blocked Nose

I'm not even 3 weeks old and fell sick already!?

Got seriously blocked nose yesterday and my parents brought me to the doc.
Doc said there're big lumps of dried mucus in my nose but mine's not an extremely bad case.

My mummy did try to clean my nostrils with
Pigeon's cotton swabs
(choose the one with extra thin stem, thinner than those in the picture, for tiny nostrils)

but she couldn't get much out from my nostrils since the mucus were deep inside.


So Doc used a nasal spray on me and a mucus suction machine! to suck out my mucus.

I screamed and cried so badly.
My parents and korkor looked on, feeling heartache for me.
My korkor shook his head several times.

this is the nasal spray I use:

Sterimar Nasal Hygiene
an isotonic* filtered sea water solution
(*Isotonic solution: a solution that contains the same concentration of salt that of the human body cells)

When using at home, no suction is needed.
The solution will just flow out or flow back into my system.
Doc said she had to use the suction machine on me cos I had too much mucus.

One good news from the visit to the doctor's: I put on almost a 1kg since birth!

Oh. and I can finally sleep properly after all the mucus are cleared.

One other thing we learnt:
Doc said sometimes when Mummy eats food that is too heaty, it will cause my mucus to be thick.
Any1 can verify this?

I also have a super big ulcer on my tongue, deep in.
Cause is unknown and Doc said it's unusual for babies this young to have such ulcers.
Now Mummy thinks maybe it's the heaty food she took that cause my ulcer.

Yesterday my korkor saw the doc too cos his voice was hoarse and had been having cough.
Mummy also suspect that it's her heaty milk that caused him to cough.
Now that I'm having ulcer, Mummy dare not give him her milk, for fear of contamination.
What to do with the extra milk now?

My korkor's Pram

When my parents were choosing a pram for my elder brother (korkor),
they wanted these features:

1. reversible handle
(so that baby can see you while you push the pram. especially useful when baby is fussing)

2. Large wheels
for smooth drive over big gaps.

3. Four-wheel drive aka 4 swivel wheels
Say, if you are buying a car and it has a 2-wheel-drive as well as 4-wheel-drive model, and you do not have limited resources, which will you choose?
4 wheel drive, right?
Same logic.
It is easier to manoeuvre a 4 wheel drive pram than a 2 wheel drive.
This is especially so when u reverse the handle and a 2-wheel-drive has the steering wheels behind - very difficult to manoeuvre.
Hence, a reversible handle should come with a 4-wheel drive.

4. Reclinedable back rest (suitable for new born baby)

5. Leg rest/ pan
Papa thinks babies are very poor thing cos their pram usually doesn't have Leg rest or leg pan so babies' legs are always hanging in the air plus their legs are too short to reach the bar below.

In the end, they settled for a Capella Stroller which has all the features listed above.

That's my korkor, Hann, with his pram in the picture.

For me... of cos I'll using the same pram.
it's very durable you know?
I'll be the 3rd baby using this.

When my brother was a baby, Capella was the only brand that has prams with 4 swivel wheels.

Currently, those Capella strollers that come with leg rests are very heavy (8kg+) compared to my korkor's 5.5kg.

8.9kg CAPELLA Adonis Premium Stroller S707 ('09)
Picture taken from www.babysuperstore.com.sg

Actually 5kg is not considered lightweight, but it's ok for my mummy cos she will just push the pram from our door all the way to the mrt station and off they go for their outing.
Mummy often found my korkor asleep in his stroller upon reaching home from an outing.
Looking forward to my own outings with Mummy!

Combi has since caught up and their COMBI Miracle Turn series also have 4 swivel wheels.
Heard its wheels are small though.
Combi is more expensive than Capella though.

TJT450 - Combi - Miracle Turn
picture taken from www.babysuperstore.com.sg


As for the very popular (for some reason unknown to my parents) and expensive Maclaren, they are not in the consideration for my parents at all cos they think the design is mechanically unsound.
See my korkor's previous post on this.

About my name

Photo taken by my Papa when I was 36-minute old.

大家好！ 我叫梁雯汐。

For those who have difficulty pronounce my name, it's actually quite simple.
Just follow my Mummy's 口诀： 有边读边，没边读中间， 没中间读上下。
so 雯 read as 文 and 汐 read as 夕
If you can't even read the two simple chinese characters 文 and 夕, your chinese is very bad.

Then u can call me by my dialect name-
Leong Man Jade,
or simply, Jade.

In case, you were wondering, I'm a girl.

The meaning of my name is

雯 wén: 成花纹的云彩, Cloud patterns or the colouring of clouds.

汐xī: 夜间的海潮, night tide

My father wants to use these two natural phenomenon to describe God's good timing of my arrival - unexpected/ unplanned /unpredictable as what the tide might brings but at the right time / appropriate as beautiful clouds.

雯 or nice clouds are also a sign of sunshine after the rain, signifying God has healed Mummy.

汐 also describes me coming in the night or rather, the labour started at night when Mummy's water bag broke. I was only born the next day past noon.

I was born 4 weeks ahead of my expected due date (EDD), hence again, unexpected/ unpredictable.

During labour, there were a few occasions when my heartbeat dropped significantly and when I came out, there were two loops of umbilical cord around my neck, though Doc said they were loose.

Some relatives speculated that perhaps I was in danger so I kicked the water bag burst;
while my Mummy says it's because I can't bear seeing her do silly paper work which she gets angry every time she does it.

Whatever the reason as to why I came out from Mummy's tummy a month earlier, we think it's God's good timing.

As for my dialect name, it's just spelt angmo-ly
like my brother's name，Tim Hann.

"Man" is also short for Immanuel/Emmanuel - meaning "God with us";
"Jade" is a green gemstone popular with the Chinese and the Chinese word for Jade, 玉, also means "that which is pure, fair and beautiful/ handsome".