1st April 2009

Baby was finally born healthy and safe on 1st April 2009. Ya, it's much earlier than estimate due date. She is a naughty girl who choose to come on April Fool. Well, this will be a long blog i guess... Let's start with the 30th night.

As usual I was teaching on Tuesday night with darling. After teach we had our supper at SS2 since I'm craving for kiwi-lou for quite some time. While having my kiwi-lou, i felt bit backache. Darling thought I was tired so we finish our 'lou' in short time and get back home. While in the car, I suddenly felt there's continuous pain on one side of my tummy. I told darling but both of us just dun aware of the sign. I did some household before goin to bed, but I felt like the tummy was getting hard few times for a short while. I told darling, your daughter wont be so naughty playing April Fool with me guar... We suspected something but not quite sure. So I time the 'harden' feeling, but it only occurs once in 10 minutes like that. I was so tired that time, so I told darling let's sleep. Even if there's contraction also no need to admit hospital too early. I really not sure was that contraction, cause I only felt the harden feeling but no pain at all.

In the mid night, I woke up to toilet as usual. I felt that harden feeling again, and it seems like getting more frequent. So I stay awake to time the 'feeling' for half an hour. The 'feeling' came every 3-4 minutes and last for about 1 minute. So I guess there's the contraction. I decided to take a shower and go to the hospital. At that time was about 4.30am. I told darling to get ready. After shower and took all things that we prepared early, we went to hospital on 5am.

Once reach the delivery room, the nurse put me on CTG to check baby's heart beats and contractions. After checking for about 30mins, confirm my contraction is regular then the nurse check that the cervix was dilated 3cm. Then all the procedures started. Darling need to do admission for me, I need to change the hospital gown, nurse calling doc n etc. Darling told the nurse that I dun want epidural. So I was given a normal pain killer jab. Then I was asked to drip for inducing since the cervix was already dilated 3cm. It will made the process faster but it will be more painful. After consulting my mum, and with darling's support, I put on the drip. After that, all I need to do was just wait. Darling was there with me. He was reading his novel but I keep talking with him. He was patient listening and answering me all the time. Everything goes well with baby heart beats and contractions all normal. Most importantly, I dun really felt pain. Just slight stomach cramps like period pain.

Waiting was quite tiring. Around 10am like that, I felt so sleepy. I try to take a nap since I dunno still need to wait how long. Actually doc said after drip longest also 6 hours only, it means latest 1pm will deliver. But after taking nap, the nurse found that my contraction was getting low. She checked the cervic again, it was dilated 5cm only. Well, that's not good news to me, seems like going to wait very long. Though the nurse said contraction was getting low but I actually felt more pain. That was around 1130am.

The nurse and midvive will come check me every half an hour. Around 12pm they came and keep looking on the CTG result, I saw that baby's heart beat was dropping everytime my contraction came. I was so worried and panic. But the midwife said it's sign that baby coming soon. They check the cervic again but it still 5cm dilated only. I was getting more and more pain. I told them and they ask me whether feeling to push, I said yes. Then one of them call doc and the other one check the cervic again. She said she cant find the cervic most porperly fully dilated. The pain came and I start acted unconsciously.

Doc came in a short while and examine the cervix then confirmed that I can deliver now. The environment became so excited at the moment. Midwives were busy getting ready all equipment, doc also getting ready himself by putting on his gown. I was in pain. Darling was still beside me to give support and telling me to breath in and out. Then doc asked me to listen to his instruction. When I felt the urge to push I told doc. Then doc asked me to push and he will assist me to get baby out. I can saw doc was using the forcep to get the baby out. I just pushed few seconds then baby was out.

