Emilia was born on May 31, 2011, at 25 weeks and 5 days in gestational age. She came home on October 21, 2011 after spending 143 days in the hospital. Today she's a thriving, happy baby who continues to amaze us every single day. This blog records the journey of our miracle baby.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Emilia is Gangnam style!
Video from January 29.
Emilia shows off her Gangnam style dance! I don't know where she learned the dance moves.
She used to do the dance moves everytime someone said the words "Gangname Style", but these days when I request the dance, she does it only when she's in the mood for it.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Oblivion
As I mentioned in my past posts, Emilia has had lots of colds since she started day care. Around the middle of December, however, her "daycare cold" was no longer just a simple cold when she started to wheeze. Her doctor prescribed a puffer (blue one) which we used for about 10 days until she got over the cold. Since then, she has had mid cold symptoms: sniffling, runny nose, and little bit of coughing. Last Thursday, I noticed her wheezing again and gave her 2 puffs before bedtime. The next morning, she looked okay so we just sent her to the daycare without her inhaler. When I went to pick her up in the afternoon though, her breathing had gotten so much worse that I felt like she was going to be out of breath even if she moved just a little bit. I gave her 2 puffs at home, which seemed to help her only for 1 hour.
We rushed to the Children's After Hour Clinic, and the doctor there prescribed another kind of puffer (orange one) in addition to the blue one. Also he put her on prednisolone for 3 days. We thought everything would settle down because we were now armed with 2 different puffers and liquid medicine. However, on Saturday afternoon, her wheezing didn't get better. I gave her 2 puffs of the blue inhaler almost every hour for 3 hours and finally we took her to the emergency of Hamilton Children's Hospital. The doctor there explained us that she didn't think Emilia had asthma but her prematurity didn't help her in the already bad cold/flu season at the daycare. For one, she has chronic lung disease, something I had put behind us and forgotten about since she got off home oxygen last year. In fact, I didn't hear those three words since February last year. Oh, how much I dreaded seeing "CLD" written in Emilia's medical files in the NICU.
How could we forget how vulnerable my little baby is, even though she looks so healthy and strong. We were fooling ourselves because she seemd to be thriving. I became lax with handwashing - not mine, but hers. I always scrub my hands when I come home but I wasn't diligent with HER handwashing. It was a reality check for us...
The good thing is she is much better now. We got her checked by her doctor today. He listened to her chest and said he didn't hear wheezing. He does not think it's asthma either. He thinks she didn't have enough time to recover from the first cold before she got the second one, which was basically what the doctor at HCH told us on Saturday.
We rushed to the Children's After Hour Clinic, and the doctor there prescribed another kind of puffer (orange one) in addition to the blue one. Also he put her on prednisolone for 3 days. We thought everything would settle down because we were now armed with 2 different puffers and liquid medicine. However, on Saturday afternoon, her wheezing didn't get better. I gave her 2 puffs of the blue inhaler almost every hour for 3 hours and finally we took her to the emergency of Hamilton Children's Hospital. The doctor there explained us that she didn't think Emilia had asthma but her prematurity didn't help her in the already bad cold/flu season at the daycare. For one, she has chronic lung disease, something I had put behind us and forgotten about since she got off home oxygen last year. In fact, I didn't hear those three words since February last year. Oh, how much I dreaded seeing "CLD" written in Emilia's medical files in the NICU.
How could we forget how vulnerable my little baby is, even though she looks so healthy and strong. We were fooling ourselves because she seemd to be thriving. I became lax with handwashing - not mine, but hers. I always scrub my hands when I come home but I wasn't diligent with HER handwashing. It was a reality check for us...
The good thing is she is much better now. We got her checked by her doctor today. He listened to her chest and said he didn't hear wheezing. He does not think it's asthma either. He thinks she didn't have enough time to recover from the first cold before she got the second one, which was basically what the doctor at HCH told us on Saturday.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Progress on walking
Emilia suddenly started walking a lot more than before. The day care also told me that she was walking all day long today.
(By the way, at 0:24, that is her blowing a kiss)
(By the way, at 0:24, that is her blowing a kiss)
Monday, January 21, 2013
16 months update
Well, I cannot believe I didn't write anything for 2 months. I should have at least posted some Christmas photos, but life at home is getting busier and busier as Emilia becomes more mobile.
She had bouts of cold and last week she got roseola, which gave her a high fever for several days and then rashes when the fever was gone. Between me and my husband, we had to miss work for 4 days in total. Having to excuse myself from work AND staying home with an ill child - not excting at all....
Emilia started walking few steps at a time in November and eventually few steps became 10, and then 20, depending on her mood. Well, she is still not 100% walking, but she "chooses" to walk rather than crawl a lot of times and that's a good sign. She seems to acquire new skills everyday. The day care is planning to move her to the toddler room pretty soon. I think as soon as she can walk with more confidence, she will move to the toddler room.
Speech/language-wise, she is talking constantly but in a language only she can understand. However, today she greeted her daddy with "hi". She also said "hi" on the phone to her grandpa. How exciting! I guess this is what parents are - becoming so thrilled about every little thing their child learns and does.
And last, but not least, I am blessed that Emilia is still a great eater. I have never seen a toddler who loves eating this much.
She had bouts of cold and last week she got roseola, which gave her a high fever for several days and then rashes when the fever was gone. Between me and my husband, we had to miss work for 4 days in total. Having to excuse myself from work AND staying home with an ill child - not excting at all....
Emilia started walking few steps at a time in November and eventually few steps became 10, and then 20, depending on her mood. Well, she is still not 100% walking, but she "chooses" to walk rather than crawl a lot of times and that's a good sign. She seems to acquire new skills everyday. The day care is planning to move her to the toddler room pretty soon. I think as soon as she can walk with more confidence, she will move to the toddler room.
Speech/language-wise, she is talking constantly but in a language only she can understand. However, today she greeted her daddy with "hi". She also said "hi" on the phone to her grandpa. How exciting! I guess this is what parents are - becoming so thrilled about every little thing their child learns and does.
And last, but not least, I am blessed that Emilia is still a great eater. I have never seen a toddler who loves eating this much.
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