Curry and me

I've fallen ill.

stomach flu, doc said.
vomited more than 5 times since about 6pm after I woke up from my nap yesterday.
Have since stopped at 8:30pm after taking anti-vomiting medicine.

but please continue to pray for me to be able to eat and keep the food in today.

actually I had frequent bowel movements (3x poo per day) for two days before yesterday but my parents didn't think much of it (cos it happens sometimes).

~ photo taken from mygreenspace.nparks.gov.sg ~
They even brought me Mushroom Cafe at MacRitchie Reservoir to celebrate Deepavali

~ photo taken from www.bighooha.sg ~
with curry.
Look at the bread.
It's so big and it was toasted so I was really tempted.
then my papa dipped it in the curry and gave it to me.
I asked for more!
and had 3 servings of curry-dipped bread.

~ photo taken at mushroom cafe ~

after this episode, think my mummy won't allow me to eat curry anymore.
sigh!
I love curry!
and laksa too!
(though my papa insisted that it was not the curry's fault)

Sunning my Jaundice away

Pictures taken when I was 8 days old.

Mine was consider a mild case of Jaundice, hence no need photo-therapy.
I was to be sunned twice a day - morning 8am and evening 6pm, front and back, 10mins each.

"A common condition in newborns, jaundice refers to the yellow color of the skin and whites of the eyes caused by excess bilirubin in the blood. Bilirubin is produced by the normal breakdown of red blood cells.

Normally, bilirubin passes through the liver and is excreted as bile through the intestines. Jaundice occurs when bilirubin builds up faster than a newborn's liver can break it down and pass it from the body."
~ taken from kidshealth.org

Hence, to help baby recover from jaundice faster, you have to give baby as much milk as possible.

Note: "Giving water or glucose feeds will not lower the jaundice. Since bilirubin is excreted from the body in the stools, breastfeed your baby frequently to encourage frequent bowel movement."
~ taken from www.nuh.com.sg

Mummy was amazed that I can prop my head up so high when I was only a week old.

Then I started to graze on the blanket cos I want milk!

another important thing to note: Jaundice causes babies to be sleepy.
but Don't allow baby to sleep as much as he wants
but you've gotta wake baby up for milk!
Make sure you feed baby every 2-3 hours so that baby can pass out bilirubin as quickly as possible.

I've recovered from jaundice on my 2nd week.

Dear God, thank you for healing me.

and thank you, Mummy's friends who had prayed with us.

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?