A sad week for the entire family.

Today marks 35 weeks. 5 weeks or less to go. Is mummy and papa prepared? Erm.... not to sure but i hope so.

22nd October 2010 (Fri)
Had the usual routine check up Dr WK Tan. Baby is doing well. So is mummy. He is now 2.4kg as of 34 weeks. Seems like baby wee is putting on 200g per week. At this rate he's going to be born weighing 3.6kg at birth. Hope he's not considered too big to go through the birth canal. I'm really hoping for an all natural birth. Don't want to do C-section unless really no choice.

After the checkup, mummy and papa went to the Baby Fair held at EXPO. The fair was really small but we mananged to get a 4 in 1 baby cot and the parklon play mat for baby wee. Good buys I must say. Other than that we bought a rubber mat for bath as well as a dress for mummy and a nursing cover.

23rd October 2010 (Sat)
12:40 am - My Phone received an SMS but was fast asleep so I did not respond.
"Ah Ma has passed away"
12:44am - Anothe SMS came in.
"Stay home" (probably cos I'm pregant and mum didn't want me to go down immediately)
2:04am - Another SMS came in. This time I was awaken by the SMS cos I had to head to the toilet.
"Will need chinese names for obituary. Call me when awake."

Upon reading these 3 smses, I froze. I woke hubby up to tell him and then the tears started flowing from there. Couldn't get to sleep after. Stayed awake in bed for the next 3 hours, even went online for a bit just to try to get my mind off things. Finally slept at about 5+ before waking up at 8+am. Had breakfast with my parents before heading home to rest for abut then headed to grandma's to pay my respects. Seeing her in the coffin for the first time broke my heart. However I do know that she is in a better place in the hands of God. She has finally regained her freedom which her physical body constrainted her for the past 4 years.

Before her illness struck her 4 years ago, I remember grandma to be one who was very active, energetic and a go getter. Ah ma was the greatest woman that I will ever know in my life time. Although she was seen as our Empress Dowager but we know that she loved each and everyone of us. She truly cared and this was evident through her actions.

What will I remember her for I asked myself today:

Single handedly she raised her 6 kids after my ah gong passed away over 30 years ago. She ensured that they were brought up well and had good families. Each of her 13 grand childern also were showered with Love. I remember how she loved to cook a feast for the entire family on Sundays. After cooking an entire morning , she will then sit at the head of the table in her pyjamas and just enjoy watching us feast away at her cooking. She will not eat much but there were always so much smiles from her knowing how much we enjoyed eating what she had prepared.

As active as she was, she also enjoys buying food from all over singapore and then buy 5 extra packets and go to each of her children's houses and drop off the food for their families. She ensured that all her grandchildren had as much education as possible. Even if our parents couldn't really afford it, grandma will sponsor a part of our education. It is with Thanks to grandma that I had a chance to go to australia to study. Thanks Grandma.

Ah ma also had a love for food. She loved to eat out and whenever she felt like having a meal outside she'll ring our house to ask if we wanted to head out to eat. Going out for lunch somehow seemed like an adventure and we never ever rejected her call.

Grandma also loved to travel lots. In her life, she's travelled to so many countries. Once she even paid an adult fare for me (when I was still a kid) to go with her to Japan on a holiday. This was so that I could share a room with her. That was how much she loved us.

Grandma was great in many ways. Be it her love for her kid/ grandkids or her foresight in property and business. She seemed to always be very sharp when it came to dealing with difficult situations as well. Grandma was just amazing in her own way.

I ♥ You Grandma. You will definately be very much missed my me. Thank you for taking care of us all these years.

Love

Meiyan

6 weeks or less to go... Are we prepared?

Today marks baby wee being 34 weeks old.

In about 6 weeks or less he is going to come out and see the world with his very own eyes. Just this morning at breakfast, I asked hubby "Do you think we are prepared? It maybe less than 6 weeks time before he pops." Hubby said "Don't worry, I think we are prepared."

I guess to a certain extent I know deep inside that no matter how prepared one is, no one can ever be prepared for parenthood. What I can prepare before hand is only the material stuff like the detergent, diapers, bottles..etc.... and some knowledge on how to handle a newborn. Hopefully to some extent my time spent reading the books and internet resources will prove useful when it comes to the pratical sessions. I know that I won't be the perfect mum but what I can promise myself is I'll try my best.

Hubby has been very very busy at work. Often coming home at like 3am, 5am almost the whole of last week. I think it is going to be the same for this week as well. I'm really glad that he does make the effort though to try and spend some time with me. He touches my watermelon sized belly as a sign of affection for his son from time to time even when driving. He's such a darling.

Last Sat was a fruitful day. Our intention was only to head to Suntec to checkout Carrefour for some stuff as well as use some vouchers at Pan West before it expires. However this was what we ended up with.

