25 Weeks 3 Days: Knock knock

I find my baby more active in the evening. He is pretty quiet during the day, but can feel the occasional knock and roll

It has been an upward trend for my weightsince the beginning... and i just wallop one box of durians tonight *living in more guilt* but ok la, so far my gynae has not said anything about the weight gain

24 Weeks 4 Days: To jab or not to jab?

The H1N1 bug is the hot topic nowadays and London is one hot spot.

I'm thinking of getting the flu jab... but there are 2 schools of thoughts so now i'm also hesistant. Some say dun anyhow inject chemicals into your body cos these have not been extensively tested on pregnant woman yet; but some say jab liao will boost the child's immunity as well. My gynae has no objection, ask me to check with GP. But most GPs i called with jabs available are reluctant to jab me. Now question is to jab or not to jab ... haiz

Just a mini sidenote:
Richard Li's gf gave birth to baby boy recently. He gave her HK$200 million worth of assets and baby has 5 body guards and 4 full time nannies to look after. Here i am, complaining that a S$2K confinement lady is very expensive. Haizz... different people different lives

24 Weeks 2 Days: Weight gain

Put on almost 10 kg so far... 2kg in the past month My tummy don't look very big, but it's stretching and i got one big red dry patch that itches like mad after i bathe. Hope it doesn't develop to those red lines at later stage. But i love my pregnant belly and enjoy looking at the bumps when baby is moving

23 Weeks 4 days: 6 months check up

Routine check up at KKH. Nothing much this time round. See baby nicely curled up? Those sacs that you see in the body are the kidneys/lungs/liver/bladder. I can't tell which is which though.

22 Weeks: Shanghai and Nanjing

See the wonderful ice-cream pics above? Here is something that Haagen-Dazs in Singapore ought to learn.

Daddy has a biz trip to Shanghai and mummy tagged along with a free ticket, thanks to her mileage accumulated with United Airlines. :) After a weekend at Shanghai, we took a train and spend one week in Nanjing, daddy's home town.

While daddy worked, mummy did her own shopping by zipping around using the trains. Shopping is good, though for imported stuff, they're still pretty expensive. At the current state, shopping for clothes is tough, but mummy managed to get some maternity wear from H&M. The most important thing we accomplished is to have the stewed pork la mian along Nanjing Lu. You know, for certain food, after you try it the 2nd time, it will not taste as nice. But for this particular item, after so many years, it is still so perfectly tasty. Imagine those cartoons where the character float into the sky and the flowers start to bloom.. I was shopping when it started to rain pretty heavily. Uh oh... no brolly. The mysterious thing is, these sellers with bags of umbrellas will suddenly appear out of nowhere in an instant at the shop's entrance. It's almost magic. Promptly bought an umbrella for S$1.

Couple of highlights:

Maglev: Mummy took it by herself for the first time to get to town. At full speed, the journey takes 7 minutes and 20 seconds to complete the distance of 30 km, although some trains in the early morning and late afternoon take about 50 seconds longer. A train can reach 350 km/h (220 mph) in 2 minutes, with the maximum normal operation speed of 431 km/h (268 mph) reached thereafter. The speed is simply amazing. I just got into the train, SMSed daddy of my arrival, and when i'm done, i've already reached my destination. DAMN! didn't take a picture.

Baby Clothes: Bought many baby rompers at the bazzaar near the Science and Technology Center. Osh Gosh, Carters etc. they were going for S$3 each. When we were at Nanjing, we checked out the malls for baby's clothes. Not cheap. But near Ye ye and nai nai's place, there is a wholesale centre call Huan Bei. We bought so many items from there.

Weather: It was smothering hot on the last day we left. 38 degrees C.

21 Weeks 5 days: Baby's expanding

I'm starting to develop an itch on my belly and it is driving me crazy and developing little bumps where the itch is. I'm trying the best not to scratch, cos i am so afraid of the stretch marks. Palmer's stretch mark cream, body moisturiser are not working ... what should i do?

Baby's expanding

21 Weeks 2 Days: Some Updates

I have been playing baby plus for baby once a day since Week 18. By right supposed to be 2 hours, but i can only manage 1 hr before bedtime. Too rush for me in the morning. I noticed that my baby kicks exceptionally hard when i play the device. And in the evening around 'lesson' time, i can feel that he is moving more, like time to go to school liao. Find that quite cute.

Other than that, i think i'm the most bo chup mummy around. I tried to play the piano once or twice and singing, but too much work in the office for me to follow up to be consistent. I bought nothing yet, and my house is in a mess. damn cham. looks like going to ling shi bao fo jiao when the baby comes. Hope baby dun become engineer in future like the mummy. Too tough liao. Be a doctor. 5 minutes consultation and collect $100.

20 Weeks 1 Day: Detail Scan

Today is the long awaited detailed scan at the ADC. And it's a BOY!!!!
hehehe =) =) =)

Other than that, the radiographer also did a scan of all the vital stats and all showed that baby is normal. Praise God!

His measurements were among the 50th percentile except the abdominal circumference which is slightly high (around 75th percentile). Hehe, my boy need to go for a diet liao.. haha

When i went home, i looked at the details, baby's head circumference is 171mm, when i took out the measureing tape, then i realized, although the measurement is average, baby is still so small inside our tummy

19 Weeks 4 Days: 5th Month Check Up

Today is my 1st check up at KKH. Feel nothing more like a production part of an assembly plant. Everything runs with a protocol and SOP here. In general, very efficient, but definitely lack the human touch as well.

Dr Chee seems nice and good but i didn't get to see her face as it was hidden behind the face mask (H1N1 you know). I was very lucky to be able to get her at a short notice as she's very popular. Her questions were very brisk and the next few appointments were set at one go! Gah-men and private definitely a very big difference. A bit miss Dr Wong's por lor sor, chit chat manner, but well, for the savings i'll be getting with the switch, i guess i can do without the frills.

Anyway, back to the baby, I was eager to see whether it's a prince or princess. Kevin couldn't accompany me as he has a very important meeting. Baby seems to want to wait for daddy before the relevation cos his 2 legs were tightly giap together. I could literally see the 2 thigh bones in parallel lines. There is no way we can see the sex today as he was sleeping during the scan (sigh ..he was still kicking while i was waiting for my turn).

"Patience mummy ... let's wait for Daddy!"

Baby is also now too big for 1 scan, so Dr Chee helped piece 2 scans together. :) Nevertheless, i'm glad baby is growing well. Happy =)

19 Weeks 4 Days: 1st wedding anniversary

We dined at The Line, my favourite buffet. Love the free flow of lobsters, king crab and oysters...

In reminisce of what happened one year ago :) This is the church we got married in, Church of St Teresa