Heaty Baby

@ 9 months 2 weeks 1 days

Ryan’s temperature was still a little on the higher side (36.8 – 37.1) last night. Yeah, he wasnt really having a fever but being the usual kiasu kiasi mummy, I finally brought Ryan to see the paed last night.

The paed checked everything, nose, eyes, ears, head, hands, toe, fingers, all all all. Found nothing wrong. My heart aches when I saw paed used a stick thing to push Ryan’s tongue down to check on his throat. Ryan went “Oek Oek Oek” (the puke sound) and used his hands to push the paed’s hand away. We have to use force to keep Ryan still. Then he went “Wah-Wah-Wah” (but no tears) and as soon as paed removed the stick, Ryan straightened his back, twisted left and right trying his futile luck to break free. My poor baby. Think he was trying to get away from the paed. His eyes by then were all red due to the Wah-Wah-Wah earlier.

Paed couldn’t find anything wrong with Ryan. Then paed asked me one question. How bad was Ryan’s fever. I said err.. highest was 37.3C. He gave me a funny smiley face and said “You shouldn’t worry. That’s not FEVER”. Kekekeke… Behind his smiley face I can read his mind *This mummy so silly stupid.. really tak han mo yeh cho*. Sorry lor.. but better be safe than sorry.

Anyways.. paed did advise us to give more water to Ryan after seeing his red and cracked lips. (chinese say YIT HEI). Erm, easier to say than done. Ryan hates drinking plain water. He will take a few sip before he pushed the bottle away. That’s how extreme he could go against plain water. But when he sees me preparing juice (his fav prune and apple) he will snatch the bottle from me before I’m even done twisting the cover.

I am in dilemma. What drinks besides plain water I can offer to a fussy heaty 9 months old baby? They say barlee without sugar… anything else ar? Pray help.. anyone can share with me some good advise?

This morning while chit chatting with auntie, so happened the topic of honey was brought up. I said never ever feed Ryan with honey. She went.. “Oh, really” “Cannot meh”. At the back of my mind I was like “WTF, why she sounded so blur and like san yau si (guilty look)” Of course she said she did not feed Ryan with honey but I seriously hope she’s telling the truth… sigh.

Cheeky Little Baby

@ 9 months 1 week 6 days

Our baby likes to do this lately.. do what? Squint his eyes lor.

Pics taken 28 Jan 2007

Ryan eyeing something here…

Obviously hiding that ’something’ behind his back

Yeah.. he’s playing with the mosquito patch that fell off his clothes

Don’t worry.. he never got the chance to taste it. Mummy said NO NO NO.. and this is the face he showed us. See below~~

My beloved cutey little baby

Hair Pulling Day (Part 2)

@ 9 months 1 week 6 days

Ryan slept at 10.30pm on Saturday night. At about 3.30am, he woke up briefly and dozed off again after milk. So, not too bad la.. At 7.30am, he woke up again and went back to ZZzz-land after milk. Being super restless and tired by then, all three of us ZZzz together gether and only woke up at 9.30am.

We decided to stay home on Sunday (ie no Kai Kai) as we were still recuperating and adapting ourselves to spill of yesterday’s exhaustion. Ryan had a mild raised of temperature actually (37.1C). Aarggh.. I should have known it. It is so unusual for Ryan to be such a fussy and cranky baby. However, I just couldn’t make up what caused the temperature raise. Ryan already has 8 teeth and don’t think it’s due to that. Well, the only possible conclusion I could decipher was on his allergic as he had these tiny rashes like spots on his abdomen and patches on joints from the day earlier. Poor baby.

At night I gave Ryan some medication and he fell asleep by 9.30pm. However, Ryan woke up at 1.00am with blink blink eyes. Certainly doesn’t look like he’ll go back to sleep anytime soon. So, being the ever-ready 24×7 mummy, I played with Ryan and at 2.30am Ryan started rubbing his eyes, sign for his readiness to go to bed again. OMG. I was really exhausted by then. By 3.00am (I think), we were all in Zzzz-land already.

