Cassandra is another water baby just like Alycia. She loves the pool to bits and is not afraid of the water but sadly, I can’t allow her to swim in the pool. After a post-surgery UTI attack in December last year, which was after a dip in the pool in Hard Rock Hotel Penang, I now have a phobia of allowing her to swim in public pools.
With God’s blessing, Baby is now free from UTI for over 8 months. Each time she sees her 2 jie jies getting ready to follow daddy down to the pool, this fella will zoom to her room, fish out her swimming suit, remove her clothes and wear the swimming suit herself. She will then plead with daddy in the most pathetic and heart breaking voice for daddy to bring her swimming that daddy will relent…. with a hug and kiss for his cutie princess first.. and then bringing her down to the pool. All these while, daddy will put Baby on an inflatable boat-like float or put her on his shoulders so that her bottom will stay dry. But yesterday, Baby was out of control. She was like a little mermaid released back into the water. She was kicking and trying to get out from the boat. Alas, daddy caved in again and took his princess out and allowed her to swim with an inflatable tube round her body. He even immersed Baby’s head briefly under the water and this little mermaid wasn’t even afraid. After about 15-20 minutes of whole body immersion in water and with me nagging till no end, I dragged Baby out of the water. She was screaming and yelling blue murder. I had to carry her up with her arching her back, struggling and bawling. She couldn’t get enough of the water and wanted to continue playing in the pool. She cried for at least an hour… all the way from the pool back to our unit to the bathroom and out from the bathroom… till her eyes were really swollen and nose runny. Sigh…. I pray that Baby will not get a UTI infection anymore. I pray that Baby can continue to swim and perhaps take swimming lessons next year. And I pray that the post-surgery follow-up check up with her surgeon next month will be A-Ok.
My cute little rascal with her Terrible Twos symptoms displayed 100%… and magnified loud and clear! Pray tell it will end soon,really really soon…
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