ROARSS!

And so it seems, I just received a call transmitting great news, I am not the only one measuring growth by the fruit this year! :D

Someone else in the maternal family has joined the big dragon chase! :D

Make that 3 of us in family in the big chase this year!!!

Not that I have heard any of the great news from the horses' mouth though.. you know how secrets always cant be kept a secret within family?? Mine was leaked wayyyy before I made the big announcement too >.<"

CNY 2013 is gonna be soooo much moooore exciting!

This pic was actually doodled to mark the growth milestone of my little bean who turned peach size in week 13. Heh! And I thought Dino looked a cross between dinosaur and dragon, so a great representation of my lil bean ;)

It should be a sweet potato size this week but I dont have any cutsie sweet potato cartoons to doodle yet..

YAY to playmates and merrier gatherings next year!

We cant wait for u to arrive darling!

Daddy and Mummy slept with your zebra last night!

The Song

Drawing experience from raising my precious furkid where I had a song invented specially to sooth him to sleep since young, which works wonders every time we want to put him to bed even up till now, I had a serious discussion with the hubba last night. We need to find a song for our baby. Just like Murphy has his song.

Being the great musician that hubba is, he of course, had questioned my choice of tune for Murphy's Song. Claiming it was weird. Apparently the change of tune between verses is a little abnormal and is not common in professionally written pieces. He has never heard such tune change before. Being the non-musician that I am, of course I dont quite understand that technical bit but was quite defensive over MY song and thus claimed that I have my own unique song writing techniques which the pros out there probably have never experimented before. pfft!

But anyway, in order not to let baby inherit any potentially unacceptable music education from mummy that might ruin his/her future music upbringing, I decided to bring the matter up to the musically inclined daddy last night and let him take charge.

We had a serious chat while daddy was shatting on his throne, and I was right outside the bathroom disturbing his peaceful private time ;p 

Me, "Daddy, we need to find a song for baby. You know, like the Murphy song? Then next time when baby cry or fuss, we can just sing The Song to soothe baby."

Daddy, "Ok. National anthem lor."

Me, " -_-||| . Ok. But I am not going to do it in public. You can sing mari kita to your kid next time if he/she cries in public."

Baby goes to Sydney

at 16 weeks old!

I marvel at how some people can guess the gender based on the looks of the belly.

So how?

Boy or girl?

We are taking bets! ;p

::PREGNANCY:: LITTLE FELLA SWIMS! (16.03.12)

Despite the full-day sickness, food aversions, stretched belly, swollen breasts (This, I am not complaining ;p hopefully there would be no stretch marks!), pressed bladder, fatigues, the numerous pills I have to make myself pop to give you enough nutrients to grow although Mummy sucks at pill-popping (This, is a daily war affair between me and the pills to keep them down the throat. The detail is gross - it involves swallowing of regurgitated pills sometimes and taking many deep breaths to keep them in. Ewwwww!) and all other not-so-glamourous stuffs associated with being pregnant, when I saw you swimming around in the little house you have built for yourself inside my womb, I felt it was all worth it BABY!

From the last scan, you were still a little bean clung on to the walls of your house. Seeing your little face, little hands and little feet all grown out now, I suddenly feel you are REAL! You looked so peaceful sleeping in there yesterday. It took us a FULL HOUR to finish the scan just to look for your neck, and not to mention Mummy had to pee 3 times within the hour (talk about pressed bladder o.O), and cough many times to make you wriggle to the correct position!

You are a swimmer!

Here's you flapping your little hands around and doing the kicks after one of my coughs. OMG! The sight was TOO CUTE! Imagine Daddy and Mummy's awe when we saw you flapping around on the screen!

You are so real now BABY! Continue to grow healthy and strong. You are always in my prayers. 

Lately Daddy has been dreaming about you - about you kicking around in my womb and him seeing your little feet imprints on my tummy. We all know that's not quite possible for you at 50.6mm right now. You can tell we are eagerly anticipating your arrival already!

Mummy's worse! I dreamt that you were already a walking toddler and I was holding your little hands in mine and walking you a jungle walk! Your gender was clear in the dream though I shall only reveal the accuracy of my dream when it is confirmed by Dr Chua ;p The whole family and the extended ones are all anticipating your mighty arrival! Aunties said you looked very cute from the picture already! LOL!

Love,

Daddy, Mummy and Gorgor Murphy

(and all others in the extended family)

Parental Instincts! (09.02.12)

How the whole parental instincts thing just seem to creep into us ;)

Daddy N (in Rome): So, when is the ETD?

Me: Oh, 37-40 weeks lor. *went to count the calendar weeks and promptly gave an estimated dates of delivery* Eh you know the 2nd scan (where we derive the ETD) is only scheduled when you are back in SG right?
Daddy N: Aiyah....I mean the car la.

Getting ready (05.02.12)

Didnt expect to be changing out of our coupe that soon

Anyhoo, we were car shopping again before the 2nd annual road tax was due in a coupla weeks' time ;p How timely, right? ;p

This time, a family car to welcome the grand arrival of our little bean!!