Ryan did not sleep well throughout the night. He went E E Eh Eh every hour or so with his eyes closed (Phew~ I was relief). I was at the verge of losing my temper (you know la, lack of sleep sure a bit ‘cho’) but I tried not to lose it knowing my baby is probably still feeling uncomfortable somewhere and fussed for our attention. So, tucked him, sayang sayang and continue to pat pat lor..

Both hubs and I didn’t really get any good sleep but that’s okay. Importantly our baby is okay.

Update: I checked with Auntie and true enough Ryan had tofu on Friday. Arrgh.. ban ban ban. No tofu for the next many months.

Hair Pulling Day

9 months 1 week 4 days

The title of this post speaks it all. Why? Why? Why? Check out my diary today..

Last night~~
Ryan actually slept quite late, around 11.30pm. Why? Bcos Daddy said wanna spend some time bond with Ryan wor..

Today~~
6.30am – Ryan woke up and demanded attention from Daddy (Yeah, think he likes Daddy more cos he likes to roll himself next to Daddy, sleep together-gether on the same pillow, head to head, side by side, his hand on Daddy etc etc). So, this morn, no exception. He was awake and of course Daddy was soundly asleep. Ryan rolled over and slap Daddy on face. Ouch! Daddy blink blink and continue to Zzz. Since I was awake, I jaga the little monster lor..

7.30am – Finally went back to ZZz-land

8.30am – Ryan woke up. This time kili-kulu wanted to play… Daddy brought Ryan for a quick walk while I prepare bath for Ryan.

10.00am – Ryan took 1.5 hours nap. Phew.. but I was so ‘cien’. Didn’t take the opportunity to sleep. What I did? Catch up on some blogs lor..That’s why hubs said I ‘chisin’, ‘choongtok’ (poison) already.

1.00pm – Reached The Curve. For the first time Ryan wailed like a mad baby refusing the stroller. He straightened his body, attempted to slide down the tiny gap at the bottom of the seat. What a scene. Ryan has never fussed nor show any sign of stroller rejection before. Arrgh.. So, no choice we took turns carrying him all around until my right hand went numb that I demanded home-home-home. Several attempts to put Ryan down on stroller just went futile. Don’t mention sit, he even refused to stand on the stroller.

4.00pm – Ryan got so tired that he dozed off on my arms in the car. Usually when we reached home, Ryan would be awake due to the various distractions what not. Today guess he was too tired that he didn’t even move an inch from car to our room 3 floors up the stairs. By then, my hand was seriously numb- *no feel*. Ryan napped for 2 hours.

In the evening we went Bangsar Village (new wing) – newly opened ma. Heehee..but big disappointment la.. nothing much. Most of the shops were not opened yet. So, we crossed back to the old wing for Basil Thai Food. Anyways, back to stroller nightmare story. This time we used force. Ryan was wailing aloud, starightened his body, twist here twist there (no joke, we looked like some cruel ah pa, ah ma ..). I can sensed many eyes were on us. Anyhow that seemed to worked. Once we strapped Ryan up and on the move, Ryan stopped crying. Phew~~ but when we slowed down or stopped, the show begins again. Arrg… stresszz stresszzzzzzzzzzzz…

The whole day Ryan was very very cranky. His sleeping habit went haywired. He refused his stroller. He was clingy wanted to be carried all the time…Arrgg… could it be allergic cos I saw some tiny rashes like spots on his body. I was almost at breaking point.. maybe because I was tired myself, didn’t have enough sleep the night before.

10.15pm – Ryan went to Zzz-land after milk, without fuss. Phew~~~

See, hair pulling or not?

I’ve Been Tagged Again

WaWaWah, happy happy. Thanks to DesperateMummy for having me in mind. I still remember when we first got tagged by Sasha, we were discussing over MSN how to reply leh… Being the newbie blogger mummy in town, it is thru supporters alike that keeps me continue to blog blog blog….Muaks muaks. Big thank you to all those who spend time reading my etcetera etcetera ‘kusi’ (story) about Ryan – my little ‘kulingchingkwai’ BB.

So here goes… Malaysian Bloggers Meme

Actually I have sooooooooo many favs blogs that I read daily so unfair unfair to limit to 5 only leh. Hmm.. so I’m just gonna categorise into 4 mains. Don’t mind ya DesperateMummy.

