The road to recovery

My darling's finally feeling much better! We can see it written all over her face from the moment she woke up! She greeted me this morning with a 'hi' and returned a friendly wave when I waved at her while she was sitting in her cot. Thank God the ordeal's finally over. She can drink her milk properly and she's also back to eating well again! Time to fatten her up again and hope that this time she doesn't get any more bugs...

She's been able to eat a bowl of brown rice porridge every day with some broccoli and egg yolk for lunch and rice, veggies and pork for dinner for the past few days. Today for lunch, she ate her porridge, her fav broccoli, a bit of egg yolk, cod with applesauce (I just started her on cod with applesauce again today) and she even agreed to eat spinach with wolfberries which I sauted with garlic and simmered in stock. But I think she agreed to eat it because of the wolfberries rather than a sudden change in taste... She's not been willing to eat spinach in months... let's hope it's a sign of a good start to better eating habits and a healthy appetite! Oh ya, she even ate rice from us when we were having lunch. Maybe the illness which caused her to lose her appetite entirely earlier caused her to appreciate food now (coz she went without solid food for a few days). We can only speculate but I do hope that my picky eater has evolved and become as greedy as mummy and daddy. :D Well, we always muse that she should be greedy coz she's got 'greedy genes'.

Honestly, now that she's better, I feel a little bad for all the negative emotions I harboured when she was ill. She was a grouchy, whiny little thing that just refused to cooperate and it didn't help that I was fighting the same irritatingly strong flu bug. And it was made worse by the fact that she was in a Daddy-favouring phase. I really felt like cancelling my no-pay leave and going back to work next year and dumping her at the childcare centre since she would be exactly 18mths in January. Now that she's no longer that whiny monster which always rejected mummy unless it was milk time, and she's all lovey-dovey with me again, I don't feel like going back to work anymore... well, at least for the next couple of years. Oh well, I guess what I experienced is just normal and part and parcel of the ups and downs of parenthood! I so appreciate my little darling angel now.... let's hope this angelic phase is here to stay!