gathering for mid autmun festival

we had a little gathering at a friend's house for mid autmun festival for the kids. kids get to carry their lantern and walk round the neighbourhood while mommies get to catch up a bit. 

 

having such fuss free, anyone can make it come gathering is great. there is no need for major organisation and logistic to work with. its not easy for big group gathering as the kids grow up. everyone is busy with their own enrichment classes or activities. 

 

thank you, cynthia for initaiting this gathering. we meet up at her place. have a little catching up, setting up the lanterns and headed down for the lantern walk. 



small gathering

there is a small breeze which make lighting up the candle a challenge but we still manage it. the kids have fun running around, walking around carrying their lantern. experience how lantern get burnt by the candle. looking at others playing the fire sparkles. 

 

as cynthia's youngest son (around 1 year old), can't really join in the fun with the kids, he sit around with us. darling play with him and carried him. yu xi saw it and started crying very loudly. we were shocked by her cries. papa cannot bao bao baby, she said. insist darling put the baby down and carry her. darling had no choice but to put the baby down and carry her. all of us laughed at her reaction and say she is a jealous pot.

back from maternity leave

i'm back at work today. didn't take the full 16 weeks of maternity leave at one go. will clear them slowly till the end of the year.

as usual, first day back at work feeling very lost. don't know what's happening and where should i start. i brought my pump along and will leave it in office. no more transporting my pump around, i just need to bring my cooler bag and pump parts daily.

hopefully, i can get back to the working momentum asap. everyone in the office was commenting on how come i can get back to shape so fast. :P

5th glucose test

the 5th round of test.

results of the day

• before breakfast - 4
• 2 hours after breakfast - 4.5
• before lunch - 3.8
• 2 hours after lunch - 4.7
• before dinner - 3.6
• 2 hours after dinner - 4.9
• bedtime - 4.6

9th gynae visit

don't know if this is the 36/37 weeks today. went to see gynae for my routine check. baby is head down and in right position liao but don't know if engaged already or not. ask gynae what is on my right side cos i always feel the kick/movement there. he say its her legs. she is 2.6kg today comparing with yu ze, she is slightly lighter by 200g. i gained 1kg within a month, a total weight gain of 5.7kg to date. 

next visit is 2 weeks later, by then i will request for hl to stay at home to rest liao. gynae ask if i still remember when to admit myself? i laughed and told him, don't really leh. cos i was forced to admit by my colleague when i had yu ze. i was experiencing backache then and still msning my colleagues. if she didn't threaten to come and send me to hospital, i would still be home msning. hahaha.... gynae commented that so msning is better then epidural cos i got admitted at 5cm dilated. :p

anyway, he went through the 3 signs with me again and give me a brochure on it. i ask if i will delivered early, he say why not. just keep a look out on the signs and not to think too much. so i guess the waiting game start anytime now. but i do hppe that she don't come out so early cos i want her to be a taurus. then we will have 2 female taurus and 2 male leo at home. :)

4th glucose test

the 4th round of test.

results of the day

• before breakfast - 3.9
• 2 hours after breakfast - 4.5
• before lunch - 2.4
• 2 hours after lunch - 4.9
• before dinner - 4.6
• 2 hours after dinner - 5.1
• bedtime - 4.6 

i was pretty shocked to see my before lunch result to be so low.

maternity photoshoot

i have finally took my maternity photoshoot. i had wanted to do it since i was preggy with yu ze. however, didn't get to do it cos darling disagree to it and i feel that its not so nice if all the shoots were just me instead of us. so i give up the idea then and tell myself i can always do it again next time. 

for this pregnancy, preparation work had been real real slow. i only started to look out for ps packages not long ago. had make some enquiries but never confirm due to pricing. then i saw a promotion by www.f8angels.com in forum on wednesday, its looks very attractive. again i email them to make some enquiries but this time, i really act fast on it and confirm everything within 2 days. 

