Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Worrying about little girl

Little girl asked me a few questions over the dinner yesterday. Everyone else had left the table then except Trenyce and myself. I was feeding her with some glass noodle soup which my MIL had cooked. Suddenly, she just popped the questions to me.


Trenyce: Mummy, do you like me?

Me: Yes, I like you dear and I love you too.

Trenyce: Mummy, can you stay at home?

Me: Why?

Trenyce: Because I like you.

Me: Then papa leh?

Trenyce: Papa goes to work loh.


This is not the first time Trenyce had asked me to stay at home with her but recently it has became very frequent. I am not too sure if its because of my pregnancy and so she's getting a little insecure, for fear that attention may be taken away from her? Especially now my tummy is getting more obvious so reality hits her more harshly? That having a kid brother is not just a say-say from the parents but a reality that is coming true? Not only that she even requested to hold my hand to sleep and has been coming back to our bed to sleep with us these past 2 months.

No kidding, I am really worried how the little girl will feel when the kid brother arrives. I mean it is for sure that I will devote most of my attention on him. Will she cling on me and cry then? I have been telling hubby that he must paid alot of attention on her when Kaden arrives so that she will not feel neglected and he has promised so. Luckily hubby has got 1 week paternity leave, I hope that helps to soothe the tricky situation.

Dear lord, pls grant Trenyce peace and calmness in her little soul so that she wont get frighten because of the arrival of her kid brother. Pls give her strength and love so that she will be able to handle her emotions when the kid brother arrives and she will love him as much as we love her. Amen.

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Records of My Gynae Visits So Far...

6th August 2007, MONDAY, SINGAPORE3rd visit to gynae, Dr Goh. Baby#2 exact size is about 4.36cm. The due date is now 24th Feb 2007. I guess, it will always be somewhere between 19th and 29th Feb 2008. Mother’s weight remained unchanged, it is the same as the previous visit. Must be all that vomiting that’s why I am not gaining any weight..

20th August 2007, MONDAY, SINGAPORE
4th visit to gynae, Dr Goh. It was a last minute decision as I was not feeling very well, vomited twice already in the morning and experienced some abdominal pain yesterday so decided to see Dr Goh to reassure myself that everything with Baby#2 is alright. Dr Goh gave me 2 days mc to rest at home which was good as I get to spend some time with Trenyce too. Baby is now about 13weeks+ and mother weighed at 61.6kg, gained 1.1kg.

1st September 2007, SATURDAY, SINGAPORE5th visit to gynae, Dr Goh. Did the triple blood test as per what we did the other time when I carried Trenyce. Just to get some assurance and hope that everything with Baby#2 will be fine. The due date is still 24th Feb 2007. Baby is now about 15weeks+. Mother’s weight remained unchanged.

10th September 2007, MONDAY, SINGAPORE6th visit to gynae, Dr Goh. I had very bad constipation. This morning I just noticed some blood stains on the stool, gave a ring to the clinic and Ms Lim asked me to go down for a check to see if there’s any pus or something.

Think its god’s will. The nurse informed me that my results from the triple blood test had just come back this morning. Everything was normal except that it showed high risk for DS. The odd is 1:70 whereby for my age, the odd should be around 1:800+. I was under the norm odd (1:250) by 1/3 at least. I got so worried and called daddy to come down to the clinic. I needed him to be around to hear what’s Dr Goh is going to tell us in case we need to make decision for further testing. True enough, Dr Goh recommended amniocentesis. Though he didn’t make it compulsory for us, we decided to go ahead just in case anything. So Dr Goh helped to arrange for the test to be taken the next day at Thomson Medical Center.

