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Name : Kayden Chew (Zhou YueHeng)
Chinese Name : 周岳衡
Date of Birth : 11 December 2007
Birth Weight : 2.98kg
Birth Length : 50cm
Delivered By : Dr Watt Wing Fatt via Forceps delivery
Borned In : Raffles hospital

My Labour Story

Finally got time to blog while baby is sleeping;
Would like to share my labour story......There you go.
Gestation = 39 weeks

11 Dec 07
1.30am
Heard a slight pop sound and seems like I'm leaking, not too sure if its urine or waterbag leak, no show. Went to the toilet and get myself changed. As I was seated on the toilet bowl, slightly more water flow out....still curious if its my urine or am i in labour?
Went back to lay down on bed not knowing anything :P Feeling quite uncomfy with the wetness, went out to the living room to take my labour notes, then suddenly water flow out again. This time with 'show'....Guess this is it, need to go hospital already.....so woke my hub up and get ourself prepared.Went for a long, warm bath and had my hair shampoo-ed too. After that, we went for a prata supper before I got admitted to hospital.

3.18am
Admitted to hospital and was on the CTG strap to monitor bb heartbeat and contraction.
Contraction was mild and they checked that I was not dilated yet and indeed my waterbag had broke. Got very mild pain but back start to ache already. Rest and watch TV as time passed every second. So waiting game begins........In my mind, I was thinking probably my baby can be out during the noon or latest by late afternoon time......Who knows....

10.00am
Dr Watt arrived and did a checked on me. Asking me how again....She checked on my cervix and said that I was dilated 1.5cm only. Waiting again. She predicted that I will not be ready that soon for delivery and request to have drip on me to help dilate faster. As the drip pressure increase and increase, I can find more pain and aching. Trying to endure as much as I can. As the drip pressure got stronger, I could not endure the pain anymore so I call for the epidural at around 11.45am.

12.30pm
The epidural anesthesiologist then arrived and inject me with the drug. The first jab hurts man....think its because he did not apply enough of the numbness drug behind my back. Heard from my SIL that her's doesnt hurt at all. Sigh......Anyway.....pain once again.....After a while, i found numbness to both my leg and my lower body and wat a relief....shiOk...
Continue to rest or either watch tv.....cant really get myself to sleep at all.

1.30pm
Cervix was dilated to 3cm ONLY.....slowslow........so long....Wait....wait.....

5.00pm
Dr Watt came again...Check again....this time 5cm.....She told me now I'm really in active labour already. If cervix nv dilate further then ceasaren had to be carried out....She then said we shall wait and see, around night time she will come again. Predict bb Kayden can still be a 11 dec baby....Can't be bothered with that, just hope bb can come out asap....

8.00pm
Felt some pressure at the anus, felt like shitting....Quickly called the nurse to come check me to see if I've dilate further and if bb is coming out....Nurse checked and I'm 8cm dilated already....2 more cm to go before i can push....Yuppiee....at least no need to c-sec. So worried about wat Dr Watt said earlier....

9.30pm
Dr Watt came and I'm 10cm dilated already. I can start pushing already. Tried pushing with all my might, really exert all my strength to try pushing this little boy out. Keep telling myself that I must jia you and get him out asap, cannot give up so easily. Dr Watt then went out and ask me to try pushing baby myself, if not she will assist.
Push and push and push, 3x of 10 breathing count......really lack of breath and energy anymore. And I keep telling myself not to give up and must keep pushing.....In the end, tried pushing together with hub support and 2 midwife or nurses for 1.5 hours but still no sight of baby.....I'm so stressed out.....

11.10pm
Dr Watt came in again and this time, got her to assist instead. Really cannot push bb out myself. She then prepared all the necessary equipments and she will be using forceps to help the baby out.

11 plus pm
Baby is finally out with gynae forceps assisted and with my all my mighty push.
So tired....What a relief and I teared....
My little bundle of joy had finally arrived......

When they had the baby on my tummy once he's out, I remembered my hub was telling me to look at baby but I was without specs and was so tired and stressed out that I told him 我不要看 in a slightly harsh tone, felt so bad in saying this after that and quickly asked him for my specs and have a good look at baby and talk to baby. Don't know what had come over me to say that, think I'm really really stressed out. Till now I can still remember that in my mind :P

Wat a labour process.......
Total labour hours - Approx. 20 hours

My little boy had arrived!

