Work related

As you all know… I will be going for my maternity leave soon… some others actually will take 1 or 2 weeks in advance prior to their date of delivery… but for me… I’m hoping that I could at least hang around until it is really the actual day of delivery.. or probably at least 1 or 2 days (when the contractions starts to kick in)…. cos this period of the year just happened to be towards the ending of my peak period… and just last week … our manager informed us that she had officially tendered her resignation to the partner….

And that news doesn’t really add on well on the team … given that her last day of work will be end of May and i’m commencing my leave in like early June… the whole team (although there will be a new manager coming in this week) will be left with the juniors to tough it out… It does worries me abit as to whether the juniors would be able to cope with the work load…. but i know that i won’t be of much help either … since with the newborn i would be focusing on her for awhile… probably until i get the hang of taking care of her (although my mum is helping out …)

Actually I’m wasn’t as shocked as the juniors when I heard that my manager had tendered … well she had told me before that she had plans for other stuffs which were of more priorities in her life… and as for me… I’m glad that the baby came in time … the 4 months of maternity leave was just in the nick of time that I could have a long break away from the hectic work load (especially since now my manager will be leaving… I can pretty much guessed that my work load will definately increase alot more)

Can’t wait for my leave to commence soon….

The 3D/4D scanning

We went for the 3D/4D scanning for our little gal yesterday bringing my mum along for the experience…. it was slightly expensive at approximately S$354+ (including GST) at Thomson Medical Centre but oh well … as this is our first born … we just give a try to everything and this was without any regrets…. lucky for us…

We reached the centre at around 9.25 a.m. (our appointment was 9.30 a.m.) and it was already crowded with alot of people… took the queue number and had to wait for another half an hour before it was our turn…

The radiographer who assisted us was an ang-moh lady … does not seems friendly initially… just told me to lie down .. and that she needs to do a scanning to determine the baby’s growth further to our previous visit in February … and after squishing some cold cold jelly onto my tummy… she started on her scanning … the room became so quiet … my hub, my mum and myself totally doesn’t know wat to say until that ang-moh lady finished with her routine work….

Then she spoke and informed us that baby’s growth is good… at the weight of approximately 1.6kg … blah blah blah … (well i forgot what else she told me anyway ….) and then finally she ask me to lie on my right side and starts to show us our baby in the 3D/4D formats… she informed on alot of stuffs which is necessary to reflect the features of our bb like sufficient amniotic fluids…. and that bb’s hands or feets are not blocking her face… or she does not turn to face the uterus wall …. etc etc etc … after all the SOP informations provided to us…. we finally get to see our gal’s face (which we waited in anxiety)…. at first glance … she had her hands blocking her mouth and chin…. so we only manage to see her eyes and nose…. then lady shifted the “cam” (anyway i dunno wat that machine is called) and shake my tummy a few times to try to make the bb move … bb wasn’t all that cooperative initially … blocking with either her hands on her face and even one of her foot …. (oh gosh … she was one flexible bb ….)

in the end… we “negotiated” with her and bribed her with an ice-cream … and she finally decided to show us her full pretty little face … she even smiled for us and happily opened and closed her tiny mouth to indicate that she’s probably either yawning or practice eating …. well i guess harsh brown (which we bribed her during our February visit) or ice cream works pretty well with my little gal during negotiation …. haha …

and here’s the photo after the successful “negotiation” ….. our bb gal….

The busy period again ..

