Baby C Is Hospitalized For UTI
…but she’s on home leave, which means the doctor has given us consent to go home. However, I have to bring Baby to the hospital 3x a day for antibiotics jabs. This is Baby’s first UTI since her Ureteral Reimplantation surgery more than 6 months ago. Both the surgeon and I are perplexed as to why Baby would get a UTI since the post-surgery MCUG scan in August 2009 showed that she has no more Kidney Reflux. I am suspecting that the UTI is caused by her swimming in the pool at Hard Rock Hotel Penang 2 weeks ago. Our paed told us that public pools during public holidays / school holidays are the dirtiest as they are flooded with people and the hotel maintenance staffers may not have ample time to clean the pool.
Long story cut short, Baby was braver this time. She screamed and bawled for a short while when the paed inserted the IV line on her left hand. It was quite a fast one and took under 15 minutes for everything to be completed - finding the vein, IV line inserted and hand bandaged. In the past, her doctors needed at least half an hour to over an hour to fix the line. Baby even allowed the doctor to carry her after the procedure, which was very, very uncommon of her to allow a doctor / nurse to carry her, what more the doctor who had just poked her, swaddled her so tightly with a cloth and caused her so much pain. I guess preparing her mentally before the procedure helped.
Before she went into the procedures room, while we were waiting in our room for the doctor to arrive, I told her this “Baby, the doctor will give you an injection on your hand. There will be very little pain, please don’t cry ok? Mummy will wait for you outside the room. Mummy can’t go in. You don’t cry ok? Mummy loves you” Baby nodded her head and smiled!
Here are some pix of Baby feeding daddy. She, like her 2 jie jies love feeding daddy with fruits in the morning. After feeding daddy with fruits, the 3 of them will each take turns to pop vitamin tabs into daddy’s mouth.
Tomorrow I shall post pix of Baby with her bandaged hand and how Alycia jie jie comforted her. I gotta run now. Baby has to be in the hospital again for her 2nd antibiotics jab for today. She needs another jab at 10:30pm tonight.
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January 6th, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Poor baby, hope she recover soon! Let her drink lots of barley water.
January 6th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Sorry to hear this. Shd be ok in no time I hope. Take care. Running to the hospital 3x a day no joke huh.
January 6th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
aww…poor poor cassandra. she’s such a brave little munchkin. get well soon!
January 6th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Sigh…So tiring to hear this..but if this is the instruction from the doctor, then we ought to obey n get the necessary 3 jabs a day. if it is more convenient for u, why not stay in the hospital???
Anyway I pray for speedy recovery n yes, no more public swimming pool.
January 6th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
Get Well soon Baby C…Loves n hugs n kisses…
January 6th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Wish her recover soon. You take care also. Luckily Alycia is there to give you a help to comfort her mei mei.
January 6th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
have been following your blog without fail every day, and even though i dont know your family, my heart really aches when i see this post today, and it really bothers me. Now it explains why you havent been writing for the past days…must have been busy with Baby C
Be strong ok, you’re probably feeling so upset right now. Just don’t give up. You are doing a very good job mummy
Hugz…..
January 6th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
get well soon Baby C. mummy also must take good care ya.
January 6th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
ayo..i hope it’s a mild one.. sigh… how very frustrating for you! poor baby c… sigh..
January 6th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
baby c is so clever & brave!! i am so proud of her *muacks*
January 6th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
hugs & kisses 2 baby c. my heart also aches hearing that she has to go through the pain again. so happy that she’s got her sisters to cheer her up.
speedy recovery 2 her!
January 6th, 2010 at 11:04 pm
oh dear…i hope she’s better now
January 6th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Shireen, take good care of yourself too. Baby C needs you… She’s really a very very strong little girl. Hope that she gets well very soon.
January 6th, 2010 at 11:57 pm
bb C WILL get well soon, she is one strong cutie pie. take care mommy! take care…
January 7th, 2010 at 4:59 am
Baby C is a brave girl. Hope she will recover soon. And you, Shireen, take care.
January 7th, 2010 at 7:11 am
Baby C is very brave oo!! Hope that she has speedy recovery. Take K!!
January 7th, 2010 at 9:18 am
Get well soon, Baby C. You take care too. You are such a terrific mum!