i keep quiet about this whole ps arrangement. it was on fri then inform darling that we are going for ps today. darling again give me a disapproving look and commented that i very hiao, why must take maternity shots. don't wish to argue or fight with him, i simply told him this, if you don't want to take then don't go with me. i will still go ahead and take it. his reply was he also want to take. :P 

 

why must show tummy?

i started preparing and packed our bag for today's ps. though the package is an hour shoot but we took slightly more than an hour. i would say this is a very different ps from the rest that i have taken so far. i believe the numbers of photo taken this round is also the least among the rest. as i need to really pose for the shots and the photographer is busy testing the lighting, flash lights. there are also some daring shots that i never thought that i would do it. 





the photographer locks ourselves up in the studio so nobody can come in to see what's going on. it does help me to feel more relax to take certain shots. yu ze had also been quite a good boy. though he does run around a bit in the studio but in general he didn't disrupt the whole shooting. saw some of the photos from the camera after the ps, looks quite ok. now is waiting for her to do some editing and send them off to me. 

3rd glucose test

i did my 3rd round of test and it was the first time some of my colleagues saw me doing the test. one of them said that only i'm so guai to listen to gynae and dietician to do this test. i'm torturing myself with all the finger pricks. i told her its for both me and baby's health. anyway, doing it once a week is not very much and better than doing insulin injections. this is already consider small case.

she still insist that i'm torturing myself. there is nothing with high sugar level cos she also had very high sugar level when she is preggy with her son. her son is very big at birth too and nothing wrong. so why bother to monitor loh. she thinks that my gynae is cheating me into doing this. don't know how to make her understand, so i just keep quiet.

to me, i rather suffered a bit now also don't want to put myself and baby's health at risk. i'm already starting this late compared to yu ze's time liao.

results of the day

• before breakfast - 4
• 2 hours after breakfast - 4.8
• before lunch - 3.5
• 2 hours after lunch - 6.3
• before dinner - 4.4
• 2 hours after dinner - 5.1
• bedtime - 3.2

2nd glucose test

my 2nd round of glucose monitoring.

results of the day:

• before breakfast - 4.4
• 2 hours after breakfast - 5.2
• before lunch - 3.9
• 2 hours after lunch - 5.6
• before dinner - 3.7
• 2 hours after dinner - 6
• bedtime - 5.9

1st glucose test

i did my first round of glucose monitoring for this pregnancy. results seems to be too good to be true. anyway, just hope that it will stay this way bah. recapped on the results range:

before food: 3.5 -5.5

2 hours after food: 5.5 - 7

• before breakfast - 3.6
• 2 hours after breakfast - 4.1
• before lunch - 3.9
• 2 hours after lunch - 4.9
• before dinner - 5.3
• 2 hours after dinner - 4.3
• bedtime - 3.9 

i will need to do this once a week till i delivered. not really complaining cos i already started late for this testing liao.

8th gynae visit

as usual, send yu ze off to take his school bus and headed to have my breakfast instead of going to work. going to see baby in the afternoon.

arrange to meet up with my colleague to pick up 8 more sets of uniform for yu ze. cos we don't wash our clothes daily, end up he doesn't have enough uniform. i actually had to hand wash on certain night and get it dry by next day for him. anyway, i didn't know the bus journey to yu ze's cc is only 15 minutes. thus, i was there super early. it was supposed to be their nap time so i thought i'm safe to go peep at him and at the same time get some updates from the teacher. i was wrong leh, he just happen to wake up and change diaper cos he just pooed. therefore, he caught me and want me to carry then say bye bye to his teacher liao. so i sign him out and bring him to the office and wait for darling to come fetch us to see baby.

at kk, i didn't have to wait long before my turn. the nurse called me while i'm still doing my routine test. baby is now 1.8 - 1.9kg at 32 weeks, almost the same weight as yu ze (1.7kg). mummy is only 50.7kg. gynae notice that my baby are all growing well and big inside me but once out, they grow and don't put on weight. he say if i continue this way, baby should be around 3.2kg. he also ask me not to eat too much which i don't leh.

