tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-221790652024-03-07T16:43:00.415+08:00catherines-crib.blogspot.comCª+he®iNehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03948082946496392869noreply@blogger.comBlogger558125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22179065.post-87343615210581380252016-08-23T15:09:00.000+08:002016-08-23T15:09:15.538+08:00Baby II - SethWe welcomed our latest addition to the family on 9-May.<br />
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The littlest one - Seth.<br />
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The first months were tough. Having had Sas more than three years ago, we sorta forgot what things were like in the initial stages. Well, of course, our memories of the fun stuff are refreshed too - baby cooing, giggling at pretty random stuff, gazing at us like we're the most important people in his universe, and loving us with no hesitation. Aww...<br />
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Please don't grow up so fast, Sethie. Let Mommy enjoy more of your babyhood, pretty please.Cª+he®iNehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03948082946496392869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22179065.post-11788476295680225512016-04-06T11:57:00.001+08:002016-04-06T11:57:10.080+08:00Baby IIYes, we're expecting.<br />
Almost hitting the 34-week mark and welcoming Baby II in a few weeks' time.<br />
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Sascha, being my biggest fan, is the most supportive during this pregnancy. She comforts me when I'm unwell, offers me mini-massages and rubs, and she talks, sings, coos to Baby II too! Hope she'll keep up the loving gestures for the sibling in time to come.<br />
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Looking forward to our new member and our Melbourne trip that was supposed to take place in February, and had to be postponed.<br />
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Greeting Stevie the Koala at <a href="http://www.cavershamwildlife.com.au/">Caversham Wildlife Park</a></div>
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Having a short break at <a href="https://theberryfarm.com.au/">The Berry Farm</a>, Margaret River</div>
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Just recovered from a terrible bout of cold > fever > stomach flu. The greatest comforts I had were my hubby and little girl, both whom took turns to care for me. She was very understanding when I told her that I'm not feeling well, and asked if we can postpone her swimming trip to another day. The best part, she came to check on me every now and then, asking "Mommy, feeling better now?", "Mommy, you want food?", "Tummy still pain? I put oil-oil for you?" and offered to rub my tummy. *cues unanimous aww...</div>
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Just browsing at the pictures of the villa already eases my post-holiday blues!</div>
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So, here are some of the highlights. Initially intending to spend a couple of days at Kaohsiung, but we re-routed due to the gas explosion and only went to Taichung, Hsinchu, Keelung / Jiufen and Taipei.</div>
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Celebration with her schoolmates and favorite (now second-favorite) Dora theme</div>
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How could we miss cooking her rice vermicelli noodles with egg. Look at her enjoying her bowl of yums. Watching her eat is such a joy (cleaning up afterwards is another story altogether).</div>
Cª+he®iNehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03948082946496392869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22179065.post-45629717907323721412014-10-22T22:42:00.000+08:002014-10-22T22:42:08.082+08:00Late, late, late.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Finally. I <i>finally </i>have time to sit down and sort out the pictures from our photoshoot in May. O.M.G. It's been almost five months.</div>
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Five months since the photoshoot. </div>
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Five months since she started full-day childcare. </div>
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Five months without my stay-in Mommy helping me.</div>
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Well, I'll end off with some of the (extremely late) pictures from the shoot below. Some of the behind-the-scene shots are so hilarious that I decided to print them out in collages. Look at Ms. Fidgety in action!</div>
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Cª+he®iNehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03948082946496392869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22179065.post-3479428207742720052014-06-17T17:00:00.002+08:002014-06-17T17:00:24.081+08:00Photo Session I<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Two of my favorite pictures.</div>
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The many expressions of Sascha</div>
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Swinging good times with Poppy</div>
Cª+he®iNehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03948082946496392869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22179065.post-21067783011221698672014-05-28T01:54:00.002+08:002014-05-28T13:15:41.999+08:00Achievement unlocked: 18months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sascha turned 18 months on Monday.</div>
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Can't believe how quickly she's growing!</div>
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Brought her for a photoshoot with Claire from Tree of Life Photography. We were so occupied with attracting and distracting her that we've totally forgotten about snapping pictures with our own cameras. This was the only one I managed to capture on my mobile phone.</div>
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Can't wait for the pix to be ready in a month's time!</div>
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This phrase sums up my life of late, in fact, it sums up my entire post-baby journey.<br />
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So here it is, an update with a single picture - my recent favorite.<br />
Poppy aptly calls it "妹妹背着洋娃娃". Sascha looking really dolly-ish (and irresistibly cute!) with her Snow White pookalooz plush in her backpack.<br />
