A new baby.....GIRL?

On a faithful Sunday, 18th September 2016 .... that's when I was tested positive for the 2nd time of my life with the pregnancy home tester.

And I'm wondering is there possibility to know the gender without going through the ultrasound test (which Lionel did when he was 3 months in the womb and we knew it was 99% a boy).

That's when I found out there is this thing called Chinese Gender Calendar, using the mother's lunar age and also the lunar month of conception.

Tried it on Lionel's information and it was definitely a BOY...so I thought okay...this is pretty fun so let's see if this baby would turn out to be another prince or a princess.

So....based on the calendar...for Lionel...my lunar age was 28 and was conceived in the lunar month of July....hence a boy.

Now...my lunar age is 30 and conceived in the lunar month of July also...and it's a girl. And it seems that for my age in these few years time, very high chance of getting a girl.

Let's see how true this would be ... heehee....and this baby's estimated due date is on Lionel's 3rd birthday which is on the 18th May 2017. How coincidence is that?!

Little Lionel turned 2!

Time flies and now I am already 2 years and 4 months old.

Haven't been seeing aunt Estee and uncle Rocky and Casey for a long time, so I am looking forward for aunt Estee and uncle Rocky's wedding reception on the 23rd October 2016! 

(Dang dang dang dang.....)

I know we are all very busy people....and I am also busy growing up!

Mommy would like to share with you a few of my milestones for the 1st - 2nd year:

• Sitting steadily - 6 months old
• Roll over - 9 months old
• Standing on my feet with support - 12 months old
• Walking independently - 18 months old
• Start talking words which mommy understands - from 2 years old

Some interesting facts about me:

• I am still enjoying my mommy's milk.
• My favourite foods are grapes, ice cream, chocolate and chicken rice (and RICE).
• I love pet animals like fish, tortoise, cat and dog (I frequently visit Joann "kai yee" at the pet shop where she works at and I play with the dogs and cats there).
• I sometimes follow mommy to Qdees school and see her teach Kinderbeat music.
• My most used word lately is "Don't want" and I use that a lot when mommy asked me to do something like taking bath, brushing my teeth, sitting on the potty and drink my water.
• I always ask mommy to read books and sing song for me.
• My favourite song is "We Are" by Kari Jobe. I always sing along in the car.
• My favourite shirt is the ones with "Car" and "Mickey Mouse" cartoon.
• My favourite toy is my small Red car.
• I love to go "kai kai" with mommy and daddy.
• I always ask mommy to bring me to buy bread after she finish teaching, WITHOUT fail (when I follow her to teach)
• My favourite books are "Maisy" by Lucy Cousins and "Humble Heart - a book of virtues" by Amy Meyer Allen.

Now...for a 2 years old who haven't been to school, I think I'm pretty smart. Heehee...

Baby Lionel's Arrival on 18.05.2014

Baby Lionel was born on the 18.05.2014 in the morning, 10 days before Bodoky's birthday.....though the year is way far apart...heehee! So, next year we all can celebrate 2 birthdays together. Yay!!

3 months old pregnant with Lionel

At the music centre - 17th May, 3:30pm

Lionel's estimated due date was 30th May and he is 2 weeks earlier than that date. Before Lionel was born, my water broke the day before at around 3:30pm while I was teaching at the music centre. It feels strange at first...the feeling of having the water flow down and I wasn't sure what it was until I went to the toilet to check. My whole panty was wet and I was wearing my maternity tights, so it helped me to absorb the initial flow of water.

I kept myself calm and called Keat to tell him about it....


Keat: Hello...

Me: Hi Nie....my water broke....

Keat: What water broke?

Me: Er...my water....just broke...

Keat: Oh...I call you back later.

Me: Oh.... *Confused for a while*


Well, after he called me back...he told me that I have to get to the hospital straight away from the music centre. There goes my ideal labor that I always imagine myself to be in...the labor where I can just stay at home and probably sleep, take my time to shower and eat something before my labor reaches the active stage before going to the hospital...it's all GONE!

