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Charis' development (birth to 4 months)

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:55:56 GMT

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Week 39 of 40... 1 more week to EDD

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:09:27 GMT

the gynae told me yesterday that my baby's not gonna come so soon, yet again. this little one really knows how to test her mummy's patience.

she's weighing around 2.8kg, as of yesterday's scan. thank God that she's still steadily gaining weight (and my body weight is slowly decreasing! ) this means that the little one is still getting the oxygen and nutrition from mummy.

next gynae's appointment will be on 19th Aug, next tuesday and one day before the EDD. hopefully i will be dialated by then so that i don't have to go through induction or C-section to get the baby out on time.

till the next appointment then...

Week 37 of 40... first 3D image

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:45:41 GMT

during the last gynae appointment on 1st Aug, doc tried to do a 3D scan on my babe as he reckons that the baby is in quite a good position. but then, only half her face can be seen.

week 37: baby's weighing about 2.5kg

this was the first time i see my baby in 3D image. seriously speaking, i can't really figure out what's what in the picture until the gynae pointed out to me and say "see, that's the two eyes and the nose... the rest of the face is covered..."

Week 35 of 40... "my poor baby"

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:31:39 GMT

nope, i don't mean the baby inside of me... but the baby that has always been faithfully giving me the best protection on the road for the past 1 year and 9 months. i am talking about my Lancer baby... this was what happened yesterday (14th July, 2008)...

the right rear side of my poor baby was damaged by a malaysian motor biker. and this is not the only damage left on my car. even my back window was scratched, the wheel was scratched and the right side mirror was flunged outwards (thank God the mirror was still in tact!).

Q: the exact location where the accident happened?
A: along Pan Island Expressway (PIE), just before i wanna get out to Jalan Bahar exit. i was on the last lane.

Q: what time was it when the accident happened?
A: it should be around 7.20am. i was on my way to work, and i was SOOOOO CLOSE to my workplace then!

Q: what was the weather, road and traffic condition like then?
A: fine weather, slightly cloudy, but no rain. road was dry. traffic condition was moderately heavy. the cars are moving at around 50-60kmh.

Q: are there any eye-witnesses?
A: apparently, no! but there are a few kind souls who stopped along the side to help us out. if it weren't for them, i think i would just stand there traumatised, not knowing what to do next. those kind souls helped the driver and the pillion rider up from the ground and walk them to the side of the road. they suffered from minor scratches on the arm and elbow, and the rider's leg was sprained. then they helped us inform the police.

Q: what did i do next?
A: first thing, i called a colleague and told her i wont be going in to work coz got into an accident. and then i called my dear hubby to inform him and requested him to take time off from his busy work schedule to come and help me. so he managed to get his boss' car and permission to come help me.

Q: the last thing i can remember?
A: the car in front of me jammed brake... so i did tat too, to avoid hitting him... and then the next thing that happened... "BANGGG!" and there on the next lane was 2 guys and a motorbike on the ground. it happened so fast that i tot it was the car behind me that banged onto me. i didnt even realised that there was a motorbike nearby. my first reaction to the accident was... "SHIT LAH!!" and then i pulled over to the road shoulder...

Q: so, what exactly happened here??
A: seriously, i was left in a shocked mode to even ask the riders what happened on scene! but all i can gather from him (in bits and pieces) in the police station was that he was looking out for a lorry on the next lane and trying to avoid it, but he didnt realise my car was there.

Q: what did we do after making the police report?
A: we made a report (again!!) to the motor insurance, and brought the car into the workshop only to find out that they do not do third party claims on foreign insurance company (they KS lah!). so dear hubby called our own insurance agent and asked what we can do next... the advice was to claim the repair under "Own Damage" and then the insurance company will seek third party claim from the malaysian insurance company... but no guarantees lah. sigh... hopefully they will be able to make the claim, if not we will have to pay more for insurance premium next year. we realise that since this is the only thing we can do, we might as well send the car to Cycle and Carriage workshop as our car is still under warranty.

after leaving the first workshop, we sent his boss' car back, and then went home to get the insurance certificate, and then drove off to Mitsubishi Cycle and Carriage's workshop to do the necessary paper work and left the car there. the repair will take about 10 days. so in the meantime, we will be car-less! by the time we settle all these, it was about 1pm already! half day gone!

Q: what's next?
A: he called his dad to check out where he is... thankfully he is nearby. so his dad came to pick us up from Mitsubishi showroom and then we went to my gynae's clinic for a check up.

Q: and how's the little one doing?
A: she's unhurt from the trauma, thank God! somehow i thought i felt abit of contractions when we were on the way to the clinic... but the gynae said she's still not ready to come out yet. we'll give her another 3 to 5 weeks to say HELLO to all the world.\

ok, end of account!

