All set !!

Looks like our visit to the doc for a scan yesterday already got things going. "The baby's better off outside than inside at this stage" was the verdict judging from the progress of placental calcification. One last check around the house for baby-readyness and we're all packed. Yes it's a beautiful Sunday, and even the cot is all set up with Softy-pede and Magi-raffe anxiously awaiting their new mate.

Anytime now

Routine check, 3 weeks to actual due date.
It seems some "calcification" has started showing up in the placenta as seen in the scans. Doctor says, "Come back next week for another scan. If there's more, he'll have to come early... unless he already makes an early exit even before next Saturday's check. Here's the letter of admission just in case."

Oh! Panic! What to do? We'll have to start packing already! 

 

As big as it gets

3rd April 2010 (2nd month)

23rd July 2010 (5th month)

17th Oct 2010 (8th month)

We chose a backdrop that we thought would not change throughout our pregnancy but as it turns out, some furniture movement had already happened a week before the 3rd shot, so the corner stand and plants moved away from the wall corner slightly. To get a continuous comparison with the growing plant, we changed standing location by a few feet.

Baby delivery videos

 "Let's watch some videos of deliveries" she said as we were together on our bed, me applying oil on the stretched tummy skin. Just less than 2 months to go and only now we think of viewing deliveries together. I didn't think of it earlier either when I could have.

These days, it's as easy as reaching over to the iPhone, tapping on the YouTube icon and doing a search for "baby delivery". Not the biggest screen at home but at easy arms length, the iPhone screen is sufficient for streaming smooth and continuous videos over 3G.

Over a variety of videos, we watched the process of labour in final stages, baby's head popping out, turning, all the way to full delivery including placenta. Of course there were also those with episiotomies and a caesarean section. "Oooh the pain....." was a repeated mumble till we both fell asleep shortly after.

This one's the best, complete with soothing music, and the mother appears calm enough to pat her baby's head half way through too!

Yours and mine

What is it like for 2 classmates to get together and compare tummy bulges? Of course they had a lot more to chat about, show each other, and share, but being the first time they had gotten together in 6 months, it's time to compare the bulge!

Charlene is due early October, just over a month earlier than GF's mid November.

A much more forward positioned and sharper tummy compared to GF's rounder and wider shape

Early morning with confinement lady.

8.30am, Saturday morning. First meeting with our confinement lady from Ipoh. A friendly chat, light breakfast, and a long maternity shopping list together with a list of "do's and don'ts".

Langkawi !!!

Off we go... possibly the last fly-away holiday we'll be taking together for some time. We just got back from a trip to Langkawi this January with long lost colleagues of mine from Sweden and Malta. That was a blast. This time, a great value deal takes us back to our regular island... but for a quiet and peaceful escape in Burau Bay.