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Cª+he®iNehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03948082946496392869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22179065.post-30816029209838351202014-02-06T11:29:00.000+08:002014-02-06T11:29:03.484+08:00正月初七: 人日<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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from the Ma family</div>
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We had a busy end for 2013, and an equally busy start for 2014.</div>
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Had our 3D2N family staycation at Rasa Sentosa, followed by new year celebration back in Sungai Tiang. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Here's Toddler Sascha grabbing Ang Baos off Grandma's "money tree"</span></div>
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I am constantly in awe of how fast time slips past, especially when life is joyful and fulfilling.</div>
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Less than a year ago, I was still carrying my teeny babe in my tummy, suffering from heartburns and insomnia. Now, my infant is all grown up, and is turning into a <s>terrible</s> terrific tot.</div>
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Oh my, how she has blossomed!</div>
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To commemorate the little steps Sascha has taken thus far, I made a short video montage.</div>
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And the ones we're painting now are all about <span style="color: #ea9999;"><b>LOVE</b></span>.</div>
Cª+he®iNehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03948082946496392869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22179065.post-53159105156246177452013-09-13T11:18:00.003+08:002013-09-13T11:26:25.516+08:00Firsts.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Here's Papa and Mama with Sascha, at her first National Day celebration, at the Baby's Day Out organised by NTUC UFamily.</div>
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She has achieved a long list of "Firsts" as she reaches her 9th month.<br />
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2013.08.XX (8MXXD) - Cruising along with support<br />
2013.08.03 (8M07D) - First National Day celebration<br />
2013.08.09 (8M13D) - First indoor playground experience<br />
2013.08.14 (8M18D) - First successful crawl forward<br />
2013.08.25 (8M29D) - First gym experience<br />
2013.08.30 (9M04D) - First sat up successfully from tummy position<br />
2013.09.04 (9M09D) - First successful attempt on potty<br />
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And, now she has 8 teeth, with her pre-molars popping out soon!<br />
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We recently had a photoshoot done with Sascha's group of friends and Mommies. Dr. Ludwig did an awesome job! Here are two of my favourites.</div>
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Time has slipped past quietly... well, it can't exactly be quiet when you have an infant babbling, giggling, or bawling every other minute, but the point is that Sascha turned 8 months last week! Times flies!<br />
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Hardly have any time to blog these days. Weekdays, I'm diving through work, squeezing in pump sessions in the afternoons, and rushing home on the dot to see Missy. Weekends are packed to the brim - sending Mom home every Friday/Saturday, swim sessions on Sundays with Isabelle, trial classes every now and then, and never seeming to be able to get enough rest for the work week. Took a week-long break last week, and I cleverly (not!) jammed in a couple of playdates after returning from my short trip to Bangkok, and ended up feeling more tired than before.<br />
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That said, it has been a whole lot of fun (Minus the diaper rash, teething woes, of course. Her 6th tooth has just cut through, I'm hoping the next one doesn't cut soon coz I'm totally not looking forward to getting back a cranky baby.). Since Sascha grasped the skill of sitting up at about 4 months, life has been a tat easier, and I can leave her on the playmat/in the play yard while I do my chores. Well, I know, soon she'll be crawling/walking/dashing across the house, and I'll find myself chasing after her again. Oh well...<br />
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Before I end off, here's one of my recent favorites taken at a steamboat restaurant. Sascha was caught trying to hynoptize, okay, maybe more of mesmerize, her Papa into giving her something to eat. This happens whenever her Poppy is home, and ignoring her. She'll go "baba, baba" the whole day, trying to get him to play with her. Mama feels totally left out. Bah!<br />
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25 November, a day after our trip to Pontian, as there was watery discharge. We
weren't sure if the waterbag had burst or it was hind leakage, so Dr. Ben
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After the day's false
alarm, I decided to quietly time the contractions on my own, lest I raise
another false alarm. </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Got Hubbs to SMS gynae
for advice.</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While waiting for
clinic to open, had a bloody show. </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At the clinic, we were
told not to panic, and to admit to hospital in the evening, unless pain relief
is required immediately.</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Waiting game
commenced. Laid around in bed for close to 4hours after brunch, before leaving
for hospital. Contractions were regular, but still manageable.</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gynae arrived to break
the waterbag. Sascha's hand was lodged in the pelvis with her head, and I was
advised to take epidural as there could be a possibility of emergency
C-section. Was pretty disappointed at that point in time, since I've endured so
far. Told gynae I'll sit on the idea a bit and see if things take a turn. Put
on saline drip for hydration, and waiting game resumed.</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After some pep talk,
Sascha has miraculously shifted her hand away! Again, the nurse offered option
of pain relief. (I have yet to use the nitrous oxide up to this point, simply
because I've clean forgotten about it). Under desperation (contraction readings
peaked at 127), and thinking that she was referring to epidural, I quickly
signed the papers.</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dilation: 9cm</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anaesthetist Dr.