Darling told me it's over, baby came out de. Then I heard she cried loudly. Midwife placed her on my chest after doc cut off her cord. Just a while, then baby was removed from me to clean up by the midwife just beside me. I was given another injection to help removed the placenta. After that, doc try to clean those 'blood' in my tummy. I was forced to have episiotomy (cause I dun want it if possible) due to tears. It was really painful, very very pain. Nurse and darling try to distract my concentration by placing baby on my chest again. I can saw she was clean and no more crying. But I really felt the pain downstairs. It's unbearable for me. I hold baby's leg so tight. Midwife faster removed her away and gave me the gas to reduce pain.

I breath in lots n lots of the gas as it's really so so so pain. I can feel the sewing movement. I became blur after breathed in so much so the gas. The process last so long, so I guess I had tear badly (till now I still not sure how bad was it, coz I dun dare to check it). Finally everything done, I was cleanned up by the nurse. I need to stay at the delivery room for 1 hour in case any bleeding. Baby and darling were there with me. I was holding the little one. She's so tiny. But she looks smart with big eyes keep turning around. Midwife told me to breastfeed her asap, so I tried it. She took some time to latch on my nipple, but soon she got it then she start sucking. She's really smart. After a while, baby need to be sent to the nursery for other checking. Then left me alone, coz darling need to follow up some procedures and parents-in-law were there.

Well, I was not very tired at the moment, so I made the birth announcement by sending sms to my friends and relatives. Nurse came and told me baby weights 2.4kg. She was born on 12.43pm. I got few immediate replied from friends and relatives to congrat for my safely delivered. There were also friends that do not believe on my sms and thought it was April Fool joke. I was busy replying all msg and wishes. Till 2.30pm only they transfered me to the wad. Unfortunately there was no more single room, so I was forced to take the double room.

There are few visitors on that day. 1st was darling's auntie, then came my mum. My mum stay ed with me for few hours and nurse did bring baby to our room too. Baby's face got a red mark which caused by the forcep. According to nurse, it will disappear soon. But we just felt pity that baby was hurt =( Darling went for lunch and back home to rest for a while when my mum was with me.

After mum gone, I was busy on arranging ppl to take care the music school. Though very tired at the moment, but I knew darling must be tired too. So dun wish to disturb him. Unfortunately no one free to give help. End up I need to wake darling up to go pass key for another teacher, Eunice. Luckily Eunice was so helpful. She will close the school for us after everyone teach. Since she staying at Kota Kemuning with his husband, so it's quite convenient to her.

Then Eva came to visit me too. After that was my uncle family, then my parents bring my little bro along after his school. Then father-in-law bring my dinner, ginger fried rice for me. Darling was back at that time too. Around 7.30pm more friends coming, ManYee and her bf Yau, Chi Jee, Lim Kang and Kian Kee. Baby was with all the guests at the moment. She was sleeping tightly. Everyone agreed her nose like his father, some said lips like me. However, overall is like her father. Haha... So i told my friends, if you want your baby looks like you must look more on mirror. Cause I look too much on my darling.

My parents were last left at 11pm like that. Darling went back home to get my charger for me and came back at 1130pm. Due to double room, he cant be there with me. So I have to sleep alone that night. It was really a long night.

Here, I would really thanks to my darling, for keeping me accompanient most of the time. I know he was so tired too. But I can see his happiness from his eyes when he was looking at our little precious princess. I love my baby, but I felt more love to my darling. Without him we wont have this little cute girl. Everytime I saw our girl, I will think of darling. I know he is working hard to take care me, baby and his job to provide us more stable finance. Once again, thanks dear and I love you so much!

Plan may change

All the while I'm planning for a natural birth. A really natural one if possible. Means I will only go into labour when there's labour sign like contraction or show or water break. But now most probably will go for an induced labour.

I missed out this point in the previous post, Dr. Ng mentioned that due to my stillbirth history, I cannot wait till 40 weeks only deliver. He suggested to deliver on week 38. But anyway we didn't discuss much on this topic with doc yet. I will prefer to deliver slightly later if possible. Cause 38 weeks seems still small. But it also depends on my baby's size. If she is weight enough and doc think she is ready, then will still consider doc's suggestion.

