Phoebe turns 5 months today. Yes, time flies. We brought her for her 5th month injection last Thursday. Only Prevanar was given this time. Her paed said that 50% of babies will get fever with this jab. Let's see if Phoebe gets it. She didn't get any fever the last 4 times of injection. She would just fuss more, wanting to latch on more, and maybe sleep a bit more. Her paed was very happy with her progress and health condition. Although I had challenge in fully breastfeeding her, paed is still insisting that I feed her however little I have. She said that for a fully formula-fed baby, they would have had some sickness (flu or cough) by now. Phoebe had not had any of those sicknesses due to the little breastmilk she took.
Paed had been reminding us NOT to give solids until 6 months. She said during our 4th month visit and said it again at our 5th month visit. I guess she really wants to make sure Phoebe's digestive system is fully functional before introducing solids. Many doctors would advise mothers to give solids at 4 months. Some other mothers told me that they delay until 9 months before introducing solids. The later they start, the lesser chance of allergy it seems. I haven't really research on that enough to say who's right or wrong but I sure am a mom who is very eager to see my child eats. I am already thinking what I can feed her when she can eat solids.
One thing that is bothering us and her paed is Phoebe's head. Her head is not entirely straight when seated up. She has a symptom called Torticollis, also known as “wryneck". It is typically caused by either a tightening of the muscles of the neck, flattening of the back of the head or a combination of the two. The condition often refers to tightness of a specific muscle which pulls the head sideways toward the shoulder, turns the face toward the opposite shoulder and brings the head forward on the chest. Habitually spending time in this position frequently causes other neck muscles to tighten. We were advised to send her for physiotherapy. Last Thursday was her second session. This time we met a very experienced physiotherapist to treat Torticollis. She worked on Phoebe after she understood her sleeping posture and how we carried her. It was heart breaking seeing how she twist and bend her head in order to work that tendon. Phoebe was fighting back and I was holding Phoebe's shoulder and Henry held her legs. Of course my poor girl cried her lungs off. My heart broke. She did that for 20 minutes in total. She also taught what had to be done at home. I don't think I had the courage to do that twisting. I will just adjust her posture and use toys to distract her to the other side we want her to turn. We will send her for another session in 2 weeks' time. To comfort her after that, I let her latch on and she slept for 1.5 hrs while we were caught in traffic getting home.
Some updates of Phoebe
- smiles most of the time when her name is called or when talking to her.
- able to bring both her hands and play and look at them
- grasp on things with her hands
- puts everything in her mouth, including the table
- can roll from back to stomach without assistance
- has good head control except for the Torticollis
- moves arms and legs vigorously
- puts her weight on her forearms and lifts her head
- sit up with support of her hands as a base momentarily.
Photos of Phoebe recently....
(Happily posing for mommy to take photos of her)
(1st time sleeping in her stroller while Mommy shops at Queensbay)
(Phoebe with grandmother)
(with her favourite toy - "Cathy" the caterpillar)
(with UK Ah Mah and Ang Mo Kong)
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