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Gabbie is 4 months Old liao! :D

July25

Children reinvent your world for you.

~ Susan Sarandon ~

Yup..! she’s now 18 weeks / 4 months Old. Hehe..

Happy kangaroo-PaPa & Grumpy Gabbie >.<"

I can’t made up my mind.. either time is moving too Fast or too Slow.. hmmm~ *Scratch head* >.<”

She seems to be stucked forever for being a 3 month-old baby.. and Next before we knew it.. she’s 4 months Old today! O.o

Anyway, I’m going to be very vain.. hehe.. to post her wardrobe to show off. Hahaha~! I suppose thats how most Mum’s would be.. to feel responsible & place themself in-charge over their daughters wardrobe and ensure that she will be always be cutely dressed up!! Hahaha..

But this mama (& papa too..) are stingy :P We hardly buy any new pretty cloths for her.. because its too expensive and it only serves it purpose for a ridiculously short time!! (baby grows scarily fast!!)

Hehe..so here I’ll show you some of the pretty dresses that Gabbie owns.. hehe..

Clockwise : Pretty green dress from Unc Isaac frm Sabah, Cute pink blouse from 2nd GrandAunt

The 2 Hush Puppies (in navy blue) dresses have an interesting story behind them! I bought them..7 years ago for my then newly pregnant SIL Hsing :P Not knowing the gender..I picked up this 2 dresses from a HushPuppies warehouse sale in KL for a bargain!

7 years and 3 nephews later.. its came back; still brand New and belongs to my lucky Gabbie! Hahaha.. Needless to say..they became my Favourites! Haha..

She woke up extremely Happy last Sunday morning. Taking advantage of her superb Mood, I quickly get her dressed-up in one of the dress for our Sunday family breakfast and took some pictures of her!

Here’s the latest pic of Gabbie wearing that dress. ^_^

Happy Gabbie in her new Dress! :D Sooo Cute la~

Her latest hobby. The reverse sit up a.k.a Butt-lift-and-reach-her-toes-Pose

She played along and I managed to take some very nice shots of her ! ^_^

And suddenly towards the end.. she decided to PS a.k.a Poop .. Abruptly ending the photo-play-session

SIGH~

We had to undressed her promto and get her cleaned up.. and by the time we were done.. the whole family ended up having a Sunday Brunch liao… @.@

Hahaha!

Aizz…. Gabbie…~ ~ Gabbie~ ~ >.<*

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Continuation from Part I : Gabbie and Flu

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Part II : Our Gabbie is ‘Weird’ @.@”

July18

Babies are always more trouble than you thought

and more wonderful!

~ Charles Osgood ~

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As a result of all these failed attempts.. we finally resort to our final trick = Milk Cocktail. The idea is to mix in all the medications into her milk and feed it to her during her feeding session.

We really had wanted to avoid doing this because we’ve heard from many reliable sources that it may not be a good idea because :

1. The baby may pick-up the taste of the medication and refused to drink the milk

2. The baby may drink the milk+medications mixture halfway then refused to finish it..thus rendering the medication intake inaccurate (the baby not having the correct amount of measured medications)

3. in a more drastic situation, baby may reject the milk (with or without medication) ALTOGETHER!

SO.. as EXTRA precaution, we split her normal milk consumption into half-half ratio. 1 with Meds & the other; Milk ONLY. Jee would start off by feeding her the Milk ONLY portion, and halfway through we switch and give her the “Cocktail” version.. and when she’s done; let her finished up with the Milk ONLY portion again..to wash away the taste of medication ..

Well at least that what we thought might work. And Guess WHAT?? She drank both the Milk & ‘Cocktail’ with no fuss and finished everything up!

IT WORKED!! Hurray!!

This went on for about a week (because her runny nose stubbornly refuse to clear..! ) After the 5th day, we noticed that she is drinking well and decided to stop giving her the Paracetemol and continue with the Flu med only..

That particular session..she straightaway rejected the “Cocktail” ..

AHA!! .. SO it was the Flu (Polaramine) medication that she didn’t like afterall. Because after we add in the Paracetemol (Orange flavour) into the same “Cocktail” mixture.. she finished It to the last drop.

SIGH.. now a NEW dilemma~

So that night, we decided to bring her back to the clinic to seek 2nd consultation for her pro-longed flu. We brought up the issue to Dr. Khaira and he told us we have to stop giving her the Paracetamol as she doesn’t need it anymore. He assured us that she is perfectly OK and sometimes the Flu may linger longer that usual..

