It was tiring month 7 for us and Baby Orange as he had flu and cough, and we had water supply interruption at our apartment.
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| Him smiling this month |
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| Baby Orange smiling on a good day |
Baby Orange recovering from flu. Difficulty in taking medication. Throw up medicine, cry indefinitely. Good for 2 days, then use tongue to block medicine syringe, then spit out. Had a sinus gas thingy by 2nd visit to paed. 3/12 Given a spray, and recovering upon using the spray.
Last weight = 7.0 kg
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| Cherry accompanied him to the dr's clinic twice |
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Baby Orange given some gas treatment to help with the throat (or something like that).
Cried non-stop during treatment until too tired and fell asleep. |
Wasn't feeding well especially during medication period. Didn't want bottle and didn't want latch on. Pull off breast only after a few sucks. Have to coax and carry in arm almost whole night. Coax, latch, unlatch. Coax, latch, unlatch. Body temperature higher when refusing feed and water.
Oh no! Got my period after so long when Baby Orange is about 7 months. I felt serious cramping whenever I direct latch on Baby Orange for breastfeeding, and even pumping.
Major water supply interruption the 3rd week of Nov after doctor's visit. Luckily Papa is around, he and 哥哥 carried buckets of water from the PBA truck assigned to service our apartment. With the PBA truck here, that means PBA is already working on the issue. It's a wonder no one from the apartment management noticed, as the water tank had run dry before it was noticed.
The two older children had cold baths, as there weren't water from the tap to use the water heater shower. On the first day of water supply interruption, the two children refilled their water bottles at school. Papa bought big bottles of drinking water from Tesco for us. We filled up the thermal with drinking water, and use that mixed with drinking water to wash Baby Orange's bottles, pacifier and medicine syringe. As a breastfeeding mom, I really need to have clean water supply to clean the pump, milk collection shells in addition to Baby Orange's stash.
It's so primitive and pathetic washing dishes with buckets of water. Laundry was piling up, stinky laundry too at that :( And poor Baby Orange, he didn't get to bathe for a couple of days. All while recovering from flu too. When Papa fed him the flu and cough medicine, usually some will dribble onto Baby Orange's clothes. Sometimes our clothes kena the sticky sweet medication too when he threw up the medicine.
We had always taught the children to appreciate getting clean water from our taps, so they learnt a major lesson about the importance of clean water supply. After the second day of no water supply, Papa keep calling PBA as the water they supply via truck could not be used as drinking water. He is fed up buying bottles of drinking water from Tesco :P Finally PBA agreed to look into this problem, and the solution as Papa's suggestion. They loaded water into our apartment water tank (I think it had a filter or something) and this indirectly restored water supply. The PBA guy manning the truck told Papa he refilled the water tank with 7 or 8 truckloads of water for the apartment dwellers. Only our apartment had water supply interruption for about 4 days. I told Papa if he wasn't around this time, he would definitely get an earful of noise from me if I had to do it all by myself, and with poor Baby Orange sick at that time too!
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| Baby Orange and siblings, the cartoons they like in the background |
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| Went out more during holidays |
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| A good morning! He wakes up early in the morning and disturb the older siblings who like to catch up on their snoozes... |
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| Hehe, ger ger and Cherry's bed are all mine! |
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| Baby Orange at Parkson First Avenue baby room, nice and clean |
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| Another good day at home :) |
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| Laughing at some silly tricks his siblings did :) |
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| Having carrot puree |
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| My photography skill is bad, he looks kind of flat-faced here hahah |
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| Have to admit Papa take much better photos |
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| Baby Orange with us at Coffee Bean Straits Quay for breakfast |
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