Domestic Accident

Last night, Juan Or met with a domestic accident that left him with bruises on and near his lips.

This was what transpired that night as told by Papa. Mommy was downstairs taking a bath while Papa was upstairs watching television in the bedroom. Juan Or was in the same room with Papa and playing by himself. Juan Or stepped onto his kiddy car to reach for the doorknob. And just one split second before Papa could even stop him, the kiddy car moved and Juan Or fell down flat on the face!

This was where the accident happened.

Turned out too, it was a bloody fall. Juan Or cried at screeching pitch. Papa quickly carried him downstairs. Mommy had just come out from the bathroom and could see Juan Or's mouth all covered with blood. Even his singlet T-shirt had blood. Mommy quickly took him to the bathroom to wash away the excess blood. The washing was difficult to do as Juan Or was struggling and crying very loudly. The bleeding went on and Juan Or was all drenched wet. Mommy then used a kitchen towel paper to dap his face and blood dry. Then his Second Uncle (i.e., younger brother to Papa) took some ice cubes wrapped in handkerchief to dap onto his lips. The ice didn't do much to help as Juan Or was still crying like mad. Finally, we decided to stop dabbing and soon his cries ceased. However, there were still traces of wet blood and sometimes when he moved his mouth, his lips started bleeding again. Then his Second Uncle started dabbing the ice cubes again and again Juan Or cried loudly. Looks like Juan Or hates being dapped with something on his hurt lips. So Mommy told him not to dab with ice anymore and asked him to hand Juan Or to Mommy so that Mommy could change his clothes which were all wet and stained with blood. With Mommy telling Second Uncle not to dab anymore ice on Juan Or led to a protest by Second Uncle that dabbing ice onto a wound is the right thing to do to stop bleeding and insisted that Mommy should wait till he has calmed down before changing his clothes. A quarrel resulted between Mommy and Second Uncle but Mommy went ahead with changing Juan Or's clothes (both grandparents were not around at that time). Immediately after changing, Juan Or's cries stopped and this led to Mommy's conviction that it was the dabbing on hurt lips that caused him to start crying again (and of course the wound to stretch and bleed again). On the other hand, Papa kept on asking Mommy whether it was necessary to send Juan Or to the hospital to which Mommy said it was not neccessary since it was just some small wound. By the way, Mommy at the age of about 4 years, also had a similar accident where Mommy was swinging and climbing on a dressing table and ended up banging the bed's wooden frame straight onto the lips. Mommy recalled the whole incident, despite being bloody, had not gone to the clinic or hospital. Home treatment was all Mommy had.

Mommy decided to just let Juan Or's wound remain untouched and the blood stain or wound to dry by itself. Mommy finds that bleeding stops faster this way. Then Papa and Mommy took him upstairs to our bedroom to occupy him with activities to help him forget about the accident. Mommy was still feeling angry and bothered about the fuss that Second Uncle kicked up with but Papa told Mommy to just let go and ignore it since the rest of the household members are the 'masters of the house' (which is why we are moving out soon!).



That night, Juan Or's sleeping pattern was very erratic - waking up once in every half hour to an hour and crying or fretting as well, probably due to the painful lips. And don't know for what reason or could it be due to gas accumulation in the stomach from excessive crying, Juan Or vomitted out the water he drank about half an hour ago. And this vomitting episode didn't just happen once, it went on for three times even without him crying prior to the vomitting. Luckily, by 4 am, the vomitting episode ended, and for the first time that night, he slept through for two straight hours. By the time he woke up at about 6 am, Papa already woke up and offered to bring him to the Bukit Jalil park (just to let him forget about the accident and discomfort). Juan Or was indeed very happy at the park, but was very manja (pampered) - wanting to be carried most of the time.





Once back from the park, Mommy rocked him to sleep again (that time was already 8 am). Grandpa offered to do the rocking, so Mommy took the opportunity to sleep ( yes, Mommy was downright tired!) till Juan Or woke up again at near 10 am. After that, for the rest of the day (Sunday), Juan Or looks OK already - happily playing, eating and interacting, and no more vomitting.

Longer Legs Now

Last time in April 2009, Mommy blogged about how Juan Or tried riding on his new baby car for the first time. Juan Or was almost 11 months old then (how time flies!) and his legs were still not long enough to reach the floor so much so when the car made a bend, ........(see this old video for yourself!)........

Notice his chubby arms and legs, and the babyish face and head back then?

Now Juan Or's legs are so much longer already, so reaching for the floor while riding on the baby car is not a problem anymore. But what does he do with his legs? He uses his legs as substitute for the steering instead! Watch this!

Now his limbs don't have the chubby baby look anymore. The face is also more like a little boy already, although the babyish-ness is still there. This video was taken in mid-December 2009 when he was 1 year 7 months old.

The Great Fall

On Sunday night, Grandpa helped Juan Or to balance on his feet first before letting go of the hands to let Juan Or walk forward. Juan Or, on the other hand, was too excited to reach his destination (the sofa which was about 2 feet away) so much so he took one big step and lurch his body and arms forward, hoping that with just one big step, he can already reach the sofa! Guess what!? Juan Or had a great fall! His head hit the bottom wooden frame of the sofa first and then fell flat (on his face) onto the floor! And it all happened too fast - Mommy didn't have enough time to catch hold of him to break the fall. The result? A crying Juan Or and two big blue-black marks on the most protruding part of his forehead - one on the left and one on the right.

(See the sofa in the background? That's what Mommy meant by the bottom wooden frame part of the sofa.)

(One of the blue-black marks on Juan Or's forehead. However, this photo was taken a day after the fall, so the colour intensity has already decreased.)

Learning to Stand on Own Two Feet (Part 2)

Remember the day Juan Or was just learning to hold on to a furniture to steady himself while standing still? Well, this time, Juan Or has gone one step (or perhaps two steps!) further in that he is able to shift his weigh from one leg to the other (sideways walking) while his hands hold on and shift accordingly to a furniture for support. Why Mommy says two steps further is that Juan Or is also already able to use his legs to lift himself up after a fall. Watch this video: