Kieran down with flu

Kieran has flu and his temperature raises once or twice during the day, and usually once at night.

We brought him to see paediatrician at Mount Alvernia today.

I'm a tired mummy. Dark eye circles appeared again. Not going to let Kieran attend school for this week.

Thankfully daddy took childcare leave and Nai nai came to help out, otherwise things will be worse.

Kieran was so eager to get out of the house just now, he kept bugging us to go out. He kept saying “出去，出去，去 NTUC (Fairprice)” I told him, "等等好吗？等爸爸冲好凉才走。" He said “不好！不要等！” Then proceeded to help me take my shoes. "妈妈穿鞋。"He said. And then kept pulling at my bag, “妈妈拿bag。” Finally I told him "ok, 妈妈换衣服，换了衣服才可以出去。" He happily followed me into the bedroom to change clothes, knowing there's some progress in preparation to go out. I am done changing and was talking to him outside our bathroom door. Once daddy came out from the bathroom, he went out to get daddy's shoes, "爸爸穿鞋！"LOL. Not a minute lost. Kieran will make sure we don't dilly dally. He's super happy when we finally get out of the house and make our way to the NTUC store at the next block. He happily explored the shelves of interesting objects and making comments at every thing that interests him. Very active little boy. Doesn't seem like a boy with fever. We had actually wanted to bring him to NEX at Serangoon for some shopping after dinner but his temperature raised again so we decided that we will just go downstairs. And Kieran is satisfied with that. We bought a chocolate Swiss roll for breakfast tomorrow but he insisted on having it so I gave him one small slice.

I enjoy talking to Kieran very much. He could explain to us what he saw at Universal Studio last week, and how he felt about the fireworks, the rides and the things he saw and heard. Its so interesting to hear him talk and he's so cute.

His favourite toys now are Lego and stickers. He could spend several minutes assembling and de-assembling the Lego blocks, playing alone. I gave him my old sticker book filled with stickers I collected when I was young, and he loves playing with it. Of course most of the stickers were destroyed by him, but at least we don't need to buy new ones. He has got lots of old stickers to entertain himself with.

Baby cold

Oh no, we are so sad. Baby was only 23 day old when he suddenly developed cold symptoms. Yesterday 3am, baby woke up for milk but after drinking, he still woke up at 4am, 5am and 6am, crying but not drinking a lot of milk when I offered him nipple. He started coughing a lot and making weird noises with his nose. We realized that its not normal and wanted to take him to polyclinic as we had planned to bring him for his jaundice check up. But in the morning, hubby and I decided its better to bring him to pediatrician instead. He seemed to be feeling really terrible.

Dr Ong saw him and explained to us some coughing and sneezing is normal but checked and said baby has a lot mucous. But he dun recommend babies this young taking medicine. He said there are babies who stopped breathing altogether and turned blue after taking medicine that cause drowsiness. He told me us to use a saline spray to spray into baby's nostrils to let the mucous come out. He said baby will sneeze it out or it will come out as runny substance.

We used it once yesterday and baby was crying and crying. We had to hold his head. Poor thing! We used it again this morning and afternoon. He seemed more relieve after using the spray. We'll use it again this evening a few min before his feed and then let him sleep. Hopefully he'll be fine. My poor baby. I hope he will get well soon. In the day he's ok. The worst usually happened at night, usually when he wakes up for night feeds... and that will be my problem alone coz at that time, nobody can help me :(

What's worse is that mother in law had cold and its probably her who passed the virus to baby even though she already took good precaution like wearing a mask. So its more tiring because we dun dare to let her carry baby. We have to care for baby on our own and hubby has to learn how to bathe baby. Sigh. Its all so tormenting... but I shall survive this, and baby will get stronger!