My little boy had arrived on 11 Dec, a day before my birthday, to be exact, its half an hour till my birthday. He arrived at 11 plus pm on 11 Dec weighing 2.98kg after a long labour hours of 19 hours upon check in to hospital.....Today I'm discharged from hospital back home enjoying my motherhood and changing nappies and feeding to my little boy.....will be trying my best to breastfeed him.......tata.....got to be away for sometimes......BRB ya...will upload more pics when i freee....stay tuned!

Waiting Game again

Here I am again.....Cervix still havent dilate yet...as usual water level and CTG done and baby heartbeat pattern is still regular. Next chk, 15 Dec, 11.45am. But I guess I won't be waiting till that day for the checkup cause my 3rd time of pig trotter legs are back again......Gynae asked me to walk more and talk to baby to come out on our assigned date AND she ask me to stimulate my nipples for 15 minutes each day to allow contraction to seat in.....ooops....hehe...So there we go again to wait for dear baby Kayden to come out....Happy Waiting.

I'm here........

Hi all, I'm still here.
Just completed another checkup just now.....Havent dilate yet and water level still good and baby heartbeat is regular and good therefore gynae said can still wait again.....Its waiting game now for me. Gonna go for another check again this Saturday, 8 Dec at 10.15am.....

37 weeks chk done

Last evening went down for my 37 weeks check and also to check if I've dilated.
Before the scan, gynae said if baby weight did not gain much, early delivery needs to carry out.
Surprise to say, during the scan, baby weight had increased another 400grams and its now 2.8kg. She could not explain why in only 1 week, baby can gain so much weight...hehe...So she said it could be under estimated the previous check or over estimated for this check....sigh....this woman....don know wat to say...
Next she then proceed to check my placenta which is still aging and also the water level and pocket space to see if its still sufficient and carried out an internal check to see if I've dilated....
Btw, I've not dilated yet and everything is still good to wait for another week.
Next check shall be on the 3rd Dec at 6.45pm then we can further know if I'm really due for delivery or still need to wait again............

19 more days >>> Feelings now?

My friend, Jessy had been asking me how's my feeling right now? She wants to know as in another 4 months, her little gal will be coming out too and she can knows what she can expect. This is her 2nd child but she said she can consider a 1st time mum too as her boy is already 6 years old now.. She had c-sec for the 1st delivery and she is so brave that she said she will try for natural this time. Kudos to her.

Ok my feelings now;

Slight Worry 40% - Don know what type of symptom and when it will come and when's the best time to go hospital?

Pretty Excited 60% - About Labour process, epidural needed? Mummy must 加油 to bring him out to this world smoothly.

Very Happy 100% - As everything finally going to be over and after a good 9 months of carrying my little kiddo in my tummy, finally able to see how this little boy of mine looKs like and can finally hug and cuddle him. Then as per what my sis said, i can then finally lie down with my tummy and do rocking.....kekeke

After birth thoughts for now (Although not here yet);
1 month of Confinement :S
Breast Milk supply enough?
Formula?
Night feeds
Nappy time
Freedom

Overall, Happy percentage is the highest.

Coconut Water

I started my coconut water on 27 Nov. Its my first time ever since my preggie days. Wanted to drink earlier but couldn't find any in the Hougang drink stall. In the end got my meiZ to buy for me from NTUC fairprice. ITs nice, sweet and its really tasty...yumyum...I still got 2 more in the fridge....going to enjoy 1 more tonight and leave the other 1 one next week....yummy...

Happy Birthday!

Happy 32th birthday to my hub!

May you be happy everyday.

Poor him, accidentally hurt his left palm with a screw driver during work yesterday when he was repairing some machine. When he's back home from work during the evening, his wound had swollen. Afraid that he could have got an infection, persuade him to go to the doctor.

Brought him to see the doc immediately to have his wound clean. During that time, got frightened by him when he said he felt like he's going to blackout and he was giving out cold sweat profusely too. Told the doctor immediately but the doc just said that it shouldn't be like that so he asked if his heart is beating fast and then proceed to have his pressure and heartbeat checked but everything was normal. Luckily he did not faint, if not i will be very worried and don't know what to do. I think its because the doctor had jab in too much dosage of anaesthetic into the wound because he said he could still feel the pain. And after the 2nd dosage, his hand had finally numbed and doc proceed to clean and sterilize it. Doc had also given him a 破伤风 jab too and this jab can last him for 10 years. After the cleaning, doc asked him to take a rest outside and can only allow him to go back home if he's feeling alright and not feeling fainting. Lucky he's feeling better and the blackout feeling is gone too.

