Sixth checkup - 8th Sep 2007

This is part of our regular monthly checkup & also to see how big our baby Adelle has grown...

Dr Adrian told us that the results of detailed scan aka FA test results show baby Adelle is healthy and normal. Thank God for His blessings and protection on our little baby. :-)

The estimated weight based on the measurements is 521gram for 21+ weeks. Wow baby adelle put on 160+grams within a week. Yeah... finally mummy can see that baby is taking some weight in her else will feel guilty for putting on 12-14kg to date... ha! :-p

Okie, here is baby Adelle picture. She is in a comfortable position which is said that baby at this week is developing his/her sleeping pattern. Read http://www.3dpregnancy.com/calendar/21-weeks-pregnant.html for more details. I noticed that she likes to lie on her back & put her hand on top of her face. See the picture below :

My Baby Name - Adelle 梁恩琪 Nice? :-)

Mummy Debbie & Daddy Airrence are very excited after knowing our bb is a girl & wanted to share with everyone that our baby girl name will be named as Adelle Neo. The meaning of Adelle is noble & also known as Woman of Esteem from the keychain that we saw in Life Bookshop. See http://www.babynamesworld.com/meaning_of_Adelle.html.

Her chinese name still haven't decided yet coz initially wanted 诗恩 but get to know friends have that name(sounds alike) so we are thinking of 恩琪 where 恩 = kind & 琪 = angel.

We pray that bb will grow up to be a noble, kind & like an angel loh... Very got "ink" rite! ha.....

Detail scan @ 20th week - 31st Aug

Finally the "truth" is out!

Well, we've been waiting to know whether bb is boy or girl so that we can start to buy some nice clothes for bb. During the recent taka fair, i bought 2 pcs of 3-6mth romper which cost only 2 for $6. But becoz we dunno bb boy or girl so we bought colors like white with green trim with printed text- "I love my mummy" & white with blue trim with printed text "Daddy little helper". Besides that, we also bought Pigeon sterilizer that comes with lotsa goodie like food/milk warmer, new born starter kit that comes with 3 milk bottles & brush & pacifier & extra milk bottles. We also bought a green & yellow bear bed sheet & bb cot bumper set coz Airrence brother is passing us the baby cot so we just buy the new bedsheet, pillow, 2 booster & bumper set & save some $$. His brother also passed us the playpen too. Haven't go thr my checklist of things to buy yet. Once i have done that, i will list out what are the outstanding stuffs that i would like to receive as gifts... hehehee.... :-p

Okie back to the "truth". We brought forward our detailed scan date & although our appt not updated in the appt record but we only waited 30mins this time as compared to 3hrs previously. The first question we asked was "Is bb a boy or girl?" So the sonographer try to check but bb still remain shy as usual & the legs are either closed or cross regardless how hard the sonographer tried to "shake" bb. Hence, the sonographer decided to scan from the butt. Well.... the result is ...... GIRL!!! ;-) Daddy Airrence is very happy loh coz he love girl mah! Mummy Debbie is also happy coz it has confirmed the bb girl that mummy dreamt of 3-4 mths back & now can buy more pink stuffs loh.... hehehee... We dont have the scan results detailed yet but generally, we are told that bb is healthy & everything is normal. The estimated weight based on the measurements is 359gram for 20 weeks. We also saw the eyes, nose, mouth, heart flow, brain of bb. The most interesting part was bb was doing crossing her hands up & down like dancing loh... quite funny sight! So i think bb is a potential dancing queen when she grow up!

After the checkup, we went shopping. Daddy drove to Kaki Bukit area coz mummy was recommended by forum mummies that there are Baby Hyperstore & Baby Kingdom selling cheaper prams & baby stuff. We found the place & the price was quite ok or similar to those that selling at Taka fair. Mummy was eyeing on the pooh bear clothes which cost 3 for $10 but couldnt decide which color to buy so didnt buy. We looked around & was recommended by a shopper to buy Pre perego pram but we didnt buy yet coz still have time to shop around. Bascially, there are few good brand for pram - Pre perego, Capella(From Korea), Combi & Maclaren..