anyway, he told me to get the glucose monitoring machine from pharmacy and start my monitoring from this week. so after my appointment with him, i headed down to pharmacy and loan out the machine. will start my weekly test from this week onwards.

history repeat (partially)

i didn't get to start the day in a good way. first thing i did is vomitted yesterday lunch even before i manage to brush my teeth. since then i hardly take anything, i just try to drink some hot milo. totally, no appetite at all.

darling needs to go out, leaving me and yu ze home alone. as i'm feeling so tired where got energy to entertain my active yu ze. so i told him, mummy is very tired; yu ze is a good boy; you play yourself and mummy rest, ok? not sure if he really understand what i mean though. i on tv for him, let his thomas the train runs on the track while i rest in bed. he really didn't disturb me while i rest. he will run to see me occasionally. though i can't see him in person but i do hear that he is playing on his own. when there is total silence then i will get up to see him. each time, i did that he was standing near the sofa watching tv. i was very pleased with him.

darling came back at 11+, told him to bring yu ze to buy lunch while i sleep. they came back with lunch, darling feed and bathe yu ze then put him to sleep while i continue to sleep. only wake up for another cup of milo then sleep again. at around 4pm, when yu ze is up, darling insist that i see a doc.

i change and headed down to kk for check. cos i'm already at 32 weeks+, was send straight up to delivery suite. told darling to bring yu ze go walk walk as i will take some time with the ctg machine. was strapped on ctg for nearly an hour, doc came and told me that i'm having contractions at 3 minutes apart. they want me to admit to monitor further. if really going into labour then need a jab to strengthen baby's lungs cos baby is too small.

once told that i need to admit, sms darling to get babysitter to come fetch yu ze and look after him for the night. she came over quickly and brought yu ze back with her.

the same thing happened when i was expecting yu ze. its also at 32 weeks. yu ze then was lack of movement. contractions now could be cause by my vomiting and 'lao sai' once. was only given medicine to stop contractions. everything is stabilise and send back to normal ward at near 11pm.

fail OGTT

this afternoon, i received a call from kk informing that i failed my ogtt. the passing grade is 7.8 while i got a 9. well, its better compared to yu ze's time where i got a 9.7. i'm all prepared to fail cos baby does has a sweet tooth thus i do crave for sweet stuff unlike yu ze.

i requested to skip the diet course since i have already attended before. i would just go and meet up with the dietitian. i'm waiting for kk to call me back to confirm my appointment with the dietitian. hopefully, it can be schedule on my next gynae visit which is on 2 march 2010 b then i should be in my 32 weeks liao.

for sure, i can get away with the finger pricking process. for a healthy baby and a healthy me, i must be a good girl and work on it. :)

7th gynae visit

today, wake up early cos i got ogtt today. fast since last night and did my first blood draw at 9am, drink a cup of super sweet drink then did a 2nd blood draw at 11.15am. the drink is so yucky that even when i burp i still get the taste. yucks!!!!

 

in between the wait for blood draw, i also had appointment to see gynae. baby is at 1.1kg same weight as yu ze at 28 weeks. i gain 1.3kg in 1 month time, weighing 49.1kg now. gynae confirm with me again that baby is still a girl. hahaha.....  gynae mention that if i don't get his call in 1 weeks time, it means good news.

 

i don't remember having to wait so long for the result loh. last time, i got the call that night itself liao. anyway, till now i still haven't get any call. maybe i must really wait till 1 week later bah.  we had also did our pre-admission and book our room. again, we had go for a1 ward cos darling say must be fair. since yu ze got single room, then we will have single room again. however, the fees is definitely more expensive now. we make payment of $2080 via cash compared to about $1.7k, 2 years ago.