Yvonne Lim arrived but epidural is no longer possible since cervix is almost
fully dilated. Within minutes, it was at 10cm, and I could no longer suppress
the urge to push. Nitrous oxide was administered. I was cautious about the
quantity I inhaled, thanks to the horror stories I've heard about the
post-partum side effects. In any case, the gas pretty much did its job and I
was rather zonked out.</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Pop! Goes the
weasel."</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Of course, I wish it
was all that easy. Good thing was, the bursts of contractions became
"windows of opportunity" for pushing. Under the influence of the gas
(ya, right!), I suddenly turned into an emo freak, and remember repeatedly
apologizing for the futile attempts at pushing, and taking so long.</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hubbs and the nurses pressed on and repeatedly motivated me by telling me that
they can spot BB's crop of thick, black hair. Now, I can fully comprehend the
phrase "</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="color: #333333; font-family: SimSun; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">用了吃奶的力</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">", because I
practically squeezed every possible ounce of energy I have in each push.</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Suddenly, there was a huge sense of relief. I could feel the depressurization
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Everything was a blur from then. I've clean forgotten about the fact that at
Week 36, she still had the umbilical cord around her neck. And, I couldn't even
make out if it was Poppy or the gynae who cut the umbilical cord. But, one
thing's pretty clear. When Poppy thanked the gynae, I could hear the tremble in
his voice, and it was obvious that he was trying to stifle his tears of joy (or
that of fear, for what unknown horrors his Princess is going to bestow upon
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Cª+he®iNehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03948082946496392869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22179065.post-29663583959461168802012-11-20T14:48:00.001+08:002012-11-20T14:48:07.292+08:00Lack of UpdatesOoh, pardon my lazybones for the lack of updates.<br />
I'm going to conveniently blame it on pregnancy (again). For all the blunders and bloopers I've made the past 9 months, my standard answer to Hubby is "Hey, you can't blame me, I'm pregnant." Hohoho.<br />
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Anyhoos, I'm into the final lap of the (pregnancy) journey. Ended my hospitalization leave a couple of weeks back, and now work resumes. It's been a tough road thus far, but of course, it's a choice I made and I'm more than happy to suffer this little bit. I know, I know, accepting doesn't mean I can't grumble <i>mah</i>... After much begging, crying, and making noise, Poppy finally relented and brought me to Hello Kitty Town a couple of weekends back!<br />
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It was quite a small area with few activities, but I still got pretty excited. Haha. Pity, we didn't get to take pictures with My Melody, so here's one we took with Dear Daniel. Poppy took a lot more pictures with his cam, but I'm too lazy to sieve through and edit them. The queueing at the theme park almost killed me. So we quickly bought some knick knacks afterwards, and headed back to the city for lunchie. Happy happy.<br />
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I'm still too lazy to put up the Aussie pix (yes, blame the pregnancy), so they'll be up probably next year. This may well be the last post before I "pop". Till then...Cª+he®iNehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03948082946496392869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22179065.post-80817642787650242502012-09-27T15:25:00.002+08:002012-09-27T15:29:39.620+08:00Drudging.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Much has happened but there's so little time to update.<br />
Stealing some time off work for some brief updates on our little pumpkin.<br />
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I've finally managed to <s>confuse</s> convince Poppy to name the little one - Sascha. It's really just a nickname we had for her prior to conceiving her, but decided it'll be nice to name her that anyway. Hah. I finally had the time (and energy) to take pictures of all the scans we have of her. And, here's one that I particularly adore, taken during the detailed scan at Raffles Hospital when she was 20weeks. She was looking at us observing her, and she raised her right arm to wave at us!<br />
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<i>Oh alright, maybe she was just mad at us for disturbing her rest, and actually shoo-ing us away.</i>
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We haven't been getting many pictures of her since then as she's already head-down since 20-odd weeks. She's been nestling her face in the placenta most of the time, mainly due to lack of space. At the previous appointment (28weeks 5days), Dr. Ben offered to do a 3D scan for us at random, although Sascha was hiding her face behind the placenta. What a pleasant surprise it was, when Dr. Ben managed to capture her face!</div>
