Baby & Health

Recently, there were a couple of babies that fell sick in the nursery with fever, cough and cold. It became an epidemic cos one of the baby that was sick was not quarantined. It became such an outbreak that most of the babies “MIA” last week, along with the mothers. As much as the nursery  aunties advised the parents, it is still a SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES for them.

As a parent, I won’t want my baby to be sick too often cos he is still so young! I will be extra careful and be responsible with him. He is my priority now, above anything else (of course, not above God). I need to be responsible and care for him, at the expense of myself (work and ministry will definitely be affected). But if I want to have a kiddo, he will be my responsibilities.

I felt bad when I heard that my son might be the one who spread the virus around. But after talking to the aunties, my son may not be the culprit after all. After he left on Wed, (He only came in on Wed morning and never return to the nursery till 2 weeks later) the babies started to get sick. So, maybe, another baby became sick and was not quarantined and “infected” the rest. Anyway, there is no way to trace it now.

What I felt was important is SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES – if your child is sick, you should have social responsibilities to take care of your baby and get help. In all the pre-schools, if the child is sick, the parents have to bring the child home, it is in their policy. So,I guess, it should be no difference here too. When one baby is sick and not taken care of, it became an epidemic that both mothers and babies are “down”. The effects are rippled. If the epidemic continue, I will be on unpaid leaves soon because of it. How silly right?

Now in our office, we practise – if you’re sick, you wear a mask. Why? SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES of not spreading your sickness to the rest of your colleagues.

Well, just part of my rambling as a parent.