Baby Update (Week 10)

My prenancy period seem so painfully long... How I wish I learnt about this only around this time... Everyday I look forward to the growth of baby... but baby is still the size of an embyro at the moment. Baby will only start to take shape and look more like a human around week 16... Thats a painfull waiting time of about 2 more months....

Here's baby when it was at 10 weeks old..

Watched a movie, "Knocked Up" with dear yesterday. It showed how a couple went through one night stand which landed up in an unwanted pregnancy. The movie depicted the pregnancy journey that a woman had to go through.. and the changes it could make to a person. The man who was a jobless, disgusting and irresponsible guy at first slowly make changes to become a responsible father. The couple also developed feelings for each other fell in love towards the end of the show. The best part was the delivery scene whereby it gave me a rough idea what I should expect on the day of my delivery.. haha.. Disgusting but touching moment... The baby was sooo.. beautiful.. Its a girl..

My morning sickness has taken a worst turn these days... I used to vomit only air... nothing came out.. but these 2 days.. I started throwing up and more frequently too... Read somewhere that 8 weeks to 12 weeks was the worst period for morning sickness... After this time, it should get better... My appetite was not affected though... Could finish all my food without a morsel left... Must be careful... lest cannot return back to original shape after baby is born...

Must I also add that I actually frequent the toilet more often these days too... Waking up at least 3 times a night just to go to the toilet... Luckily, I could still return to sleep... Pregnancy sure isnt an easy thing... I truely admire my parents now... (Not that I dont before... but I appreciate them even more these days....) To be honest... raising a child is no easy feat... and they had went through it for 26 years (including pregnancy period)... I wonder if I could manage it as well as them.... Daddy... Mummy.. I salute you for raising Jeremy and me up. Thank You!

Baby's First Heartbeat (Week 7)

Dear and I went to see the gynae for the 2nd time since my pregnancy period. Its going to be an exciting moment for us today. We are going to see our baby's heartbeat for the very first time... keke...

As I did not really drink alot of water before the scan, the doctor found it rather difficult to scan the baby's heart for us to see. He decided to proceed with a scan from the bottom instead of via the stomach instead... And there... we saw it... It was a very small thing... I couldnt really make out the shape of the baby though... but we saw the baby's heart... It was pounding softly.... The doctor even played the baby's beating heart for us to hear.... It was a very sweet and exciting moment for Dear and I as we see our little baby growing in me....

Before today, I was afraid that I will not be able to see baby's heart and will be forced to remove baby from me. I kept engaging myself in little conversations with baby telling him/her that he/she had to be strong and be born into this world... Daddy and Mummy loves him/her very much and wants to see him/her born... We hoped to see the baby's heartbeat at the next session.. True enough.. Baby showed us his/her heartbeat... I will never forget this moment...

And here's a picture of my little hero... You can't really make out its shape yet. But you can see the 2 little hearts (left and right) from the scan...

Mummy's Woes (Week 7)

The past 2 weeks had been like a little roller coaster... Everyday is soo... unpredictable. Both emotionally and physically.. Firstly, I never know when I will be experiencing morning sickness.

Everyday, I could wake up in the morning experiencing something new... Either I feel like vomitting but nothing came out or there are barely any seats and I feel faint and uncomfortable throughout the whole journey... Because of these signs, everyday, I would make an additional effort of taking the train home from Marina Bay instead of Raffles Place. Yes.. Its about 10 minutes more into the ride... but at least I can be guaranteed a seat mah... At this time, my stomach is not big enough to convince others to give up a seat for me... They will probably brush off thinking I am just a fat young lady...haha...

My pants are getting tighter now.. I could barely button them anymore... I am changing my wardrobe to dresses and skirts instead... Vain little me always buy body hugging clothes... so now.. almost half of my collection had to be avoided to make space for the little one.. haha.. Yet, I am still too small for maternity collection.. Yah.. I ended up neither here nor there...

Emotionally, I get agitated rather easily and goes into wild thoughts quite often too... Blew up at the gal gang lately and ended up having everyone upset... Now, I dont even know when I could meet them up for dinner again.. Cos even though they didnt quite seem to mind and had kinda forgiven me for the matter... they had not really accepted my dinner invitation yet... Sighz.... To make things worst... I keep having nightmares that my boss is not happy with me at my job lately.. I kept thinking that I am losing my friends, my job, everything... And I keep all this to myself.... Well.. it could be the hormone changes that causes me to think this way... Nevertheless, I end up in nightmares and sleepless nights at times... This shouldnt be the way!!!!

Anyway, let's cast all these unhappy talks aside... Here's a picture of how baby would probably look like at 7 weeks.....

First Scan (Week 5)

I am so happy... I just found out from the forum that there is a rather famous gynaelogist at Sun Plaza. Yeah.. Can see gynae before or after work. Dear can easily join me for the visits as well... Beats going to KK... long queues and wait. Here... tired of waiting can go dinner or shopping... so convenient...

Anyway, went to see Dr Ang for my first visit with him. Rather nice guy but speaks rather fast. He told me to keep this pregnancy issue a hush hush affair as every 1 in 5 women usually end up in Miscarriage... so worrisome... Baby will only be 90% stable after the first 3 months. Dr Ang also told us the things to avoid and the things that we can do. Surprisingly.. cold drinks is on the ok list. He also said that nutritious food at this point has no effect on the baby.. just eat normally.

I told him that I am worried that my pregnancy test may not be true. Afterall, the baby came so suddenly, right after I stopped taking contraceptive pills. I also quoted cases that sometimes scans may reveal that a woman is not pregnant even though the test is positive. To prove me wrong, he took a scan for me...

Black spot refers to the water bag, baby not obvious in scan yet.

Lo and behold, I saw baby for the very first time... keke... No evident features or anything yet. Still in development stage. Dr Ang added that as I am into week 5 of my pregnancy (Baby 3 weeks old), the heart is not developed yet. Another scan will be conducted 2 weeks from now to detect the baby's heart. If the baby's heart could be seen. Thank God! Baby will have a 60% survival chance. So excited for the next test to see baby in action. I really hope to see baby's pounding heart then...

First Discovery (Week 4)

Missed my period for 2 weeks. Period was expected in the first week of August but it didnt come.. Well.. I am not exactly very accurate anyway but I had been on contraceptive pills previously so it should be rather accurate...

Got suspicious.. Told my colleague about it, she advised me to see a doctor to confirm my suspicion. I thought it was too early to check.. but went ahead anyway... Took the urine test... ok.. now.. waiting anxiously for the results... What if the result is negative??... Ok.. my turn now... Doctor confirmed my suspicion.. yayy!!! We are having a baby!!! Baby is 2 weeks old now.. Based on calculations, Baby will be born sometime around April 09. So exciting.

2 bands = Pregnant

Leo even mentioned that if it is a girl, he wants to name her Lai Xueli.. Is this name a little too common?? Well.. gotta start searching for names soon... I dont want to keep addressing little baby as baby right?? Hmm... any suggestions??