Hand Foot and Mouth Disease

On top of teething, Emilia is suffering from the terrible Hand Foot and Mouth Disease. It certainly is as horrible as the name sounds, in that it gives bad sores in the mouth (back of the mouth, tongue, inside the cheeks, and lips) and the little one can barely drink, let alone eat any solids. It feels so sad to see Emilia not able to drink.... especially because I know how much she enjoys eating food. All she can take in now, if at all, is juice, formula, and breastmilk when she is able to latch. Her temperature went down but we are giving her tylenol and advil round the clock to relieve the sore throat pains.
I am worried that she might have spread this to other babies at the day care when we were visiting on Thursday. I had no idea she was sick because there is no visible symptom during the incubation period. I hope Emilia will overcome this one and get stronger.
Thank God it is the long weekend and daddy's home taking care of her. I don't know if I could have stayed sane seeing Emilia so miserable and crying almost all day long.

Teething fever??

I am so confused. Different sources say different things about teething fever, from no fever to high temperatre. Well, Emilia has been having a fever of 38.5 degrees since last night around 1 am.  First we thought she caught a cold from the day care centre where she played for an hour yesterday. However she is not showing any other symptoms. I do know there are 4 teeth that are erupting right now.. yes, 4 of them all at once. I wonder if her gum has an infection. Unfortunately the long weekend is here and if she needs to be seen by a doctor, we need to go to emergency, which I hope won't be necessary.

Few recent video clips

Finally broke 10 kg mark

It took such a looooong time to step up from the 9 kg to 10 kg. I know at this stage, growth starts to taper off but I feel like she was in the 9 kg range forever. Yesterday she finally weighed 22lb (10 kg). It might drop back by few hundred grams today because she didn't poop yestrday but had a big one this morning. : )

She still loves eating but since she started crawling, she's moving constantly so she might even slim down a bit next few months!

(picture: she is trying to eat the plate after she finished 1/2 of a banana)

Falling asleep while eating

Emilia falling asleep while eating corn.

She wanted to continue eating even as her eye lids were too heavy to keep up.
By the way she has only one tooth but still loves biting/eating corn on cob. She actually manages to eat some off of it.