I want to have a healthy baby. Feel stress recently. Worry also. I'm not sure what I can do to ensure my baby will be healthy. My mum and mother-in-law actually dun support for C-Section or induce before 40 weeks. Darling dun support C-Section also. Actually me myself also dun like to have C-Section. So Ceasarean will be out of our choice for sure. Inducing, is still under consideration and will discuss with doc bout when and how to induce during the next appointment.

Now, I just hope everything can goes well and my little princess, "you must continue grow and work hard with mummy k? We will go thru all these and have fun together soon! Mummy loves you!"

Check Up at Columbia Asia Hospital

I did my 34 weeks check up at Columbia Asia Hospital yesterday with Dr. Ng Soon Pheng. The hospital was located at Bandar Puteri, Puchong. It's a quite new hospital. It looks clean and nice overall although it's compound is not very big.

I had made the appointment in advanced, so by the time i reached just need to register and do some common checking like urine test & weight checking then it's my turn. The doc looks quite young, around 30+ or 40. He is the only doc who asked more questions on my previous still birth case (so far went for 3 gynae for this pregnancy). After understand my previous records and health details, then he did the scan of my baby.

The ultrasound machine is a 4D scanning machine. I'm not sure what's the FOUR D, but I managed to see my baby's face. She (well, we actually forgot to ask the gender again) looks so much like my hubby, with a big nose and the lips also like him. The scanning was quite long, due to my little one keep moving around and doc unable to do some measurements. According to doc, everything is fine. Here's my little one's first photo, all of us agreed that she is ugly... hahaha
After the scanning, Dr. Ng said due to my previous history he will automatically put me into high risk pregnancy. He mentioned 3 things that I need to do and consider. 1st, I need to count the baby's movement every morning from 9am. It must at least has 10 movements before 6pm, or else I have to go to hospital. 2nd, he will put me in baby monitoring on the next visit to monitor baby's heart beats. 3rd, he wants be to consider whether to have natural birth or C-section.

Well, I never wanted and never think about having C-Section. So was quite shock by his suggestion. I keep asking the reasons that I need to go for C-Section. According to doc, C-Section is the safest way to deliver a healthy baby. Wherease during natural birth, many things can happen to the baby including oxigen cut off. So due to my history, he suggested me to go for a C-Section.

After leaving the hospital, me and darling keep discussing bout the birth methods. Darling was not really satisfied with the doc that keep promoting on Ceasarean. Overall the hospital, nurses and doc are nice to us, polite and caring. The only concern of my hubby was the doc keep promoting Ceasarean. For the delivery fees, normal delivery will be around RM2700 - RM3000, C-Section will be around RM4700-5000. Compare with Sunway Medical Center, normal delivery will be around RM3000-4000, C-Section will be around RM5500-6500. For normal delivery, not really much different, but for Ceasarean that's the dif.

Discuss and discuss, I decided to have natural birth still. I really have no intention to go for C-Section at all. And I believe as long as I have the strong will to give birth in natural, then I can do it. For the hospital choice, most probably will be going to Columbia Asia. It's so much nearer and even accidentally I have to go for Ceasearean also not so expensive.

So my next check up will be in 2 weeks later. Hopefully everything will go smooth.

Late Survey

I'm now in week 33 of my pregnancy, meaning there's less than 2 months time I will be going to deliver my little princess. All the while I did my prenatal check up at Sunway Medical Center. But yesterday only I found out that their charges for delivery is quite expensive. There's info that their normal deliver charge had increased to around 6k from Feb 09 onwards. That's far from my expectation for a normal delivery. What if, touch wood, I need a C-sec? Then will cost me 10k?? That's out of my budget.

Further more, it seems like the hospital still under expansion reno, there will only has 1 single room available. I'm actually a quite dependent person that always need my hubby to accompany me. So i definitely want a single room so that darling can stay with me for that particular night.