11th September 2007, TUESDAY, SINGAPOREWe arrived at the clinic at 8.30am as instructed by Dr Goh. Took a detailed ultrascan by the sonographer before we proceeded for the test. The sonographer spotted the little birdie and informed us that it’s a boy! Tears were streaming down my cheeks uncontrollably when she was doing the detailed scan, describing to us every details of the little fellow. Daddy saw me tearing and looked at me with one kind of expression as if telling me not to worry too much. The whole process took less than an hour. The withdrawing of the amnio fluid took only 10mins. Thereafter I was given 3 days hospitalization leave to rest at home. The rest now, is really to wait for the results. I was told that it will take 10days. Sigh, the wait seems eternal….

27th September 2007, THURSDAY, SINGAPORE
7th visit to gynae, Dr Goh. Finally, we received the amnio results from Dr Goh. Glad that everything was fine except that they found 4 XX chromosomes among the 34 cells they tested. We were told that the results took a little longer becos of the XX chromosomes, the lab wanted to wait a little longer and see if it will turn XY or something. Aiyo, made us worried like mad. The lab recommended a retest if we want to double confirm on the XX thingy. We decided to drop the idea as the wait is simply too much for me and Dr Goh has already said that its very likely that the XX chromosomes belong to the mummy since baby and mummy are of different gender. Its almost 99% that the baby is fine and the ultra scan has further assured us that the baby’s organs are growing fine…what needs to be there are there and growing well! Anyway, it was confirmed that the baby is a XY!

See entry of similar subject here.

29th September 2007, SATURDAY, SINGAPORE8th visit to gynae, Dr Goh. This was a routine checkup. Dr Goh did a very quick check of the baby’s general growth. Baby is now about 19weeks+. Mother weighed 63.7kg, gained 2.1kg.

27th October 2007, SATURDAY, SINGAPORE9th visit to gynae, Dr Goh. This was a routine checkup. Dr Goh did the usual scanning to check on the baby’s general growth and we also saw the penis hehe. Baby is now about 23weeks+ and weighed about 600g whereas mother weighed 66.7kg, gained 3kg. (No wonder I have difficulty walking nowadays, too heavy I guess!)

Thursday, October 25, 2007

The Grief

Just heard a very sad piece of news from my good friend in msia. She has lost her baby few days ago. According to her doctor, the foetus has no heartbeat so she has to go for induced miscarriage (likely a D&C). Sigh, just a couple of weeks ago she had happily called me to inform me about the good news and now this has happened. People called this "missed miscarriage".

Also heard another sad news from her. Her sister's prematured baby has passed away. The little girl borned at 6.5mths old gave way to virus infection after 14 days on earth. Her poor sister must be sobbing like mad. So sad. Thru the entire pregnancy, she had obediently stayed at home hoping to get a healthy baby but alas this has happened.

I hope both of them will get over it soon.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Free Baby Journal & Music CD

I just heard from one of my friends today about national libraries giving away free baby journal and music cd. Being a kiasu singaporean, I went down straight away today after dinner. I went to the AMK branch and luckily there's still some stocks, only 3 sets left actually so I'm really happy I managed to get one. Very nice journal to jot down the baby's milestones....cool! Thanks Evonne!

Anyway, I asked the librarian and she said its available at all libraries while stocks last....So good luck to those who havent got any!


Here's the gift I collected from the NLB :)

Preggie buddies

Life is interesting. I have 2 other friends getting pregnant almost the same time as me (besides Geak Sang). One will give birth in Jan, mine in Feb and another one in Apr.

For them, it’s their first pregnancy and me, it’s my second. Hence, I think they are more “enthusiastic” than me in this pregnancy and eager to find out more on mothering :p I think they are very lucky cos they have more friends around them who are experienced parents. When I was pregnant with Trenyce, I hardly have friends with kids. In fact almost none…..those that I know with kids, I am not very close with them so quite difficult for me to ask them questions…then those I know either just got married or still single. The only few I constantly turned to for advice are my sister and sister-in-law. My sister has 2 boys and my sister-in-law has only one boy then (now 2 boys!). Yeh, my family are surrounded with young hunks and another on the way heh! :p

