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Part II of "Baby didn't ship with a manual". To read part I, click here.

This week my baby daughter and one of the websites I look after both fell sick. I fixed the website but Olive is still malfunctioning.

Solving the website crisis was comparatively easy. The Circulars Page of the Singapore Book Publishers Association website suddenly stopped loading. Only the header and title of the first post would load. I upgraded the Wordpress platform it runs on but that didn’t work. I reduced the number of posts that appear on the homepage and that had no effect. Next stop was the plugins; I disabled and reactivated each plugin in turn and sure enough, the problem lay with a Twitterfeed plugin that either clashed with something else or was corrupt. As soon as it was disabled the page opened fine.

If only the same simple logic could be applied to babies.

Olive, who has slept through the night – from 8pm to 8am – since she was three months, has decided that Mummy and Daddy have had it too easy. Recently she’s been waking during the night, crying and sometimes regurgitating. We have no idea what is wrong. Using the same plugin logic, the problem could lie in the fact that she recently started drinking cow’s milk in addition to formula. Could the cow’s milk plugin be clashing with the formula plugin? Maybe Olive runs on an operating system that doesn’t support cow’s milk? Maybe the cow’s milk isn’t to blame … perhaps she’s been infected and needs sweeping for viruses?

UPDATE: We think the cow’s milk plugin is to blame after all. She did a day without cow’s milk and was fine. The following day she had a mug of cow’s milk, woke up in the middle of the night and vomited all over her bed and soft toys! Looks like we need to book an appointment with the paediatrician. Poor sausage! ☹