AL is 5 months plus old

During her routine vaccination on 26Dec08, AL’s weight was 8.5kg. Everyone was too busy with Christmas that we only managed to bring her for her vaccination after 6 days from her actual 5 months old date.

Every time we had our meal, AL would look with interest on the food we were eating and she would show her tongue. On 26Dec08, we gave AL a teaspoon of mashed Avocado. She loved it and kept showing her tongue. After that we hold one her solid because we planned to wait till she would be 6 months old by 20Jan09. Mummy had been busy reading a book which Mummy got in 2004 titled SuperBabyFood by Ruth Yaron. Mummy had lost touch on starting solid food, so need to read again. This time, Mummy would improvise a bit different that the method Mummy used on JL last time.

AL could be an independent baby playing by herself but sometimes she would also get bored and demanded attention by shouting and screaming. Every night, she would make a lot of noise when she wanted to sleep. We just had to put her in the cot, on the music and off the light, we just left her alone and within a short while she would just doze off.

AL got the flu and cough from KorKor. We brought her to see Dr on 30Dec08 to check before the clinic close for long holidays. Dr found AL’s throat was red but not that bad. So, AL didn’t need any antibiotic. She was given only normal flu and cough medication. Then, that night AL got mild fever which is about 37 plus degree Celsius that night. Then no fever till 2 Jan 2009, then AL got mild fever only during at night till 3 Jan 2009. However, AL was still a happy baby and feeding well. The only time she cried the most was during medicine time. We hoped that she would learn to take medicine with no problem like her KorKor. As on 5Jan09, we stopped her medication since she was only having some phlegm which would need time to clear because as baby, she would not know how to spit or blow it out.

The mild fever which was less than 38 would probably due to her teething not due to her sickness. We noticed her bottom gum was whitish indicating teeth would be coming soon.

This was the first time AL taking medication because she was the strongest in the family even when KorKor and PaPa fell sick. However, we are grateful that it was a mild sickness with no major infections.

JL would as usual just too ‘geram’ with his Princess. He helped us to monitor AL for a short while when we need to do something but we would always need to remind him to be careful just in case he got too excited that he may hurt AL unintentionally.