Why is it there will always be people who will hang the national flag wrongly?

Lucky no one hangs it upside down so far....!

ConFineMenT PerioD

uh-huh, no wonder i was told to be careful not to get fat during the confinement period!! 

seriously, i think i din put on much weight during pregnancy. but..... i cant say the same for confinement! 

i've been eating soooo regularly.. and have not been doing much...except breastfeedling! 

having a confinement nanny was as if like having a domestic helper. after makan, just leave everything there and she will clear. need snacks or drinks or fruits, just tell her and she will prepare. she will also help with the household chores like laundry, sweeping the floor, mopping the floor etc. im really like one queen now! woohoo! 

i guess i will seriously miss this period....how will life be after she's gone? ummmmmm... 

anyway, my confinement nanny can cook really well. 

and one of my fav - nutella crepe!! really yummy! kekekeke. i must at least learn this dish from her before she leaves!

knowing that the ingredients are all expensive stuff, i will make an effort to finish them all. so, tell me, how not to be fat huh?! 

the nanny was saying, if can eat, must eat during this crucial period. weight can be lose later on after the confinement period. ha, easier said then done man. if only weight losing is that simple.

anyway, i will enjoy this period while i can. i have engaged her for 40days and today is already the 17days. ahhh.. 

Jamu Massage by Babies & Bellies

haha, had my 1st house service massage yesterday. massaging at the comfort of home, not too bad an experience. 

my colleagues recommended me 2 massage ladies, but both could not make it in terms of timing. so in the end, use this company - babies & bellies - which i came across when flipping through those coupon books given to me in those maternity packs. 

i took the trial session 1st. not too bad. so i signed the 7days package with them. hopefully i can bear through having the wrap on me for 7days..

and i was quite impressed when she also massaged my head... touching that bun of hair which was last washed on 11 July.... wahahahahahahhaaah

according to my confinement nanny, she said it's way too expensive to pay $75 for 1 hour of post-maternity massage. uh-oh. but im kidda desperate already lah. and since this one is not too bad and within my reservation price, then just take loh. 

hopefully effective bah... do some favour to my 可怜的肚皮 bahhh... 

LaBouR @ Thomson MedicaL

uh-huh. so rayous baby arrived about 4days earlier than the EDD. the EDD was actually around 15 or 16July, but he arrived on 11July! hoho. win loh. i worked till friday and he came on saturday. no break for me at all! 

as said, we reached hospital at around 530am. the contractions werent very painful initially. i tot i could do without epidural, and i was silently thinking to myself that if i could tahan till 11am, i would most probably succeed in not having epidural. 

who knows... at about 9am.... the pain accelerated and there was a contraction which was sooo damnmmmnnn hell painful, that i knew i cannot take another of such contraction. 

and so... i succumbed to epidural. 

much to my dismay. 

but really. the pain was really madness. i truly sincerely salute to all those who did not use epidural during their course of labour. it's PURE madness. 

ok, succumbing to epidural is not surprising. much as i said i dont want epidural, i knew i would succumbed to it. i just wanna experience the pain before taking the epidural (and yes, it's proven to be ULTRA painful). 

the surprising and unexpected part was - the pushing of the baby out!!! 

the gynae came and checked and said im fully dilated already. before he left, he told the nurse to 'encourage her to push'. in my mind, i was thinking, huh... why need to encourage? just push and the baby will be out, isint it??

all the while, i thought the pushing of baby will be exactly like poo-ing. that's what everybody said. and that's what the nurse said too. but when i pushed like how i poo, the nurse said it wasnt correct! instead of pushing the baby out, im actually sucking him in. she said she could see the head, but the head was sucking back instead of coming out. 

wth???

so the method i tot was correct all the while, was in fact wrong at this very crucial moment??? so what's the correct method to push the baby out? i was at a total lost. and though i was on epi, i could still feel the contraction pain. so with each contraction, im supposed to deep breath in, hold my breath and puuuuuushhhhhh. but.. no matter how hard i tried.. the baby just could not come out. 

i was totally demoralised. in pain. tired. breathless. i pushed for like an hour.. but still to no avail.. i was so tired that i was hoping they could just do a c-sect on me and take the baby out.... seriously! 

