Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Sleep

I am so so proud of her for sleeping through the night last night, after a month of 3:30 am wakings. All it took was one night of 20 mins CIO for her to relearn how to self soothe. Since then she's been able to fall asleep on her own for bed time. Yesterday she wanted to go in her crib, and tonight she let me pat her to sleep. It's been so long since that happened before. Usually she would go ballistic when I put her in the crib. Keep it up, Allison!

Monday, October 6, 2014

Greetings

Allison is starting to "get it" in terms of interaction. She can give hi fives when prompted. One time the doc came in the room and waved "hi Allison" and she waved back and said hi! At night for bedtime routine we say goodnight to each room with a wave. One night I just said goodnight without waving and she waved! This morning we were in the hallway. She heard the sound of the front door opening (it was my mom) so she scurried down the hallway to see who it was. she was so happy to see ba ngoai (maternal grandma) and even did a happy dance :)

Friday, October 3, 2014

Coxsackie virus

I got a phone call today at 12:30 pm from the director at the preschool saying that Allison is showing signs of the Coxsackie virus, aka hand, foot, mouth virus. It's something that is easily passed from children to children. She caught it at the school for sure. One kid in another class had it on Monday and hasn't been back sick. I had to pick up Allison right away. Luckily I was already home, but this made me have to cancel my driving lesson, which I'm still not happy about. In hindsight, I could have let her taken her nap there and then picked her up.. 

We took her to her pediatrician to confirm and yes it's true. the visible signs are red pimple type bumps in the diaper area, hand and foot. Yesterday I did see many in the diaper area, and today there was only one pimple on the hand and one on the foot. She is not allowed back to school within 3 days. Good thing the weekend is here, so she only has to miss Monday. Ideally we keep her at home a few more days. This is not a serious illness and most kids get over it without any treatment. Bumps may form in the back of her throat in which it will make swallowing uncomfortable. 


  • Hand, foot, and mouth disease, a type of coxsackievirus syndrome, causes painful red blisters in the throat and on the tongue, gums, hard palate, inside of the cheeks, and the palms of hands and soles of the feet.  
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In other news, we got the test results back which tested for dairy, egg, and food panel allergy. She has none, so that means we can try dairy again. She is low in iron so I will make sure to give her iron rich foods. Extracting the blood for those tests was pretty painful for Allison; 4 viles were required (another one for lead test) and the nurse lady squeezed her hand so hard...

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Food musing

Yesterday I roasted a whole chicken. I cut up some meat and skin for Allison. After I put a piece of skin in her mouth, she smiled and her eyes opened wide. She loved it. She then proceeded to eat a lot of chicken meat with skin sprinkled in between. Then finished with Apple sauce for dessert. Good girl!

Tonight for dinner was Quinoa with chicken broth and a little bit of meat. She ate that very enthusiastically as well. Makes me very happy.

These past two morning were rough, tho. She wakes up at 3:30am. I nurse her but she is too awake, even babbling. We're not able to back to sleep. I resort to strolling her in the kitchen but by then we've lost some time. She falls asleep there. Yesterday tho she vomited all of the milk that she just drank, at 4:45am. All over me on the bed. It was rough for all of us.