1) JeffOooi – Like many others I find the local dailies getting more and more interesting uninteresting. If you get what I mean. So, Jeff’s site in an eye opener I hardly miss to get myself updated flavour of the current *happenings* in town.

2) Shoppingsales – Erm, this one count ar? Err, the link speaks it all. Think I dont have to explain why it is my fav site hor..

3) My friends’ blog – I don’t have that many friends who blog. Of those who are as ethusiastic as me I make sure I visit their blog to render motivation – malaika, angelamelie, vixie, makawala etc- kambahteh.. “ga yau”.

4) All the blogger parent’s (daddy/mummy) site – soooooooo many la DesperateMummy, Sasha, Mom2Ashley, Shannon, Annie, etc etc etc….All my favourites. Easily I have at least 20 links on my feeds. Being a new mummy I try to catch up with their posting everyday for parenting insights.

Erm, Erm, who I wanna tag?? Think by time reach me most would have been tagged already. So, I’m gonna give some of my personal friends a miss. *Wink-wink*

Co-Sharing Bed

@ 9 months 1 week 3 days

We adopt a bed co-sharing approach with Ryan since his 3rd month. He just refused to sleep on his cot. He would be soundly asleep when we put him on the cot, couple of hours later he will be wailing for our attention refusing any sorts of stimulation to calm him down. Then when we laid him on our bed, he would fall asleep into Zzz-land in no seconds. So, the rest is history la.. until today I (hubs agree with me too) we got so used to Ryan on our bed that we have been procrastinating the need to move him back to cot so we both can have more ahem… intimate moment lor (to add… nah don’t humsup.. i don’t only mean ‘that’ intimate la.. it’s oso bcos the current bed will be too small to fit 3 people sooner or later)

Regardless how determined we were to move Ryan to his own cot, when we see him sleeping so peacefully on our bed, we just can’t do it.

I know this is crazy… I’m relating it as if I have to put Ryan on his cot miles away. Every night, we gave ourselves excuses, start tomorrow la.. and tomorrow.. and tomorrow. Arrgh… I’m gonna miss my sleep mate if one day we really have no choice but to it – for Ryan’s long term development sake.

Wish me luck……

Our sleepmate Ryan sleeping soundly on our bed

Hand Development

@ 9 months 1 week

Ryan can pick up anything within his sight with little effort; of course he can throw them away effortlessly as well. He has so much strength that he can even pull down the hi chair. Sigh..

Ryan likes to grasp the things he likes from us and when he finally got it on his hand he’ll throw it instantly on the ground and observe the impact he proudly orchestrated. When you pick it up, he’ll repeat the same and giggles. When he sees a toy out of his reach, he’ll go crazy and lunge forward as if he hasn’t seen the toy for yearssss. The worrying part of this is Ryan can unexpectedly do it even we were carrying him so one can imagine how vigilant we have to be at all-time so to not drop our little precious on the ground. Erm, naughty or not my little monster.

Ryan’s development on pincer grasps has been pretty good. He is able to use his fingers pretty well (even the middle finger). Last night I managed to take a few shots of him putting his fingers for good use when it comes to play time.

The pic shows ‘Busy Basic Gears’ from Playskool I bought him (yeah, you can see the gears are all gone already).

1) Daddy teaching Ryan how to use his fingers to follow the spin

2) Ryan is a fast learner when it comes to play. Able to use his thumb and index finger pretty well here

3) Probably figured using thumb and index is not the best combination. Decided to use his index and middle finger instead

3) Hahaha.. finally settled with his middle finger. (See how he the remaining fingers will curl inward except for that one particular useful one here. LOL) and erm.. Ryan only uses his middle finger to play la and not to interpret any sign language, I hope not.. (heheh.. u know what I mean)

New Template

@ 9 months 6 days

Hehehe.. new year, new look ma.. I’ve changed the template and made some improvements to the layout so the side bar (especially) won’t look so crowded. So, now you know what I’ve been up to over the weekend la…:)

Eczema Baby

@ 9 months 5 days

Ryan started to have rashes on his face when he was just barely 2 months eventhough he was still on breastmilk. During then, my confinement lady suggested all sorts of ways to cure it .. all the traditional ways of course ranging from bathing Ryan with Guiness, disolve Panadol and apple it on his skin, use his ‘virgin’ urine to wipe the area, bla bla bla.. Being a new mummy who is against all these unproven traditional methods, I brushed them off. Gila meh (crazy), alcohol, urine yadda, yadda, yadda.. yeaksss!!!!

