Rainbow Baby

If you have a child at the age of 6 years and below and you have never heard about Febrile Seizures / Fits before, I would highly recommend / suggest you do please read up about it.  Wikipedia , NHS UK , Kid's Health , KK Women & Children Hospital Singapore , Mayo Clinic . Here's my story. My girl started having fever on Thursday.  It was not that high and was coming and going.  I have her a dose of paracetamol at night before bed.  On Friday before I left for work, she was still sleeping.  I left her with my parents and told them to give her paracetamol if she keep having fever.   At about 6pm on Friday, my mom called me and told me to bring my girl to the clinic.  I said if I bring her to clinic, they will only prescribe paracetamol and I already have stock at home.  Just keep giving her paracetamol and sponge her will do, I said.  I reached about 7pm and it was raining heavily.  My daughter was lying on the sofa ...

Misleading title, no?  I am not pregnant.  But this idea of having a second baby is coming nearer.  A year ago, if you ask me if I want to have a second child, my answer would be NO.  I was exhausted from breastfeeding and pumping and I can't imagine starting all over again with Baby No.2.   Now, a year has passed and my girl is growing up well and healthy.  I feel very blessed.  And I had thought to have a child in the year of the pig because it's auspicious for our family of rabbit and goats.  But....I will be turning 40 soon.  Is it ok to have a second child? I was 36 when I had my girl and delivered her at 37.  True, I was an older mom compared to other women who have their first child in their 20s.  I married late at 32 years old and only started TTC when I was 34 years old.  That time the thought of having a baby after the age of 35 scares me a lot after reading so many horror stories.  First pregnancy ...

Pretty Noona Buys Me Food or Something In The Rain made me swooned like a teenager again.  I can't believe I am smiling throughout Episode 3.  Commuters of the LRT might think I am insane. But can't help it.  I never thought of watching this K-Drama.  But since Waikiki and Queen of Mystery 2 ended, I needed another one to hang on to while waiting for Live subs to come in.  Jung Hae-In had me at hello.   It feels weird now that I am a mother and watching this and swooning away.  Hmm...lacking in the romantic department?  Sigh...just remembered those times when a younger boy chased me and asked if I can be his gf, back when we were in secondary school and I was his sister's classmate.  He was like 2 years younger.  I rejected....too young I feel, not his age, but our age.  I had always preferred someone older, someone I can rely on since I was the eldest.   But this....omg...I can't lah.  Jung Hae-In i...

Yesterday and today, I had a tough day.  Someone confronted me of an email that I had sent.  Apparently some people in the email disagreed with how I wrote the email and was pissed and hurt.  I wrote it in the most professional and careful way and I have read it many times before I clicked sent.  Yet, it hurt someone else. What was worse, was that person called up few others in the email and sort of ganged up on me.  I was ostracized and criticized.  Instead of telling me or calling me to ask me, they went around talking behind my back.  Sixth sense or not, I felt someone talking about me.  I was having headaches for many nights.  My girl was having nightmare every single night and woke up crying few times a night for a week. Few of them were going to confront me when I go for the next meeting.  One of them felt it will be unfair to me for them to do this.  So she decided to call me up and talk to me first.  I broke do...

As mentioned earlier, I will post about my experience where a clinic has given me the wrong medication for my girl. Now, it is not my intention to name and shame the clinic, therefore I am not going to write the name of the doctor here.  This is a long time clinic and has opened for 20 over years.  I do not want to spoil their reputation just because of one human error.  I am just not happy with how this was handled.  Not happy at all. Last Saturday, my girl had a bad case of stomach flu and was vomiting a lot.  Immediately I went to this clinic to get some medicine to at least stop the vomiting.  The doctor prescribed her with Colimix Syrup which is for colic and wind.  Immediately upon reaching home, I gave it to her. The next dose was supposed to be at night.  And somehow, I kept looking at the bottle and found something weird about it.  When I looked closer, I saw that the label at the back is written as Antamin but the f...

Since Miss A's birth, we have gone to a few paeds around PJ.  Here's my feedback on them though they will remain anonymous unless you are really interested to know who they are, you can write your email in the comment section. 1. Dr. Nxxxxx in a hospital in PJ Miss A's first paed.  He is good and very soft spoken to the kids.  Insurance claim also always 100% because the hospital is affiliated to my workplace. The reason why I don't go there anymore is because he doesn't have evening or weekend clinics.  And sometimes during a visit, it can be quite long as he needs to go for ward rounds or emergency surgery, etc. 2.  Dr. Kxx in a private clinic in KL I love this paed the best.  Although the queue can be quite long, Dr Kxx is very patient and gave her best to the babies/child.  Especially if newborn, she will spend at least half an hour to measure and check them thoroughly.  Lots of parents like her too, which means you have to be the...

I am not sure what I had contracted but pretty sure it is adult version of HFMD.  I had never experience anything like it before.  The pain was immense.  I was on soft diet for a week.  And when recovering, if I ate anything sweet, my saliva glands will automatically produce saliva and that was painful.  It's crazy! My mom had a conversation with a depressed aunty.  Now, this depressed aunty only want attention on herself and herself only.  She refused to listen to anyone else or hear any advice.  But she wants people to listen to her non-stop.  And whoever who listens to her will get depression too because it's just too negative. So my mom being sympathetic, listened to that aunt.  As usual, she started telling how her life is now, pain everywhere, can't do this, can't go here, can't eat, blah blah blah...the list goes on.  My mom, in the event of trying to counter all this, told her that she was going through a bad time t...

Recently, I have been looking for class for my girl to join.  I am not sure if I am being a paranoid mom, but I would rather she do something beneficial than sitting at home and watching cartoons or YouTube the whole day.  As it is, on weekdays she is already doing this.  And to add on to weekends too is a bit too much, I feel.  Besides, lately she has learn a bad habit of lying down on the floor while watching TV. Since I can't control much of her activity when I am working, I try my best to bring her out during the weekends. Last weekend, we tried the free trial class at Kindermusik.  I don't think it's fair for me to give a review on this class as I attended one class only.  After the trial class, found out that the price is too much and I personally feel it's not worth it, though she enjoyed the class pretty much.  Again, I am not trying to brag about my own kid but I do find that she is way advance than most kids her age.  Even the t...