and then, my gynae came and said since i've pushed for so long and still cmi, he said he'll assist me with the delivery. that means - using vacuum or forceps. which in my case, he used the vacuum.

haii. much as i do not want to use the vacuum, i had no choice. i really could not push him out. im so sorry baby to have to let u go through the suction. =(

and even with the vacuum, it wasnt an easy job. i still had to push (which i really had no idea how). i was super tired and my legs, being in that same position for so long, were super painful too. and at that moment, i regretted not doing the exercises which the pre-natal lessons had taught us. during the lessons, we were told to do certain exercises that will ease the pain in the legs and back during labour. but i din gave a hoot about it, cuz i tot pushing the baby is an easy peasy job and will be done in seconds. o my... how wrong i was!!

anyway, even with the gyane assistance, we took a while. and there was a point in time when the gynae said something like 'we have to deliver the baby this time, we are losing the fetal heartbeat....' i tell u, i almost died from it. 

and finally.. after one last scream and frustration... the baby was out!!!! and it wasnt until i seen him for myself and he started screaming, that i finally heaved a sigh of relief!

finally!! 

i still tot i would cry in tears when he finally came out. but alas, i was too tired and frustrated (from all the unsuccessful tries and the pain..) to cry..

after that was to wait for the placenta to expel out (luckily that did not take long.. i still tot i have to wait for another few hours again!!)... then stitches.. then breastfeed... before im being pushed to the ward. 

finally.... baby's out... really really relieved!!

they will push u to the ward with the baby beside u. that moment was like coming home after a victorious war. really really proud! 

tada! 

and so, that's my whole labour experience. all were quite within expectations except for the pushing part and the flowing of liquid with each contractions. yes, with each 'big' contractions, i can feel liquid flowing out, dont know isit blood or water. asked hubb to look and he said it's mixture of water and blood. i guess that's the water bag bah. it was quite scary really, cuz u dont know if it was blood flowing or what... and i guess that kidda affected my morale as well.. like losing so much blood like that... 

and the service at TMC, really wasnt as good as i anticipated. quite disappointed, really. 

anyway, im just glad rayous arrived safely and healthily. 

parenthood - here we come! 

blogging from the delivery ward.... Woohoo!

Contractions in the middle of the night.

Followed by bloody show.

And so, off to hospital we went.

Reached at about 5.30pm am. 

5cm dilated.

Have to wait till 10cm and apparently it's gonna be 1cm per hour.

So.. couple of hours more to go...

Pain still bearable so far. Hopefully I can do without epidural.

And... How come no one told me while waiting, it's gonna be so bloody huh?

Ok.. all the best!

Smooth delivery!

Maternity Leave

Ah, and so it's my last day of work before a good 4mths maternity leave!

Woohoo!

Finally my turn huh.

Original plan was to start on 8july, exactly one week before the EDD, but since no sign that baby's arrival will be early, I decided to work till Friday and start on 13july instead.

Afterall, one day more at work means one day later to go back to work, right?

 I definitely do not want to go back early. And also no point just to wait at home..

4mths... 說長不長，說短不短。。。

Will be back to work on 17 November

Hopefully a good break from work...

Though I got a feeling.... It might be worse than going to work!!

Hoho

Looking forward!

Bloated

my feets.... before bloating.. 

my feets... after bloating... ahhhhhhhhhhhh

and the bloat was so bad last friday... that i broke down crying! 

haha.. super emo xia.... yah.. it was just quite scary to see the feets really became one fully bloated bah zhang... =(

and my fingers are also bloated... ring cant fit anymore loh.... 

and my fingers even have problems clenching together.. ahhhhhhhh.... 

checked with some of the ex-preggie ladies and apparently i seemed to had it the worse - what's with the stretched marks... bloated feets... bloated fingers..... 

the only thing i can triumph over should most probably be the fact that i din ballooned too much throughout the process bah. had seen preggie ladies who had really put on alot of weight during their pregnancy.. i think on that note, im still doing fine. 

or least everyone else said so. 

hopefully no one is lying. 

keke. 

Ah...My baby's first present..

Coming from a colleague whom I kind of least expected...

人間有溫情。。。

Maybe my colleagues are not so terrible after all huh..