While waiting for Keat to fetch me from the music centre..I had to stay in the toilet as my water kept leaking out by itself. It wasn't pain but it does freak me out as to whether it was okay that I'm losing THAT much water!

During my pregnancy, we had debates going on (I chose this word rather than 'quarrel') to decide on whether I will be delivering in a private hospital or government hospital. Well, I really thank God that I chose to obey Keat to deliver at the government hospital. You will know why soon.

At the hospital - 17th May, 5:30pm

At the hospital, I had to change to the hospital clothing (Sorry I didn't take any photo with it. I didn't look good in it anyway in a big sarong and big top) and given a checkup on baby's condition. The nightmare comes when the nurse uses her finger to poke me at the bottom to check how dilated I was...and I was only 1cm dilated...far beyond 10cm!!!!

Keat was waiting for me at the waiting hall...so I went out and told him the current situation and asked him to go home first as I don't think I will be delivering anytime soon.

I was given a temporary bed to rest and sleep after having a simple dinner at the pantry...there were some other expecting mothers there as well...but I couldn't sleep (who can sleep at this point of time??). I was given 3 antibiotic shots (2 hours once) because I was continuing to lose water and the baby might get infection because there's not enough fluid to protect him from bacteria.


At the hospital - 18th May, 3:00am

By 3am...I was called into another room. My nightmare continues when another nurse poke me to check how dilated I was again...I was still 1cm. There were a few nurses there and then I saw another nurse with a pill in her hand and she inserted into my vagina. That is the pill used to induce labor. I was sent back to my bed to rest. From that time onwards, I started having mild contractions until around 6am, the contractions grew stronger and unbearable.


At the hospital - 18th May, 6:00am

I was then sent to the delivery room and that was the start of experiencing great pain. I read before that induced labor pain is much greater than normal labor. However, this is my first delivery...so I couldn't compare the pain. The nurse poked me again in the delivery room and said...2cm. I was so disappointed...and kept praying to God to give me the strength. Then...a Chinese male doctor came into the delivery room. He wanted to poke me again to confirm my dilation....

I asked him if I could skip that part for a while, he told me that if I do not comply to what they need to do, they will not be responsible if anything bad happens later on. So, I let him poke me again....and it was SUPER pain as I think he forced-massaged my dilation to be bigger. After that, I was left to bear the contraction pains until around 7:30am.


At the hospital - 18th May, 7:30am

The doctor came back and told me that he's going to be very straightforward to me and say I only have two choices to choose from...and it's up to me to make. First, is to follow all his instructions and deliver the baby naturally...and second, to have a Caesarian. And if I chose to deliver naturally but I couldn't push the baby out in time, I will need to be sent for emergency Caesarian operation.

My heart sank when I hear his words, but I know that I really want to deliver naturally and do not want any operation. So...there goes the process of poking me again. The doctor forced-massage my dilation from 2cm to cm....4cm to 6cm...and by 8cm he asked me to start pushing. I'm still impressed on how he dilates me. Because as I heard from Joann's sister, she was also induced because her baby was overdue...but she was left to suffer the pain for hours and she said she even gripped her own hand into a fist until her palm was injured.


At the hospital - 18th May, 7:50am

 

The big clock is just right in front of me...so the time was very clear to me. When the doctor taught me how to 'bear down'. I didn't know what it means to 'bear down'...as I don't even attend any pre-natal classes or read about how to do normal delivery. I knew there were different positions to deliver the baby...but I didn't know how it is like at the real situation and how the doctor would want me to deliver it. I started pushing around 7:50am. Surprisingly, the pushing part is not painful...unlike all the previous pokings and all the contractions. I just follow the flow...to push when there's a contraction coming. Though it's not painful...the pushing surely takes a lot of energy out of me.


At the hospital - 18th May, 8:12am

And after 20 minutes of pushing...Lionel comes into this world and he was placed on my chest right away for the first time bonding. I couldn't see his face...only the top of his head, because he was placed horizontally against my body. So I just hold and touch him for the first time...I can feel him moving but he wasn't crying.

The stitches on my vagina was around 40 minutes...I didn't dare imagine how many stitches I had from that amount of time they take to stitch. I tried to focus on Lionel instead of the stitching process. And after the stitches were completed, Lionel was taken away from me to be cleaned and wrapped.