6th gynae visit

went to see baby again after a long wait. i thought i would have gain a lot of weight this period as its christmas season, there is reason to eat and eat non-stop. hahaha..... however, i was wrong leh. i only gain 1kg, current weight is 47.8kg.

though my weight gain is very minimum but baby is actually bigger than yu ze leh. yu ze is only near 600g at 23 weeks but girl is 700g at 24 weeks. hmmm...... i still always think that she will be smaller, seems like i'm wrong leh. her current heart beat is 132/minutes.

anyway, i was schedule for the dreadful ogtt on my next visit. sigh.... i guess there is no escape for me from the fingers pricking activity again. gynae consol me by saying this, 'think of the end product (healthy baby) you will find that whatever you do or suffer now is worth it.'

this is very true loh, looking at yu ze now i don't really remember all the 'pains' that i have suffered. :)

he is very cute today, he try to climb up the scanning bed with me today. he is also very friendly towards gynae. i guess he is comfortable with him liao and also the whole kk environment. he seems to know where is where in kk. every time, we are in kk he will sure want to walk to the little park to see the statues and water fountain.

detailed scan

didn't send yu ze to babysitter's place today. going to have detailed scan, so going to bring him along to see baby. as usual, he wakes up early at 6.30am to have his milk. then he went out with darling to buy breakfast for me while i sleep a bit later. :)

after breakfast and packing yu ze's bag, we are ready to leave for kk to see baby. very excited, can't wait to see baby and also to find out his/her gender. the wait is pretty short maybe cos i'm the first few bah.

the scan was quite long cos the sonographer forgets to enter my name before she starts. thus she end up doing the scan twice. well, its good for me cos then i get to see baby more. hahaha.... baby is also not super cooperative. she is always touching her face or sucking her fingers. not in the right position for certain scans. sonographer mentions that she is of an average size as of now.

yu ze and darling was with me all the while during the scan. however, its yu ze's nap time so he is a bit grouchy. darling got to carry him out towards the end of the scan to walk around, leaving me behind to continue my scan. at that time, darling still don't know if baby is a girl or boy cos she didn't open up her legs for the scan. hahah.... i only got to know just before i finish the scan.

i'm so happy that i can start buying pretty dresses to dress up my girl. :) i'm going to tahan and hold my buying. cos once start its difficult to stop. must hold and hold on first if not, pocket will cry. hahahah.....

after the scan, went to see gynae with my report. gynae says everything looks good. he congratulate us and know that i'm super happy. he even commented that i can plan to close shop liao. hahahah....

my weight now is 46.8kg. if based on my first visit's weight, i only gain 600g. if i take the weight i lost during first trimester till now, my gain is 2.2kg. gynae didn't comment on my weight so i guess its still ok for now bah. the gain will be more and faster as i go. hopefully, i can keep my weight gain below 10kg.

4th gynae visit

i took half day to see baby in the afternoon. pick up yu ze at babysitter's place around 3pm to bring him along to see baby. he had been very sweet towards baby. now he knows how to come to me, lift up my top and give baby a kiss then cover up tummy again.

i realise whenever i bring him to my gynae visit to see baby, he tends to be more sticky me. wonder why like that? show him where is baby on the screen and tell him that is baby that he always kiss. he will just look at it blur blur and suddenly scream with excitement. hehe...

baby is active and good. very hard to scan for him/her, always moving. gynae try to scan for his/her gender but can't. he say got chance for baby to be a girl. hoping that he/she is really a girl.

anyway, mummy failed her urine test. gynae say since i gd with yu ze, he wants me to do ogtt when i hit 28 weeks. he also advise me not to take oily food. to date, i still haven't gain back the weight i lost. currently at 45.2kg. darling is worried that i'm not gaining weight and wants me to eat more now. my appetite is still not back to my normal yet maybe that explain my low weight. anyway, its also good. its means i got less to lose after i deliver. hahaha....

next visit will be detailed scan. hopefully, i can get my dream come true to have a baby girl coming next year. :)

first trimester scan

today, i went to ttsh for my physio then head straight down to kk for my first trimester scan. reach there and waited for about 30 minutes before its my turn.