Week 32/40... 5 more weeks to full term, 8 more weeks to EDD

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:09:54 GMT

into the eighth month... and eight more weeks to go!

its all about the number eight. the 8th month... 8 more weeks... 20th of August (the 8th month of the year) 2008!

sorry folks, no interesting pictures of baby scans and pregnant mummy this time. last nite i went for appointment with the gynae, but somehow it slipped my mind to beg Dr Ang for a picture of the scan. oh well, i think now the baby's head is too big to even fully fit into the whole screen! hehe...

baby girl is weighing about 1.7kg now. baby is definitely gaining weight, but mummy is not really gaining a lot of weight! wooohooo! if you ask how much weight i had gained throughout the 7 months pregnancy........ i've just did some calculations, and it came out to be a grand total of 6.2kg gained! it is definitely not much for 7 months pregnancy eh? oh well, i shouldn't be bothered about it as long as my girl's growing up well.

her activities in the womb has decreased as the space of the womb is quite limited for her to do her acrobatics. somehow her movements are feeling really funny! they become slower, much more intense when she shift from one side to another, and she is also constantly playing punching bag (or kungfu kicking) in the womb. sometimes feel her shivering (but i'm not quite sure if she is really shivering) too. now i am waiting for her to make an imprint of her little foot on my tummy... wonder if that is really going to happen. we shall see!

talking about movements... there's gonna be a big movement at work as well. one of my colleague had resigned to move on to a greener pasture, and another will resign soon to do his PhD. so from 4 Project Officers down to TWO in a few weeks time! not sure if the bosses are going to get new people in. in the worse case scenario, both the remainder Project Officers will really be very overloaded with work if there will not be new Officers. well, i'll have to learn how NOT to rush my tasks and work, given my current situation. hopefully the bosses will understand!

that's all folks...till the next gynae appointment...

Week 28/40... Goodbye 2nd trimester, Hello 3rd trimester

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:31:58 GMT

my darling at week 27+

as of today, i am officially in my final trimester. truth be told, i am feeling kinda panicky still... worrying about so many things from being fatigue and lethargic in the final few weeks, to dreaming about labour and child birth, to worrying that i couldn't take the pain of child birth etc.

on the lighter side, let me just try to recap about my 2nd trimester journey, before i totally erase the experiences off my brain.

week 14: still feeling a wee bit nausea after brushing teeth at night, but it was better compared to the nausea experience during the first trimester. not too busy with lab work in that week.

week 15 - 19: nausea feelings got better and eventually diminished at the end of 15th or 16th week. terrible storms hit Singapore, and lab work increased significantly. tried to complete whatever i can at work and within my capability as a preggie. tried not to complain, but i failed after a while because work is just too overwhelming for me to handle. thankfully the bosses stopped collecting storm samples after a while. my little tummy began to show slightly during these weeks and i found out that my normal clothings had "shrunk" to a certain extent. which is when i realised that it is time to go shopping for maternity clothings. thank God for sisters who had been pregnant before, because i was blessed with a BIG BAG of maternity clothings, and i don't really have to spend too much on new clothings.

week 20: i had a wardrobe change, and began to wear those maternity (or loose normal clothings) clothings to work. went for the detailed scan, found out gender of my baby, and the baby is growing well indeed, despite of all those terrible lab work demands in the past few weeks. began to feel the first few light flutterings of the little one.
20 weeks

week 21: all samples cleared (PTL!) and no more lab work after that. flutterings are still light, but consistent.
21 weeks

week 22: suffered from withdrawal syndrome from lab work. the small little tummy gradually became slightly bigger, and rounder, and more obvious. baby has gain quite a bit of strength to turn the light flutterings into harder kicks, pushes, punches and sometimes doing acrobatics in the womb.
22 weeks

week 23 to 27: baby's growing up well, which means my tummy is growing "up" very well too! and i'm not very sure when it started, but i had been hit a few times with some terrible, and some not-too-terrible leg cramps in the middle of the night during these weeks. baby became really active inside the tummy. her kicks are much harder, so much so to the extent that i can see my round tummy jerking when she kicks. and she started to have hiccups too.

23, 24, 25, 26 and 27th weeks

Week 24/40

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:55:41 GMT

i'm already starting to feel my girl's activities in the tummy. she is very active in the day time during office hours. and at night she doesn't move much. probably following mummy's sleeping time. but sometimes she will be very active at night when i lie down on the bed and trying to call it a day. and when that happens, i'll play the lullaby CD which i bought earlier. that will not only make me sleep, i'm sure it makes the little princess sleep too!

we've been shopping around quite a fair bit lately to look at prams, car seats, high chair etc... baby's needs and necessities, coz since i'm in my "honeymoon trimester" and that my energy level is still quite high. we had also furnished up the nursary. and it looks something like this:

don't ask me why there is a combination of girlie pink and boyish blue. i'll just say this is a very confused baby!

week 24
went for a scanning last night. the gynae determined the baby's weight to see if she's growing alright. she's now weighing around 700+ grams, which is quite an average weight for a fetus at this age. the gynae also helped me determine the baby's position so that i'll know which part of her is moving when i feel the movements. can see the baby's movement during the scan. the most amazing one is when she opened her mouth so wide (and i caught it with my own eyes), it is as if she is yawning! enjoy the pictures!

Baby's first gift

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:27:41 GMT

the first gift courtesy of my dear 3rd sis...

she bought it in Malacca for RM19.90. good catch eh?

Week 20 of 40... i am... HALFWAY THERE!! :-D

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:18:56 GMT

went for a detailed scan 2 days ago to check on baby's overall development. so far so good, everything about the baby's development is good. checked on the gender... and its gonna be a little PRINCESS! God indeed has been good to keep the little girl in her tip-top condition!

it's such a joy to see that the baby moved so much during the scan. she is indeed a very active baby, and very shy too!

here are just a few of the many scan pictures that the sonographer took. enjoy!

Faith (a blog of toothbrushs and toothpastes)

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:06:54 GMT

"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" - Hebrews 11:1

Something new and interesting i learn yesterday about faith:

"now faith is like a toothbrush... everyone must have one, and must use it regularly...
however, it is unsafe to use one that belongs to others!"
- Ps Kenneth Teo

and something else i learn yesterday about toothpaste...

"talking is like squeezing a toothpaste...
once it is out, you can't keep it back"

pretty true isn't it?