Felin took the adaptor and started charging the breast pump. As it was charging, we started to talk about our expenses and how we should manage our finances in the future. I also presented on what Whole Life insurance we should get for our babies. The discussion took nearly 30 minutes and we thought the pump should be quite ready to be used again and to our horror, the pump is still showing no battery and cannot be switched on even when the pump is in the process of charging.
We were quite panicky because this seldom happens and we were worried if the pump was spoilt. We waited patiently for another 20 minutes and the same error symbol were shown on the pump, We knew that Felin is in trouble because her breast is full and the engorgement is being felt on her left side. We quickly woke Joshua up for a feed but as his feeding time is still not up, he refuses to latch. We then work Josiah up for the same reason and he rejected altogether as well. Felin tried to hand express but it was too slow and painful. Felin was really in pain for the night and kept grabbing the babies for feed. The worst thing is that they refuses to latch even its time for feed. It was one of the unlucky day for Felin.
I fell asleep at 4am when Felin tried to latch Josiah and woke up at 7:15am and Felin told me that the Mandela service centre opens at 8:30am. I quickly got myself changed and drove to Toh Guan straight. The traffic was bad as usual at PIE during peak office hour and I reached the place nearly an hour later.
The technicians tested nothing wrong with the machine and changed a new battery for me. I left after that. When I reached home and tried charging the machine again, to my horror, the same error symbol appeared on the machine once again. I told Felin that it was alright at the service centre and I have no idea what happened. I then remembered that I only passed the breast pump to be inspected, I did not expect the problem lies with the adaptor used to charge the pump. Naturally Felin blamed me that I should have passed the machine with the adaptor for the Technicians to inspect. I was really sad as I need to travel all the way down again and not forgetting that I had cancelled my morning appointment.
Just as I was getting ready to get out of the house, Felin came to me and told me that the machine is now okay. I was really puzzled on how could this be possible and she explained that she had used the air humidifier adaptor to charge the breastpump and thats why it failed to charge. Our domestic helper had arranged the adaptors so well that Felin used the wrong one.
I was relieved that I need not go Toh Guan another time and we just laughed over this incident. The one who suffer most was Felin who have to endured the engorgement pain through the night. I was really drained and still need to continue my work in office...
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