gets me when people tell me they are not even registered for the elections, when they are old enough and are in Malaysia. Not trying to be political or being patriotic but this is the least we can do for our country.   Tonight, let's sit and wait.

Growing up in a Chinese culture, I have never heard about removing evil eye.  Until my Indian friends told me the reason why they put a black dot on baby's face and painted the eye brows with black kajol and put the eye liner for the baby was to avoid evil eye.  Which non-Indians would probably not know or do. Without this belief of evil eye, I didn't apply black kajol for my girl or put a black dot on her face.  But when she kept on falling sick and my friends came to know about it, I was told to help her remove evil eye. What is evil eye?  It is when others look at you with bad intentions, like jealousy or envy causing you harm indirectly, almost like a curse.  Or when someone kept on throwing praises at you and causes the negative to attract to you and give you lots of discomfort.  It's a kind of superstition and belief. Now, since I was not brought up with this belief, I don't understand one thing.  Why would anyone feel jealous of a small baby? The

I truly believe that one fine day, if the God and Goddesses are truly angry with human beings, for destroying ourselves, creating wars, fighting over land and killing each other, one day, the only thing that can wipe out human beings on this Earth, is virus.  So I truly believe if you anger the Divine, Divine can strike back and hard.  God created us, created Earth and land and sea and everything nature, but we are destroying it. Don't you think it's just fair for God to take back everything and start a massive destruction to end it all?  The only answer to that is a virus.  We already seen it happening in epidemics, where virus wiped out thousands of human beings in just days. Whenever we are sick, the doctor only need to find out if it is a virus or a bacteria.  It is easier for bacteria infection, you just need antibiotics to clear it out.  But lately, and I overheard this from a nurse in one of my girl's paed clinic, that they no longer allowed to prescribe antibio

Again, I do not wish to bring down the name of this paed that we have been frequenting.  But I do wish to highlight certain things that this clinic is doing which is not up to my expectations. During the recent emergency that we went through, instead of the nearest hospital, we rushed to the nearest clinic because it is the nearest, within 10 minutes away.  The pros of this clinic is that they have night clinic to cater for working parents.   While I was parking, my mom carried my girl and my husband carried the bags went up first.  My husband took the Klinik Kesihatan pink book along.  The moment he went in, he gave the book to the nurse and told her emergency, please register.  My mom also told the nurse to let us in first because of emergency situation.  Instead, the nurse kept nagging for my husband to write the name down and she doesn't want the pink book, so that she can take out the card.  It's just a simple copy and paste situation from the pink book.  When my

I am so relieved to find out that what my daughter contracted was just Roseola.  In case you don't know what it is, please read it up here , here and here . Though the age mentioned in these articles varies, some said below 2, some said below 3, what I can say is, my girl is 27 months old and she contracted it now only. I have known about Roseola and was preparing for it, in case it happened to my girl.  My cousin who have 5 kids told me all her kids have it before 1 and when my girl past 1 years old and still no sign of it, I thought she would not have it at all. But when it really happened, I was so lost because it happened too quickly.   First the high fever happened too fast.  On Thursday, she was still in good mood and fever was there but not high.  By Friday, suddenly her fever spiked and she got febrile seizures, which is quite common for children who contracted Roseola.  Still till then I didn't know it was Roseola.  Neither did the paed and she gave m