We ended up at the John Little SALE which was having 20% storewide. It was unplanned but since we haven't bought most of our stuff (cos we were waiting for the baby fair @ expo) and it was going at 20% off, we thought WHY NOT? Hubby was so cute cos when I asked him about some of the stuff if it was necessary his reply was alway since its 20% off why not. In the end we spent over $500 on baby stuff that day. This I must say was a fruitful day of shopping for Baby Wee.

We aren't left with much stuff to purchase (or so I think). Big ticket items still remains. We'll be heading down to the Baby Fair this Friday after seeing Dr WK Tan. Hopefully more loots =).

With ♥

Mummy of Baby R

In the correct position.

Today marks week 33.

Mummy started the day of by feeding me MacDonald's for breakfast. Its been sometime since she had it so she thought why not? Yummy Sausage and Egg MacMuffin with Hashbrown and a cup of orange juice (Mummy cannot take coffee and tea due to the caffine content.)


On Sat, Mummy and Daddy headed to Thomson Medical Centre to see Dr Tan. It was a routine check up. While waiting to see the Dr Tan, mummy bumped into a friend F. Looks like I'm going to have another playmate next year. Auntie F is currently about 11 weeks pregant. YAY! I'm such a lucky boy to have so many playmates who will be born around the same time. I'm curently 2kg as of 32 weeks. Consistently I'm gaining 200grams a week. That's good weight gain on my side. Mummy on the other hand is also putting on consistently due to the good food that she is feeding me with but Dr Tan says that she is managing her weight very well. =) Dr also mentioned that I'm in the best position of delivery and is unlikely to change anymore as there isn't much space to move in the womb. Here's an illustration of what I look like in mummy's tummy.

Mummy has been feeling a lot of movements on the left side of her tummy. Its probably my arms and legs that are trying very hard to get a stretch. =) Its my way of saying mummy I ♥ You!

We went to ComCentre to get a new phone for Papa before mummy headed to lunch with her best friends from secondary school. They want to penang place for a buffet. It was cheap but the selection and standard of the food seemed to have dipped a little. After lunch mummy headed home to sleep before dinner plans with Papa and Baby D's parents. We all headed to have some Yummy Korean food at Tanjong Pagar. It was soooooo YUMMY. Good authentic korean food. Mummy had I Ox Rib soup and there was beef bulgogi and seafood pancake for everyone to share. SLURP!

Sunday was a lovely day spent at home in aircon comfort as it was very very hot outside. Singapore's weather is getting warmer these days. In the late afternoon, mummy, daddy and grandma and grandpa went to check out the location for my first month old celebration. Its likely going to be held in a glass function room. =) Where's this place? For now its a secret.

Mummy is getting all excited about my one month old party. She is already thinking of themes, cakes and catering. I'm glad that these thoughts are keeping her busy at the moment because Papa has been very busy at work and thus doesn't really have the time to spend with her. I'm trying hard to tell mummy that I'm with her all the time by kicking and stretching throughout the day so its okay if Papa is busy at work. =)

7 more weeks more to go.. isn't time flying by really fast? I know there are lots of aunties and uncles who can't wait to see me and pinch my chubby cheeks. Please don't pinch too hard ok? Mummy also says that they must disinfect their hand first before touching me as my immunity will be very low during the first month. =)

Till next week with more updates.

♥ Baby R

Zoom Zoom.. time is flying by

Zoom Zoom Zoom...

Today marks the 8th month that baby R has been in my tummy. The kicks are getting stronger nowadays. He's awake more often especially after meals. I'm not sure if its a correlation with his appetite in the future but I'll be really happy if he's not a fussy eater and eats really well.

Birthday celebrations lasted over a week. On Tuesday 28th Sept, had dinner with my parents at long beach restaurant. Chilli Crab! YUM! Then on Thursday, met up with connie my long long time housemate for dinner at Vivo. It was really fun meeting up with her once again. We had spanish food followed by dessert at Fruit Paradise.

On Sat, went for the cord life seminar with baby Declan's parents. At the seminar, we bought our very first Huggies diapers for baby R. Was relatively cheaper =). At 4pm we headed for our last pre-anenatal class. This time class was about breast feeding and engorgement. Really hoping that breast feeding baby R will be smooth sailing without hiccups. =)

On Sun, papa had work to clear so we were home almost the whole day. Even ordered in Pizza for lunch. Yummy!! Its been so long since we had pizza hut. At about 7pm we headed to vivo to have dinner at Sushi Tei before walking around a little then heading home to rest in prep for a new work week. =)

Mummy also found someone's blog on how to survive confinement. http://www.chanlegacy.com/2009/01/12/i-survived-confinement/
She wonders if she can tahan not showering for 1 month.... ={


♥ Mummy of Baby R