Anyway, the two mummies-to-be occasionally will pose some questions to me. Its good (hey mummies, pls don’t feel shy to ask…you know who you are :)) that they ask cos can also help me to “revive” back those days and prepare myself for the coming bb. I sort of forgot some of the things already so when they asked, it kind of prompted me to dig into my memory bank. People say preggies are forgetful and yes I completely agree…I really forget where or how to start with to prepare for my pregnancy except looking for gynae and confinement auntie. These are just the 2 things that naturally come to my mind and the most expensive of everything :p For the rest of the things, I just buy whatever I can remember haha..…a bit lazy to do up my shopping list cos there isn’t any major things I need to get loh. Things like baby cot, playpen, stroller, sterilizer, infant clothing, mittens & booties....etc are already all in my storeroom. Well, so far...I only managed to pile some packets of wet tissues in my wardrobe that’s all hehe :p

Well, I think I am not really in the mood to do shopping yet bcos we havent quite settled the baby room....must wait till hubby set up the baby room then think I will be in the mood to get the baby things up :p Anyway, thats no excuse for me not to do up my checklist otherwise cant do my shopping at all. Okay okay, will do soon.....

Anyway, nice to have friends getting preggy at the same time cos we can get each other informed of any lobang hehe....

Sunday, October 14, 2007

The King & the Princess

I found these really cute pitures today while sorting my digital photo collections.

See what I found - The King and the Princess!



The Princess trying to take a picture of her King.

Baby's name

I got a few names for our baby while on HL staying at home. Actually we already got a few names much earlier when we conceived Trenyce. But hubby decided not to use the 2 names we shortlisted then (Keith and Keane).

Here are the names I shortliseted:

1. Kesler
The meaning of the name is Independent And Energetic
The origin of the name Kesler is American

2. Keith
The meaning of the name is Warrior Descending
The origin of the name Keith is Celtic/Gaelic
Baby names that sound like Keith are Kit, Kitt and Ketti. Other similar baby names are Leith, Heath, Jeth, Keh, Keiji, Keir, Kennith and Seth.

3. Kegan
The meaning of the name is Bright Shining Flame
The origin of the name Kegan is Celtic/Gaelic

4. Kingston
The meaning of the name is From The King's Town
The origin of the name Kingston is English

5. Kiran
The meaning of the name is Ray Of Light
The origin of the name Kiran is Sanskrit (India)

6. Keon
The meaning of the name is God Is Gracious
The origin of the name Keon is Hawaiian

7. Keagan
The meaning of the name is Son Of Eagan, Fiery
The origin of the name Keagan is Celtic/Gaelic

8. Kristofer
The meaning of the name is Bearer Of Christ
The origin of the name Kristofer is Greek
(same as kristopher, kristoffer)

9. Kris
The meaning of the name is Follower of Christ
The origin of the name Kris is English

10. Keane
The meaning of is "fighter; sharp, keen wit or eye".
It is of Irish, Gaelic and Old English origin.
Keane has 4 variant forms: Kean, Keen, Keene and Keyne.

All the names started with "K" as we have mutaully agreed that all boys will follow "K" whereas girls will follow "T".

However, hubby doesnt like those names. He selected another name for our baby. In the end, we decided to call him KAYDEN. Kayden meaning "fighter". We want him to be a brave boy who will march out with all his might to achieve what he wants to obtain for himself in life.

Then one day, SIL called. She and BIL googled from wikipedia and found out that some porn actress is also using the name and informed us. After some search on the www, we decided to keep the name as we are quite used to calling the little one with this name but with some slight changes. Instead of KAYDEN, we are using KADEN. We went in to wikipedia and double confirm that no funny people are using this name before we retain the name. Thank goodness there isnt any! Except for the missing 'Y', the meaning and pronounication of the name remain unchanged.

Anyway, thanks Maykim and Michael for informing us! Cheers!

on Blogging...