Our next shopping stop was Giant Tampines. Mummy saw a pink princess romper for new born so bought it & some more it's cheap - $2.90 leh!! hehee... Then mummy also chose a pack of 3 socks - 2 pink & 1 blue which cost $4.90. So hopefully the size is ok & bb can wear on the full month party or during cny! :-)

Baby first movement - 30th Aug 2007

Yeah... finally after 20 weeks, i experience my baby movement.... it was a kind of bubbling effect but can tell that it is not stomach flu but it's my beloved bb who is having fun loh...
Anyway, it was kind of interesting & when hubby put his face on my tummy, he said he felt "slap" by bb. hahaha... :p So our bb very mischevious hor... Going for detailed scan on 31st Aug & will know bb gender liao!

Airrence birthday - 28th July 2008

A month overdue blog about hubby birthday... hehehe... :p Coz life has been busy eversince i'm at 2nd trimester... now full of energy & can go shopping shopping & more shopping!!

Okie back to the topic of hubby birthday. We started celebrating on 27th July(fri) coz hubby's colleague wedding on 28th July so has to advance celebrate. Secretly, i booked My Secret Garden(http://www.mysg.com.sg/) for a candle-light dinner at 7pm but hubby was busy at work so we only managed to reach the restaurant at 8pm.

When we reached there, we were brought to a corner and instead of taking the "secret" menu which the restaurant manager told me during my reservation, i decided to go for ala-carte menu cause it much more worth the value & bascially the food in "secret" menu are all from the ala-carte menu. We ordered Calamari rings for starter, lobster bisque soup, roasted chicken & beef tenderloin for main course & dessert which is also Airrence first birthday cake - "sin in love", chocolate brownie with ice cream . Yummy!! The food taste good & we had a great time having a romantic dinner eversince valentine day. :)

Whats make the dinner memorable was there is a singer+guitarist who go around the indoor table & sing songs for you. I requested for Happy Birthday song & the singer also offer Airrence a song request & he sang another english song which i cannot recall what's the song title. We love the songs & enjoying ourselves that nite.

Next day, we went to Airrence colleague wedding. I secretly ordered a birthday cake on friday evening & intended to surprise Airrence on his actual day birthday so that we can also celebrate with his colleagues. Well, my plot fail to succeed coz after much tots, i told him that i need to go CK Tang to get something before heading to Regent & he smells a rat!! Hehee... So bopian, he saw the cake & we did celebrate with his colleagues. A week later, we celebrated Airrence birthday but this time with our cell group friends.

Fifth checkup - 10th Aug 2007

This visit was super packed @ clinic coz many mtbs took leave as the day before(9th Aug) is National day. We decided to save up our annual leave so only reached the clinic at 6.30pm & waited for 1 hr b4 seeing gynae at 7.45pm. We are looking forward to see how much bb has grown and gynae did a u/s scan. We can see that bb has indeed grown big liao... now 17 weeks old but hor, still cannot see whether bb is boy or girl leh... coz gynae say the legs are closed so can't tell. So we concluded that bb is shy shy loh like daddy..... hahahaa.... :-p
U can see bb backbone very clearly from the u/s scan pic.

Fourth checkup - 21 Jul 2007

To our surprise, our fourth visit was relatively fast as we reaches at 1.30pm & left the clinic at 2pm including 15mins of wandering around in Compasspoint point. BB is now 14 wk old, measuring 7.3cm and can see him/her more clearly already. Do you think bb look like Debbie or Airrence? You can see the head is at right side of pic. We also tried to ask gynae what is the gender of bb but couldn't tell coz still can't see much details for that. So we have to wait patiently for our next appt on 10th Aug then we can start to think so nice names... hehehee.... :-)

07/07/07 - NT scan

During Debbie last visit, Dr told Debbie that there is a test for down sydrome call NT (Nuchal Translucency) test($95+GST). This test need is to give the parents an estimation of whether bb belong to high risk or low risk group of having DS. You need to take the test within 11-14 wks of pregnancy. More info abt NT scan here - http://www.babycentre.co.uk/pregnancy/antenatalhealth/scans/nuchalscan/

