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2 years, 4 months ago.
Sadly, I got the stomach flu & have been sick since Tuesday night. It was probably the Chinese takeout (beef & broccoli) that I had for lunch that afternoon at school. So I wasn’t able to take Mel & Kaitlyn trick-o-treating (SORRY!).
Today is day number 3. My head feels a lot better & no more fever, but everything that I eat still comes out much quicker than I would like it to. So, I’m still only eating plain congee & drinking Gatorade.
No crab, no lobsters, no shrimp, no buffet, no cake, no ice-cream, no pho, no roti, no pizza, no veggie, no mango pudding, no seaweed, no sushi, no sashimi, no kimchi, no nothing for me; for now.
Other than that, life is still good. 
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2 years, 10 months ago.
We are finally giving her diluted prune juice (under the doctor’s instruction, of course) to ease her constipation, after trying out 3 different kinds of formula in 2 months with no real success. Since she’s over 2 months old now, her digestive tracts should be able to handle more than just milk. So we are giving her 1 oz of prune juice mixed w/ 1 oz of water, twice a day. It may be a little early to tell, but just after 1 day of the not-so-yummy juice, the floodgate finally gave in & poop came rushing out this morning. It was mushy & no more rock-hard poop (literally)!The constipation was causing quite a bit of discomfort before. In fact, she usually skipped the crying & went straight to the screaming whenever it hurt, as Mel pointed out. So, to relieve the pain, we tried anything from putting her in the squat position, to rubbing her belly, to putting her upside down, to exercising her legs, to putting my pinkie up her butt.
Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes she likes it, sometimes she doesn’t.
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3 years ago.
Being a new mom is great, but it’s so hard. Something new has developed – I suddenly broke into rashes all over. The doctors aren’t really sure what it is exactly or what caused it. The meds that have been prescribed have not seemed to take any effect yet. The rash actually got worse overnight. The itchiness is really getting to me. I just want to scratch it all the time. Also, I can’t breastfeed Kaitlyn because of the meds. I’ve been pumping and then throwing it out. It’s such a waste. I’m starting to feel kinda depressed. It’s even harder when you have an inconsolable newborn at times and when she doesn’t sleep, you can’t sleep either. Honestly I’m horrified. My mom has been such a great help here – helping me feed & change Kaitlyn, cooking for me, washing dishes and bottles, etc. BUT she’ll only be here for the rest of this week and then I’ll sorta be on my own. I’m hoping that the rash will go away before then so that I could be in a much better mood and have enough energy to take care of my baby.
Please pray for me that I’ll make it through this tough time.
*UPDATE* my doctor has seen my rash and said that I have a severe allergic reaction to something. She told me not to eat any exotic foods and to stop eating ginger. (practically every single meal I’ve had so far since I’ve been back from the hospital has contained ginger in it.) It could have been caused by the Chinese chicken wine that I was forced to eat/drink. Anyway, she just prescribed me a shot called Depo-Medrol and I guess the rash should go away within days. I’m praying that this will really work. It costs about $50. It sucks to not be able to really enjoy this special time in my life and be positive. I’m tired, itchy and irritable. This is not the way I want to be around my baby. So please pray for me that it will quickly go away. Also, I read about PUPPP (also known as pregnancy rash) and it sounds like what I have, except I developed this rash AFTER pregnancy and I don’t have any yellow pus oozing out. So I don’t know.
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3 years, 7 months ago.
The bad news is, we couldn’t hear the baby’s heartbeat. 
The good news is, the baby won’t stop moving around.
Gotcha! 
Scroll down to see pictures of our lil’ peanut. He (yeah, I think he’s going to be a boy) is due on February 12, 2007, which makes me a whoopin’ 12 weeks. We had our second sonogram today and he was hiccupping like crazy. He couldn’t stop moving for us to hear his heartbeat. All we could hear was him moving around. I think he’s teasing us. hehe. I’m getting nervous that he’s going to be a super-active baby. We won’t get to find out if it’s definitely a boy or girl until around September.
If anyone’s wondering, I’m doing okay so far. I’m surviving. Of course I’m not enjoying my 1st Trimester symptoms: Sore chest, nausea, loss of appetite (especially for things I used to really crave, with the exception of french fries), headaches, bloating & gas, constipation, and frequent peeing. Luckily I haven’t thrown up. So I think I’m doing pretty good. Ether’s doing fine too, although I boss him around every now and then. But it’s justified because he’s not the one who will have to carry a watermelon for several months!
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