He's now on mc for 2 days and needs to go back for review and dressing on Wednesday.
Hope he recover fast.......Take care my dear!

Seasons Heat

Would like to introduce the new addition in my house....
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Our 1st xmas tree; hehe
Just got a 5ft xmas tree during the weekend and there, its all ready to receive the day.... but no presents below the tree yet....


Right; without the lightings
Left; with the lightings on (Need to off the flash in order to capture it therefore blur)

This year, we will be celebrating Xmas with our new additional, Baby Kayden.
Its indeed be a very joyous day for me as I will be having my confinement at the same time......gwa gwa.....boring....
Think this year, will get my family and siblings to come my house for gathering if not I will be so so so bored. Need to start my xmas gift shopping list now before baby decides to come out early.....
Fun.....fun.......Wishing all an advance Merry Xmas!

So heavily preggie

I'm sooooo heavily preggie now. Everything of me is seen so huge.

Pig trotter legs and feet start appearing today and fingers are slightly numb.

Cant really bend my fingers sometimes and could even hear the cracking sound when bent.

My brother was saying that the 'flower' on my leg was growing fatter too.

Haiyooyooo....

Some pictures for you;

Think the blurrer pic looks much better :P

我的猪脚和手!

And lastly.....Guess wat's behind this? Hehe.......

Clue : Can you see the tara panda is being expand here?

36 weeks check done

Pretty excited to know how's my baby weight now therefore had pushed forward my 36 weeks checkup till today instead of tomorrow. Just completed the check and baby kayden is only 2.4kg now as per the scan machine which gynae felt baby is alittle smaller. She asked if I'm been eating well and keep asking me to take more carbohydrates food. I've been eating normally and I think i've been eating more carbo food than usual, potatoes, rice, noodles....

Baby head is down and when the gynae feels my tummy, she said that baby should be weighing more than 2.4kg instead. As usual placenta keeps aging but there's still pocket space and water level is still as good. Think its really that baby can't get more nutrients from my placenta and therefore baby is on such low weight.

Gynae mentioned that we will need to see how next week. If his weight didn't increase much and if my cervix had dilated already then early birth is possible......OMG.......early delivery :S Next check shall be 37 weeks and will be on 29 Nov at 7.30pm. Btw, I've got the hospital admission letter already....So now its only happy waiting :)

Wow...36 weeks now....28 days more

Been working from home these few days and gonna be for this week. Not too sure if I can get back to office to work.

Been having difficulties in falling asleep at night and sleep position is neither comfy. Belly is getting tighter each day, though painless but it sure is hard. A little ache and crampness sometimes can be felt down there but think its just the BH contractions or baby head somehow 'drop' down. I'm like a penguin now, waddle my way now but can't walk fast.
Baby movement needs to be monitored regularly as somehow got frightened by a mummy's remark.

Will be going for the 36 weeks gynae check this Saturday to find out more and also to carry out the strep B test. Think its also time to get the admission letter from gynae. Hospital bag had been packed and completed, now its only waiting for the right time to grab and go. Baby please be good and stay in mummy till mid Dec, hope you don't pop now as its still early...

Excited...excited

Wowwow...i'm getting real excited now as my D date is getting nearer and nearer each day.

All our friends' November babies had been out by now!
- Kevin's 2nd child, a baby boy, 3.3kg Caden had been out on 1st Nov.
- Hub's friend, Linda's 3rd child, a baby girl, 3.95kg Alexis had been out on 16th Nov.
- Jenny's 1st born, a baby boy, 4.2kg Keane had been out on 18th Nov.

So coincidence, all of them delivered their babies at TMC.
All of them had send mms to me of their little ones, they are such cutie and darlings.
I will also get to see my own real soon.....excited excited.....

Waking up daily to loo

Interesting.....interesting
This is my daily loo time, 4am or 4.30am. Its so on time that I found it so weird...Hope baby will also had his timing scheduled for waking up during the night for his night feed so I could have more sleep. Hehe :D

YuckS...stretch marK

Found stretch mark on my big fat right thigh...red stretch mark....I had been obediently applying stretch mark cream to my big fat tummy since I was preggie but I've forgotten and not knowing that I need to also apply it to my thighs and legs and thus this is the outcome. OMG...
Faint faint...my thighs and legs were indeed getting huge each day and hope the stretch marks will be gone soon after applying the wonder cream.

