Parent's nightmare

I guess parent's nightmare is child having fever.

What to do during fever:

1. sponging is a must, to prevent overheated. No ice sponging as this will closed up the pores and not able to let the heat inside to come out, just running tap water will do. Janelle hates sponging, she will throw my towels away.. so i will tab water to her forehead instead.. this will also help to prevent overheated.

2. feed medicine every 4/6 hourly, no matter she is awake or asleep.. no matter day and night.. this will prevent the fever to come back again. especially in the night, where fever will usually come back.

my definition,:

• if the fever is around 38, i will sponge her only and only give medicine only if the fever remains at 38 and never subside.
• in btw 38 to 38.50.. sponging + medicine every 6 hrs
• above 38.50.. sponging + medicine every 4 hrs.. if never subside, i will give bufen
• 39 will go to hospital

3. Give lots of water

4. make sure she poo.

• i remembered last time when she had fever, it lasted for 4 days and these 4 days she never poo, once the bullet was given and she pooed alot.. the fever subside.
• So this time also, today is 2nd day.. i give oatmeal + juice this morning, and she managed to pooed alot too... and fever subsided

I had never introduced pillow to Janelle since she is born till now. But yesterday night, she looked for something high raise.. and fall asleep on the boaster which i used it to prevent her knocks on the wall. After reading some childcare book, then realised that because of her flu, she need to be slightly up-raised to feel more comfortable. Silly mummy then quickly look for her pillow which i bought 2 years ago, and let her sleep on pillow..

Not easy to take care of sick child... mummy and daddy took turn to wake up in the night to take Janelle temperature. Just to make sure that fever dont come back.. *Sleepy*

Janelle 2nd Birthday

I arranged with Janelle teacher to celebrate her 2nd birthday in school with her classmates. Planned to get party hats, toys and snacks to bring into school in the afternoon and let her have fun with her classmates and teachers. But who knows, Janelle was down with Fever, Flu and cough.

A Simple celebration, mummy got her fav cake to celebrated it with just daddy and mummy.. together with helper.

Guess what!!!

Guess what capture her attention for 30 mins and with this kind of And mummy had to distrub her every 5 to 10 min to relax her eyes






























It's Hi5.




Oh, I girl fall in love with watching TV. Never like to intro her to TV cos I afraid she will be like me glued to TV. When I'm working, maid introduced her to TV. and Hi5 is the program that can catch her attention for whole 30mins, sitting still on the chair or sofa.

Hmmm.. But happy, cos it's a milestone.

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A day of full time mom

Cleared all things that I have always want to do for Janelle but didn't managed to do it till now.

Tips for all mummies, how to prevent your child keep slipping down from chair? Is to put a non slip on the chair, so she will not will slip down from chair and can maintain a better posture.






I finally bought the play yards. Placed my order this morning, was delivered and setup this afternoon. When the delivery man delivered, my neighbour n her friend run over and say "you bought the play yards, this will be your best buy.. We never regret getting this.." both of are mummies ensuring me that it is a worth to buy item.

We get it clear up, setup n let Janelle to try. Personal I feel this is a good buy so far. :) at least when we are busy at work, we know that she is in a safe area, not worrying her touch this n that, climbing up n down. And noticed that this really giving her more opp to pratice standing up and crusing.























Today whole day had been accompany Janelle by her side.. Keeping her lips as dry n possible. Once I see her drooling, I will help her tab dry n remind her to close her lips.. After a day, yes noticed that there is a slight improvement. At times, when she feel wet, she will close her lips herself. Nice. This will need to be constant. Will try to remind her as much as I can.

Try to plump up janelle a bit more, as she weight gain wasn't good for the past 3 months, so I got her pediasure. It is recommended by a PD - one time a day. Personnally, I think my janelle is ok, so I gave her onli during breakfast time with meals that required milk eg cereal, cornflask, pancake etc. If that morning, she having bread don't need milk, then we will skip for that day.




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"The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart." -- Nikolai Lenin

Meet a new friends

This morning, at tuina's place, we meet this very pretty 11 years old girl who is the new patient of yishi for tuina. After a chat with her parents, realised that girl had seizure when she was 5 weeks old, and was recovered by 8 months old treated in KKH, slowly she stopped all seizure medicine by the time she reached the age of 2. No more seizure after that.. everything back to normal and she managed to score very well in her main stream school..

However, recently seizure came back.. and now she had problems with walking, she needs supports when standing and had lost her ability to talk.. *ouch..* it's very painful to see a high flyers fall. We exchange our experience with the parents... Her Daddy adviced us "Never Give Up when she is young, before everything is too late".

Understand from her daddy, they had tried many ways. from trail and error on different different drugs to special diet to treatments and tested from Australia, Japan.. But none works. Now he is trying on tuina. He is now sourcing from china.

We exchange of our contacts and will continue to stay in contacts and exchange our exprience.

God, please take away seizure from all kids.. they are just a children, they didnt nothing wrong.

She is not a baby anymore

Went to OT with Janelle yesterday.... And the OT had says something something which wake me up...

"SHE IS NOT A BABY ANYMORE... NO MORE HELP SHOULD BE PROVIDED.. ONLY BABY THAN WE GIVES HANDS TO HELP"










Yes, lesser help will be offer to her from now on.. she will need all kind of training to learn what she needs to learn..

I always hope that Janelle can walk on her own by 2.. so have been trying to do lots of things with within a short period of time.. the focus is not there... I'm going to change my strategy.. focus stay focus.. one at a time.. so now.. my focus is to improve her drooling.. and lots of mouth simulation I'm going to provide to her...

Tips provided by OT and SP
1. once see her drool, will need to tab dry and remind her to close her lips
2. give her some tasty drinks and let her feel her tongue and remind her to swallow
3. give her more opp to chew to train her mouth's mausle
4. Learning to use a straw for fluids can improve drooling.
5. reduce pacifier time