X'Mas @ Lilian's

New Addition in the family

My younger sister has popped! Finally, she has been waddling ard in her big tummy for a long while and complaining abt how heavy she is. So Adriel Chua is born on 12 Dec (boy, i like that date) morn. She diluted so fast tt no epidural can be given and it's all natural birth. Kudos to you, sister!

There's a dark birthmark at his leg and my sister was very affected by it. Even though we console her that the fact tt it is on his leg rather than face and he, being a boy, it shldnt matter much, and most impt fact is tt he is healthy, she is still sad abt it. She began to question what has she done wrong in this pregnancy that caused the birthmark. It is ridiculous especially she is a catholic and shldnt believe any possible old wives' tales. I guess, it's all the hormones talking. But it's true, when one is pregnant, the gender of the bb may be impt, but most of all, all mothers wished for, is for the baby to be healthy and no birthmarks on the face or neck.

This boy is quite big @ 3.45kg at birth and have good lungs. He has been screaming and some pp tot i may be motivated to have a 2nd one. Crazy! When i see him crying endlessly, it reminded me so much of Athena when she was young and it gave me shivers just thinking abt a newborn bb.

Here's some pics of him. He is really a handsome little boy :)

Princess is Sick

Princess fell sick when we came back from HK. Flu and cough which alot of pp say it's due to the bad HK weather. I have to agree. She recovered but who knows, she had fever last Sat.

It was hovering ard 37.4 - 37.8... so we decided not to bring her to A&E since all PDs are closed on Sat's afternoon. However, at nite, it got worse. It went up to 38.7!!!! We only gave her Paracetamol as we dont have Ibuprofen at home. We were worried but didnt panic at first. But on Sunday nite, her temperature hit 39.7 degree!!! It really freaked me out. I feel so helpless has a parent. We sponged her down but she didnt like it as she wanted to sleep. She was burning and i kept playing all those horror stories abt kids have side effects from high fever. I couldnt sleep at all that nite as i keep waking her up to check her temperature. First time i feel so helpless being a mother :(

I took childcare leave on Mon and rushed her to see a PD first thing in the morn. Turned out there's a virus going ard. (so all parents be aware) and she had throat infection. Since the fever has been there for a while, Doc decided to give her anti-biotic but warned tt it may gives her Diarrhea. Boy, was she right. Princess LS like 5 -6 times a day and even shit at nite. Her bum became so red tt she cried when we changed her. Gosh, heart-pained! After 3 days, we decided to stop the antibiotics.
Keeping my fingers crossed now tt she will recover this weekend... pray...