Friday, February 26, 2010

20 Weeks 3 Days: Andre's sick again

It was pure madness.

Andre woke up at 2.30 am for a feed. 37.3 degrees C. Not too bad and fell asleep back fairly quickly.

6.00 am: Andre woke up crying. Thought he's hungry again, but he was so hot to the touch. Directly gave him milk, he refused and was whimpering away. Took temp, 38.6 degrees C. Oh no .. quickly woke the daddy up, and gave the wailing baby some panadol. Then decide to give a suppository cos he hadn't had a major poop job for many days. Within 5 minutes, he's bowels were cleared. While all these were happening, i'm having a bad leak from engorgement. Dripping, dripping, dripping...

6.30 am: Daddy gave Andre a wipe down per Dr Ong's little cheat sheet. Mummy start pumping out the milk. When done, fed Andre 100ml through the bottle. (It's really more efficient to direct feed, but nowadays Andre takes more using the bottle). When we were almost done, Andre started puking milk like a spring. Wiped the bed and since Andre soaked his clothes, gave the 2nd bath. Poor baby was so angry with all these multi activities in the morning.

7.00 am: Cradled Andre in my arms till he slept. Didn't put him down, cos i'm afraid he'll wake up and i want him to sleep as long as possible. Daddy cleared up the war zone.

7.15 am: Daddy, mummy and Andre all KO.

8.15 am: Andre woke up while mummy went to pump out the remaining milk. Fever's almost all gone. Daddy fed the remaining 80 ml left over from the morning feed.

9.00 am: Send Andre to po po's house. 36.9 degrees C.

It's only 10.26 am now. Feels like a full day has passed. I'm exhausted.

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