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<i>Poppy claims that Sascha is showing us "the finger".</i></div>
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<i>*roll eyes*</i></div>
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Had a couple of false alarms, and I immediately got down to pack my hospital bag.<br />
Our of panic, I pushed Poppy repeatedly to finish purchasing the items on the standard checklists. I'm still paranoid about missing anything essential though. But I guess there's surely no end to the lists, and we'll just have to take things as they come.<br />
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After the few false alarms we had, together with my decreasing mobility, increasing pains and Dr. Ben's warning that I am at risk of pre-term labour, Poppy is urging me to go on hospitalization leave and get full bed-rest. But with so much to do at work... how?<br />
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On a happier note, I did manage to cheer myself up with a couple of maternity dresses from ASOS, as I start growing rapidly out of wearable items, and a few pieces of cutsie rompers and socks for Sascha!<br />
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Time to return to work, pictures from our OZ trip will come another day...Cª+he®iNehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03948082946496392869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22179065.post-83084925311066756552012-08-16T09:05:00.000+08:002012-08-21T09:05:49.640+08:00Busy.Poppy and I were at the travel fair in Suntec and Marina Square a couple of weekends ago.<br />
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Sadly, there were no East USA, Europe or Japan tickets available for the dates of our choice. Out of desperation, we gave the agent our travel dates and budget, and they managed to find tickets to Australia. And since the package they had for Melbourne was only 5D4N, we combined it with the Sydney package to make it 10D8N in total. And so, Melbourne and Sydney, it will be!<br />
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It's been a couple of mad weeks. Mad busy, that is.<br />
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Had a scary episode at the Alexandra Hospital, when Poppy complained of severe pain and blood in his urine. After 2 tormenting hours at the A&E, Poppy was told that one of his kidneys was swollen due to blockage by cyst and is severely dehydrated. He was ordered to finish a 2-litre jug of water before being discharged, and has to return for checks tomorrow. He has since been obediently taking his fluids daily. Hopefully, all's well for tomorrow's check-up.<br />
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On another note, my project for this semester has commenced again. I have started preparing bits of it, since I will be away for almost two weeks, in hope of returning to less work load (wishful thinking!).Cª+he®iNehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03948082946496392869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22179065.post-22055260344178902792012-08-03T11:18:00.002+08:002012-08-03T11:28:09.239+08:00The Only Constant Is ChangeThere's tonnes of changes going on everyday.<br />
While I am regaining back most of my appetite and energy, my tummy is getting bigger and tiring me out easily (but, of course!). By the end of a work day, I'd be dead beat and would hog Poppy's "Seat of the House" - the chaise lounge. Compared to a couple of weeks ago, I'm sleeping more soundly at night now although BB is conscientiously bobbing away in the tummy. I'd be too fatigued to wake up at night to go to the toilet, and even if I'm parched, I'd rather not wake up either.<br />
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Well, bodily changes are not the only challenges. The mister's fickle-mindedness is also making me peeved at times.<br />
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We've made the arrangements for the Port Dickson trip later this month. However, on one of our dinners with Jessica and Adrian, they tried to persuade us into going Europe with them and assured him that it is perfectly safe for preggers to travel. Poppy was apparently convinced that we should have what Jess calls a "Babymoon", but I'm not into the idea of scurrying through half of Europe in just 10days with my big tummy. So it's decided that we will cancel our Port Dickson trip and head to the States again. With less than 3 weeks to the commencement of our leave, we have yet to make any travel arrangements or booking at all! Thank goodness a couple of travel agencies will be holding a pre-NATAS travel show at Suntec this weekend. Without even an idea of where exactly we want to go - East or West America, hopefully, we can get a F&E package of our choice in time. It's all such a rush and I've yet to make a list of things to do/see/buy!Cª+he®iNehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03948082946496392869noreply@blogger.com0