Oh...actually husbands were allowed in the delivery room in this hospital but only when the wife is 10cm dilated. Keat was waiting in the car at the hospital but the hospital didn't call him in until Lionel was out. I didn't mind as I think I could focus on the delivery process much better that way and I didn't want Keat to see how much in pain I was.

To the extend when I was discharged from the hospital that day, he even dare to ask me in the car, "When is our next baby?".

I asked him to skip that topic for now...

Back to when Lionel was just born, Keat got to see him "fresh" from being cleaned and wrapped. His eyes was wide open and he was looking at his papa for the first time....

....before closing his eyes.

Discharged from the hospital - 25th May

Lionel and me was in the hospital for a week before being discharged. This is because Lionel had to stay on to be monitored for jaundice as he was diagnosed with Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PD), which he doesn't have enough of this enzyme to protect his red blood cells. This deficiency is inherited and I didn't know I am the carrier until I have Lionel.

During my stay, Lionel had to be put under the phototreatment for 5 days to help reduce his jaundice level.

Hospital cost

For having to safely deliver Lionel in this hospital and having to stay for 1 week there with the phototreatment for Lionel, having the nurse to take bath for him every morning, the hospital bill came to RM34.00.

You can imagine how much we saved from the hospital cost!!! If it's for the private hospital...believe me if I say that it would easily reach RM10k.



Welcome to our world

Lionel is a gift from God and I am so happy and blessed to have him. I can see how Keat 'sayang' him so much...even kiss him more than his kiss me now.

It's fine with me because I 'sayang' Lionel too....

 

OF COURSE I DO!

 

 

And I can't wait to introduce all of you to him in person ....

 

 

 

End of 2011, Start of 2012

Some quotes on Love to start a new year of 2012.

Hx and Estee

Estee and Sylvia

Rocky and Casey

Hx, Sylvia and KP

Sylvia and Keat

Happy New Year!! :)

It's almost X'mas again

It's the happiest time of the year....

Coz it's school holiday for me...

And

Lots of decorations to see in shopping malls...


There's a big X'mas tree...

And a big snow man.....

At Sunway Pyramid. :D

Hehehee....

Actually we were there to watch Aladdin, the Musical Show.

The ticket.....

And Siu Mai mei mei actually got 2 free tickets to watch the show from blogging about this event. Actually, she was supposed to bring only 1 person to watch the show with her and that she thought she need not any tickets to enter. :P

This is Siu mai's younger sister...whom we call Ah B....

So as you can see...she brought 2 persons along with her to watch the show. Means 3 persons with only 2 tickets...so what do you think the outcome is? Hahaha...


When Siu Mai met her friends, she only found out that she needed a ticket to enter also.

Oh noo....

And I don't know it's a lucky thing or not...because when she was on the phone with one of her friend (who was supposed to come to attend the show as well) to ask him where is he...and at that moment, he met with an accident and ended up going to the police station to settle the issue. And because of that, he couldn't make it to the show...and thus, we have an extra tickets just enough for 3 of us to enter.




The spotlight on Aladdin...

The show was funny and nice. They not only sing Disney Aladdin songs, includes many songs from today's hits such as "I wanna be a billionaire", "Marry me", "Nobody", etc.



And I love the Genie the most cause he's so funny and good with his dance moves. :D

Birthday

It was my 26th birthday....finally belonging to the late 20s category. Hahaha...

My birthday this year was very simple...but it was okay. I wasn't expecting anything hoo haa anyway. Keat planned a birthday dinner with Francis and Evon at Paris Restaurant, SS2.


I have no idea what Keat was trying to do...

With Francis and Evon...



Seems like a must to do for the birthday person before cutting the cake....hehehe.


Thanks for everything and also the pressies....and the lovely cheese cake! I was so touched....



And the most expensive and unexpected birthday present I got this year is from my parents, which is an iPad2. It was a jaw dropping for me when I saw it....but i didn't take photo of it lar. :) Next time got chance you all can see it, though I hardly bring it out with me actually.