34 weeks check completed

Completed my 34 weeks check today. BB Kayden is 2.1 kg now. As usual, gynae said he's a small baby and she said the same that I have an aging placenta and maybe thats why baby is not absorbing and taking in more nutrition to fatten himself. But not to worry as the placenta is still functioning and water level is still good and baby is gaining weight although it falls in the low acceptable weight range. She also said that baby will not be in the 3.5kg weight range during birth but will definitely be 2.5kg and above. Hope during the next visit, baby will gain more weight. This time round, the scan pic is still bb face and feet...sigh...cant she give me some other snapshot of bb scan....Btw....Pray pray.....My next check shall be 36 weeks and on 24 November.

Power Kicks

Everyday I've been experiencing Kayden's power kick and movement. Can really see him moving inside the stomach....so amazing and fun. Is he really so flexible? Really amazing that our tummy space is so small and baby can fit inside us.

Hate It....Arrgghh

Beh Ta Han....Leg cramp friends came back and find me again at night. Been having leg cramps frequently these few nights. Its worse than before where the cramp can last for more than 15 seconds. It used to be just a mere 5 secs cramp and I can release the cramp myself and go back to sleep but now really can't resolve myself, instead have to wake hub up to stretch my leg for me. This is so bad. After the cramp, the leg muscle will still continue to hurt when i walk. Think its the 2 small chilled mandarin oranges that i took last evening. Kena scolded by hub that if I continued to drink cold drink and don't jie kou, he will not help me anymore and leave me to paiN :( ARggh.......

Fatty bombom

Fatty bombom me with little Kayden of 31 weeks in me.
Weighing 72 kg during that time with 11 kg add on in pregnancy.

UnComfortable

Since last week, I've been experiencing left shoulder ache and slight hand/fingers numbness. So uncomfortable with the shoulder ache and not sure what I can do with it. Been getting hub to massage it to ease the ache. But the ache will still be back after a while. Sigh...I'm now on 33 weeks only. Don't tell me i need to have this till I've popped. How HOw How? Really hope this can go away..............

Bb JanJan hairline

I like to find out from the rest if this is true for their babies.
Should the baby have Auntie aka GuGu Only (YiYi doesnt count), the baby hair line will appear to have "Ah Gou loh" (hokkien)

Btw, BB JanJan had 3 GuGu-s :P
Realize that after she had her hair shaved, the line was very obvious on her head just like a lawn mower had just walked across in a horizontal straight line around her head. As she was borned with long and lots of hair, no one realize that until her hair had been shaved off. Mum said that its normal to those baby who had GuGu-s. If the baby don't have GuGu but only 'Yiyi' then this will not appear at all. Then the GuGu needs to buy her a kiddy shoe to sort of cure it.
Sounds funny but hor...true enough, both my sis's kids do not have such hairline.
Hmmm....Interesting right?

2 popped already

Just got the news that another colleague of ours had popped. So happy for her. Now its only me left whom is still pregnant and hasn't pop yet. So coincidently we have 3 pregnant women including myself in this same company. Ours EDD are rather close to one another, being 2 at Nov and 1 at Dec this year. There are going to be 2 bb boys and a bb girl arriving to this world. Both my colleagues whom were due on Nov had since popped and they are all on maternity leave now. Now I'm waiting for my turn and I'm really looking forward to that day :)

32 weeks check done

My 32 weeks check had been completed. Blood glucose tested normal and baby is now weighing 1.8 kg. Gynae said its acceptable weight and he's not a big baby. Had the scan done and measured his thigh bone and she said that baby is neither a tall baby too...Duhz...then baby gonna be a shortie..."KUah kuaH" :O The gynae told me that I have an aging placenta which makes me kind of worry. So I asked her if its norm and she said its rather early to age this soon but since i still got pocket (meaning space, i think she is refering to enough space for the growth) and the function is working fine then i do not need to worry. Water level is also good. Hope everything fine and the next 34 weeks check shall be on 10 Nov which is 2 weeks after. Date getting nearer and nearer and I'm really getting very excited and happy.


Here's the scan pic;
On the left; side face view with hand in his mouth
On the right; front face view with arm blocking his left face

32 weeks today

Really cannot believe myself that its only in another 8 more weeks, I can get to see my bb Kayden. He's been inside me for 32 weeks already, wow and thats 8 months. Really thanks heaven for giving me this little one and also thanks for a smooth pregnancy throughout. I hope heaven will be really nice to allow me to have a smooth delivery to a healthy boy this December.
'Blink blink' I still cannot imagine myself being a mummy soon to be giving up all the freedom, sleep, couple time enjoyment and yet full commitment and responsibility needs to be given to this little boy of ours real soon....can't wait to see how he looks like and who he resembles and if he had a head full of hair :)
The feeling is just so great and wonderful to be a mother to be.

