Jaden - The Champion of them all

I blogged about Jaden's cold on 14 Oct (you can read about it here), he didn't get better on Friday, instead, he was coughing so badly after his evening feed on Friday, me and hubby almost drove him to the hospital to seek treatment. But after making a call to my friend, she advised me to take a few steps to soothe Jaden from his discomfort, and they worked, so we didn't bring him to the hospital that night.

The next morning, I called my friend again and asked for her advice on which Doctor should I bring Jaden for his second treatment, because his cold doesn't seem to be getting better. She recommended the No. 1 paediatrician in Subang Jaya Medical Centre (SJMC), by the name of Dr. Lee Eng Nam. But we thought, SJMC is quite far for us, and it was already 11am when I call my friend (the clinic closes at 12.30pm), so I decided to go to Prof. Lim at University Malaya Specialist Centre (UMSC) instead.

Prof. Lim diagnosed Jaden with Bronchiolitis, and prescribed 1 dose of atrovent for him using a nebulizer & a face mask. Wooooa... do I sound like a doctor? *chuckle* I asked Prof. Lim to write these terms for me so I could blog about it :-)

Atrovent is the name of the medicine commonly used to treat bronchiolitis, it relaxes the muscles around the airways so that they open up and the patient can breathe more easily, and Nebulizer is a device used to administer medication in the form of a mist inhaled into the lungs... (Ohhhhh... I learn something new :p).

ok enough about these boring stuff, let me tell you how Jaden did when he was treated with the nebulizer + face mask.

I was carrying him over my shoulder as the nurse put the face mask over his face. Then the nurse mixes the medication in the nebulizer and the medication starts to emit from inside the mask in the form of mist.

There are 2 holes at the sides of the mask, and we can see thick mist emitting from it when the process started. I can imagine the mist can be quite intimidating when it escapes from the mask and cloud your vision, but my little hero DID NOT STRUGGLE AT ALL.

I can see from my angle, my little hero holding on to the face mask with his right hand. He is holding it so tightly, all his finger tips turned white, lol.

You can see the mist inside the mask. It is not very clear in this picture, but the mist is actually quite thick in the initial stage, and my little hero did not cry, did not struggle or try to push the face mask away.

Look at his frowned eyebrows, he is obviously very disturbed by this thing over his face, but still managed to sit quietly like a champion.

"It's ok papa, I can hold on to the face mask myself... my fingers may be tiny, but I have a super strong grip"

"ok I am a bit bored now, may be I can use my left hand to remove this thing... hmmm"





"Are we done yet?"




After about 5 minutes, the process is almost over and my little hero attempts to remove the face mask on his own.

During the whole process, my little hero was resting quietly on my shoulder, holding tightly to the face mask (assisted by my hubby of course). The nurse, a middle aged chinese lady, was SOOO impressed by my boy, she asked the other nurses to come check him out.

Nurse to her friends: "you come and see you come and see, this child is soooo good, never struggle, somemore can hold on to the mask"

And she told us, usually all the infants will cry and fight with the nurse when they administer the medicine using the nebulizer, and she has never seen a baby as good as this all her years working in UMSC.

I tell you, I was sooooooooooooooooooooo proud of my little boy!! And soooooooooooooooo grateful to God for giving me such a wonderful & obedient champion. Truly he was the champion of all the babies in UMSC!!!! (ok calm down HM, we get the idea...) :p

After the treatment, we waited for about 10 minutes before we see Prof. Lim again. He wants to check if atrovent is effective for Jaden, if it is, he will not hear the wheezes (high-pitched whistling noises when exhaling) anymore.

When we went into Prof. Lim's room, he said, "I heard he did well..."


*mummy & papa grin from ear to ear* Yes he did!! and this story will go to the whole clan!!


My champion fast asleep after the nebulizer treatment, being checked by Prof. Lim.

Prof. Lim says the medicine worked well for Jaden, he no longer hears the wheezes when he check on him again.

And we left UMSC feeling Oh So Proud of our little champion :-)

Get well soon my precious darling, mummy loves you... *MUUAAKKSS!*

Picture Post

No, this is not the post on Jaden's 8th Month Updates :p Just a random post to showcase his many many photos.