My Work

A little updates of my work, especially to Rocky. I don't know what he imagined me teaching when we met up for dinner on Saturday at 6to10. He forgotten what I'm teaching. Must whack Rocky's butt already...Estee help me with that. :P

I'm still teaching piano at Plug & Play music school at Subang on Wednesday nights, Thursdays nights and Saturdays whole day. And since September, I've been a relief music teacher in Tenby International School at Setia Eco Park, Shah Alam and they're taking me as a permanent music teacher from January onwards. It's a different environment altogether and different type of teaching approach (from 1 on 1 to 1 on 25 students). This job was introduced by my boss from P&P music school so I am very grateful to him for that.

The school has a big compound and has it's own indoor basketball court and swimming pool. They have different blocks for the Nursery & Early Years, International school classes and Private school classes (Sekolah Sri Tenby). The surrounding landscape is also nice because it's just next to the Eco Park. I've never been to anywhere around the area except going to the school. LOL...

So I'm currently working at 2 places now.


As for my Amway business, I have set my next target of 12% in the coming January. The highest so far I've achieved is 9%...and I have to set my next goal in order to have this breakthrough. YAYYY...so gambateh to me in finding potential partners to be in this network together and become successful together then go traveling together!

LTCL Graduation 2011

It's time to blog back...after so many months being MIA!!!

Although my graduation was in September and I'm 3 months due for this post...but better late than never. HEHEHE :P

My licentiate exam was in June this year and right after the exam in the morning, I fell sick. Hehe. I think that's very common for those who over stresses him or herself out before the exam. I didn't had a good sleep the night before the exam and screw up some parts during my playing. Thank God I still managed to do well in it overall although I was so worried and was telling Estee that I did badly. I was so nervous when the result came to the house and my heart was bik bok bik bok-ing so fast when I open my result slip.

Anyway, cut things short and talking about the day of my graduation with photos...

The graduation was held at Subang Grand Dorsett on the 16th September 2011.

First...must introduce my parents who flew down from Kuching for my graduation. A photo taken with my dad and my step mom...(my cousin said we all look alike in facebook...and I think it's a good thing) :D Anyway...I love my parents very much as I know and feel that they always do their best to provide whatever I need in my life and make sure I'm fine despite being far from them now. Can feel that they are "spoiling" me also by the things they do and all the gifts they've given me...but as long as I don't "spoil" myself and taking them for granted, it's still fine. :)



So far Estee met my dad before...and Rocky managed to met both my parents on my graduation. :D



Thank you, Rocky... for coming to my graduation. Although Estee and Casey couldn't make it...thank you for the graduation present. I love the Zee Avi's Ghostbird CD album...and my favorite song is the Bahasa Sarawak song..."Siboh Kitak Nangis". Our Bahasa Sarawak is a bit different from Bahasa Melayu. Siboh means Don't...Kitak means You...Nangis means Cry (same with Malay word). So the title is "Don't You Cry". It's a very comforting and relaxing song. Keat has been listening to this song over and over with me in the car for the few days after I got the CD while i set this song as Repeat. Hahaha...






Next, I have to extend my gratitude to my piano teacher, Sarah Yan...for her guidance and teachings on my piano skills in order for me to do well in my exam. My piano teacher teaches in Yamaha school too and I was recommended to go to her by her brother who worked together with me in Talent Makers at SS2, the first music school I worked with.




Keat shared my happiness on that day. He's so happy that I finally finished my exam and graduated because he'd been telling me that my stress level was influencing him as well. :P


And this is our Siu Mai...

Too bad this siu mai cannot be eaten....but this siu mai need to be sayang by us. Hehehe. Thanks to her for taking all the photos on that day!

Keat wants to show his talent with the scroll...

Hik hiakk....watchaaaa...Haaaiikkk....

Finally

Finally....a karaoke where 4 Bodos get together after a long time :D


Rocky referring to his pin yin lyrics collection for chinese songs...


Introducing Rocky and Estee's baby Poochie

Miss Bulat....

with me and Little Poochie :D

So happy to be able to spend time with you all again... *muah muahh*