Things ready for bb arrival

For Mummy:
1. Front open pyjamas - 4 sets, for breastfeeding use
2. Pureen Maternity Pads - 2 packs
3. Bedroom slippers - 2 pairs
4. Nursing Bra - 4 pcs
5. Bed underlay sheets - 2 packs
6. Sarong - 2 pcs

For breastfeeding:
1. Avent breast pump - manual (pass down by SIL_will invest a good electric one later)
2. Pigeon Breastpads - 1 box_50 over pcs

For BB:
1. Thermal flask for hot water
2. Playpen bed
3. Avent Steriliser
4. Pur milk bottles microwave container
5. Pram
6. New clothings for going out & for CNY
7. New clothings for home wear (vests, long pants, rompers)
8. Beansprout pillow from daddy's mum
9. 2x 125ml Avent milk bottles, 2x 260ml Avent milk bottles and accessories
10. 1x Pacifier for standby
11. Small handkerchiefs (1-2 dozens)
12. Bibs
13. Mittens and booties
14. 1x cloth rocker with holes
15. Car seat
16. 1x newborn rocker cum high chair (pass down)
17. Pureen baby detergent
18. Mamy poker diaper (1x newborn_52 pcs pack, 1x small size_72 pcs pack)
19. Alphabets playmat
20. Sleeper bag
21. Baby monitor
22. Stand lamp
23. Wax remover pincer
24. Bottles & teats brush
25. Tollyjoy washing liquid
26. 10 pcs of cloth diapers
27. 4 pcs of diaper wear cover
28. Playpen mattress and covers
29. Pillows and Bolster and covers
30. Receiving blankets - 3 pcs

For BB daily necessarities/bathing items:
1. Bathing tub
2. Bathing tub anti-slip mat
3. Body towels - 6pcs
4. Small handkerchiefs
5. Bathing shower foam
6. Kodomo body powder - 2 bottles
7. Pureen nappy cream
8. Cotton wool
9. Cotton studs
10. Medicure set
11. Big and small wet tissues
12. Lu Yi oil for tummy
13. 1x big bottle of Johnson baby lotion
14. Tollyjoy baby wipes (3 big bottles, 4 big packs and 2 small packs for kaikai)

Things yet to buy;
- Powder container (bought)
- Avent bottle warmer
- Ear thermometer
- Disposable panties (bought)
- BB comb/brush (bought)
- Baby sling

Still waiting for SIL to pass me those newborn clothings (pass down by sis)

Got to think of what else to buy besides all those up there....hmmm

Botak Jan jan

Yesterday my SIL brought little jan jan for her botak haircut. Heard they suppose to wait till she's into her 4th month, but my mum said rather to do it now cause 4 month later will be CNY period. So its not so nice for her to be without hair by then. Thats why they decided to shave off her black, shiny & long hair now to let it grow even nicer. Felt so wasted. She is now a little botak girl. Meanwhile still waiting for my sis to pass her botak pic to me so I could post here. Even in botak, she is still so adorable :)

Here comes the Pictures pictures;

BEFORE...pONgPoNG

AND AFTER....BotAk cleanCleanz

AND NOW.....cHaKchaK....hehe

BB clothes washed

Finally got to wash all the baby clothes and stuffs last Monday, 15 oct with the help of my sisters. All of them look so tiny and adorable being hand at a stand rack to dry out. Cant wait to see little kayden wears them :D Gonna start packing my hospital bag real soon.

His tinnie weenie clothes on rack * Kawaiii....kekeke

Kawaii Jan jan

Some photo updates of Jan Jan....love her hair :D

28 weeks check completed

Completed my 28 weeks check and tests last Saturday.

BB is now 1.1+ kg and I've gained 3.2 kg between my 24 weeks check and now. Amniotic Fluid is also in good level. Total weight gained from pre-pregnancy till now; 9kg :P Gynae said i put on slightly more weight but bb weight is good. Asking me to try to do more walking after having my meals. I guess a cup of mamil mama milk every night before sleep is really powerful.

Also had my blood taken for glucose test, once in the morning and another one after 2 hours of taking their "F&N" Orange drink. Instead of 2 shots, I was given 4 pokes :( instead as the nurse could not find my "big" vein for drawing the blood. Poke twice in the morning and twice in the later session. The 4th and the final poke was carried out by the gynae herself as the nurse was so paisei and keep apologizing for poking me so many times, so she got the gynae to do it for me. Luckily Dr Watt succeed in getting that 1 syringe of blood from me. In the end, sad to find bruises on my 2 arms after all the poking.