So to tackle the feeding(taste-wise) problem, he prescribed us with another compatible Flu medication to try out. The new one(Piriton) smells much nicer (mummy & daddy both agrees it smells yummy! :P) .. compared to the Polaramine ‘cherry-cough-mixture-like’ taste.

We make a mixture using this new flu medication during her next feed and Much to our relieves, she takes well to this new medication.

Which caused another problem..

She likes it TOO Well.. because after a few feeding sessions.. she now preferred the “Cocktail” version to the Milk only..! She would now finishes her cocktail mixture and refused to finished her Milk-only portion!!

GOSH~ our Baby is W E I R D !! @.@”

HAHAHAH!!!

Lucky for us.. her flu gradually cleared so she is now back to her normal self.. Life somewhat is back to normal.. at least until a next adventure comes along. ^_^

LESSON learned : Parenthood is like a BOX of Chocolate.. you never know what your KID will give YOU! .. >.<

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Part 1 : Gabbie & her Flu

July16

A baby will make love stronger,

days shorter,

nights longer,

bank balance smaller,

home happier,

clothes dirty,

the past forgotten,

and the future worth living for. .

~Anonymous~

For the past 1+ week, Gabbie had been flu-ish. She caught the bug from her Grandpapa who loves to kiss n hugs her .. O.o”

Poor her.. she had bad runny nose. But luckily for us, apart from that she wasn’t Feverish. But instead she had a slight inflamation to her throat which caused her to loss her appetite. =(

Instead of her usual Gluttony self.. she had actually rejected her milk. She would suck some and then stop, turn and twisting her head in protest. We suspect its because of her throat discomfort.

This got us kinda worried; so we brought her to see our family GP, Dr. Babitha. After some diagnosis and checking, she was prescribed to take a flu (Polaramine) and fever (Paracetamol - to help reduce her throat inflamation) medications.

This is her 2nd round of flu.. the 1st time was roughly a month ago when she is 2mth old+. That time it(the Flu) cleared pretty fast; in 3 days. We feed her the medications with the syringe provided during her feeding time.

The Tactic that we used that time involves :

1. Bottle fed her with milk when she is hungry.

2. Pull out the milk, pump the pre-measured medication via syringe into her mouth.

3. Stuffed the milk nipple into her mouth (Pronto!), and get her to gulp down her milk with the medication.

Sounds pretty simple right? If it worked a month ago.. it should work now!. Thats what we thought.. -.-” We couldn’t have been more wrong. Nothing is predictable with this little vixen.. She really really dislikes the taste of the medications.

We tried numerous times to get her to take the prescribed meds and following is a record our attempts & its outcomes Y.Y :

Attempt I : Suck& Pump method

1. Feed her the milk when she’s hungry

2. Pull out the milk, pump the pre-measured medication via syringe into her mouth

3. Before we can feed her the Milk again..

- she screwed her Eyes, wrinkle her nose & Gag!

- In protest, spit out ALL the medication -.-*

4. Finally in a fit of anger, SCREAMED for her milk!

OUTCOME : MISSION #1 FAILED

SIGH.. so we decided to leave it be and try again on her Next feed.

Attempt II : Pump & Seal lip

1. Let her suck on her milk, lift her up so she is in a recline position.

2. Pull out the milk, trick her to open her mouth & pump the meds into her mouth

3. Quickly held her jaw & lip tight and leaving her no room to spit the Meds back out (At least.. thats the Idea )

4. She struggled a bit and manage to squirt some of the medication out from the corner of her lips, but we held firm for another 5 secs to make sure she swallowed the medication.

5. After 5 seconds.. Finally we let go. And before we can give ourself a pat on the back.. she SPIT the rest of the meds right back out. (Apparently she didn’t swallow it.. she just lead us into thinking that she did by being quiet and placid =_=” )

OUTCOME : MISSION #2 FAILED

OK OK Fine! The little lady MUST have her medications; so no more playing Nice. We decided to let her continue with her milk while I pre-measured her doses of medication again for our 3rd attempt. So halfway thru feeding we decided to give it a go again, this time using a slightly different tactic #2.

Attempt III : Pump & Seal lip#2

1. Let her suck on her milk, lift her up so she is almost in a upright position.

2. Pull out the milk, trick her to open her mouth & pump the meds into her mouth

3. Quickly held her jaw & lip tight for longer time than the previous attempt, tilt her head back to force her to swallow.