I really should go print the photos or put them into a Photobook, bleh... so many things to do, so little time..

*This is how I stand up for my milk bottle*

1) Sitting & posing for mummy

2) Crawling around, nothing much to do on a Sunday afternoon

3) Milk Alert! Milk Alert!

4) Papa, Plese don't hide my milk from me...

5) Papa, I sayang your hand, please give me my milk




6) Mmmiiilllkkk....





*This is how I transform into a red tomato*

1) Accidentally bang my face on the cot railing and I turned into a red tomato to match with my pyjamas

"Mummy, let's play somemore..."

The red patch disappears in less than 5 minutes, no baby was hurt during the making of these photographs :)

*This is how I make a speech from my high chair*

"Listen to me you yellow duckie"

"I am the boss of this household"



*mischievous laugh*

Watch this space

I am working on a new post regarding Jaden's 8th Month Updates. My last few posts have been very "gray" and "lowbeat" so I decided to write this short preview for my next post.

Here is a picture of my precious darling taken on 9 Oct 2010, he was exactly 8 month old then:

His favourite past time is sucking his lower lip, so his mouth always look like that in picture.. *shakes head* Nowadays it's hard to take a picture of him NOT sucking his lip.

Last Friday when we arrived home after work, he was sound asleep in the car seat, sucking his lip of course, but looking soooooo cute and funny:

He was trying to escape from the carseat again before he fell asleep, that explains why his head was facing sideways and the seatbelt cushion was out of place due to his struggle.

He looks like a toothless apek...

Once in a while I like to put a nappy on his head and make him look like a pretty little girl, hahaha, the funny thing is, he almost never object about it, he will just leave it on his head and get on with his activities.

This is a picture of him after I wrapped a blanket around his face, doesn't he look like a flying nun? *giggle*

"Mummy, I am not a little girl you know..."

Yes I know darling, but I am your mummy so I can do whatever I want :-)

FRUSTRATING!!

Every morning I will pass 1 bottle of expressed breast milk to the babysitter, and every evening her maid will pass the empty bottle back to me, together with the sealing disc. Yesterday the maid did a mistake and pass back to me the bottle together with the teat and cap.

Then I noticed, they are still using No. 2 teat for my boy, who is now 8 months old. No. 2 teat is for a 1 month old baby, why is she still using this teat for my boy? No wonder she can tell me my boy doesn't like to drink water (or doesn't drink much water), No. 2 teat's flow is too slow for an 8th month old, of course he doesn't like to drink if the flow is too slow, this is common sense!!

I am so tired of confronting her, because everytime I try to ask her politely, she will be all defensive and give me all sorts of crab excuses.

I AM SO SICK OF THIS!!

Down with cold

We brought Jaden to the clinic on Tuesday evening to let the Doctor check on him. It started on Monday morning when he woke up with a few coughs, but it didn't sound very serious. Tuesday morning was the same, he woke up with a few coughs, but I can hear the "phelgm" in his throat as he coughs and I don't feel comfortable about that. I always believe 病从浅中医 (treat the sickness when it's not serious), I do not want the cough to develop into something more serious before we bring him to the Doctor.

Doctor precribed him with a orange syrup for cold. My little boy is a champion this time round when it comes to swallowing his medicine. He didn't like it when I first inject the medicine into his mouth (using a syringe), and almost feel like vomitting, but he still took it all in and didn't cry at all! I am so proud of my little boy :)

Tuesday night was a looooong night because he didn't sleep well and woke up 3 to 4 times, coughing :( Hubby carried him to our bed in the middle of the night and he was sleeping with us till morning. I woke up few times when he coughs and just look at him... my poor baby, how I wish I can remove the cough completely from him.

Yesterday & today I boiled Barley water and passed it to the babysitter, the Doctor said barley would help as Jaden's throat is a little red, and he should be drinking more water.

Last night I noticed he started having running nose, this is the 2nd time in 8 months he is down with cold. The first time he had running nose and cough was when he was 6 months old. It took him 1 week plus to heal from the cold, I hope this time it would be the same, or even shorter than a week, the faster the better, because I feel my energy being zapped away from me everytime I hear him cough :( Mummy doesn't want to see you sick baby...

