Monkeyman's birth VI

Once Monkeyman was tucked safe and sound in his crib, sleeping the sleep of the innocent, and I was cleaned up and presentable, Mr N and Boeboe was brought to the hospital to meet their new brother. They adored and loved him from the moment they first saw him!

Meeting Monkeyman

Isn't he the cutest baby ever?

Loving bathtime already

Couple days old and already wide awake!

Getting some gifts from their new baby brother

Me and my 3 gorgeous children

Already in love with my 2-day old newborn

Monkeyman fed every 2-3 hours the first 3 months, and thereafter about every 3-4 hours. He was a quiet, sweet little baby. Rarely cried. He was just fascinated with his brother and sister. Especially his sister's higher little voice. When he heard it, he would kick and wriggle with delight.

Mr N adored his tiny brother

Boeboe just wanted to play doll with him!

Even at only 5 days old, Monkeyman just loved his siblings

I got an infection again in the uterus, but this time antibiotics worked immediately. Unfortunately I also got an allergic reaction to the stitches which took 3 months to heal. At 6 weeks Monkeyman got diagnosed with reflux. The medication immediately took the symptoms completely away. He grew and he became a fat, contend beautiful little baby who met his milestones on time.

He was a tad late with crawling and walking (10 months and 14 months irrespectively) but nothing we worried about.

He was healthy except for getting scarlet fever at 10 months. We had a wild ride with him to the nearest hospital (we were camping outside the city) when we noticed a horrible weird rash on him. He's been having a fever for a few hours, so I worried about meningitis. They drew some blood to rule out some things, and x-rays because he was screaming in pain if anyone just as much as touch his legs (they feared infection in his hips). I asked them to also test his iron, which turned out to be about 1.6!!! Horribly low. He was put on antibiotics, but the hospital's pharmacy was closed (can you believe it!) so we drove off at 10pm at night in search of an open pharmacy. We got completely lost. All the while having 3 very very tired and 1 very very ill child in the car. Fortunately we got back around midnight, administered the antibiotics and within 2 days he was better.

 

After that he was healthy again until age 14 months when he got bronchitis. We thought he was better, although he still had a bit of a cough, but one day he needed x-rays (I thought he may have swallowed a battery, which turned out not to be so). The x-rays showed that he had broncho-pneumonia! So back onto his 2nd course of antibiotics for that. It worked quickly and efficiently.

 

Age 2 he got measles! Even though he had his first injection against it. Fortunately, he wasn't too ill. Just a very high fever for 4 days and then the hectic rash. At least now he doesn't need the MMR injection, which I completely loath to give. Apart from those 3 illnesses, he turned out to be another very healthy child of mine. Like his brother and sister. He is now 3, and just a joy to have in the house. He's sweet, not difficult, rarely throw tantrums. He adores his siblings, and they in turn love him completely.

 

Monkeyman in between Boeboe and Mr N

Cool dude! (Monkeyman age 3)