Thursday, June 14, 2007

me & my friends




me & mommy


here's my hand at 2mths old...

lashy lashes



jailhouse rock


prisoner at home...

sleeping beauty


fluttering hands



little lamb


meh meh meh

where's my milk???















happiness after...

i've grown!






here's me at almost 7wks old... look how much i've grown!



(pardon my unglam pose!)

I've found my fingers!

6 wk old feet


who? me?


This is my serious look


cheeky me!

check out my curls








mommy keeps saying i look like winnie the pooh...


one month celebration


my cake!






here's me looking preeetty




daddy & me



here's me holding daddy's finger... i was 19 days old!

one mitten











granny lost one of my mittens... again.



so funny...

teeny weeny feet


here's my 2 wk old feet...

11 days old

oh how i love to frown!~

go away little spots


i wish these ugly little spots on my face would disappear!

salute!


no, i'm not overweight. it's the angle of the camera!

daddy's lap






here's me on daddy's lap... (5 days old)

watcha looking at?



sleepy...

zzzzzzzzzzzz


days 3 & 4





blissfully sleeping in the comforts of home...









wrinkled




like a wrinkled little lady...


first day in hospital







sleeping soundly, oblivious to the world...









Friday, April 20, 2007

arrival of kayla



after such a long absence from blogging, she's finally arrived. this marks the beginning of my new life. this tiny little creature is going to change my life forever... =)



Tuesday, October 17, 2006

it's almost been a month since my last entry. many things have happened then but obviously i was too lazy to blog about it. since my last scan, i've not had a chance to see my baby yet and the wait has, as usual, been torturous... nevertheless, there were many other baby excitement around...

my buddy felt her first baby kick and was absolutely thrilled! since then, she has had many kicking sessions with her son... and she found out that her son likes to listen to a few particulars songs... how cool is that? i tried playing some music on my tummy, only to be told later that my baby has not developed ears yet.... duh!!

ah jo has given birth!!! a very pretty precious princess with a little kink on her hair! very tiny and she slept throughout our visit, so we had no opportunity to see her eyes... ah jo looked so tired as she had a caesarian the night before. man... i better not scare myself cos mine's still a long way to go...

for the last month, my appetite has kinda decreased a little bit and my taste bud has not really improved. though i must say i'm kinda getting used to the awful aftertaste... my diet's still not very acceptable in the sense that i eat whatever i feel like and not what i feel is good for my baby. does that make me a bad mommy??? i'm not those who will force myself to eat something which i do not like but i guess i have to be A LITTLE more conscious of what i eat...

i've put on weight. i dunno how much but i look fat. i don't look pregnant still. i can feel people staring at me and going - is she pregnant or is she just fat? my hair's getting worse... my hubby's given me a new nickname - peacock hair. how much more loving can he get?!? my tummy's grown since... and my hubby inspects my tummy almost everyday... checking if it's growing or not... sometimes it looks bigger but sometimes it just looks the same. we can't really tell if baby's fine but i must stop obsessing over it. they say a mother can transfer her anxieties and paranoia to her baby even at an early stage. i'll be able to finally see my baby in 3 days time!! yippee!!! what's more, perhaps we can finally confirm if it's a boy or girl!

see you soon little one! =)

Saturday, September 23, 2006

oscar

yesterday finally went for the oscar test. nurse said - don't go toilet first. duh! i just went! so i had to drown myself with water to fill my bladder up for the ultrascan. when it was finally our turn, we had a chance to see our baby again! baby was sitting in an upright position and the womb seems to be upright too. doc says - cannot measure neck this way. baby needs to be lying down. the solution was to drown more water in so that the bladder will hopefully "push" the womb into a vertical position. darn, i was already bursting my bladder then but diligently drank more water and waited. but we were very happy that baby was fine.

surprisingly, baby was very cooperative during the next scan! the doc moved the scanner around my tummy and baby started to do a little dance and wobble and went to lie down so that doc could take the measurements of the fluid behind the neck. every now and then, baby will jiggle and float upwards and the doc will "snap" a zoomed-in picture of its neck. we were absolutely thrilled with the image. doc commented that baby has a sharp nose. yup, it was rather obvious i would say! doc commented that the measurements seems fine but will still need to combine the blood test results.



when we went back in the afternoon for the results, we were a bit nervous but i kinda knew that baby was going to be fine. and true enough, results show that we're at a low risk of Down's syndrome. oh what a relief! those past 2 months of stress and worry has paid off with this visit. of cos not to mention a hole in the pocket for this bloody expensive test!!! it's really our happy day - it's finally the end of the first trimester and everything will go smoothly from now on. =)

went to meet my 2 dodo friends for dinner and when i broke the news to them, besides the gaping mouth, all sub said was - no wonder i thought you looked a bit chubbier. darn, it goes to show how obviously fat i am. paulie is too polite to say that of cos!

well, another announcement to my other dear friends tonight!!!

