Multiparenting Cayen & Cayson

Cayen has been sick since Wednesday. It all started weird on Wednesday when I saw that he couldn't finish his favourite Kaya bread and was a little listless on his way to school.  By noon, teacher has called to say he's running a fever. So we brought him home to rest. All seemed well till the next morning when he woke up all red and burning. My parents quickly brought him to the PD when he was given some medicine to bring down the high fever of 39 degrees. Because he was so sick, he was allowed to watch his favourite cartoons on Nic Junior during his waking hours. And his energy level oscillated wildly within every four hour slot. He would be his normal self half an hour after each medication, and back to being weak and irritable half an hour before time of the next medication. And strangely, he started to deplore taking medicine and resisted all attempts to put any cold cloth or cooling patch on his forehead. Hence, his fever couldn't come down.  By Friday morni...

Mind champs keep us closely posted on the kid's weekly activities and usually the email will come out every Friday to report what was taught to kids that week.  Last Friday , the email mentions that school will be closed tomorrow due to children's day, or so I thought.  Next on Monday , I realised to my horror that children were supposed to dress up in their favorite cartoon or action hero. So poor Cayen was the only one in the whole class who wore the usual uniform.  I'm not sure how he felt about being the odd one out. But one parent did comment to him/us when he's going our that "poor thing, how come you are not dressed up" . While the comment meant no harm , i guess that probably highlighted that he was the odd one out.  Then I quickly went back to trace the root cause of the lapse. Then I realised that the Friday email did mention this dress up day , just that for some reason , both me and da missed it. And strangely the teacher didn't mention to gran...

In the day time, he was still ok. No flu, no cough .. Though there was the occasional (1-2 times in the entire day) cough that sounded more like a choke. That happened during his nap as well. He kinda had a cough and he woke up. It didn't seem serious so we reckoned a trip to the doctor the next day would be fine.  By night, as he was about to go to bed, things still seemed ok. However, at 2am, he seemed to have difficulty breathing and was crying uncontrollably. There was a barking / seal like sound that he was making and that was quite new to us. After half an hour of unstoppable crying, we decided to send him to KK hospital, kids A & E.  When we arrived, I was quite surprised it was almost full house. Although we have read "Dora goes to the doctor" a thousand times, Cayen was still quite rather hysterical when the nurse tried to use the stethoscope on him. To be fair, he was wailing profusely already so a stranger trying to get him to open his mouth and p...

Poor boy had a bout of stomach virus last night . Puked a total of three times throughout the night and had a bit of a recurring stomachache. Learning: must have probiotics, anti vomit medicine at home as standby . Thankfully , by evening today he was his usual chirpy self again. And he surprised me with his rendition of this song (I rarely sing this to start with). YouTube Video

Last night , I was out of the room for 30-sec to make milk for the last feed. He walk making some noise after 10 sec but suddenly became quiet after another 10 sec. I went back to the room and to my horror, he was biting the cap of the steroid cream (for eczema) and a bit of cream was oozing out from the tube. I grabbed him to the toilet to rinse his mouth and also wiped his tongue with a cloth. He seemed quite alright and continued drinking his milk. I appeared calm (so as not to scare him) but I was dead worried. Though I doubt he ate the cream but there was a chance he took some. So as usual , I googled all links and also messaged his godfather , a doctor, for some advice. Here's a summary from the links  :  - if baby didn't eat too much it should be ok.  - if baby ate too much, he might vomit or get diarrhea.  - they say to call Poisons line (do we have that in Singapore?) Anyway, signs to watch out for thereafter are as follow: - vomiting...