Happy Birthday

Another year has passed... Happy Birthday to me! Thanks to my lovely cousin for the "branded" cake from Glaze.

Burp

All parents will have to learn a new skill - How to burp a newborn!

** waiting **

** still waiting**

** still waiting........ **


** BURP **

Confinement

The traditional confinement means : no shower, no fan no air-con, no go out for 30days. I will go nuts if I follow the rules. hahaha. I already broke the rule during day 3 in hospital. I washed my super oily hair with my sister's and hair dryer help. I had a confinement nanny to help me this time. And she is very good, not those traditional aunty. I was actually up and running my errands during my 2nd week of confinement. And I even went to rebond my hair. LOL. But rules are still rules.. I still followed some of them, eg, shower with herbs and had 1 week of Jamu massages to flatten my tummy. So are you the modern mummy or traditional?

** Pretty Me **

Inexperieneced Me

That's right, I did not breastfeed Jon. I was not prepared by the efforts to be put in to breastfeed. So I am the inexperienced mummy when it comes to this area. I did not know that I have to wake up in the middle of the night to express the milk else I will have engorement in the morning. I was just complaining to my gfs and all of them laughed stating that is normal. I was like.. aw!!! I had high fever for the whole day and realised that I had mastities!! It is really not an easy task to breastfeed. To express or latch every 2-3hours is really no joke. Really need a lot of patience and efforts!! So I totally saluate all BF mummies for all the hardwork! Well Done Mummies... including myself. hahahaha.

Aloha.. we are the Soh Happily Ever After Family

Proud Parents Again

That's right! After almost 36 weeks of pregancy, we are definately very happy and proud to see and carry our gal.

** Super tired but happy **

** Jon was also happy to receive his present **


** My 1st visitor - who waited for Annabelle in the ward **

Home Sweet Home

After 5days in Mt A, I am finally going home with Annabelle and the start of confinment will start.

** Hello World, I am Annabelle **

The Big Day

We have schedule Annabelle to be delivered on 2 nov and my maternity leaves will start officially on 27 oct. So I can have a few days of rest before popping and spending more quality time with Jon. But who knows... on 20 Oct 2011, I realised I have some pink discharged. I called my gyn who asked me to come down at once. In fact I was still working on that day. Called Kenneth to pick me up and told him that today may be the D day. Hand over my work to my boss and bid her and my other colleagues farewell. We went home and had a quick shower and picked up my bag. Upon checking, Gyn informed us that I have actually dilated 2cm and informed us that he will perform the c-sec tonight instead. We were like ... wow so fast?! and Annabelle (Annie) will be born preterm at week 35 day 6. So a PD was requried to be at the Operating Theatre as well. We faster updates our families and friends and waited for 8pm to arrived. Compared to Jon, this round was really pain-free and more organised. During Jon's time, I had to be induced for almost 3 days as he was an overdue baby. The pain was beyond words as I have to suffer for 2 days before epidural was given. But after 3days, I was only dilated at 4cm and Jon was showing signs of destress. Hence was given emergency c-sec. So Annie's birth was really pain-free.

So below is her Birth story :
11am : pink discharged
2pm : 2 cm dilated
3pm : admitted to hospital ward
6pm : prepared for c-sec (shaved and shower)
7pm : pushed to OT
7.30pm : Epidural was administator
8.30pm : Allo to Annabelle
9.00pm : pushed to recovery ward
9.30pm : pushed back to normal ward

My Pregnancy Journey

It is official - 2 more weeks to Delivery. During this time, my feet is super swollen, my tummy is always dancing with her movements. Sleeping is also a problem now. Been waking up every 2 hours to go toilet. And not forgetting my little Jon. He is getting closer to me each day. Wonder if he can sense that his sister is coming out soon. He used to prefer his dad but now, is the opposite. During my last checkup at week 35, she weighs almost 3.2kg and is consider on the big side. Jon weight was 3.4 - 3.5kg when delivered, guess she will also be around the same size as him. Guess genes runs in the family or I been eating super good foood. LOL

Thomas, Edward, Henry, Gorden, James, Percy, Toby, Duck, Donald, Douglas and Oliver

These are all the Thomas and friends collection. But if you are a fan like Jon, you will also know that it means 1-11. Thats right, from 1 to 11. Jon likes to replace numbers with Thomas characters now. Such a creative boy. LOL

Universal Studio... here we come

We decided to go to Universal Studio as part of Jon and Kenneth birthdays. And we were crossing our fingers and toes that the weather will be good as it was raining cats and dogs. Luckily that day weather was really good! We spent the whole day and even stayed to watch the Fireworks at Jon's request. So Universal Studio.. here we come!!

** Hello Lost World **


** Help.. dun eat me **


** Jon 1st boat ride **






** Hello Mrs Woody Pecker **

** See my mummy tummy so big **

** Sisters + Jon **

** Checkout my hat **

** Handsome ?? **

** Daddy, Jon and 1 pretty lady **

** Oh.. look it is Marilyn **

** Daddy and Chaplin.. do you think they look alike ? **

** 3 of us **

** Hungry Jon **

** Same smile **

** Same look **

** Show your teeth mummy **

** Waiting for Dinner **

** Where is the food? **

** Hungry boy is a angry boy **

** Ah.. Dinner is served **

After the dinner, we went for the fireworks display at 9pm at Jon request. I was glad that we stayed as he said "Fireworks display is beautiful!" It really caught me off-handed that my baby has finally grown.

Build a Bear Birthday Party

We got invited to my gf Build a Bear Birthday Party for her little girls. The party is very interesting. A small group of kids were given a bear and they will learn how to build the bear from scratch. Jon was super excited... he went to sit in front!

** Almost completed version **

** Happy with the end result **

My Pregnancy Journey

I am currently in my week 34 and left another 4 more weeks before I deliver. Yes, 4 more weeks! I have opted for C-sec as Jon was also delivered via C-sec. So much things to prepare and yet so little time. Baby stuff have been washed and packed. Delivery bag also has been packed and ready to grab and go. And also not forgetting the confinement herbs too.

** Longan red dates drink for the confinement **

** Packed into 31 days for easy access **