My family has just returned from our 2 weeks vacation in Australia. I muz say it was really a mixture of feelings; exhaustion cum stress cum excitment.....
Can u imagine my eldest daughter actually contracted chicken pox just the second day when we arrived Aust. My stress level was escalating especially when my 9 mths old mth pumpkin wasn't vaccinated and I am currently pregnant. I remember vividly from my childlife internship in Canada how a poor baby suffered and abandoned in the hospital with almost all her major systems down just bec her mummy had chicken pox during pregnancy. That thought scared me immensingly! In addition, my baby was having bad running nose with tears and mucus streaming continuously down her face. She had so much trouble sleeping at nights and screamed her little head off the entire first few nights to protest when we needed rest so badly. Thank God that my dad was there and he woke up many times in the wee hours as well just to accompany me and tried cuddling her fussy grand-daughter while i catch my sleep.
But thank God that the chicken pox did not affect my eldest as much cos the weather there was dry and cooling. She was still having so much fun with my niece and we just had to keep fingers cross that my pumpkin will not contract chicken pox as well. Praise the Lord that her chicken pox "ordeal" only lasted about 3/4 days and we started our real "Hoilday" finally. We had our intensive tour and starting touring malls, farm, wildlife park, beach.....during our final week!!!!
It was heartwarming to finally meet up with my brother and his family. We missed them dearly as we had not seen them since we left for Shanghai almost 4 years ago. So this trip was very emotional at least for me....... I missed my brother, sister-in-law cum friend, and niece and warms my heart to see her grown up to be such a fine considerate and beautiful preschooler!!!
Next, my sister in law found this book "your relationship can survive a newborn" which I guess begins my recovery process from my impending pre cum post natal depression. I just got to believe I CAN DO IT despite that my 10 month old baby still wakes us at 12 a.m, 3 a.m and 5 a.m. I am extremely exhausted physically, mentally and emotionally. I'm still up several times during each night, if not more, and my dear baby girl cannot fall asleep without me...... Can I survive another newborn in 4 months time?????? Somehow I just have to take ONE DAY AT A TIME now and find solutions to solve my sleep deprivation and get a full time domestic helper! I NEED SANITY!!!!!!!
will try to put the aust's pics ASAP......
