Baby was choked on uphamol

What a terrifying experience we had last night, especially reading so much paper about how babies were choked to death. Oh My God!

It was 8.00pm last night, I planned to to leave home for dinner at friend's house at 8.30pm. I thought since it is half an hour away so I decided to breastfeed baby before I leave. When I was breastfeeding Baby Chloe, I could feel the heat from Baby's body. It was the first fever for Baby Chloe so far, but I was not surprised since I was told by Dr. Patrick that Baby might have slight fever after a jab. Dr. Patrick prepared us with a bottle of Uphamol for emergency, so I decided to feed Baby Chloe with the medicine. And, it was when the horror begins.

I was feeding her with the oral syringe that was provided by the Clinic. Its instruction indicated 25ml per dosage, therefore Papa pumped the uphamol up to 25ml. It is never easy to feed any baby with medicine as its taste is not so pleasant. As expected, Baby Chloe cried after I jabbed in a little into her mouth. She was rejecting the liquid, and I totally understood her reaction as I could smell the unpleasantness. Therefore, I quickly fed her with a little water to dilute the taste of it. However, I must admit that I shouldn't have fed Baby Chloe water with a bottle. I was not thinking much!! Well, after that I continued to jab in a little from the syringe and fed her water again. This time round, she cried even louder.

"Must finish all a, Papa? " I asked
"It says 25ml, I think better finish. Let's finish up the last bit" Papa replied.

Without hesitation, I pumped in the balance into her mouth. She was rejecting the medicine immediately, especially she already knew it something yucky, and she showed us that she didn't like it by crying loudly and refused to swallow it. We were kind of pushing it a little too far by putting her at a lying position in order to let the medicine to flow into her throat. OH MY GOD, this was the time when the drama kicked it. SHE is CHOKED!!

Baby Chloe initiated with a cry, then suddenly she was no longer crying as she had difficulty in breathing at that time. I was shocked and Papa was nervously shouting "PAT HER BACK! PAT HER BACK!" Baby Chloe was coughing and face turned really red (** with no cry some more **). We were like ants in a hot pot, quickly Pat her back, Burp her. All of us were so nervous, Papa didn't think but immediately grabbed his car key and shouted : Come, we have to go to the Hospital now! "

Baby Chloe had already vomited some at that time, I thought she was getting better and I just need a little time for her to calm down from her shock. I shouted for my mum's help instead, but my mum was in the shower. I left no choice but to follow Papa's instruction got into his car.

Papa was driving like a mad cow at that time. I was more worried about our safety than Baby Chloe's choking event. Baby Chloe at that time was already breathing properly. We have decided to head to Gleneagle, unfortunately when we arrived the Junction of Jalan Ampang, all cars all at a crawl towards the direction of Gleneagle. Papa decided to get POLICE to escort us to the hospital.

" Papa, Police will not attend to us because Baby Chloe is absolutely normal now" I said.

" No, I must try. I must get the Police to escort us to Hospital, otherwise We will never able to reach there." Papa said

Well, I didn't want to say much because he was at hot temper, he even told me to SHUT UP when I asked him to drive safely. Gosh. He left the car at the Police Station's entrance and ran into the office. He took about 5 minutes in the office while I was looking at the cars on Jalan Ampang moving forward and forward, leaving us far far behind! *sigh* Then, Papa walked out with a Lady Police Officer. The Lady Police Officer walked gently towards our car and told us to move to the Police Car. I was told to wait at the guard house while they were searching for the CAR KEYS!!! Hahaha.....We were at the Police Station "ding dong ding dong" (** doing nothing) for about 10 minutes and I started to complain to Papa softly "See, I told you. They won't help us if it's not an super emergency case." Papa was also agitated and we left without waiting further. Hahahaha..so funny.

After that we had to restart our queue after 15mins of NOTHING while the bus which was right in front of us initially was not at our sight anymore, which means we could have arrived the Hospital already if we didn't waste our time at the Police Station to ask for escort!

When we arrive the hospital, I rushed Baby Chloe to the Emergency Hall. A pretty and young Chinese Nurse came to us urgently and helped to check on Baby Chloe. A doctor came to us, and check on Baby's chest with his stethoscope and left without saying much. The pretty nurse told me not to worry with a very friendly smile, "Baby is okay!"

PHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We left the hospital at about 10.30pm and went back home.