baby is very active. he/she keeps on moving and was touching his/her face during the scan. spend some time in the scanning to get all the measurement. this time, i can get the result immediately after the scan cos i did the blood test at 9 weeks+. no longer needed to wait for the next gynae visit the get the result.

result is glow risk, 1:10658. result is not as good as yu ze's, 1:13113. i think age does matter in this. anyway, as long as its low risk that is good enough to know.

my ms is getting slightly better so i thought i would have gain some weight back. to my surprise, i didn't and lost some weight. i'm at 44.6kg now.

the next visit to see baby will be in another month. its going to be a long wait.

mc again...

i thought this week will be better than last week. i'm supposed to be back at work today. i took a bus to office and had my breakfast before going up. i didn't even have the chance to on my pc, i rush down to kk again. i realise i was bleeding again. the amount is the same as the previous time. the only difference is that i didn't get to start work and had to leave liao. sms my bosses and darling while i'm on my way to kk.

i registered myself and waited to be seen. i had a scan and was told baby is ok. i'm at 11 weeks + so baby is quite safe now. however, to be more kiasu. the doc decided to give me a jab to further stabilise the pregnancy. i was given 3 days of mc to rest at home.

after that we went to the wang's cafe in kk to get a drink. saw my gynae there and told him about my bleeding. he told me not to worry and if i need more mc just call him. i seriously hope that i don't need more mc cos of any more bleeding.

mc

i'm back to work yesterday and today only for 2 hours, then i realise i'm bleeding again. quickly pack my bag and leave a word with my colleague and i rush down to kk again. really don't know what is the cause for my bleeding. i didn't do anything very tiring or carry heavy things leh. i just sit and do filing only leh.

anyway, as usual i was given a scan to check on baby. baby is alright. this time round, doc ask me to up my dosage for hormone pills from once a day to twice a day. he is quite funny. after i told him what happen last week. he smile and ask me to quit to stay at home. hahaha.... he give me mc for the rest of the week to rest at home. comparing this week and last week, i think i'm making progress. instead of working for half a day and left, i had work 1 day + 2hours this week. maybe next week, it will be better.

first day back at work ends with more mc

after my long break from work due to my fractured left arm, i'm back at work today. it does feel a bit odd in the beginning but after a few hours, not too bad liao. i spent the whole morning doing nothing but printing and filing reports and its not done yet. sorting and filing continues in the afternoon after i came back from lunch.

knowing my own condition, i didn't do anything very tiring. i just sit there and do my sorting and filing. once in a while, stand up and took a file out of the cupboard and place it back. so the most 'heavy' work i did is just taking an arch file out of the cupboard and putting it back.

don't know if this is the cause of my 'bleeding'? i went to the toilet and realise that i was 'bleeding'. i use the word 'bleeding' instead of spotting cos its a lot more than just spotting. i was in shock. went back to my place and sit for a while and told my colleague about it. i told her i will monitor a bit before i head down to kk 24 hours clinic. she asked me to leave immediately and not wait further. i went back to toilet to check again and this time i saw more of it. i know couldn't wait liao better go immediately. i quickly off my laptop, grab my bag and head down to kk.

on my way there, i sms darling to tell him. i was so worried that something will happen to baby. i keep telling baby not to scare mummy and must be strong. i cry in the cab. i try not to scare the taxi uncle too, so i try very hard to control my tears.

i quickly register myself and waited for my turn. darling still didn't reach when i went in. the doc did a scan and told me baby is fine. i feel so relieve when i heard that. she say its old blood and must try to rest. she ask me how many days of mc i want. she can give me all the way till first trimester end. however, i only requested for this week. i cannot imagine going on mc again for about 3 weeks. shall monitor my situation and see how.

back home, i have been a good girl resting in bed and not walking much. yu ze is very cute and sweet. he climb up my bed when he saw me in bed. then suddenly, he just put his head down on my tummy - his way of showing love. he is so sweet. i smile and say to him. yu ze is a gor gor now, must love love baby ok. he look at me and he did it again. yu ze, mummy loves you.