It’s been a while since my last update… and as usual .. it is the busiest period for my work currently…. and due to the tiredness experienced over my pregnancy … it left me with little energy and brain cells to stop by my blog for the updates…. so basically most of the “interesting” stuffs that happens over the past few months…. i’ve thrown them out of my tiny winy brain…. oh well … sometimes we don’t need to remember too well …. they’re just part and parcel of life…. anyway … right…

So as for my current life … beside keeping myself busy with work … due to the AGMs and the various minutes writing …. i’ve also been engaging in “small talks” with my little one who is inside my tummy at the moment… She is approximately 29 weeks old this weeks… an active little gal … very punctual in terms of flipping and wriggling inside my tummy…. once in a while she’ll loved to give me a “kick” at the side… not really that “painful” but still it hurts alittle bit… so i would be slight harsh to her.. its kinda funny sometimes seeing myself .. talking on my own … looking at my bulging tummy… its was even a more weird sensation catching the movement of the little one ….. pregnancy is indeed an amazing journey … which i think i might missed these moments once the little one is out… gosh … time flies… how soon it will be that she will be in my hands… and i just can’t wait … can’t wait to see how she looks like…

Oh oh on that topic… I just remember that we will be going to the doc’s visit for 3D/4D scan on the 9th of April…. althou the fee is slightly expensive costing approx S$370 at TMC … but its just the first born experience i guess… bringing my mum along for the experience.. hopefully the little one will cooperate and let us see her pretty cute face…

counting down to 2 more months to the arrival of the little one…. and a new start to motherhood….

四个多月的心路旅程。。。

刚开始知道有了的时候，心情是掺杂了些许的兴奋，不安与无措的。。。
因为是一个新的开始， 未知的未来。。。
慢慢的高兴与期待覆盖了一切

看着验孕棒呈现出一淡一明显的线条， 仍然保持些许的疑虑
一共验了三次，第四次到医生那去确认后仍然无法相信，一个小生命就这样在自己的肚子里酝酿了

第一次的产检， 带着期待及忐忑的心与先生到了我们自己在网寻找到的医生那去。。。
是位女医生， 很友善（费由却有点贵）但是既然她让我们觉得安心，就继续了。。。
照了第一次的超声波，医生指向一个小点告诉我们那就是宝宝的心跳, 由于还小所以听不到。。。 新奇的感觉

接下来，肚子一天一天的大起来，慢慢在每一次的产检中都会发现你在健康的成长。。。
开始慢慢的感觉到所谓的胎动，更加期待你的到来。。。

1月4日的产检 – 医生问我们是否想知道你的性别。。。没想到你一点也不害臊，医生称赞你姿势摆的好可是好动了些。。。但一下就照出你是个好动的千金。。。。 巴拔特别高兴

原本以为你会是个好动的小伙子没想到却是个妹妹。。。也好拉这样妈妈就可以帮你买很多美美的衣服了。。。

期待你的到来中。。。

 

2013 ….

It has not been a smooth sailing start to the Year 2013….. at least for me… have been having allergy on my feet and hands since 30th of Dec….. and the hand worsen on 1 Jan 2013…. was even feeling emo looking at the “ugly” hands… and hub got no choice but to bring me to the hospital for another consultation …. (we went to the GP on 31st … but the medication didn’t really helped on the hands…)

Waited around 2 hrs for the doctor at NUH …. feeling sucky… was isolated … feeling emo again … doc came and looked at my hands and feet (by now the swollen-ness and the blisters were “subsisting” due to the air-conditioning … i guess….) but she diagonised that its either Hand, Foot, Mouth diseases or fungus attack…. but i’m not feeling feverish nor having uclers… most likely guess is fungus attack … which the doc was abit surprise that it went so serious….(cos all of my ten fingers were inflected) …. due to the fact that I am preggy … the doc say there wasn’t much medication they can prescribed me with …. (upon hearing so .. the emo feeling sets in again…. but i guess its all for the well being of the BB… i’ve got no other alternatives) she only gave me medicated cream for the blisters and rashes … and also some medicines which will let me slp well and away with the itchyness…. i guess all the most i can do is to eat as qing tan as possible these few days …. and practice a more through cleanliness for my hands and feets…. pray and hope that the infection would goes away by this week ….

start of the new year and I’m already down with 3 days medical leave… gosh and i was still telling myself that i need to keep the MC for my gyn check up …. so sad …

Hoping for a better tomorrow…