Despite my rejection to the suggestions, I was desperate to find a cure for my baby as the rashes has somehow gotten so bad that he kept rubbing his face with his mitten covered hands. It was a really pitiful sight. The recommendations by paed somehow were short termed too. Ryan’s rashes would be gone for a few days and back within the next. Some recommendations by paed:

• Change milk from Enfalac to Enfalac HA – okay for a week or so then rashes were back
• Change milk from Enfalac HA to Isomil – (on Isomil since..)
• Daily use of Aqueoues cream (few times day to keep skin moisturised)
• Daily use of Eucerin (abandoned already eversince we use the current brand)
• Daily use of Oilatum Plus (few drops into bath water)
• Prescribed hydro-cortisone (strictly only on severe rashes – very red and big patch)

Ryan continues to stay on Isomil until today but we have changed his daily skin care products to another brand after a visit to a skin specialist at Gleneagles when he suffered a rash outbreak on his face and joints. Ryan was then about 4 months (after a visit to poorly air conditioned warehouse sales) Yeah.. wanted to get a staircase gate for Ryan ma)

So ever since we’ve been using these.. Not bad. Touch wood. At least so far so good though occasionally he does develop rashes from food allergies.

Above are the products I use on Ryan during his Pom-Pom time: Johnson baby shampoo, Oilatum Plus (sometimes.. emollient wi anti bacterial function – just add one-two drops into bath water) and Cetaphil Cleanser (daily use).

Products I use after Pom-Pom. Drapolene for nappy rashes (I apply everytime I change him regardless with or without nappy rash), Efficort (it’s hydro cortison recommended by the skin specialist. Only apply when necessary. For me I only use this when the rashes causes distress to Ryan), Cetaphil Cream (this is slightly oilier, recommended for night use but I use it anyway during the day. There’s another Cetaphil day cream that Ryan uses. I leave that with auntie cos Ryan spends most of his day time at auntie’s place), next is the YueYi oil (use since 3 days old) to get rid of tummy wind and lastly the baby comb to comb his few strands of hair. (Ryan loves it when I comb his hair. Must be the tingling feel. He’ll give you the cheeky smile of his which gives you the impression he’s enjoying himself there. Heehee..)

Eversince we’ve been using the Cetaphil range, Ryan hasn’t had any rashes outbreak. So no complaint. (Touch wood touch wood) Whenever he has a bad patch on his face it’s always due to the food he consumed. Paed said most babies will outgrow this infantile eczema stage, I think Ryan has but I’ll still continue with his daily care routine. No harm done.

Hope the info above could help parents who are as troubled as me in relieving their babies’ eczema problem. Good luck.

Quick Fix to Dry Skin

@ 9 months 4 days

For the last two weeks or so I’ve developed this sudden dryness on my face. It got sooo bad that my skin starts to peel a little. I must say I was really desperate to get a quick fix and that’s partly because of a advertorial photo shoot job I got for a car fragrance product (Thanks Liz!!). So in a desperate bid, I literally drown myself with face moisturiser every night. One day no result, two days also no marked improvement. Tried moisturiser A, tried moisturiser B, ding ding dong dong more than a week passed, still ‘mo tit hei sek’ and I kinda give up until I found this…

Does it really work? Yes.. it works WONDER. No joke. After a night, I can see obvious improvement on my skin. Today I went for the shoot with smooth skin lor.. Just barely 48hours ago my skin was like peeling sandpaper. Not anymore..(wink wink)

So this morning happy happy jolly jolly went for my shoot. Thanks Daddy for looking after Ryan. The pic below was taken not long after I stepped foot into the room. Ryan was happily playing in his playpen.

Can see my poor baby is still wearing his pyjamas at 1pm when mummy got home. Sigh..

Where’s Daddy?? Where’s Daddy?

Here lor…. reading his newspaper.