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Matthew – 7 Months

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Matthew has started to intentionally pronouncing mama and papa (although more like baba) – this the result of Lina teaches him these simple words. Calling me (papa) really take him a lot of effort – he needs to practice for few minutes first before pronouncing the word correctly. At last he can call us if he demands attention (not just by crying) – sometimes if he’s lazy he’ll just say “heh, heh” 🙂

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Pake topi oma.. kayanya si koko yg kasih pake..

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Belepotan. Berdua serius maen Nintendo DS ( note to self, sembunyiin DS dari Jet.)

DSCN4638 Looky looky

Croup

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Matt has been sick for few days, starting from Sunday. We thought he just caught a cold, as me and Jet and then Lina have caught it.

But last night, it was getting worse – his breathing was heavy and his cry was softer. So this morning Lina took him to see the doctor at Uni.

When the doctor examines him – she was very concerned – she couldn’t hear Matt’s lung sound (is that you hear when you use stethoscope?). So she took him to another room in the clinic that has respiratory equipments in it – she put a mask for Matt to inhale and she put some medication through the mask. She then checked the lung again – this time she could hear things – but it was very noisy she said. So she quickly decided that Matt needs to go to the hospital. She called ambulance, Lina offered me to drive him to hospital – but the doctor said she doesn’t want Matthew to get out in the cold weather outside – as his sickness could get worse quickly.

And it did get worse, moments before the ambulance came, Matt was shivering and getting pale. When the ambulance came – the officers were concerned about him too. They immediately gave him adrenaline and steroid injections. During the ambulance trip, the officers were in constant conversation with the emergency hospital as the hospital guides the officers on how to keep Matthew in check. They were told to keep Matthew awake as much as possible – he was very drowsy. Matthew was on oxygen mask all the time.

When he got to the hospital, there was a team of doctors and nurses await him (which means they think this is serious) and they looked after him immediately. Thankfully when I came to the hospital about 1-2 hours later – Matthew’s condition has improved a lot – obviously whatever medication and treatment they gave him works. Of course everything is as it is, by God’s grace as well – it could’ve been worse .. life is so fragile especially these little ones’.

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Thankfully Matt doesn’t have to stay overnight. Lina needed rest badly as she could only managed to sleep about 1 hour since last night – hopefully she can sleep well today.

Oh, Matthew was diagnosed with Croup – respiratory disease.

Matthew – 4 months

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One thing that I have come to realized about parenting is: expect to your child to get very sick at a time and always be prepared to go to hospital. We have had a couple visits to the Randwick Children Hospital’s Emergency for Jeremiah (on a different tangent, I am really thankful for the Australian government – the health care and welfare support in this country is really excellent – high quality medical service for almost no cost!).

Well on his turning to 4 months, Matthew had  his first visit to the emergency. Thursday night Matthew was un-characteristicly hard to settle, he only had little sleep that night. We thought it’s just one of his hard to settle days. Around 5am Lina woke me up, as Matthew was still unsettled, she checked his temperature and it was high. When you have a child, you’d know the drill, never take risks just go to the hospital just in case. And so we did.

In the hospital, the team of doctor and nurses ran a few tests on Matt and unfortunately most of these tests require Matt’s blood. And the poor baby, he was crying and screaming for few hours as a result of the pain from his sickness as well as from the needles. The doctor noticed a bruise on Matt’s right foot and they think it might have something to do with it.

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The tests came negative which mean nothing serious

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However because they couldn’t worked out the cause of the illness, they wanted Matt to stay and the hospital. He stayed at the hospital for few days, he was allowed to go home on Monday. Needless to say, it was a very tiring and stressful time for everyone in the household (+Chenny as well). The doctor later told us that it’s very likely that Matt got a skin infection and the infection went to his blood stream – according to Lina this was very serious condition – so thank God that nothing worse happened.

Still health related, Matt’s skin is getting worse, he’s definitely got excema just like Jet.

On a happier note, Matthew had his first cukur rambut this month – see previous post on the video of the occasion.

DSCN4323 Jet was pretending to be a Japanese tourist in front of a domestic tourist attraction – Matt’s first haircut. Jet was trying to make a peace sign but the wrong side of his hand LOL! – what a cutie!

Other than that, Matt is still a happy chap with the most beautiful smile I’ve ever seen..

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Matt Ngobrol

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Chatty Matt getting so excited when me or Lina put our face close to him, he’d start talking and lately he rocks his body while he talks too!

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Matt 1st cukur

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Matthew – 3rd Month

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DSCN4201 Note: Matt wasn’t in anyway harmed when this picture taken. As doctor suggested we continue to put him on his tummy so that hopefully he can lift his head and strengthen his neck.. Well it hasn’t worked well so far, we think is because (Lina’s quote): "Man, his head is massive!". But anyway his neck is getting stronger, his head doesn’t rock violently as before.

 

DSCN4179Lina doesn’t like this picture, but I do, so it’s up on this blog 🙂

Matthew – 2nd month

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DSCN4118 Smiley Matt.

We went to FOCUS Grad Camp 09, this is Matt’s first camp, hopefully more to follow. The camp was marked with extreme heat, I think it was around 40-ish degree on the hottest. Matt was coping with the extreme heat quite well, thank God (although me and Lina weren’t).

07022009384 Matt taking a bath.

Matt has grown a lot too, his height and weight are nearly topping the growth chart. Lina also mentioned Jet’s 5 months old clothes don’t fit Matt anymore.

Apart from his habit of sleeping during the day and waking up at night, I really enjoy him.

More interactions with Matt

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DSCN4076Over the last few weeks, it appears that Matt has an increased awareness of people and faces.

For instance, whenever I walk around the room, his eyes would follow. And also, the best part is, he’s now able to smile and more recently laughing audibly whenever someone is looking at him face to face.

Grandma and grandpa have also been able to have some sort of conversation with Matt.

This is a little joy worthy of thanking God for, especially as we are still really struggling with accommodating both Jet and Matt in our life.