Mummy also had to cancel her flight to Rome for the following Tuesday because of you baby! There goes my miu mius, pradas, fendis or ferragamos, 30cm snow, the best expressos, cheap wines, yummy pizzas, michelin restaurants and the hyperventilative historical buildings where gladiators fought. But mummy is happy-willing to do it just for you :) I even told your dad not to buy me any present during the trip because all I need is just a diaper bag for u now ;)

Surprise!! (31.01.12)

Visited the GP for my recurring yeast problem and she was about to put me on a more elaborate smear test program but somehow my mummy-instinct prompted me find out if pregnancy would affect the smear.

Since it was Day#4 after my menstrual due date based on the previous 2 months' cycles - I have a non-existent habit of keeping track of my monthly dates, to the hubba's horror. Which also explains the time I had to go for a last minute progesterone jab on the day before my Manado dive trip because da yi ma had come to visit! Needless to say, with such a nonchalent attitude towards my own period cycle, all the ovulation/fertility period etc didnt seem to matter that much even after marriage since I pretty much wanted to leave it up to Him to bestow us with The Gift - hubba was of course knocked out of his chair when he learnt that too *heh*. Or perhaps, I hadnt become that eager beaver in creating a little life yet since we were JUST married. And also, at the young and tender age of 2+ (yes, haven hit the Big 3! yet), I believe in letting nature take its course...until of course, we get too old at trying.

So since I happen to have the past 2 month's menstrual records on hand, I just wanted to be sure. Although I have also had historical records of some delays previously, I just felt somewhat different of late. You know they say the thing about how pregnant mums just know they have a baby inside them? Happened to me now. I had actually felt it wayyy before missing the period during the last gym session and had done the less impactful exercises during that session.

I was told to pee into a bottle and wait for the results.
I didnt know what I was really signing up for when I asked for the test. Because the next moments were a wet and blimey one.

GOD gave us a gift!

I remember bursting into happy tears when the nurse gave me the news at the clinic and couldnt really talk because I was still in a state of happiness/shock/surprise over the unexpected result. We hadnt plan for this to come SO soon! The mean statistics of friends around me indicated that the lead-time required for such 'unplanned' pregnancies averages around 4 to 6 months post marriage. And to add on, we had the mentality of avoiding the big dragon chase and had been on an on-off prevention. We do sorta have a birth plan in place and that is to try to make one in April so we could have a baby dragon in the year 2013, thus skipping the competitive year altogether! Yes I know, we were looking at a very short window period but that was The Birth Plan hubba and I kind of agreed on. We didnt even tell anyone else about the plan because of the ridiculously short window period which was highly miss-able and we didnt want the undue stress upon us during then.

**By the way, just in case you havent already concluded, on-off prevention doesnt get you anywhere near your ideal birth plan if you have zilch idea of the fertility cycle.

SO the Big News really came unexpected and I cried, in joy.
I mean, disregarding the ridiculous Birth Plan that we had, I know getting a hit is not that easy. We have seen more people seeking the fertility help than those who got a hit in 4-6 months. We also know of people who tried for a coupla years....

I was still crying when I went in for my consultation. This got the doctor so worried about my intention to have a baby that she kept telling me every pregnancy is a miracle! On hindsight, I guess I havent updated her about my change in my marital status from when I last seen her in November. So from my being single in November, to my being 4+ week pregnant in Jan, it would have seem I really got myself into an unplanned pregnancy! :D

Little miracle was conceived in the same month of our wedding!!!! I keep telling N it must be his marathon-esque genes that were passed on to his little soldiers ^_^

Yes doctor! We are definitely keeping our little miracle!

There is not a single day I wake up now without thanking Him for His blessings :)

Bump'it

I wasnt really intending to make The Big Announcement that soon when I posted this on FB. I was still basking in the warmth of the sweet gesture of a fellow passenger on board earlier that morning when I got to office that I just had to share it somewhere. I also texted the hubba, who was protecting the country for the week, to tell him very excitedly that someone gave me a seat on the train!!

This, was what got me a seat last Friday. 

I think I still look a cross between an overstuffed donut belly and pregnant that the guy was also unable to tell but chose to stand up anyway. Very subtly offering the woman in the big flare orange dress in flats his seat should she be pregnant, but not taking any chances by telling her the seat's for her, just in case you know...it could be the donut belly. ;p I wasnt used to that gesture either, plus I had a rather full stomach that might not cooperate if I squish it any further if I sit down. So I remained standing for another 2 more stops until an aunty scratched me and asked me why I dont sit down?

Aunties know best ;p

I took the seat and gagged twice from the squashing.

Back home the same evening - Still trying to see how obvious the bump is.

I actually wouldnt give up my seat to this woman and risk getting a glare.

The same bump a day later... 

But I would give my seat to this one!

Optical illusion!

On a side note, and rather bimbotic one, some bumps somewhere else have also grown an alphabet bigger!! :):) OMG!!!