4. This time she really don’t like it and struggled fiercely against us. She kick her little legs and flails her arms.. after some time she seems to have really swallowed the medication so we let go.

5. We waited.. no spitting of medication out like the previous times.. YAY!!!

BUT.. The next thing we know is.. she regurgitate out the medication along with the rest of the milk that she had drank.. ALL of it!! @.@” It soaked her shirt and make puddle of milk stains on our bed…

6. As we were frantically trying to make sure she’s OK and trying to clean up the bed. …

SHE then GRINS at us .. as if saying ..”GOTCHA!! Thats was you get for force feeding Me.. Nyeh~! ”

OUTCOME : MISSION #3 FAILED

WE! 2 adult parents. Are being outwitted by a mere 3+ months old baby! T.T Sigh~

Check on our next post on how we resolves this issue and .. a Whole new set of problems it Introduced. =\

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my Husband, the Father

May30

The moment a child is born,
the mother is also born.
She never existed before.
The woman existed, but the mother, never.
A mother is something absolutely new.
~Rajneesh

I’ve got a story to share ..

2 weekends ago, Papa Jee and I went to Normah Medical Specialist Centre to pay a visit to my SIL. As we step out of the Level 3 lift (Level 3 housed the Maternity ward and the new born Nursery), I suggested to Papa Jee to stop by the Nursery; as I’m curious to see how the newborn are housed.. since I missed out on Gabbie’s

In KPJ the nursery are curtained at all time thus you can’t really view the infants inside without special request.

Anyway.. as we approach the Nursery we both heard the muffled sound of baby cries. True enough, as we peered through the glass door into the nursery - a newborn baby (a Baby boy, from the blue blanket) was howling angrily.. the baby obviously was very upset as he’s crying on the top of his lungs and were kicking his little legs angrily in protest!

Both of us watched helplessly as we see the baby cries and kicked in earnest. We kept searching with our eyes to see if there were any nurse present in the nursery.

Don’t they know that a baby is crying?

Is there no nurse present to provide comfort or tend to that little newborn?

What can we do? Can we go to the counter to tell the nurses there that a baby is crying and need attention? What if they ask us, who are we to the newborn? His family? Relatives?

O.o” To which we answer … No. We’re just some passer by.. a stranger?

All this were racing in my head as I watched the little baby cries and howls.. And I can see from Papa Jee’s face that he’s probably thinking along the same line.. We were both at loss to what we can do for the little guy and were very worried.. The mother in me wanted to just open the door (which is locked) and go in and give the little guy a hug and offer some comfort..

After what seems to be eternity, we finally saw a nurse walked out of the inner part of the nursery wheeling another newborn. Part of me were relieved, and yet I hear another part of me are screaming..

SO THERE WERE A NURSE IN THERE!

Why hasn’t she attended to the poor crying baby?!

Why has she allowed him to cried for so long??

We continue to stand there to make sure the nurse does attend to the baby and after some moment later, I tugged on Papa Jee’s sleeves and urged him to be on our way. I think we were standing at the nursery for a good 10 minutes before we finally tore ourself away from it.

As we walked slowly, we were both silent and deep in thought. Then I murmured, “Very pity ho, that baby. To be crying to that extend for so long.”

To which Jee the replied, “Yeah! Its outrageous how they kept him crying in such manner and did not attend to him.”

He paused for a moment more, looked at me in the eye and with gentle voice, touched his chest with his palm and says.. “My heart feels sore and kinda hurt you know.. listening to that little baby cries like that.. I never knew that I will felt this way, although that baby is not related to us.. I suppose with Gabbie’s arrival and being Father does changed things.. ”

He then chuckled to himself, as if he was embarrassed to have said that.

Hearing him saying that, at that very moment, a warm fuzzy feeling just filled my heart and if I ever have any doubt about him being a father, it all had disappeared there and then! And I just knew that I have loved the right man and he will be a Great father to our little Gabbie.

Oh! At that moment if its possible, I do loved him even more!

As we continue walking, my hand enveloped in his large and warm hand.. with him by my side; I feel that am ready to take on the many challenges of Parenthood.. whatever that may come our way.. as we continue to Love and nurture our little angel daughter and help her grows into a fine Lady.

Its funny how the arrival of the helpless, fragile little being that is our child can really change our life. Such is the wonder of Babies and the world of Parenthood.

Because of her arrival.. My husband.. is now a Father~

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