A group of my colleagues went to OZ this yr and started a blog. I think its very neatly done up. If you are thinking of conquering Melbourne, maybe you will like to take a peep there! cheers!

Friday, October 12, 2007

Planning for Dec Break...

I am planning for a nice little getaway from home during Dec, also to bring the kids out for some fun since my sis-in-law and her family will be coming from Perth...yah but I cant really go anywhere with my big tummy so Iam thinking of getting a chalet or something...Hotel is a little expensive though it will be nice. Anyway, I googled and a few choices appear:

1. Costa Sands resort (East)
They have 3 locations: Downtown East, Sentosa or Pasir Ris. Both DownTown East and Pasir Ris are not far from each other. But DTE has more facilities whereas PR is nearer to the beach...hmm...Roomwise, it is a little small with 1 Twin bed with 2 pull-out beds so the most can house 4-5 person. Like that, may have to book 2 rooms already...

Price: Costs $89 per night for NTUC member or not $125! Luckily I am a member.

2. Chevrons (West)
Seems not bad. It has double-storey, fully air-conditioned chalets with outdoor BBQ pit. It has 1 queen size bed and 2 single size mattress. Hmm...so can house about 4-6 person. Only thing is its not near any beaches...

Price: Quite reasonable. Costs $240 for 3D2N for non-members during peak and $160 during non-peak.

3. Aloha (East)
Looks great for large gathering. They have big bungalows and terraces.
They have 2 locations. one at Changi and one at Loyang. Loyang would be better since its near to Pasir Ris Park. THey also come with full kitchen facilities, a BBQ pit, dining and living rooms, and 2-4 bedrooms. Sounds just nice for us! Odear, did a search, only left the terraces...no more big bungalows already. Haiyah, terraces only have 2 rooms, somemore it comes with double-deck beds.... not very convenient for family gathering lah...looks like we dont have much choice already...

Call from Msia...

Today I was on the phone with my good friend in msia. Err…very paiseh...actually she's the one who called me. Yah, most of the times she's the one who called me. Well, I do call her when I went back to msia for R&R lah but its more convenient for her to call cos she is helping her husband running the family business back in Pahang....so....

Very happy to hear that she's pregnant too. Now 2 mths…well, I am still faster than her hehe….Gee, I am always a little bit faster than her :p Our first child's age difference by about 11mths…and now about 3mths, at least much nearer than previous time. Hehe…. Anyway, I am so glad we are going to be mothers again in the same year…both our babies are born in the Mickey/Minnie Mouse Year! Mine is a Mickey and I hope she can get a Minnie. Yes, it is the reverse cos my first child is a girl whereas hers is a boy..keke..

Geaksang, if you read my blog…..here's 3 cheers to you! :)

Hi5 concert at Singapore Indoor Stadium on 8thSep



Added another Hi5 performance pic. Also another new Hi5 slide added at I am 3 .

Our heartfelt thanks to the Lord

Dear lord,

I will like to thank you for all the wonderful things that have happened to the family recently. It must be you who have been watching over us.

Thank you so much for blessing us. We have finally conceived our 2nd baby successfully. We are very delighted to have the new addition to the family and look forward to receiving the child in Feb 2008. It may not be easy juggling two kids but we believe with your guidance, we will be able to manage. I admit that both Kel and myself are not the best parents on earth, and perhaps the most impatient ones but we promise we will try our best to be one that our children will be proud of.

We also like to thank you for blessing the little one with good health, waiting for the amnio results was the most difficult period in my 2nd pregnancy. I couldnt sleep well during those days, fearing the worst may come true. I remembered the time when we discovered Trenyce with torticollis. You were there too, giving us strength and determination to see thru those days.

Thank you Lord. Thank you for everything.

John 14:1 "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God"

Writing Again

Its been a long time since I blogged about my family life. My last entry was actually in 2010. Gosh, thats almost 14 years ago. Life's b...