Baby ran a low grade fever last night and I was up the whole night checking on her and sponging her. As I flipped through the newspapers this morning, I got worried reading that there were a few more deaths due to H1N1, one of which was a 3-year old boy. Not wanting to take any chances, I brought Baby to our paed’s office this morning. At the hospital, many people, including kids were seen wearing face mask, including my maid and me. If only Baby would co-operate and would not pull the mask off, I’d have gotten her to put on the mask too. Our paed’s clinic was teeming with patients, many of whom had the same symptoms as Baby, which are cough, runny nose, phlegm and fever. Our paed was in a jovial mood coz his business was soaring! He’s a good paed anyway. He knows that Baby is already taking prophylactics antibiotics everyday, so he always tries to avoid giving oral medication to her.
Today, Baby was given the Conbivent nebuliser as she has a chesty cough and loads of phlegm. That was her very first time on the Conbivent nebuliser and as expected, she bawled. Most kids would bawl when given the Conbivent nebuliser. It must be the smoke that comes out from the inhaler that looks intimidating. Baby was also given Iliadin decongestant nasal drops, a syrup to remove the phlegm and Ventolin Evohaler which comes with an AeroChamber inhaler/mask. That gadget and Ventolin cost about RM160! She is to be given 2 puffs 3 times a day.
Baby is still very much active despite having a cold and she’s roaming the house with goo goo dribbling from her nose. The only way I can keep her from being crabby is to let her walk round the house. The moment she’s placed back in her playpen, she will yell, wail and act like she’s really, really sick!
Food intake wise, it is still super duper torturous and stressful for me to feed her formula milk or any other fluids now that she’s feeling uncomfortable, down and out. For the past 2.5 days, I really felt like screaming and pulling my hair each time I feed Baby milk or her meals. I’d even raised my voice at her, to vent out my frustration…. only to drown in my own guilt after shouting at my poor Baby. I know that the phlegm is causing her a lot of discomfort, thus the reason for her to reject anything that’s fed to her. She would choke or gag when fed with anything that requires her to chew. She only wants my tits the whole day!
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oh poor baby. get well soon, ok?
Poor baby…….I can’t blame her. Even an adult will refuse food in those circumstances. As long as she is hydrated and body temperature is regulated, food intake can come later. Speedy recovery, baby C!!!!!!!! As for mummy, take care 🙂 I know it’s terribly frustrating so don’t feel guilty.
Don’t worry Shireen the medicine that paed pescribed is very good and I am sure baby C will recovered soon. Be patience 🙂
baby C looks so big on your close up pic on your blog, hehe…hope she gets well soon 🙂
oh dear, not baby c too. haye li’s got viral fever now, no sign of runny nose but got slight cough. at least baby c wants ur boobs, haye li rejected mine and her water plus food intake was really minimum over the weekend. only at nights, she takes my boobs but not as much as before.
if her fever doesnt go away by tomorrow, i need to bring her in for a blood test – i sure hope not.
speedy recovery to baby c!
when Amber had HFMD, I used the cane to threaten her to drink water and shouted at her. I too feel guilty as she’s already in pain, so we sometimes have undesirable actions coz we want our kids to get better… hope our munchkins understand 🙂
Oh, hope she gets well soon…she looks so chubby, just see her arm…:) so cute
hope Baby get well soon.. don’t la scream at her.. but sometimes difficult to control hoh.. understand de..
Wishing Baby C a speedy recovery on her cough n cold.
Philip was down recently and we didnt visit any paed. I was the nurse-on-call for 24/7.. he only requested liquid (water, yakult, vitagen, ribena, yogurt)..so that was his intake for 1 week… he didnt want any solid 🙁
Poor Baby, sick again. Try to keep her chest warm.
Poor girl, hope she’s feeling better today. Speedy recovery baby C, and you take care too.
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As long as she is taking fluid/breast milk, she will be ok. Solids she will have when she is feeling better. Kids that age will be at risk only if they don’t take any liquids. Abt the chest congestion, try and have her on her side or on her tummy, and if she tolerates, have her head lower than the rest of her body; clap her chest gently, make a game of it, like even holding her chest wall and shaking it a bit…this helps loosen the phlegm and helps her cough it up.
Its OK, HFM. Breast milk is the best for her esp now….she needs all the antibodies from your breast milk….
I am so happy for you that you could still breastfeed your baby past her 1st birthday. Because of stress, lack of help and support, I managed to do so till about 8 months only 🙁
Hope baby C gets well soon. It is scary nowadays to be down with ILI.
hope she gets well soon. when she is sick, only mummy’s boopy is her comfort!
sounds like another tough episode for you, hope baby will feel better & recover really soon. it’s really no good to be sick at this time 🙁
kah yao ahh….
get well soon, me & my kids also suffering for cough, flu & fever for 1 week, but not H1N1 la.
take care~