Thursday, September 21, 2006

glow? what glow?

here i am again, grousing grousing grousing. today dates 12 wks 2 days. one more day before my OSCAR test. can't wait to get a negative result so that everything is "official". my spare tyre seems to have a life of it's own, i have zits on my face, my hair looks like bird's nest, i just look fat and sallow... where's the glow?? i thought most pregnant women glow during their pregnancy? i guess i'm one of the minority. i only look decent after piling on war paint but it still doesn't conceal my chubby face.

just yesterday night, i was telling hubby that if doctor permits me to do re-bonding, i might just cut my hair short. to that he sniggered and was about to say something and he held back. in my heart i knew what he wanted to say and bugged him to say what's on his mind. to which he burst out laughing and said that i'll look even fatter with my hair short. i had to laugh too cos i know that it's true. i'll look like a big head. twit!

nausea's still here, though some moments it's ok. it gets bad in the evenings and i feel like i'm salivating non-stop. it's a real yucky taste. oh please take away my nausea and let me GLOW!!!!

i feel really bad lying to all my friends and it's kinda "lonely" not being able to share my woes and complaints to anyone... maybe that's why i've been so grouchy. i seek refuge in forums and of cos tormenting my hubby. i feel bad making him feel helpless. he just wants to know that baby's safe.

one more day before i can see our baby again!!! =)

Thursday, September 14, 2006

and time goes slowly by

it's still only... what? 11wks old?? man... this is really really a long wait. one more week to go before our OSCAR test (which costs a bloody $300!) and the final week of the first trimester. it means that once the test clears, i can "officially" announce to my friends. i feel really bad lying about my pregnancy when they ask "so how? you trying to have a baby?" and i go like "ya, trying, trying. slowly lah" my dear hubby has told me a zillion times to not spill the beans and knowing what i kpo i am, it's really agonising....

the past few weeks have been rather terrible. i mean, on one hand i'm elated about my baby, on the other, i'm plagued by permanent food problems. i'm a pig. i love my selective food. BUT since my pregnancy, my baby has taken over my whole taste system and turned it upside down. i no longer crave my or jian, carrot cake, curry, laksa, maggi mee etc... instead, i find myself eating soupy stuff. in fact, i can't decide what to eat everyday cos i don't feel like eating anything. nothing seems appetising. but i'm bloody hungry most times. and i get ragey when i don't get my food in time. and i have this permanent foul taste in my mouth whole day long. plus headaches. they call this nausea. and i had the cheek to say i wished i had nausea so that i know that i'm still pregnant. damn. my nausea has turned me into a monster. i'm grouchy all the time, i snap at my mum, i am lethargic when i'm with my friends... oh what fun it is to have whole day sickness!

oh, did i mention fluids yet?? i'm thirsty all the time but yet water puts me off. so does coke. or any of my old favourite drinks for that matter. i mean, i can still drink all those but they leave an awful taste after which i absolutely dislike. so there you have it - a dehydrated woman who doesn't like to drink anything.

so i guess it's not all sugar and spice with my pregnancy. one can't have your cake and eat it too huh? my buddy seems to be having a good time though. her tummy's showing slightly and she looks and feels good. she has no morning sickness and a hearty appetite!!! i want that to happen to me!! oh, plus she's having a boy. so she's gonna be one of those who will glow throughout her pregnancy... oh how great that'll be! i bet i'm gonna be those who waddle like a penguin and look like a puffed up ball. imagine me walking beside her. darn.

but but but... i still love my baby ya? i don't regret anything. i just wish the nausea will go away. peace... =)

Monday, September 11, 2006

jiggy shake

we thought we'll see a much bigger baby this time and we were not disappointed indeed. our little baby has grown! we can see its little arm and legs and its head was turned slightly to face our camera. just when we were still staring intently at it, baby decided to go a jiggy shake for us!!! we saw it bounce up in the waterbag before settling down again... we were so thrilled and couldn't stop giggling. it even waved at us (probably just moving the arms but give us the benefit of doubt ya?). we wished we could keep peeping into the little life inside me everyday. one of our silly talks involved getting the same machine so that we can look at our baby as and when we liked. oh, we could even allow people to come view their babies at a small cost! ha... we wish!



our baby, all 3.2cm of it and growing.