I got some info from forum with quite a good review of Columbia Asia Hospital at Bandar Puteri. Their charges is around 3k for normal delivery, even C-sec also around 5k. That's really more affordable. Due to financial and room facilities prob, after discuss with my darling we decided to pay a visit to the gynae Dr. Ng(who had good review from the forum also) at Columbia Asia on Mon.

Besides the financial and room prob, actually there's another concern also, my usual gynae Dr Jason will be away on holiday from this 30th till 9th April. My due date is on the 24 April. It means if I'm going to deliver 2 or more weeks earlier, Dr Jason will not be there. That's why I need to get another gynae. One more advantage to choose Columbia Asia is that the hospital is so near to my house, just 5 minutes drive will do and no need to worry bout traffic jam.

Thus, with all the above reasons Columbia Asia most probably will be our choice.

Week 31

I'm now in week 31 of my pregnancy. I really didn't put on much weight. So far I only put on 6-7 kg. My last check up was 2 weeks ago, now 2 weeks past by and I checked my weight at home. It didn't increase at all!!

I really start worry. Everyone also said my tummy was still so small. Only 2 more months to go. But I keep telling myself it's ok. Doc didn't say anything bad. And baby is growing in average weight increase every check up. But now, almost 8 months of my pregnancy. I still put on less than 10 kg weight. It's really too little!! I eat as normal. Most of the morning I had my breakfast even just a cup of milk. I never missed any lunch meals. I also had my tea-time most of the 3.15pm. Dinner was quite in-time also. I did took supper most of the nights even a cup of mama-milk. How come? I just can't put on weight!

I'm not sure what can I do besides keep eating. Now I try to talk to my baby, telling her to keep growing. "Baby, you must keep growing and be strong. Mummy will work hard also and don't worry that mummy will be suffer if you are big. Mummy will be happy to see you grow well and healthy. So we work hard together k? Gambate!!"

Baby Gift Ideas 2

Dear friends & relatives,

Here are some pics of baby stuffs that I found quite nice and useful for me. Just as a guideline for you.

Famidoc: 4 in 1 Thermometer

RM 129.00

Snow Bear: 2 in 1 Car and Home Warmer
RM 149.90


Graco: Pack and Play Yard Safari Park
RM 399.00


The First Years: Dreams in Sight Mobile
RM 199.00

Halford: Elite Classic Baby Carrier
RM 305.10

All the above stuffs can be getting from www.mybbstore.com. Thanks Eva for providing this useful website.

Baby Gift Ideas

Dear all friends & relatives,

Well, I'm always a straight forward person, that wont feel 'pai sei' to ask for gifts. So here I came out of a list of gifts that you can buy for my little princess. Some I already bought it myself or there are kind parents 'donate' for me. Will also include the price as a guide for your budget.

• Pram/stroller

• Car seat

• Baby cot

• Play pen. (RM 180 – RM 1000)

• Bottle steamer/ sterilizer

• Breast pump – excellent piece for breastfeeding mums. Better don't buy it if you have no idea on how it works.

• Ear thermometer – a necessity caring parents must have. Very useful when the child is down with fever and parents need this to monitor the temperature. (RM 90 – RM 200)

• Baby carrier/ infant car seat – need it to travel my baby from my house to my mum's house when I'm driving alone. Better choose an O+ group. (RM180 – RM 800)

• Baby clothing – preferably 6 months onwards. Babies normally outgrow their clothing very fast and it's always advisable to buy bigger size clothes.

• Mitten and booties – mothers do not mind additional pairs because during the first three months, their babies just love the fingers and the change over are very fast. Furthermore, babies like to practise 'kung fu' during these months; mitten will prevent them from scratching their face. Of course I will be appreciating if you can get a cute one.

• Baby disposable diaper – I am sure every mum does not mind receiving more of this. A bigger size may be appropriate. DO NOT BUY NEWBORN

• Reusable nappies – I think I had enough of this, but if you have extra one want to 'donate', I won't mind.

