A health freak mom's thoughts on health and all things healthy
Baby C has another UTI. This time there’s Proteus bacteria in the urine. Hubby and I spent the whole afternoon at Pantai Medical Center to get her admitted, but as usual, we were allowed to take home leave. The same torturous procedures took place where the doctor had to find her vein to set an IV…
Baby C has been purging for the past 1 week, since Friday last week. I really don’t know what is causing the diarrhea as she has not been eating anything new or unusual. She is still breastfed exclusively and my diet has not been altered either… I didn’t eat anything unusual either. The diarrhea could…
These are ‘ang koo’ or ‘hoong koo’ that my mil learnt to make at her friend’s house last week. Don’t they look tempting and simply irresistable? If I wasn’t so concerned about my darn jelly belly, I could have polished off all of them, really I could. These are really tasty but darn fattening too….
Baby C’s pee has not been smelling foul anymore for the past 3 days. After so many foul smelling pee incidences, I can now see the trend quite clearly. The foul smelling pee goes hand in hand with diarrhea / loose bowel movement. Each time she purges more than 3 times a day for several days, her…
Baby C gave me a heart-stopping moment today when she fell backward and hit the back of her head on the cold hard terrazzo floor in the living room. She was crawling on the floor and then pulled herself up to a standing position by holding on to the sofa. Minutes later, she fell backwards…
My mil stewed a big pot of chicken with sweet chestnuts and mushrooms yesterday. I can never get fed up with this dish and it’s my all-time favorite. She uses fresh chestnuts, not the pre-peeled or dried ones coz fresh chestnuts taste better. Since it takes a long time for the chestnuts and mushrooms to…
Baby C was purging for the past 2 days and yesterday, my heart sank when I smelled her soiled diaper at around noon. It smelled foul a little. So for the rest of yesterday, I kept feeding her with plain water, barley water and my milkie in the hope that she would pee more coz our doctors told…
I went into the kitchen and saw some broccolis being cut up and soaked in a stainless steel bowl. My mil will be cooking broccoli for dinner tonight, together with some baby corns, sweet peas, carrots and fish cakes. I used to hate eating broccoli when I was young coz of the raw taste and…
When Sherilyn was a baby, she appeared to have Strabismus or what people call ‘cock-eyed’ or cross-eyed. For many months until she passed her 1st birthday, I was worried sick and had brought her to see several pediatricians to check her eyes out. Upon checking her eyes, I was reassured by the doctors that Sherilyn…
Ever since Baby C has been having frequent attacks of UTI and having bacteria detected in her pee most of the time, I have taken many precautionary measures to minimize bacteria from entering her body. Yesterday, I bought some Dettol wet wipes and a box of alcohol swabs from the pharmacy. I wipe the railings…