The scan picture given this round was also bb face and bb feet and this time I can see the umbilical cord too. As compare to the previous one and this, bb fats can be found on his face and his little feet had also been seen to have grow longer.
Will post picture to let you guys compare later.

Upcoming 32 weeks check shall be on 27 Oct, this time round is still in 4 weeks check. After my 32 weeks, check will starts to be fortnightly, meaning 34, 36 weeks then follow on i believe it will be once in a week check till 40 weeks.....Date is really getting nearer and nearer for me to hold my little one and I'm really looking forward and feeling very very excited.

I will need to start packing and find a good and bright sunny day to handwash all his little clothes and hang to dry then pack his stuffs in the chest of drawer cupboard. His bed and a stand lamp can only be fixed up by his dad when I'm at the hospital and had given birth, as old folks says no fixing and screwing during pregnancy period.....For now i will need to source for a good double breastpump and check what other necessities I'm still lack of.

Pregnancy Update - 28 weeks

Today marks the day I'm officially 28 weeks. That means I will be able to see my baby in another 12 weeks, 3 more months to go...Yuppie.
Towards my end of 2nd and beginning of 3rd trimester, I'm already experiencing the 3rd trimester symptoms.

1) I'm definitely feeling more tired, need to be on bed as early as possible and dragging my feet to work every morning.

2) Leg cramp in the night seems to be in part of me, sometimes on the left, sometimes on the right and sometimes occurs at both leg. It sure hurts and even after the cramp had released, the muscle will still felt the tightness and be pained for another 2 days.

3) I'm producing alot of heat and feel extremely warm in my entire body, used to enjoy covering with blanket during sleep but now i do not need it at all and aircon and full blast power fan is a must throughout the night. If aircon timer is set, I will sure to wake up with a sweaty neck every morning. Good thing is i do not need to fold my blanket every morning cause it will still be nicely fold when i wake up :P

4) Sleeping position had finally change from back to side or at least bb needs to be at the side of the tummy when I'm sleeping.

5) Felt breathless sometimes therefore medicated oil is also a must in my baggie...just a rub to the nose will boost me up, at least I know I won't faint away.

6) Baby kicks are getting more and more powerful and I'm really glad and enjoying it. This means that baby is ensuring mummy that he is growing well and strong inside me.

Lastly, I'm going to have a mini fasting this Friday night as i will be on a series of tests this Saturday morning. Hope bb weight had increased and very excited to be able to see him again.

Baby Lim is Out!

My niece, Janelle is out on 15 Sep at 3 plus wee hours. Weighing a good healthy weight of 3.3kg. My SIL had a labour period of 14 hours and with forcep assisted, she is finally out. Janelle had a head of black, shiny and neat hair and everyone says she is so adorable. Now i'm the only one in the family left pregnant and everyone is so anxious to see my baby whom will be arriving in another 3 months time.
Below is a picture of my loving niece, her face can still be seen with the forcep mark but it will slowly fade off as days goes.





Just got the news from my brother that poor gal needs to be in the hospital today till tomorrow for the photo therapy as her jaundice reading was rather high, 15. So she will not be sleeping from home today.

Pregnancy Update - 24 weeks

Just went for my 24 weeks check last Sat morning and gynae said bb is in acceptable weight of 640 grams. From the scan, I can see bb face and his little feet.. Btw, my weight gain was only 6 kg since my 1st preggie check, seems to be lighter than my previous weighing. I guess I must have remember my weight wrongly during the 1st check and also the time of taking my previous weight was during the night time which was much heavier :P
Next check shall be my 28 weeks which will be on 29 Sep and gynae said they need to do diabetes test for me as my family history have such and I need to fast from 12 midnight till next morning 9am.....Pray everything is normal.

Here's the pic.....1st on the left is his small feet with 5 toes and on the right is his face feature.
Pardon me for the unclear pic cause i got a lousy hand :P

I'm bloated :O

Had my weight measurement yesterday and Wooooww :O :O.....I've gained 9 kg already since my 1st preggie check....I'm only in my 23 weeks leh....hmmhmm...still got half more to go leh...already so heavy....hope the so huge growth is on baby and not me....wonder how much more weight i need to gain as time goes by. My next check is on 1st Sept, wonder by then how much i will grow horizontally :P

Not enough sleep?