• Baby developmental toy – this may not be useful immediately, but definitely a playmate for the baby as he grows.

• Child caring books for first time mother. – have enough reference books

• Books on baby food recipe.

• Baby sling – most probably for my hubby use it. lol

• Diaper bag – with good compartment and nice design will be appreciate

• Cooler case – a working mother and would like to breastfeed after going back to work may need it.

• Bottle warmer – to warm the breast milk after freeze.

• Mosquito net – Malaysia is full of fierce mosquitoes.

• Bibs - this is useful when the baby grows and their saliva drips non-stop! Again, would be appreciating if you can get a cute one.

Some of the prices still not sure, will find it out and update it. Anything that I missed out will also update in future. Some of these are really expensive, so you not necessary have to buy it yourself but can share with others. So do discuss among your group and let me know what will you buy, so the gift wont be repeated. Get what I mean?? Haha, I'm always very 'honest' in getting presents.

Second Trimester

Here's my baby when she was 25 weeks old. Second trimester start from week 16 until 28.

Thru out the second trimester, I felt quite comfortable. Morning sickness gone, and I was quite enjoy with shopping on baby stuffs and maternity clothes. I found a shop selling maternity clothes with reasonable price and nice in style. So actually I invested much on that :p But since it's only my 'first' pregnancy, I think it's worth to invest coz I can still wear it in future pregnancy.


I didn't put on lots weight, every check up only put on average 2kg. But doc said it's normal and baby's weight was on average. The most terrible thing that happened in this second trimester, was I nearly admitted to hospital due to a virus called chikungunya. It's actually something like denggi. But luckily the fever gone after 3 days. And doc said the fever didn't affect the baby. According to doc normally after fever, the amniotic fluid will decrease but mine didn't. So it's really lucky!

My baby always kicking in my tummy when I'm driving with music, teaching on Christmas songs, and most obvious when I'm trying to sleep. But I felt happy on her kick boxing, like now she seems like knowing that I'm talking bout her so she responding =) My tummy become bigger day by day, but it's not huge. Many ppl keep saying "how come your tummy still so small?". I don't like to hear that, I felt offense by their words. I think that it's not good to comment on pregnant woman's tummy no matter saying it's so big or so small. We, pregnant women need more positive encouragement than comments. Well, to make myself feel better after the 'hurt' feeling, I will tell myself they are just jealous that I still look slim with my healthy tummy =)

Actually I still cant sure she is a girl. During the last check up, me and darling decided to ask for the gender before we went into doc's room. But my little baby was so shy yet smart, she knew we wanted to ask the doc for the gender thus she chose a sitting position on that day. So doc cant really see it clearly. But most probably she is a little princess. =) See you in 3 more months my dear!

First Trimester

This is my baby when she was just 10 weeks old. Yup, it's still pretty small on that time, 3.46cm only... On that time, I suffered a mild morning sickness. Nausea and dizzy quite often, sometimes did vomit but not consider serious I think.

Ok, she was getting bigger now. She was 10.9cm at 16 weeks. That's the end of first trimester and going to start the second trimester. In the first trimester, the most suffer part was constipation. I suffered on constipation quite serious. Maybe I never had that experience before, that's why really dunno how to cope with it. I remembered that was one night I couldn't sleep at all, keep visiting the toilet but still there's nothing. Until near morning, only the prob got solved. From that day, I swear that I must take more fruits, veges and plenty of water.

Physically unwell will sometimes lead to mental unstable too. During the pregnancy, I was really worry about my baby. Sometimes was over sensitive too. That made me paid for extra visits to the doc also :p But it's worth for my baby's health! Oh ya, during the above scan the doc mentioned that most probably my baby is a princess. So we assumed she is my beloved princess.

