So fast, more than half way through confinement

Can't believe how time flies... Kaylen is 19 days old, our confinement is more than half way through, about another 10 days more and its over!!!

Since the birth of Kaylen, our lives have been very busy. Johnny is busy with household chores, marketing, going to supermarket, confinement cooking and taking care of Kaylen here and there. Mummy is taking care of Kaylen most of the time, once in a while, chip in to do confinement cooking. Mummy's panda eyes are back again, having to wake up every 2hrs to feed Kaylen. Kyrene is busy keeping herself entertained, and helping out when changing Kaylen's diapers & bath time. Not to mention, got visitors to entertain. We are lacking rest but still hanging in there. Our priority is family for sure. We are looking forward to celebrate Christmas as a family.

Here's wishing one and all "Have a God Blessed Christmas & a wonderful New Year in 2008!".

Confinement Man

Time really flies, Kaylen is 13 days old and I'm almost half way through my confinement. Talking of which, I should give credit to the person that is helping with my confinement. Its not my own mother, its not my mother-in-law, its my husband!! Yes, Johnny Koh again.

He's taking slightly more than a month's leave to stay at home to help with confinement. This time round, he's doing more, he does the cooking too! Before I deliver, I prepared a 30-day menu for him to serve as a guide what to cook. He would go through the numerouse confinement recipe books to check out the ingredients, do the marketing and then whip out the dishes for me to eat. Once in a while, he would come up with his own recipes. Can see that he's more tired this time round. He got to do the housework, cook, and do the entertaining when visitors come visit us. He lost a few kilos within this 2 weeks.

For me, its more on taking care of baby. I tend to the baby most of the time, feeding her, changing her, bathing her (something that old folks would very much frown at cos I'm not supposed to touch so much water), putting her to bed, etc etc. Kaylen is waking up every 2 hrs for feed or change of diapers, so I'm very sleep deprived at the moment.

Looking forward to Kaylen's 1st Christmas.

Annoucing the new addition...

Here she is... Johnny, Helena, Kyrene and Audrey proudly introduce to you the new addition to our family --> Kaylen

Baby Kaylen was born on 5 Dec 2007, at 12.29pm, weighing a good 3.195kg. We thank & praise God for the blessing of this daughter, being there to comfort and assure us during the past 9 mths of Helena's pregnancy and the smooth delivery that Helena went through (it was less than 4hrs & without epidural!).

We continue to pray to God for Kaylen's good health and growth. We hope she can breastfeed properly soon and that her hearing will pass during the next hearing screening test next month.

We want to thank all the people for the care and concern showered upon us during this time, the prayers, the support, the well wishes and gifts. Stay tune for more updates on Kaylen :)

Fancy Dress Party

These days, the schools organised many activities/events for kids. I don't remember having Racial Harmony Day, Family Day, International Day or Fancy Dress Party in school. Kyrene just had a Fancy Dress Party on 15Nov, the last day before the start of school holidays. As we were informed of the event way beforehand, when we were in Shanghai, we went hunting for a fancy dress. Its cheaper compared to Singapore.

We saw a Mulan costume but it was a size too small. I really like that one. But Kyrene chose this pink colour princess gown. I thought its a little too elaborate (it comes with can can on the inside). She likes it so we have to buy it. She looks pretty in it so guess its worth the money. Don't know how many times will she get to wear it though.

BBQ

Its been a long time, really miss those good old school days where BBQ at chalets is a norm. I am still all excited about BBQ but not Johnny. He thinks its so much hassle, its troublesome and hot and tiring...

We had a lot of fun last week at Aloha Changi chalet with some friends. The chalet was a bit old. It has 4 bedrooms but our friends all decided to squeeze inside 2 rooms. Mmm... those were the days where we used to find some chalets "spooky" and love to tell ghost stories when we stayed overnight. Anyway, good thing that we booked that chalet which is away from the rest of the chalets, we are a bunch of very noisy people. We made so much noise at night but need not worry about disturbing the neighbours.

There was too much food for the BBQ as usual. But the food was good. Johnny even went all out to go Geylang to buy durians for all to eat. The kids (Ernest & Kyrene) went around shooting the adults with water guns. LT, too bad you can't join us, I think it was a lot of fun.

Stay positive

Its really good to know that there are lots of caring people people out there.

Just last week, I shared with friends and people I've been talking to in an online forum for mummies/mummies- to-be about some uncertainties about my pregnancy, well wishes started to pour in and many have prayed for me and the baby. With all the support, how can I be not strong and stay positive? I really really really appreciate it.

I know I should be getting as much rest as I could but there's so much to do this month. This weekend we got a BBQ at the chalet, next week is last week of school for Kyrene (she got a Fancy Dress Party on Thu), then I thought of bringing Kyrene to watch Disney Magic & Scrooge, then its another weekend at the chalet where brother-in-law will celebrate the daughter's 1 year old birthday, and it clashes with my cousin's wedding. Then there is some shopping to do for baby stuff and Christmas presents. By early Dec, I should slow things down and probably sit at home to wait for the arrival of the baby.

Oh, we are still working on the name for the baby. By the way, its a girl.

Ups and downs

This blog is more like my own blog rather than a family blog at times ;P

Just last week, I made it "public" on this blog to tell people I'm pregnant. In fact, for the last few weeks, I have been going round "informing" friends about my pregnancy. Not sure if its not meant to be this way. Just when I thought everything is going well for this pregnancy, a check up yesterday didn't bring good news. Gynae found that baby is a little small for her gestational age. I am to follow up with another scan to determine to check if my placenta is not able to offer adequate nutrition to the baby and whether the blood flow between placenta and baby is ok. Now I am stress out, super worried and at loss. What have I done wrong again?

For the last few years, been through a lot trying for another kid. Sometimes, I thought maybe its because of my work stress. Now that I quit and stay at home, things are not that smooth either. Maybe it is really age is catching up... Maybe it is true that older women have more problems with pregnancy. Maybe this... maybe that...

Pls pray for the baby, me and my family (I know Johnny is worried too but he tried not to show it so that I won't be even more worried). I really hope baby will grow over the next month and come into this world normal and healthy.