Dr Beanie

Dr Beanie and her patient, Bernie

Yes, it's your turn now. Please come in.

Beanie was down with viral fever for the whole of last week. Her fever wasn't high, it hovered between 37.5 to 38.5 deg C but she had some ulcers in her mouth, and that made her extremely fussy.

Yup, ulcers in the mouth but no ulcers on her hand or foot or butt. Thus, it wasn't HFMD.

But the ulcers didn't allow her to eat nor sleep and a hungry-and-sleepy Beanie was a fussy Beanie.

She wouldn't eat anything except yogurt and some cereal, but yogurt and cereal couldn't fill her stomach, so she wanted to nurse every 3 hours.

Even at night.

Yup, back to the dark days where I had to breastfeed her every 3 hours again?!

And because she was in such a bad mood, every little thing could cause a melt down.

Tried to get her to drink water, CRY.

Didn't give her the pacifier, CRY. (She is only allowed to have her pacifier at nap or bed-time)

Carried her out of the bath tub because bath-time was over. CRY.

Wanted to change her poopy diapers, also CRY.

Woah.... Beanie was driving me crazy!!!

Luckily, my FDW was around to help out and I could sneak in some previous sleep. Or else, I would have left Beanie at the Recycle Bin near my block.

After 5 days of fussiness, Beanie has made a full recovery and she is now back to her usual chirpy self. And she is sleeping through the night once again.

Hurray!