Teething & First Hospital Stay

Teething
Janine has had no appetite, keeps puking out her food, gags when being fed, doesn't sleep well, and is more unsettled. This has been going on for about 5 days. Sounds like she's sick? Well, doctor's conclusion is that she's teething - the dreaded phase that every baby has to go through! I just didn't expect the teething to cause her so much distress as to puke everyday  Janine is teething (finally?!) at almost 10 months old! I only hope that she doesn't respond the same way to the rest of her other teeth popping out...Can't imagine having to go through all that again with the rest of the teeth!

This is probably one of the last few pictures of her being entirely toothless

First Hospital Stay
On the 3rd day of Janine's puking, Janelle suddenly had severe vomitting and puked everything out, even water. On that day (Monday), I had a record day of cleaning! - I cleaned Janine's puke twice, her poo (that leaked out of a lousy diaper) once, Janelle's puke on the bed 3 times, carpet once, etc. Actually I lost count of how much cleaning I did. It was madness! Especially the fact that Janelle puked on her bed 3 times - it meant we changed the bedding and bedsheets 3 times! I can only thank God for our washing machine! Can't imagine if I lived in the olden times where everything has to be hand-washed  Still, I think only mothers would understand the amount of cleaning I had to do with all the mess!

Janelle's vomitting was so severe that she would puke every few minutes, even if there was nothing left to puke. Aunty Phyllis and I brought her to the hospital at 10:45pm and poor Janelle had to spend the night there (me too) on a drip to rehydrate her body, since she could not even digest water. But Janelle was so good-natured about her puking - she did not cry a single time after puking, nor did she cry when the needle went in. But she hated being restrained for the doctor to insert the needle into her hand! Thank God she managed to sleep in hospital and recovered in the early morning. By the next morning, she was well enough to be discharged!  Doctor says she has gastro and diarrhoea is expected to follow the vomitting. True enough, she's having diarrhoea now but at least she isn't distressed by it.

It has been a busy week and now Royston and I seem to have caught the virus from Janelle. Thankfully the symptoms are not as severe as hers!