This morning woke up feeling rather tired as last night had several dreams. Suddenly something comes to my mind, what should I do when bb is out. I'm so scared of derived of sleep. Keep telling myself not to think so much. BB will be a good boy when he's out and will let mummy sleep longer.........This is the 1st bad point of me in my "been tagged!" post.

Been tagged!

Its been long since I post something.
I've just saw that I've been tagged to talk about 8 things of me.

Ok....there you go.

1) I'm a pessimistic person, tends to always think of the negative points first instead of the plus points. From housing stuffs to marriage preparation, then to having kids....eg. like wat if i got morning sickness during 1st trimester and cannot work :P. Hub always tells me why i worried so much, just go with the flow loh.....u might not be right with wat u think...But i just can't help worrying :P

2) I'm the 3rd child in the family. I have an elder sister, an elder brother & a 8 years younger sister.

3) Very paisei to say that of my 29 years, I've only been to Thailand, Bangkok & Hatyak the furthest. Most of my holidays trip were to Malaysia, eg. JB, Genting, KL, and once to Penang. HOpe to visit more countries as time goes :P

4) My favorite food - Frog leg porridge, seafood & any hot soupy stuff.
There's a period where my favourite tag to my hub if i wanna eat soupy stuff; 肚子怪怪,要喝烧烧的汤! Then he will knows what I want to say and read out my tag whenever he asked for my opinion on what to eat. :P

5) My parents had 2 grandchildren now and gonna have 2 more this year. A total of 2 boys and 2 girls by then.

6) I like to step into a clean and tidy house. Last time when I'm still staying together with my sisters in my parent's 3 room flat, I tend to scold my younger sister for not tidying up the room till we both quarrel. Same for now that I've my own flat, will not stand the untidiness too.

7) I've passed my driving test and got the license since year 2000. Can remember how my brother made me drive his Toyota van_LiteAce all alone from Ang Mo Kio to Alexandra office when it was just a few days after I've got my license. He was sick and not able to work and he asked me to take the van alone instead. Btw, its company van. Glad that I didn't bang the vehicle, although I tooK the wrong and 'long' expressway back home :P But this really helps me boost my confident and my driving skill. And I've owned 3 cars before together with my bf (now hub)

Finally the LAST one......kokz....really think so hard to write this post.

8) I'm a December Baby and I'm gonna have a little boy in December too. If he's coming out on the same birth date as me, hub said he can save $$ to celebrate our birthday together. "BLAH" so stingy.

THE END :D

Detailed scan done

Had my detailed scan done on 3rd Aug and glad to hear that everything is alright. Placenta position and Amniotic fluid normal and bb is growing well. Too bad i do not have all the scan pictures given. Only given was just 1 growing well bb showing from the head till tummy, pic as below. Since they can't give me all their scan pics, I requested a copy of the report printed with all the bb scans but then leh....the nurse re-printed them without lightening the toner...so its too dark to be posted here :I

My Big Boy @ 20 weeks

Halfway through

Today mark the day tat I'm halfway through to full 40 weeks term of pregnancy. Gonna be going for my detail scanning this Friday at 4pm. Feeling rather excited and anxious as this time we will be able to see our bb growing development from head to toe. Bb hope you grow well and healthy and mummy cant wait to see you again on Friday.

Genting pics

Some genting pictures to share.....Enjoy

Sneezing, Coughing & Yawning

In my pregnancy, Is it true that sneeze & cough could startle the bb inside??...
Hmmmmm....I wonder....

I used to sneeze out loud but there was once when i was at my mum's place and I sneezed, she asked why i sneezed till so hard and loud then she was telling me try not to do so as it could startled the bb and when he's out, scared that there will be a vertical green vein appearing on the forehead to the nose area. At that moment, I was having question mark in my head. Waaa....Sneezing also must to take note, then I guess coughing will also jerk the bb loh.

However I came to realize 1 day that this could be true cause there was once during my gynae checkup and while waiting for my turn I was feeling cold as their aircon was powerful. When I was in the room and during the ultrasound scan, I could see that from the screen that my bb was floating up and down just like he was moving and we thought that waaaa baby is so active leh but in fact I was the one who cause him to 'dance' cause I was shivering from coldness in the room. :P
So i believe whatever we do out there, bb will be aware and he or she will knows the feeling be it comfortable or uncomfortable with all your body action.

