Saturday 1 March 2014

DENTIST'S APPOINTMENT


Last Thursday I was at Dentist’s control with S. It was his first time at the Dentist’s and everything went quite well… He bit the Dentist only once – lying on the dentist’s chair was a little challenging but as I started singing the lullaby that I sing to him usually when I put him to sleep, he managed to lie still for about half a minute which was enough to get a quick look into the oral cavity. There was no caries seen yet and only a little plaque. In the end S gave a kiss to the Dentist. She told me it totally made her week and we left from there in a good mood.

We are having a little difficult time brushing S's teeth because he wants to keep the jaws closed all the time. That’s why keeping the teeth clean really requires a lot of patience. The instructions for S and parents were: Brush teeth twice a day, don’t smoke, give candies that are sweetend with Xylitol after every meal, avoid sugar and using the same spoon with the child. Next control will be after two years. The city pays for the dental care of children in Finland – also adults get dental care free of charge although the queues are usually quite long.

Wednesday 26 February 2014


Feelings and frostbites

I’m finally writing my blog again. I totally underestimated the amount of time that you are busy with taking care of the kids. During the writing process of these last two sentences I have taken the antenna wire and a cream bottle out of my 11month olds mouth. Besides that it’s impossible to write this at the moment since both S and D want to “help” me write with the computer. And still – I love this. Just two days ago I started feeling sorry that I have to go back to work after six months ;). I think the feelings I’ve experienced have been  more or less the same than with all other parents that are home taking care of the children – it requires patience, sometimes you feel tired and once in a while you are happy when the kids are asleep although feeling like that gives you a bad conceusness.   But on the other hand it’s a very healthy kind of lifestyle – you wake up every morning latest at 6:30. Then between 06:30 a.m and 05:30 p.m you have maybe 20 minutes to sit down by yourself if the kids happen to sleep at the same time.

Anyway, January and February are over now – the spring is slowly coming to us. It’s been a really warm winter. The whole of February the temperature has been over 0 celcius, and we have been able to play outside a lot. In January there was only one colder period of three weeks when the temperatures were between -10 and -20 degrees celcius. We didn’t go out much during that time – I found out the hard way on the first cold day. We walked for an hour and the younger one got frostbite on his left cheek. First the skin turned red after that blueish and hard. Now the skin is normal again but it took a month to heel. We did not treat the skin except in the beginning for a week with Bepanthen twice a day. I really hope it doesn’t get cold anymore this winter