There's Always A First

25 Nov 2014
6:47pm

First projectile vomiting. Miserable while at it. Relieve after.

There's always a first time.

19 Months On

My baby is going to be 19 months tomorrow. He's really less of a baby and more of a person, a strong-willed person.

I've been taking him to my mum's place a lot. For one, I needed someone to watch over him while I try to recover from this morning sickness, and two, it is important for him to get really familiar there so that by the time beanie is ready to meet the world, B feels comfortable spending time there while we are at the delivery room. It worked, he wanders around the house like his own, playing with my nephew, my brother and my mum. The other day, I left him there while I went to run some errands at the post office and he didn't even looked for me once. An accomplishment.

I had wanted to send him to parent-and-child playgroups by the time he reaches 18 month, but the lazy mummy hasn't got to checking things out. The last time I did, the schedules and timings weren't fantastic and I somewhat had the idea he wouldn't be able to stay still and participate. I don't know, is my laziness putting him at a disadvantage? Can't he learn and pick up skills at home with me? I do teach him a lot, through day to day activities... he's learned to count from making his milk every night (the number of scoops we add to the water), he knows the alphabets from singing and watching some YouTube videos (which I'm really surprised!) and of course, other skills like brushing teeth, being read to. So, I'm on the fence as to whether we should send him for "proper" classes per se.

His language abilities surpasses my expectations of him most of the time and one of my favourite things to do is just simply observe him while he plays. He is showing his cheeky aspect of his character slowly day by day. Its no wonder why people say boys are mischievous. For someone his age, he can tease both his parents and make us laugh like crazy.

It really warms my heart to know that this little person we created has brought so much joy to our lives, and its gonna double real soon!

Morning Sickness

This morning sickness business is no joke.

With Bradley, I was blessed enough to have no morning sickness and other pregnancy symptoms like sore boobs. I did recall though, at 6 to 8 weeks of the pregnancy was the most uncomfortable one, but nothing like what I'm experiencing now. Back then, I experienced slight nausea during those 2 weeks of pregnancy, usually happening after lunch and I too, had no appetite for dinner. This time, whilst the ms hits me worse around 3pm onwards, it could happen anytime of the day too. DH argued it was similar with the first pregnancy but I don't think it was this bad. Maybe because this time, I had a toddler to care for.

I cannot stand chicken, the look, smell and even hearing it. The pot which I used to make chicken soup and stew for B, I cannot even bear to look at i I can somewhat smell it. I made a big pot of chicken stock but I can't go near it. DH had to do all the portioning and cleaning up. I'm so thankful for him as all I could do last weekend was to feel sick.

Let's hope by the time we pass week 8, this will ease up like it did.

Say Hello To The Flickering Light Part 2

Read part 1  where we said hello to Bradley for the very first time.

On Wednesday, we said hello to our little beanie for the very first time too. Both times I was extremely nervous, but I guess with the first pregnancy, I was even more so. This time round, because I experienced morning sickness, I was kind of thankful for it while waiting for our first appointment.

Our little family of 3 strutted into Dr W's office and didn't have to wait long as we were the first patient. We chatted with the nurses, took my blood pressure, weight.... everything was so familiar yet so, so surreal.

We had a quick chat, Dr W was observing B and it was just like a routine check up until she said, "ok, let's go do the scan!". Our little beanie appeared on the screen, with the flickering heartbeat going strong. I could just cry with relief while KK carried B to the screen and showed it to him. Of course, he had no idea, he was more interested in the toys. It was then, it really sunk in. We are pregnant.

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This is very likely going to be my last pregnancy, so I am going to make every effort to enjoy the entire journey as best as I could. Recording down every milestones, big or small, so that not only will I remember them, but they will serve as beautiful memories in years to come.

Next appointment: Oscar scan on Christmas Eve! See you then beanie. Mummy, Daddy and Kor Kor loves you!

The Reality

Now that the reality has sunk in, I am somewhat starting to feel the jitters all over again.

Until we see beanie's heartbeat on the screen, everything remains uncertain. So I'm trying to keep a positive mindset and channel all the positivity to beanie, we all know how hard he/she is working now.

Besides the fatigue, everything else is going great. I told DH I have a feeling this round I will have food cravings as compared to the last where my appetite weren't great and absolutely NO cravings. Maybe that was why I managed to only put on 8kg for the entire pregnancy. This time, I hope not to exceed 10kg through diet control and hopefully able to squeeze some exercise in.

As when I was expecting B, I had a lot of dreams. Sex dreams mainly. And also I kept dreaming I was smoking and inhaling deeply or finishing a cigarette before remembering I was pregnant. This bloody nightmare is back to haunt me again. I haven't had a cigarette in a real long time, so why this dream again?!

One more week to the doctor's appointment, see you then beanie!

Journey Ahead Part 2

This blog started when DH and I were planning to start a family. I wanted to jot down all the memories, including the agonising ones, on how we come about to the family we are today. Looking back, I have no one else to blame except myself. I just needed to be more aware of my cycle. But that said, had I not gone through that process, I wouldn't have understand my body better like I do now.

When we first found out I was expecting B, I hesitated on whether I should announce it on my blog after the first 12 weeks. You can read about it here. In the end I decided to go ahead with it as this was the place that I want to jot down the entire journey. So I went ahead and updated at about 6 weeks pregnant. Every post thereafter was mainly on the pregnancy updates, when the next doctor visit would be, what we saw during the visit and how we planned for his arrival. Oh boy, just the memories alone I will treasure so much.

We recently decided to start trying for baby #2 since it took us awhile to conceive B. And by trying, I mean no contraception. So you can imagine our surprise when we found out I was pregnant after the first cycle.

I wasn't sure what made me POAS but remember that day when I was exhausted? I found it a bit weird because when I was giving B a shower at 930am, I was so tired I could sleep in the bathroom. I went to bed at 830pm that evening not even welcoming DH home from his overseas trip.

Subsequently it was the frequent toilet visits and me not being able to finish my dinner that got me suspicious. When my period was a day late, I decided to test because it has always been on time and I didn't want to speculate, I had a ladies night planned this week. I didn't even need to wait for the results on the pee stick, it was immediately 2 lines and I started shaking and laughing because that was almost too good to be true. Made DH buy me a digital kit so I could test again.

So there you go, we're expecting baby #2. I know the journey ahead is going to be tough, but hopefully this time round, we are better prepared. I got all emotional thinking I wouldn't be able to focus all my attention on B when #2 comes along, but the consolation is he will have a playmate, and that's what we always wanted.

Beanie, daddy, mummy and kor kor look forward to welcoming you to our happy family.

The Journey Ahead

So many exciting things coming my way... bear with me while I get sorted and will share more as we move along.

For now, life is as good as it can get with an amazing 18-month toddler and a doting husband, both of whom are the loves of my life. Maybe the toddler more than the hubby :p

Be back with more updates soon.

SEA Aquarium - Sentosa

Taking B to the aquarium was one of the things I'd really wanted to do. When he was still crawling, we told ourselves once he could walk, we will bring him there.

When he did started walking, it was rather havoc, so we postponed it. Besides, we would never consider going there on weekends. Yesterday was great, because DH took the day off and we had nothing on our agenda, so we went there after lunch.

What a wonderful time we had there! B was so fascinated with all the underwater creatures and we spent a long time there. The best thing? Entire place was air-conditioned and very cooling compared to the outdoors. We parked at Vivocity and took a train over since B is into trains these days. We had such a great time and were worn out by the time we left, but oh so well worth it.