Had my checkup with Dr. Ang on Friday.. I informed him about my fall on last Sunday, he was like, 'it's ok.. it's ok.. it won't affect the baby.." =.=" He said we are going to talk about Labour this time round, but his 'talk' is so brief.. Basically, using 1 min to talk about the signs of labour, (which all this i already know), and the next one min talking about ways of handling labour pain (which is more to trying to scare me out of using epidural.. but the fact is, i don't plan to use coz the side effect is scary)..
and he said, its unlikely for me to avoid an episiotomy as its my first baby, and he said, "Imagine a football coming out of your vagina" =( ok... and i was told to now go back, and start thinking of the pain everyday.. =.="" so i told him, "i have been doing that, and its freaking me out already.." hahahaha.. Anyway, lil'Darrielle is now 1.48kg, and Dr. Ang tried to do the 3D scan yesterday.. Not really clear as she is covering part of her face.. Can only see her lips and nose and abit of eyes... Her head is down turning down already, now on my right side near my hip.. Juz hope she keep turning the right way, and not over turn.. haha..
and oh! My cousin-in-law who is living in Penang, Butterworth has popped on Saturday around 1am.. It's a baby boy weighting 3.6kg.. According to my auntie, my cousin-in-law was having contraction pains for the whole Friday already.. But no water break, no mucus plug, so my cousin-in-law thought its just a bout of bad Braxton Hicks.. Until on Friday night, when she is even losing her appetite for dinner, my auntie felt that something is not right, and faster usher my cousin to sent my cousin-in-law to the hospital.. They arrived at the hospital at around 10pm, and baby is out by 1am.. Lucky her.. 3 hours is short.. I definitely won't hope for mine to be a long one.. *Crossing the fingers and toes* They say this baby boy looks like my cousin.. Aww.. means he is a handsome little boy.. I won't get the chance to meet them yet.. Not until Darrielle is around 4-5 months old as i had already booked the air ticket back to Penang in the Sep 08.. :D
So looking forward to that holiday.. I miss Penang..
.Big Girl -> Amulet
.18 Oct
.Likes. Reading, Cooking,Movies, Singing & Arts
.Munch. Salmon sashimi, Chinese Raw Fish, 可爱鸡
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.
In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition;
but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
-- Joseph Addison
.Little Girl -> Darrielle
.25 Mar
.Birth Weight. 3.51KGs
.Total Breastfed for 14months
.Partial Breastfed till 22months
.Likes. Book Reading with Mommy, Play, Swimming, Singing, Dancing
.Munch. Cold stuffs, Salmon sashimi, Tibits
What I wanted most for my daughter was that she be able to soar confidently in her own sky, whatever that may be.
-- Helen Claes
Pregnancy
.June 2007 - Mar 2008
.OB. Lawrence Ang
.Very mild morning sickness
.Always sleepy
.Colostrum at 23 weeks
.Fell down at 29 weeks
.My Birth Story .Special thanks to Shirley and my mum who tried to accompany me to all ante-natal checkups, especially Shirley who stayed overnight in TMC to keep my mum and me accompanied.
.Matured milk comes in on Day5
.Faced Nipple Confusion on Day4 - Day5
.Nipples bruised and sore from Day3 - Day5
.Nipples cracked and bled from Day5 - Day10
.Taught to apply fresh BM and nipple cream after each feedings
.Nipples start to heal from Day 11 onwards
.Fed every 2hrly at night for 1st month
.Fed every 3hrly at night for 2nd & 3rd month
.Fed every 4hrly at night from 4th month onwards
"When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form."
----- Christine Northrup M.D.
If a multinational company developed a product that was a nutritionally balanced and delicious food, a wonder drug that both prevented and treated disease, cost almost nothing to produce and could be delivered in quantities controlled by the consumers' needs, the very announcement of their find would send their shares rocketing to the top of the stock market. The scientists who developed the product would win prizes and the wealth and influence of everyone involved would increase dramatically. Women have been producing such a miraculous substance, breastmilk, since the beginning of human existence. ----- Gabrielle Palmer
