After three continuous days of sleepless nights and vomiting, I finally decided to take baby M to the doctor last Friday (didn't know how much longer M and I would be able to handle staying up until dawn with a crying baby). The diagnosis was as I suspected: baby M had an ear infection (first one ever). He was prescribed Amoxicillin for 10 days, but unfortunately after the first dose, baby M developed a bad case of diaper rash. He kept pooping every few hours (including the middle of the night) and would cry hysterically each time because he was in so much pain. Poor baby... his skin was so raw and red; it would require two people to change him - one of us to hold him down.
The Amoxicillin kicked in after a day or so and baby M was finally able to sleep through the night again. After some heavy use of Boudreaux's butt paste and Aveeno oatmeal baths, the diaper rash also improved. During our trip to Target on Saturday, baby M was in good spirits. While we were perusing through the baby aisle, he was babbling and all of a sudden goes, "DADA!" (and this was after saying "baba" in the car last week). I got so excited I ran to baby M and started making a big fuss over it. All the shoppers around us must have thought I was crazy, but I didn't care. And to think, all this time, we've been trying (unsuccessfully) to get him to say "mama." If I got that excited over hearing him say "dada," imagine what my reaction would be when he does learn to say "mama!"
On Sunday, M was watching the two kids while I was upstairs pumping. When I got done, he told me that baby M said, "nai nai" ("milk" in Chinese). Baba (which is "father" in Chinese), dada, and nai nai... what else will come out of his mouth before he says "mama"?
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