Wayne's Fullmonth Celebration

This would be a finale, so we held a buffet dinner for our little Wayne for his Fullmonth celebration.

We prepared a montage but wasn't really watched by anyone since the projector was faulty (Diaoz!). Thanks E-E for preparing it ^^ and E-E also made very delicious mini tarts as desserts. Wuhoo ^^

We wanted to keep it as a simple dinner. With sufficient food, sufficient tables and chairs for a quality get-together ^^

Then, I bought plenty of balloons for the kids... As I glanced through the balloons from online sellers, I came across some decoration balloons which I couldn't help but buy them, too!

Just 10 mins before the buffet was setup, my aunt had a surprise for us. She ordered an inflated castle for the kids to have great fun at the party! 

Overwhelmed. Certainly a very waoh! Party. My aunt just brought a family party to a new level... The kids (and some adults, too) enjoyed themselves at the balloon castle... We were very grateful for the surprise gift!

Special thanks to my dearest friends (The Shans and Rhea) for dropping by to the dinner, despite their busy weekend commitments.

Our very hard to get family pic when the girls couldn't stop running around.

And some quick snaps when our baby Wayne became wide awake during the joyous event ^^

And special thanks to my grandma for preparing the rice wine for my confinement consumption, as well as the red eggs, Ang gu kueh, glutinous rice for the buffet dinner!

Thank you, everyone for the angpows, gifts, help and most importantly, your time for being here with us this evening! Cheers ^^

我的小小心愿

就是等我把脖子和肚腩都搞定后；想在农历新年时和女儿们穿上亲子旗袍。看似简单，其实不然。。。有梦想；就会有实现的一天，我要好好地做梦！

Pop Station Return Fun

Dear and I made some online purchases which merchants allowed hassle free return.

Unfortunately, no matter how I wished that I could fit in those purchases, they just weren't right for me...

So we brought the box and parcel to Safra's pop station and did our first "self-service" return.

Clicked return, scanned barcode of return label, key in mobile# for verification (not sure why this is required), select item size to determine which pop-cabinet would be provided for the item... The fun part was when dear chose a smaller size wrongly... Amused by the sight of dear trying to squeeze a bigger box into a smaller cabinet, looked absolutely #TrustMeIAmAnEngineer...

We didn't dare to close the empty cabinet, so we desperately poked the touch screen hoping to find the "hidden" Back button, which didn't exist. Clueless, we had no choice but to close the assigned cabinet to figure what's next we could do and walah... We managed to figure out another cabinet for our oversized box. Moral of the story, just pick the largest cabinet next time, whenever in doubt. Muahahhaha!

Anyway, I had fun with dear at the pop station booth, our very first self service returning experience ^^

你的先生很。。。

I didn't want dear to read this post, so I would blog in Chinese. Wuhoo!

我和坐月婆聊起来，她提道：“我看你的先生很眼叨叻。”

我听了很开心；但是也交代坐月婆别让他知道，不然他会浩练！

想不到，年龄和腰围一致还能得到这般赞美，难怪aunty们都有老花眼。嘻嘻！

Post natal...

Three weeks after giving birth to a 3kg baby Wayne, this is the first time I stepped onto a weighing scale... I am weighing 67kg. 

I smiled, this was my original weigh... No! Wait! My target was 57kg... Freak! I'm 10kg off my chart... oh god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday when I tried on a red dress bought when I was in my third trimester, thinking that I could probably wear it for CNY... The moment I put the dress on, I heard a very unwelcoming background comment, "too tight lah, mama!"

It was Renee who emphasized that it didn't fit anymore... Cry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another wakey wakey at 5am

After pump and cleaning Wayne's N times of poo-poo, it's 5:20am... There's not too much wind today but the air outside was so fresh that I started imagining myself going to a jog downstairs... Along the roadside... Passing by Topiary, round about the used-to-be cricket field and back...

Then I realized I didn't have running track shoes... Worse, even if I have a pair of track shoes, I couldn't start exercising yet... Because Jamu Aunty Mona told me  that I could only start after 2 months from delivery. What a good and powerful excuse for myself! Muahahah.. Anyway, even if it's already N month after delivery and having track shoes, I'd probably come up with some other excuses to idle at home, instead of hitting the track...