I set up a baby name poll for my little princess.

http://www.babyzone.com/babynames/bnpoll.asp?pollid=130021

There's the link for the poll. I hope for a not so common yet meaningful name. My hubby was so headache on my choosey, so we decided to come out with this poll. Hopefully it will help little princess get a nice name =)

Final relief!!

This morning went to SunMed again for appointment with the OB-GYN. This time i went alone as darling said too many days holiday so today might be busy... Yesterday my legs were so pain and swollen, luckily this morning woke up much better de...

Well after waiting for 45 mins (which was much faster than usual if i meet doc jason), i went into the doc's room... the first impression i had on this dr noor anni was not too bad, due to the deco of her room... it's quite comfortable, unlike others that i went before... it's like a feeling of home more than a clinic. She gave me a professional feel, although this was the 1st visit but she read thru all my profile n history... she gave a scan on my tummy, baby was very active on that time, keep moving... everything was fine... i'm suppose 23 weeks now, but baby looks like a 6 months baby according to doc. Doc said my fever didn't affect the baby, since the fluid still plenty... but my legs were still in pain... doc explained it as normal after fever, but cannot take any pain killer during pregnancy so only can apply some sort of gel to reduce the pain and swelling...

Thanks god! Baby is healthy and everything goes well... I will take care myself more and try not to fall sick anymore... it's really tiring and scaring!

Sick, sick, sick...

As usual, I was sick during the holiday... dunno what's the prob, everytime when I'm in holiday sure fall sick... but this time was different because it seems serious and i'm 22weeks pregnant...

On the boxing day, I wake up with serious backache... at first I suspect it was due to my pregnancy and the bad sitting position i had the night before... so i sat on the massage chairs for 15 minutes and thought it was better. While I was driving, i found that my wrists were in pain too... then my legs and then i got headache... then i suspected it might be heaty... I start drinking plenty of waters and rest in at my mum's house. After woke up from nap, I felt like fever... so after darling finish work, i went see doc in clinic. Doc cant find the source of my fever, so only gave me PCM(paracetamol) to take... When we went back home after dinner, only i knew that my mother in law was having the same prob with me for the 2nd day de... she was more serious than me. The night i did not slept well, due to all the pain on my body n head...

The next morning, me n darling were woke by the phone call... mother in law was admitted to the hospital... but what's the source still unknown... So I went to the clinic again, coz my fever never goes off even after the PCM... the doc said it was still too soon to do any tests, she said have to wait till the 3rd day... and since i'm pregnant cant take too much medicine also. End up I spent the whole afternoon lied on the bed doing nothing... the headache was terrible!! The doc in hospital told that mother in law maybe virus infection... that's really scared me, coz virus is dangerous to the unborn... around 6pm I suddenly felt sooo sooo tired, n from that moment i seems like cant feel baby moving anymore until 8pm... that's really frightening!!

So I went to A&E in Sunway Medical Centre, the put me on the ECG to check the fetal's heartbeat and I need to press on a button if i feel the baby's movement... after half an hour of that checking, the midwife said the baby should be quite safe, asked me no need to worry so much, and had made an appointment for me to meet the doc on Tuesday. Then back to the general doc, he said nothing can do now(like what the doc in clinic said) and asked me to cont taking the PCM... by the time, my headache became more n more serious, almost unbearable... from the information from father in law, my mother in law was infected by bacteria, not that serious as virus infection... I felt much released at least! I took the PCM before sleep... and was sweat the whole night. This morning i woke up, there was no more fever and the clinic's doc said dun need any blood test then... Till now, the fever didnt come back... so hopefully I had won the battle with bacteria!

Well, from the time I know i might be virus infection i start talking to myself and my little baby... I told her we must fight together, mum will do all my best and baby you must always support mum... I kept on talking with her, especially when I felt very ill... I believe it worked!! We both together fighting with the bacteria and now seems like we won... I will still be alert until the appointment with the gynae (not the one i usually visit, coz he's on leave) to ensure baby is ok... So we will both work hard for few more days, ok babe?? Gambate!!