This morning, I am back at Gleneagles. Daddy snaps a picture of me in the lift.
We are heading to the Singapore Baby & Child Clinic -SBCC-. We are here to see Dr Yip. The receptionist weighs me and find that I am 2.7kgs. After that, we go into Dr Yip's consultation room and he examines me & finds that I am on the yellowish side. Hence, I have to go to the laboratory on ground floor to do a blood test. I had blood taken from my foot. Daddy and Mummy were told to go back to the clinic in 1 hour's time to see Dr Yip who would have the results.
After 1 hour, we are back at the SBCC. Dr Yip tells Mummy that I don't have much weight progression. He advised her to feed me formula milk. He went to say that with all the modern advances, apart from not having antibodies in it, formula milk is exactly the same as breast milk. Mummy was fed up as Dr Yip did not even check with her how her breast feeding was going and straight away told her to feed me formula milk. Mummy told Dr Yip that it is not because she doesn't have enough milk for me, but rather that I was sleeping the whole of yesterday and didn't wake up to drink milk.
Dr Yip then looks at my blood test result and tells Mummy that my jaundice level is borderline. He told Mummy that she had 2 options, the 1st is to send me into the hospital for phototherapy, the 2nd is to bring me home and ensure that I get enough fluides and to bring me back in 2 days' time to do another blood test. Mummy asks Dr Yip about the procedure if she were to send me in for phototherapy. Dr Yip says that while I am doing the phototherapy, I will be fed formula milk. Mummy has heard that she is able to carry on breastfeeding me, even when I am in the hospital. So she asks Dr Yip if she could check herself into the hospital and carry on breastfeeding me. Dr Yip gave Mummy a lecture and told her that while it is good to feed me breast milk, there is no need to be over-zealous about it. Mummy was even more fed up when she heard that and decided not to send me in to phototherapy under Dr Yip. An appointment was fixed for me on the 15th September 2005. But even then, Mummy has already decided to change pediatrician and she realizes that Dr Yip and her are singing a different tune regarding breastfeeding.
After fixing the appointment, Daddy was told to pay for consultation and medication. Mummy was surprised that there is medication as no medication is able to help with jaundice. But as she is busy attending to me, she only asks Daddy about it in the car. They realize that they have actually paid for cord spirit and antiseptic powder, which I do not require. Mummy & Daddy really felt cheated & were even more determined to change the pediatrician.
After we leave Gleneagles, we head out to Mothercare @Centrepoint as Mummy wants to get a bath stand so that I can bathe in it more comfortably. I think I am the youngest person at Mothercare that day! After getting the bath stand, we went home.
On reaching home, we bump into our neighbour who is also a gynaecologist. So Daddy asks him if he knows any pediatrician in Gleneagles Hospital. He recommends Dr Steven Ng from Steven's Baby & Child Clinic. And this is how Dr Steven ended being my pediatrician.
