Mel and the New Normal

A few weeks ago, I posted here about how sometimes, I feel my baby, Kat, likes to respond to our questions by giving us different signs. Like, right away. Then, a few days back, in this post , I blogged about how sad I felt that I was throwing away 'tainted' milk because of antibiotics, and was contemplating on stopping completely. (On a sidenote, though I now have non-stop coughing, not at all related to our Saturday incident, I have been on my feet since Monday working.) Baby Kat strikes again! Monday, just a day after my post, I woke up to an early message from one of the NICU doctors from UST. She had just come back from out of the country, and was hoping to ask for milk if there was any, for 2 babies I had given to before. Not wanting to answer right away that "no, there's no milk, there will be no milk for a while", I went back to sleep. A few hours later, when I had a cup of coffee with my antiobiotics (don't judge me, I chew my medicine and it...

I'm blogging from bed, not at 100% yet but much better. Since yesterday, I've been experiencing fevers as high as 39.5. J was also bed-ridden from something, but took care of me since he was in slightly better shape.  When my fever would not go down, he begged that we go to Asian Hospital already for a blood test. Ironic  that I would have the high fevers but J would be the one dextrosed. Apparently , he was dehydrated while I had bacterial infection. I actually know where this stemmed from. Thursday and Friday were incredibly busy days, and I did not drink enough water. Maybe just 4 cups or so, and since I was pumping, my body couldn't handle it. It didn't affect my milk, and wouldn't even affect it now. However, I need to take antibiotics for 7 days, and that would pass on to the milk. My milk will only be okay after the 8th day. My mom suggested that I stop donating already. After all, it's been three months. And perhaps I should, because to be honest, th...