Olivia's arrival on 2nd May

It was when doc open up and want to take baby out from my abdomen, he then realize something was not right. There was a smell. Baby has poop inside the sac and has swallowed the maconium. The whole reason why the sign of contraction is because baby had infection. She has to be out otherwise it would be life threatening for her. When she was out, I could her sound of suction and I think pead was trying to clean her up and suck out all the dirty stuff in her lungs.

Baby was brought to ICU & was in incubator with oxygen support. She was in ICU for 2 nights. During these 2 nights, I was not allow to direct latch to feed baby so there was no choice but had to give her formula. I am quite surprise that this time round, I could really be very determine to breastfeed baby so I pump every 2 hours. Even tho I couldn't get much but at least I could see the colostrum. 

Time of birth : 11:59am

After 2 nights at ICU, baby was brought up to the nursery. She was doing quite well and could breath without the oxygen support. Baby had to stay in hospital longer as she was on antibiotic for 5 days. After that, she had jaundice and had high white blood cell count so again had to stay another few days in hospital. At home, I was very hardworking pumping every 3 hours and am so glad my milk kick in very soon on 3rd day. I'm glad I've got quite consistent supply now. I can get 2-3oz every pump and the double pump really saves so much time. 

In total, baby stayed hospital for 8 nights and the bill came up to rm3.4k

Mommy's bill was around rm8k+ 

1st May - The Emergency

The pain started the midnight of the 1st of May 2013. I felt some slight pain at first but then the pain went on and it got more intense. The pain comes every 10 mins and last for 30 secs every time. This was the beginning of the contraction pain.

By morning, I couldn't hold the pain any longer so I quickly got myself changed and got hubby to bring me to hospital emergency. Nurses called my gynea to come in as it was a public holiday that day. Doc says I'm having a minor contraction. Baby is only 34 weeks. Why contraction so soon? Doc thinks I might have infection in me that cause my body to react as such. I was told my cervix has dilated 1cm. We have to stop the dilation. I was given pills to stop the cervix opening further, but the pills was not the pain killer so the pain still goes on every 10min.

I was lying on the bed in the labour room overnight with the pain went on and on. So basically I was in pain for 30 hours of contraction pain. Though I wasn't going thru the intense contraction pain but it was bad enough to endure the pain for so many hours. I've waited and waited and the next morning came. I was so glad to see my doc checking on me. He asked is I'm felling ok. Feeling OK? How can I be when the pain went on the whole night. I asked if I should just deliver my baby that same day 2nd May. Doc was a little reluctant as he is worried that baby's lung is not strong enough yet. He wanted for me to try to hold for another week or two so at least baby is 35 or 36 weeks old, But I couldn't wait. So I decided to go for csec to get my baby out

It was around 9am plus when I made the decision. 15mins later doc walked in with a piece of paper for my signature agreeing to the csec and he says the operation will start at 11am. I didn't even had time to discuss with my hubby and I had to quickly calls him around 10am ish to tell him bat the decision and that I'm going into labour at 11am.

Hubby quickly rush to drop Isabelle off to playhouse and joined me at the hospital. Everything happened so fast!

Baby finally arrived at 11:19am : 2nd May 2013

Week 31+

I'm 31 weeks in my pregnancy now. 

My weight : 64.7kg
Tummy size :   
Baby weight : 2.17kg

Looks like baby gain more weight than I did. Wow, there's 7 more weeks to go, i wonder if baby will become overweight but doc didn't say anything about asking me to watch my weight or food intake tho.

Songs that Belle sings

At 2 years 6 months old now, Belle has master most of the nursery rhymes songs and some songs that she learn from her playshcool. She can sing the entire song for:

Baa baa black sheep
Twinkle Twinkle Little stars 
Are you sleeping
Alphabet Song
Itsy Bitsy Spider
London Bridger is falling down
Humpthy Dumpty
The Finger Family
Row, row, row your boat
Rain rain go away
Good Morning, good morning

She speaks quite fluently I must say for a 2.5 years old child. She has also master playing 12 pieces puzzles and she is now on 48 pieces puzzle.

Belle seems to have develop interest in story books. She likes to pick up books and look at them, every night she request mommy to read a book to her before she sleeps. She also likes picking up books to draw, color and write on them. I have yet to find time to get some paints and brushes for her to explore more on painting but lucky thing that at her play-school, they do paintings with the children. I have to be more hard working to do more activities with her otherwise she might end up being a lazy bump like me :o

Classes and activities for Belle

I have recently just sign Belle up to a music class at MusikHaus. Before I sign up at this center, I've also sent her to a trial class at Gymboree. We didn't get to trial the music class at Gymboree, instead she trail on the playgroup session which is mainly just about playing and nothing else. The thing I didn't like about Gymboree is that they offer the package to me that was way too expensive. There will be 50+ classes but I will have to pay upfront of RM2300+ for all the classes. All I wanted for Belle is just a few affordable classes to give her some activity to do on weekend and at the same time to get to mix with more children other than those at her playschool. I think she's enjoying it :) At Musikhaus, I've signup for 10 classes for RM350 and after 10 classes I can choose to continue and signup more or stop.

http://musikhaus.com.my

28 weeks

I'm 28 weeks in my pregnancy now. Good to feel that time passing so fast.

My weight : 63.3kg
Tummy size : 40inch
Baby weight : 1.3kg

Going into 27 weeks tomorrow

12th March 2013 marks the 27th week pregnancy. I started counting down since 2 weeks back. Can't wait to be in labour. I'm really not enjoying the pregnancy stages this time around not because of the baby giving me problem, just that this time is more tiring, body aching all the time, etc etc. I can't imagine if I would go into another 9 months pregnancy again... oh dear :(


Couple of weeks back, I've bought a new brand of feeding bottle name SUAVINEX. Is a brand from Spain. Their bottle designs are so artistic and I couldn't  resist and bought one at 30% discount (retail price : RM39.90 - 5oz bottle).










I am really tempted to buy a few more, one for Isabelle but I'm worried if she will get use to the new bottle teat. Oh and also the pacifiers. The designs are so pretty and cute. If only I can buy a few even if it's just to keep :P



Fusion soother




Anatomical soother


Soother Chain