Month: June 2010

Everything went well at the hospital today.  The ultrasound scan went without a glitch, though Baby bawled and fussed initially but when she realized that it didn’t hurt, she quietly saw her ‘pictures’ on the ‘TV’.  That’s what we told her – that the doctor was taking pix of her kidneys and that she could watch them on the TV (the monitor).

According to our surgeon, the ultrasound scan showed that her right kidney (both the moities) is growing well.  Though a tad dilated (it will always be dilated as it was dilated from day one since she was in-utero), the dilation is significantly lower than pre-surgery.  Our surgeon isn’t worried about the dilation as there is now no more kidney reflux.  We just have to keep her constipation at bay as constipation is one of the main causes of UTIs in children.  She was prescribed with a big bottle of Duphalax and has to consume 10ml should she have constipation.

I am very amazed that despite having gone through the nightmarish stay in the hospital after more than a year ago, she still remembered the X-ray room very much!  The second she stepped into the radiology department of the hospital, her  mood changed from lively and jovial to  one that’s tensed.  Each time we walked closer to the X-ray rooms, she fussed and cried.  When she was brought into the X-ray room, she kept saying “I tak mau injection!”.  I think she still remembered what she had gone through during the many radiation scans (which required injection of dye into the IV catheter on her hands and feet) and x-rays during her 3-week stay in the hospital in May last year.  My poor baby.  I hope that all those bitter and painful experiences will now be behind her once and for all.

Pictures taken at the hospital will be posted later….

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One of Baby’s pet peeves is that her 2 jie jies cannot take the shampoo that she uses! My 2 older girls prefer to shower in the master bedroom bathroom while I prefer to shower Baby in the other bathroom. I have forbidden my 2 older girls to use liquid body shampoo as they play with it and use too much of it. They are only allowed to use Johnson & Johnson’s bar soap. But these 2 rascals will always come to the other bathroom and conveniently bring the bottle of body shampoo there.  When this happens, all hell will break loose!  Baby will scream “my shampoo….. don’t take my shampoo, don’t take my shampoo, GIVE ME BACK!!”  She will then wait no further and will transfer all the bottles of shampoo back to her bathroom – 2 huge bottles in both her tiny arms!  I have been telling Baby that she has to share her shampoo and everything else with her 2 jie jies but she is still not accepting this yet. Well, 2 yo toddlers are mostly like that.  My 2 older girls were like that too when they were younger. Baby is very very bossy and territorial and I think she will be the fiercest among my 3 girls.

On another note, we will be making a trip back to Ipoh today.  Tomorrow we will head up north to Penang to GMC.  Baby will be due for her bi-annually ultrasound scan of her kidneys tomorrow.  Gosh, I am nervous and anxious. I hope the scan shows that her right kidney is developing normally.  Please pray for Baby.

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See how comfy Baby is here snuggled up like a little pup with its mummy… with her little head resting on daddy’s big fat thigh.  I was quietly dressing up in the room one morning at around 6:45am, ready to go for my daily morning run but when I saw this, I just had to snap a picture… for remembrance sake. Baby sleeps like the clock’s hand and moves round the bed every half hourly.  Hubby and I are often kicked by her and sometimes she hogs 3/4 of the bed.  It’s really time we kick her outta our bed !

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