{"id":8550,"date":"2010-04-06T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=8550"},"modified":"2010-04-06T13:41:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T05:41:50","slug":"tired-mommy-sickly-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/04\/06\/tired-mommy-sickly-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Tired Mommy, Sickly Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ling was lamenting on our way home from work yesterday that she was starting to reconsider keeping Hannah at the Infant Care Center, and it&#8217;s down to one specific reason: the potential for our little one to pick up all manner of diseases and viruses.<\/p>\n<p>The both of us were cognizant of this risk before putting Hannah to the Center and were mentally prepared to keep up when Hannah inevitably falls ill. But what&#8217;s taken us by surprise though \u2013 as Ling said yesterday \u2013 is the frequency Hannah&#8217;s been picking up viruses.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, Ling was less tactful than that: she said she was <em><strong>very<\/strong><\/em> tired of Hannah falling ill LOL.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-hannah-OLYP0690-medicine-feeding\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/blog2010hannahOLYP0690medicinefeeding.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-hannah-OLYP0690-medicine-feeding\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To be fair though, there&#8217;s no hard evidence to show that Hannah&#8217;s falling ill because of what she&#8217;s picked up from the center. Heck, she could be ill because of viruses carried by either of us but which didn&#8217;t affect Ling or me. But outside the both of us, Hannah isn&#8217;t in any other kind of sustained proximity to other persons outside her companions at infant care.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of other options, including revisits to possible plans we had last year. But like before, nothing\u2019s ideal. We did think again about seeking Lentor assistance, but that got tossed out equally quick again in view that grandparents really aren\u2019t young anymore and that we didn\u2019t want to be too dependent on our parents for our own offspring.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px; display: inline;\" title=\"blog-2010-hannah-OLYP0684-sick\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/blog2010hannahOLYP0684sick.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-hannah-OLYP0684-sick\" width=\"350\" height=\"525\" align=\"right\" \/>We also considered a nanny option which would let Ling still keep herself occupied with some work while Hannah\u2019s taken care of. Apart from the higher costs involved though however, there\u2019s also Hannah missing out on lots of learning activities she gets from infant care \u2013 including social interaction with other babies.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Ling brought Hannah back to see her PD again: the third such visit in about a week. The latter was certain that Hannah was afflicted with some sort of viral infection (that thankfully isn\u2019t chicken pox apparently), so prescribed a tray full of medicine. Hannah fortunately takes to the medicine quite well this time. On a couple of occasions previously, feeding Hannah her get-well drugs involved the both of us: one to physically restrain her, and the other person to actually do the feeding LOL.<\/p>\n<p>The two pictures here were taken last night. Our poor girl looks quite tired and not in her usual happy self. If you look closely, apart from that her nose area looks runny, you\u2019ll also see little specks of dried mucus around her eyes too. We suspect that\u2019s the result of Hannah rubbing her hands on her nose (which she does very often whether she\u2019s ill or not) on every part of her face, including her eyes. Her body temperature was fluctuating between 37 to 38\u00b0C too.<\/p>\n<p>Well, at least the skin infections seem to be nearly all gone. Small steps.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ling was lamenting on our way home from work yesterday that she was starting to reconsider keeping Hannah at the Infant Care Center, and it&#8217;s down to one specific reason: the potential for our little one to pick up all<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/04\/06\/tired-mommy-sickly-baby\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Tired Mommy, Sickly Baby<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[468],"class_list":["post-8550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-children-blues","tag-e-pl1","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-7-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}