So the best thing I could do now and going forward, is to sleep back and relax... Kekeke! This year gonna be a 大肥年 for myself... My CNY clothes couldn't fit anymore, should I give it away Or keep for next year... ? Hohoho!

夜了为什么还不想睡

除了大便，他还在做什么？

这是轰炸之前的合影，乘着他睁大着双眼。。。 嘻嘻！

睿扬的 “你在拍我吗？look”

Sweat-cold-repeat

Phoebe had started to utter nonsense when she was having fever at 39.8°c last night. I had to be harsh to ignore her random requests and proceed with sponging, sweating her out followed by change of clothes.

She discovered that we had mixed medicine into her milk, so it's getting really challenging to feed her the legendary pink/ orange fever medicines...

Tonight, after 2-3 rounds of sponging-sweat-change cloth saga, I turned on the Aircon for Phoebe to have a comfortable sleep after she break her high fever.

I overslept my 2am pump but woke up at 4am+ to pump and checked on both girls. Both were not with blankets... Yup, they certainly like to kick blanket during the sleep just like me!

They were doing great but there's something not right Abt me, I woke up at 4am+ shivering actually... I had started to feel extremely cold despite I was in my confinement. I should really be the last person to feel cold at all... Take care, my home... Everyone's taking turn to melt down... ;(

一波还有一波波

大姐在睡梦中才刚刚退烧；正在观察中，二姐随后便睡着睡着地烧到39.2°c。我的天啊！

姐妹们吃发烧药都吃怕了！看来要每天煮羚羊(Ling Yong)喝了。。。心疼呀！

Confinement food

This nanny was highly recommended for her culinary skills. So here I post some pics for my confinement food ^^

Breakfasts

Lunches/ Dinners

Supper Soup

Forgetful Wayne?

Wayne might have his dad's eyes, nose and hairline... But could he be as forgetful as his mum?

He finished his 90ml of formula milk at 10:15pm, fell asleep but woke up at 11:30pm for milk again...

Hello? Had you forgotten that you have taken your night feed? Hmmz... ;p

BTW, here's a Do-Re-Me pic taken this evening. Hahaha!

Wayne's first polyclinic visit

Go-baby-go!

It's early in the morning and my confinement nanny woke up to lay everything in place before we set off, which included my warm water for handwash, as well as the nicely cooled herbal water for washing up.

After I breastfed Wayne and pumped (literally at the same time), nanny got Wayne freshened up and setoff with Dear to the polyclinic.

I prepared and finished my simple breakfast and looking forward to Baby Wayne's jaundice results. 

Go-Baby-Go! ^^

Hey milky milky...

Wayne was admitted to NUH nursery when his jaundice was tested to be 315 this morning at the polyclinic.

Doctor mentioned that Wayne had started to gain weight and had multiple bowel movement daily, so he should be on track to recovery from jaundice. Praying hard that 315 was his peak and everything would be better soon.

Since this morning, I had started to freeze my freshly pumped BM for storage as we had decided to hold off BM-feeding until the jaundice level dropped below benchmark.

However, during my 7pm pump routine, my two girls hopped onto the bed and requested for milk... Mummy's milk! Seriously? They had been rejecting me since the beginning and now they changed their mind. Haa!

So I poured a little for them to taste... Well, they liked it! So the serving was finished by them. Hahaha ^^

Going forward, I hope my volume could keep up for three babies... Muahahhaha ^^

Missing my girls

This evening, The girls came into the room after their bath to spend some time with me.

Phoebe climbed up to my lap and sat there for a bit. I hugged her from behind and realized that she had become a big girl...

I probably hadn't spend enough time on my girls lately. Feeling so guilty and depressed. I missed them badly...

T__T

郑家新宠儿

妈妈的小偶像，取代了郭富城的手机墙纸以及背景画面。

姐姐们早上起床和晚上睡前必看的小弟弟！（别想歪）

Ward 48

This is a class B, a 4 bedder ward for mom who just delivered.

I stayed here for a couple of times during the day to wait for transfer to ward 9A of class A single room.

During my three deliveries, this was my first overnight stay at ward 48 due to full occupation at ward 9A.

After the first night stay, I only wanted to say, the nurses and care givers in the morning shift are angels! At night, when you were all alone, as husband was not allowed to stay over, you were pretty much alone... Except that your baby would be rooming in with you... Meaning? You would not get proper rest. Breast feeding, change diaper, pacify your baby... Everything, pretty much on your own.

