Documenting my Cousin’s Newborn Son’s Challenges
My cousin and his wife tried with all their heart, soul and health to finally give birth to a baby boy. The first 2 children ended in late term deaths. One at 5 months, the other at almost 7 months. This couple have no idea about birth spacing nor rest. They just carried on. The woman became pregnant with this her 3rd child in a span of 2 years. Go compute how crazy that is.
So finally after a much nerve wracking 3rd pregnancy the woman finally gives birth but my cousin says the child is still pre-mature by a week or 2. Some challenges:
– Child has some phlegm in him. He is being given some drops of ampalaya leaves extract for his anti-biotics. Their paediatrician suggested this.
– Child stops breathing for about a minute or more, then reflex action kicks in and he resumes breathing again.
Doctor reassures my cousin that his child is “normal”. I never observed such things with my children. So that doesn’t sound normal to me.
A few days on after birth, the child gets his feet cut for new born screening. Of course you know I don’t like this for my children. But this isn’t my child.
A day later the child gets his BCG aka anti-tuberculosis shot. Of course you know I don’t like this for my children either. My first child got these idiotic BCG shots and he was the one who got eventually diagnosed with tuberculosis. The other children were not given BCG shots and they are fine. So it is only logical for me to believe that BCG shots are harmful and cause tuberculosis instead of preventing them. My sample survey respondents are my own children, that is the only survey results that are important to me.
Then the following day this child gets into a crisis with his belly button scab falling off and his belly button inflamed. My cousin got so emotionally worked up about that.
So my cousin is still fretful about his newborn son, it’s not as if it is his first child, he’s had many before with other women, it’s just that this child is the first one growing up with him.
I have not personally observed nor seen this child. I only hear these challenges from my cousin. May he raise the child well.