Thank God last night he managed to sleep through the night, I only heard him cough once in the middle of the night, and this is great compared to Tuesday night. I hope he will feel much better today and he will be free from this very very soon!

Mummy please don't leave me alone in the dark

Last night hubby went to the Father's Club Meeting, so I was home alone with Jaden. My night routine is always very standard: When I am back from work with Jaden, I quickly shower, then I breastfeed him. Usually he will fall asleep breastfeeding around 7 to 8pm and he wakes up around 9pm+, then I will change him into his pyjama and he will go to bed at around 10pm.

He was a bit cranky last night and didn't fall asleep throughout the breastfeeding, and was whining and sobbing after that. I had to pacify him, rock him, and eventually he fell asleep around 8.40pm. Then I put him inside his cot and went downstairs for my dinner.

After dinner I was washing up in the kitchen when I heard the sound of baby crying. I paused and listen to the cry and I was pretty sure it's my neighbour's baby girl who cries a lot, so I continued with my washing. But the cry got louder and louder and I thought oh no!! this is Jaden crying!!!

I ran upstairs to the room and as I open the door, I saw my poor baby standing up inside his cot crying in the dark (well, not complete darkness, because I have switched on the night light). I turned on the ceiling lights immediately and I picked him up from the cot. My poor baby has tears on his face and mucus running from his nose. I felt sooooo bad. Usually my ears are very sharp and I attend to him immediately when he wakes up in his sleep crying, I don't know why last night I missed it :(

But I am glad my nose never fails me, I can always tell when Jaden has poo poo, when hubby is still happily carrying him and playing with him but did not notice anything at all. My sense of smell is so incredibly strong the police should hire me to smell drugs, I am serious :D Then may be I can quit my current job and only work for the police once in a while for a big pay check.. hehehe... stop dreaming HM and go back to work! :p

No chicken pox

1 week has passed and no one in the babysitter's household is down with chicken pox, praise God for His grace & mercy!!

But we noticed Jaden was coughing on Monday morning when he woke up from sleep, last night in his sleep & this morning he was coughing when he woke up... *sigh* Please God, please heal my baby and not let the cough develop further. Thank you God.

Yesterday evening I got upset when I see that his buttocks are red and have diaper rash, again! I always take extreme care to clean and change him over the weekend when I get to take care of him full time, and takes pride in it when I see his buttocks fair and smooth, and diaper rash free. Then comes Monday, I send him to the babysitter, and what happens when I take him back and change him in the evening? Diaper rash!!

:(

I have already given the babysitter the excellent barrier cream (Mustella), and she is supposed to be so experienced in taking care of babies, why is it so hard to keep his buttocks diaper rash free?

Dear God, please give me the patience to deal with this and please give babysitter and her maid the wisdom and love to take good care of baby Jaden. Amen.

Chicken Pox?

Babysitter's granddaughter Madeleine didn't go to her kindy on Monday. the babysitter casually told me there is 1 red dot on Madeleine's face and they are not sure what it is.

She was not at home when I send Jaden on Tuesday and Wednesday, so I presumed she went to the kindy. But today she is home again! This morning the babysitter asked me if Jaden had taken his chicken pox vaccine jab, I told her the jab can only be administered at 13 months, Jaden is only 8 months old now. She says the teacher at the kindy asked Madeleine not to go to school because another kid has chicken pox, and she suspects Madeleine might have it too :S

Babysitter asked me if I am scared... of course I have my concerns! But if Jaden is meant to get it now, he would have caught the virus last week and it's too late to do anything now.

Well, I just pray that he won't get it from now till he's 13 months, so we can bring him for the vaccine jab. Dear God, I place Jaden in Your mighty hands, please protect him from the chicken pox virus. Thank you Jesus, Amen.

Peas & Zucchini Rice Cereal... yummy

Jaden loves his food, whenver I eat, he will stare at my food and moves his mouth :)

This video was taken on 2 Oct 2010, 7 months and 3 weeks old Jaden happily eating his peas and zucchini rice cereal.