Didn’t get much sleep last night.

Baby Edward got the sniffles from her sister and at 3.30am, he woke up crying incessantly. Most likely due to stuffy nose and discomfort. It took around an hour for him to sleep again.

At 8.30am in the morning, baby Edward’s body felt warm and I immediately check him temperature. Sure enough he was feverish. Daddy’s morning plans had to be postponed to the afternoon as we took baby Edward to the paed. My mom wasn’t free to take care of Clarisse so we had to get her ready to follow us along.

Despite telling her repeated it wasn’t her that is going to see the doctor, Clarisse cried and refused to get out of the car when we reached the hospital. It took daddy a lot of persuading for her to budge.

Baby Edward’s throat was slighty red. The doctor prescribed the usual cocktail of flu medicines – ibuprofen for fever, antihistamine for runny nose and voltaren rectum suppository in case his fever shoots up above 38.5 celcius.

The last time baby Edward needed those kind of medicine was back in January. It was much easier for us to feed him medicine that time. But not now, at 8 months old, he’s very alert and it takes a lot of push and shoving to give him his meds. He starts to cry the moment daddy holds him tightly. And because he’s crying and struggling, he is prone to choking when taking med syrups. These are not pleasant moments as many parents would attest.

It is 2am now. Baby Edward’s temperature is pretty normal for the entire day but we gave him a dose of ibuprofen before he slept an hour ago. His runny nose is still quite bad. Sneezing a lot so we didn’t skip on antihistimine syrup.

Clarisse still has mild runny nose for 3 days now but no fever.