What is wrong with the climate nowadays?! Whatever happened to "It isn't Singapore if it doesn't rain once in a few days!" And lately, there hasn't been even a drop of rain in the day or night.. Freaking hot, is all I could describe the weather!! The heat is not only making adults angry and irritable, but babies as well..
Annie Mummy used to say Rianne is a baby who fears the cold, and can hardly take the fan blowing at her.. But now, she's swallowing her own words with Rianne breaking out in perspiration after every nap in the day. My baby does feel hot too!! My room isn't any less stuffy when the windows and door are opened, so I tend to turn up the power of the fan to a No. 2 speed. Well, it feels slightly cooler but my mum wouldn't allow that to happen for too long. She feels that Rianne will swallow too much air with the fan blowing so strongly. So what, it beats having her so sweaty slumbering away isn't it?!
The ideal solution I can come up with is, to install air-conditioners for the bedrooms. In the past, air conditioning in our house was rather unnecessary because all the kids (me and my siblings) were never sleeping with aircon before, and even with the fan on; we actually feel cold. However, with my pregnancy and post-partum body changes (got fatter and easily annoyed); I no longer need the comforter when I sleep. My sister, since she got married, has also gotten use to sleeping in an airconditioned room. Her son, Jayden is too. That active boy barely has a head full of hair, but yet he can sweat so much! Hence, he's always sweaty whenever he is at our place and unable to stay over.
Ok, airconditioners may be a little expensive (ranging from $1800 - $2800) and troublesome to install in an already furnished house. How about air coolers then? Seen one that is the size of a paper shredder, selling at the supermarket for $89. Sounds good? Well, it seems undeniably the second best solution now until my mum says her friend who had an air cooler before, said it is a piece of useless junk! So what now?!
Just when the heat is almost melting everything, non and living; it rained. But this luxury didn't last long. The scorchy and unbearable weather made Rianne so unwell after her vaccination. It was her first dose of the 5-in-1 vaccination, and she took it quite well at first. She even giggled when the doctor was assessing her growth & development! Doctor said Rianne is doing well for a 3mth old, eventhough she's slightly on the 'tinier' (is there such a word? hmmm, maybe it is accepted medically. Hahaha!!) side. Rianne weighs a 4.9kg, and measured 56.5cm in length. This growth worries me.. Honestly it may seem perfectly normal for other babies, but not for my darling who has a risk of inheriting NF, the genetic disorder. One of the signs of NF is the affected children are smaller than the majority kids.
Please, God, don't let such a thing happen to my baby.. She's innocent, and shouldn't suffer because of her parents' insensibility.
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