Falling asleep

We have been co-sleeping for as long as I can remember. We tried putting him in the crib to train him to sleep on his own, but he kept waking up every hour and it's driving me nuts. So it was decided then he will "permanently" co-sleep with us.

He sleeps better, we sleep better, everyone wakes up happy!

As he grow bigger, it is getting tougher to "battle" him to sleep sometimes. I don't mind if afternoon he doesn't sleep but at night, I really wanted him to sleep by 9 but with the "battles" evey night, sometimes he ended up sleeping at 10pm! Not good!!

He also needs patting to fall asleep, a habit that I allowed it since young! But now I'm slowly "weaning" him off patting and letting him fall asleep by himself. So as a starter, when he is ready to sleep, I will pat him for a couple of minutes. Occasionally he will fall asleep within minutes of patting. Other times, he might need longer pat and I will pat until he is "drowsy" then I will stop to let him fall asleep on his own. And there are days that he just can't fall asleep on his own.

Well, at least he is progressing with falling asleep on his own!

Almost all is good

Little Andrew's fake measles are almost all gone by the 5th day. And his fever never returned.

He was some what lethargic for the few days while recovering from the fake measles and appetite was normal. I would be happier if he would drink even more water. I kept offering him water and juice but don't know why it seems to be not enough. Since after having the antibiotic prescribed by the ME last Friday, his stool was softer than usual. And now since we stopped it, he seems to have constipation - even if he drank more water than usual and I gave him fruits and yoghurt! Plus lotsa leafy green too!

Something must have triggered it!!! Gotta figure out what caused it. If I remember correctly, it was since I made him the papaya snow fungus soup. So... could it be the snow fungus since papaya is suppose to help? Hmmm... gotta get some more fruits that helps him poo. Hmm... apple used to help him. Maybe a whole apple for him tomorrow.

So it's fake measles

The red dots all over little Andrew's face and body did not appear to be subsiding. So off we go to the clinic. Today his paediatrician is back from vacation (Last Friday was a replacement Medical Examiner On duty) and the queue was long! We waited for a while and most sick kids came out crying! Hahaha! Except for the 2 young babies that was in and out of the clinic in 5 minutes - they are here probably for their development check up.

Anyway, doc confirmed that it's fake measles. He said it's not roseola- which I kept Googling and getting the same result of fake measles is roseola. Anyway, there is nothing we can do about it. It should disappear in 1-2 days. Oh and we should stop the antibiotic since it's viral, little Andrew won't be needing it. However his fever might spike another time before disappearing for good. And he still has inflamed throat n tonsil. So keeping in on paracetamol for another day is a good idea.

Doctor also realised the dry patch on little Andrew's face. He then prescribed us with a steroid cream. He said it's best to treat it once and forever with the cream instead of having it coming back on and off. So for this, he can apply for up to a week.

I asked about Andrew's teeth, doctor said he will not be requiring fluoride toothpaste at this stage for his milk teeth and our water is already treated with fluoride. And it's just milk teeth that will eventually fall off - hopefully not prematurely!!!

I'm checking on him the whole night making sure he is ok. Last night, he sure had a good sleep- from 9.30pm to the next morning 8am! And then this afternoon he did 3.5hours nap!!! Hmmm... he seems to be lethargic today, probably coz he is recovering from his fever. And tonight he slept 10.15pm. Let's hope he will sleep through to the morning!

I hope it's just roseola

Poor baby had just recovered from fever and suddenly he has red spots all over him! It's definitely not HFMD because this is mostly on his face and torso, not the limbs. It's red/pinkish, flat and not raised, so it's not chicken pox. It's not patchy, just dots, so I guess it's not hives. He didn't eat anything new for dinner, so he can't be having an allergy reaction.

I can only hope that this is roseola. Read more here:http://www.babycenter.com/0_roseola_1616.bc

It all happened when his fever subsided, I can only guess the sore throat too, no itch, maybe mild or rather very soft stool. We discovered it at his night shower which is at about 9pm, then at 11pm I checked again. His face was really bad!! Then again at 2am, his face is much better. But overall, the body isn't so bad, mostly the face.

By the morning if it's still there, we are off to see the doctor again. Sigh... Gonna be a difficult for me to sleep. I know I will be checking on the baby :(

So far so good

Little Andrew hasn't woke up middle of the night bouncing, screaming or doing his stunts for a while now and I'm hoping it is here to stay!

He might have been waking up earlier for the day, say around 7-8ish. There are days I can put him back to sleep after a bottle and diaper change - these days are good days! there are days he will go back to sleep but after 2 hours - these days are ok days. And bad days are refusing to return to sleep.

No wonder all the craziness

Tonight I tried checking little Andrew's top row of teeth and finally saw the upper right molar cut through! Now I know what is it with all the crazy sleep schedule, wanting to bite something, easily cranky! And here I thought that these are all the start of terrible two!

So with this one out, we have one last tooth to go!!!!!! And all these craziness will be over! Come one last molar, BRING IT ON!!!

12 hours? Really?

On Sunday morning, little Andrew decided to wake up at 3am when I'm about to go to bed. Ya, I still got this bad habit of sleeping late once in a while and tonight is the night to sleep late AND little Andrew decided not to sleep through!!!!

He will usually go back to sleep after a while, normally. But unfortunately tonight is not the night. He decided not to go back to sleep at all until it's almost 8am! Gave him his breakfast bottle and he went back to sleep FINALLY. He then woke up at 11.30am and thankfully I caught some sleep too!

For the rest of the day, I decided to keep him awake. No matter how tired he got at 5am, he had to stay awake and hubs and I had a mission to keep the bay occupied! Which we did and he had his dinner, showered and had his milk all by 8.30pm. Lights out and the little piggy slept in less than 10 minutes! Good right?

And the best part is, he woke up 8.30am on Monday morning!!!!!! Wow!!!!!!!

So now, do I want him to sleep in late and then keep him up for the rest of the day or should I go back to the old schedule? Still wondering which is better for the little one and for ME!!!