Lastly yawning, now that I'm in this term week and my tummy had grew big, everytime when I yawn, I tend to think that my tummy will somehow 'explode' because I had the feeling that my tummy is expanding during the yawn. Not sure if its because I'm breathing all the air into me. Haha.....so silly of me.

BB movement in tummy

I'm on 18 weeks now...this time I think I can finally confirmed that I'm getting the feeling of bb moving inside me. Last night while sleeping, i had to switch side after laying too long on 1 side, immediately after the switch i felt a large and strong movement inside my tummy, he seems to be also trying to slide to the other side, trying to find a comfortable place to sleep on. It was a rather short & fast movement therefore couldnt really get to enjoy much. But felt happy that i can finally felt his move and its really wonderful. BB, mummy hope to have more of your little movement in me. :D Haha...Hub didnt get to know about this yet, hopefully can show him immediately once bb moved again. :)

Blur Gynae & Nurse

Sigh...this is so bad.
This gynae of mine did not told me about my upcoming August 20 weeks checks that I need to book for my detail scan at the hospital. During my last visit, the nurse only ask if i want to see the gynae at SengKang branch or the hospital as I was there for my bad headache due to branch clinic wasnt open that day. Luckily i remembered that I saw & also heard from friend that there should be detail scanning on the 20 weeks. So there i called the clinic yesterday and check if this scan is require and can it be done at the clinic itself? Dumb dumb nurse ask me to hold and she said she will check (probably she is asking the gynae). In the end, I will to reschedule my appointment to 3rd Aug at 2.30pm and its to be carry out at the hospital as the gynae performing the detail scan only had appointment visits on either Thursday or Friday. There the appointment was then made.
After dropping off the line, was complaining to my SIL about this matter and suddenly i asked her if this is part of our package that we had paid, she said No, this is extra and needs $260+7%GST. I've forgotten to check with the nurse and when called up again, indeed this is the charges. Waa kokz...everything also nv say and expect me to know....they are really so damm blur. I thought I already very blur liao....they are even blurrer than me....

BB Progress Scans & Pregnancy Updates

As above are my bb growth progress scans starting from initial stage till now which I'm already in 16 weeks (4th month).
Some updates;

BB monthly Crown-Rump Length (CRL) & Head circumference (HC)
8 weeks - 17.7 mm (CRL)
12 weeks - 61.2 mm (CRL)
16 weeks - 100.0 mm (CRL), 120.0 mm (HC)

BB Estimate Delivery Date
18 December 2007

My Gynaecologist Information
Dr Watt Wing Fong
Delivery location - Raffles Hospital

Not easy managing people

I find managing people is a shitty job. Need to take care of ppl work load, consistantly have to keep asking them if they are overloaded, need to handle & bear with ppl mood swings, if job is long overdue need to bark at ppl to do work faster, sometimes even counselling job is require and if ppl is unhappy, you will even need to 'POH' them to do things. This is all so fake. Life is so miserable. Who cares about your feelings? Sigh....climbing up to this level really not easy and having 6 ppls with different working attitude working under you is even worse....So sianz....but at least i should be glad that not all are giving me problem....

Genting trip on Jul 21

Yeah....I'm going for another genting trip on Jul 21 with my parents, my sis family, my bro & SIL, my 2nd & 3rd auntie and cousins. A total of 14 adults & 2 kids. This time round I doubt i can go down KL shopping as I'm not too sure if I can stand the cab ride down and up the slope. We are taking coach this time since there are too many cases recently when driving in Malaysia. Gonna take a break and enjoy the cool breeze up there and relaz.

My sleeping position now

This is weird.....Realize that in my pregnancy, I can only sleep comfortably and not waking up for much loo times only if I'm laying on my back or right side. If I will to sleep on my left, i will tend to wake up for loo at least 3 times in a night. Why is that so? Is my bladder on my left and bb will slide to the left side and press on my bladder and thus cause my frequent leak? hmmm.....interesting.....wonder why.....btw i still like sleeping on my back but i doubt i can do that too long as time goes.

Some photos update

See how big my sis little ones had grown :)

My Nephew [Jovier]
1.5 years old
The Didi

My Niece [Natalie]

5 years old

The 'Big' CherCher

Some Sec School buddies

Some photos taken at a sec school friend wedding dinner last evening at Hilton Hotel Singapore. Ambience was good but the food was average. I've known Adeline for 14 years and Lawrence for 16 years since school days. It had been such a long and wonderful time and now all of us had settled down and some already had their wonderful kids.

Me & Hub, Adeline & Me, Lawrence & wife