Seemed like dear would not be getting his long awaited staycation here this round. Our baby Wayne had been giving us plenty of surprises, so I had to acknowledge this baby's aura... Never plan too much ard him because he didn't like to go with plan...

Btw, bro made a pretty poster for us though dear's name got truncated somehow...

Poopy-poopy...

Wayne's first pooed at 12 midnight... I knew the nurse would not clean for him so I did it myself.

Unfortunately, my name tag kena some of it and it spreader all over the place. Wahahah... What a mess!

After the poo cleaning saga, Wayne had his soiled blanket replaced and he... openEd his eyes to explore this place!

So I had a short chat with him before he latched on for milk... Haha! I know you are always awake from 11pm till 1am, doing my graveyard shift now...

Welcoming our third bundle of joy!

8am, we slowly checked in to the delivery suite, why would I said slowly? Because there's a massive jam along the CTE and glad thing was i wasn't in contraction pain, just 4cm dilation.

There's I had the back of my palm, almost a very weak part of my limbs, pricked... And stuck with this 3 pin thing...

Patiently, dear and I waited for several hours... Dripping antibiotic had to be done 4 hours before a natural birth took place, so we waited...

About 12noon, we were shifted from waiting bed to delivery room. There's the water bag was burst to expedite the contraction frequency.

An hour later, another drip was introduced to help regulate my very irregular and no-kick contractions at 5cm dilation. I could still dozed off...

Then near 2pm, the real contractions kicked in, however, not as frequently as needed. Quote from midwife "It had to be very Jialart Jialart kind of contractions at interval of every 2mins. It didn't take too long for me to request for laughing gas, and soon, I found myself spinning happily... Giggling like a drug addict.

Quote from gynae and midwife "call the bell when you felt something at the bottom, a strong sense of feeling to push... Just like poo-poo..."

Ok, little did I realized that from 5cm dilation, it escalated to 9-10cm within a short 20-30mins, when I was grabbing dear's hand for more laughing gas and I couldn't hold the pang-sai feeling...

Glad that Gynae rushed back in time and we started pushing... After 3-4 pushes and wahla! Meet our crying baby Wayne, weighing 3.105kg at birth ^^

"Happy Birthday!" The midwife said to our baby.

"Thank you so much! Thank you Doctor and nurse!" I couldn't stop thanking them enough for their great patience, kind encouragement and speedy assistance!

And thank you, Dear, of coz, for being here for me and our baby! Now you have your FIFA playmate!!!

 

Well done, Wayne, you did a very good job today! May you stay cheerful and healthy, always! ^^

开学咯！

Renee had been looking forward to this day when she could go to school with her sister, in the same uniform.

So Renee brought her usual school bag, while Phoebe packed her duck toys and water bottle to her tweety bird pinky backpack.

 

Phoebe showing off her new socks, supposed with anti-slip but were still so slippery.

After the second day of school today, they headed to ah gong ah ma house for dinner. Poor Renee was so exhausted from the afternoon session because she was used to taking afternoon nap during the holiday break. Haha!

Good job girls!! Mommy is always proud of you! Gonna miss you ^^

Discharge lo!!!

After all the scares and no communications, finally got to see my Gynae this morning and was told that I could be discharged, no C-section or induction needed for now as I'm still in week 37, my cervix wasn't really yet.

So these happy girls.

And their toys to keep me accompanied when they stepped out for lunch. ^^

Cheers! ^^

False alarm

Woke up with some bleeding, without any contractions or pain. For the safety of our BB W, dear rushed me to the hospital for a check...

At 3pm, another round of CTG was performed and the nurses asked me to jagar the numbers on the monitor because baby kept moving and the heartbeat wasn't traced properly.

Phoebe climbed onto my bed and asked me to start on my dinner. "Mommy 吃！Eat!"

So sweet... So I started stuffing the food into my mouth, then I realized a little finger bouncing on my marble cake dessert "Mommy, Phoebe hungry..."

So these young ladies got my dessert!! Haha... Strangely, no inhouse Doctor came by to see me at all. No checking on dilation, all waiting for contraction... 

Dear sent the girls back home and tried to make them zzz. So I'm accompanied by BBW and “马肉”。

Waiting patiently, praying hardly!!! Hope everything goes smoothly and well. No more surprises, I have weak heart...