Since last week(29th june) is 11wks so Dr has given Debbie a deadline to go for the test b4 10th July. As usual, we usually will schedule any bb related appt on sat so we went on 7th July '07 - 777. What a day right? Anyway, because we couldn't make any pre-appointments so we ended up as walk-in & reach TMC @9am. The stupid TMC made us waited for 1 hr but still didnt get to go in for the scan thus Debbie got irritated & complaint to the person-in-charge why we have to wait so long & their replied is they have to let the appointment patient to go first. In the end, they told us to come back at 11am. It was drizzling @ TMC and we went for our breakfast at a nearby coffee shop & had several nice curry puffs!! Yummy... better than Old Chang Kee! :-)

We returned to the clinic at 11.30am but still have to wait till 12pm then we get to go into the room. The sonographer was young & friendly. She showed us a detailed look of bb & guess what, our cute little bb was busy swimming inside Debbie and showing us a high 5, waving at us & sucking thumb. ;) Funny rite!! It was really interesting to see bb enjoying & having fun inside the womb. We also saw bb nose, 2 hands & 5 fingers on each & of coz the cute legs. As bb was busy having fun inside, sonographer had a tough time to take the measurement so she started to tell bb to stop moving. Mama Debbie also tell our bb to b good & listen & to our surprise, bb stop & remain in a perfect position. After much attempts, the sonographer finally get to take 5 measurements and get her senior to check the results.

When the senior came in, bb was again moving all over and the lady has to "threaten" bb again & this time is "bb, if u dont behave, u will not go home today huh..." Well, it works & the senior sonographer took another measurement to confirm the past few that was taken. With the 6 measurements, they conclude that the thickness is 1.8mm and we are allowed to go home. Debbie causually asked if we can know the results & they confirmed that bb is safe from the risk.

Within the same week, gynae clinic called & told us that they have received the report & everything is normal. Here are the results :

EDD(est due date) : 14th Jan 2008
Fetal heart action positive.
Crown-rump length (CRL) : 65mm
Biparietal diameter (BPD) : 22.2mm
Femur length (FL) : 9.4mm
Nuchal Translucency : 1.8mm

Estimate risk at 10-14 wks gestation based on maternal age
Background risk for Trisomy 21 - 1:556
Adjusted risk for Trisomy 21 - 1:2402

Background risk for Trisomy 13/18 - 1:1022
Adjusted risk for Trisomy 21 - 1:7940

* A risk cut-off of >=1:300 is used to determine a pregnancy at high risk of trisomy 21.

Praise the lord that the results is ok & we are glad to see our bb in so much details. Really brought lotsa joy to us! :-)

Third checkup - 29th June 2007

Third visit was on a friday than the usual saturday afternoon because Daddy Airrence has went to Dubai for work assignment. Poor Debbie has to take a 1hr bus journey to SengKang to bring bb to see Dr. It was a sad day becoz Debbie has craving for Hokkien fried noodle but couldnt find any stall & ended up eating instant noodle...sigh... :-(

Well the checkup was pretty fast as bb is growing fine & just a routine check to ensure bb is ok. During the visit, Debbie complained abt the pain on her left stomach asking Dr what is the problem... Dr gave some gastric syrup & medicine for Debbie & again, it's free! Imagine if we were to see other Dr, i think will cost us a bomb!

BB pic as follow but u can't tell much difference from the previous one except that bb has grown to 4.29cm at 11 wks old.

Second checkup - 16th June 2007

Forgotton to mentioned in my previous thread that Dr gave Debbie folic acid and prenatal vit to eat daily. The greatest nightmare was the prenatal vit! It was really huge but no choice have to eat becoz of our dearest little one. ;-) BB, if u reading this one of these days, please appreciate how great is ur mummy!! hehehee.. :-p

On second visit, it was more fruitful as bb is 9 wks old and can see the shape is forming and also the heartbeat! It was so amazing to see bb has grown to 2.59cm from an egg sac of 0.93cm. Btw, u know why bb has grown so fast because Debbie has been diligently drinking enfamama milk for pregnant woman daily. Having said that, Debbie has put on tremedous weight too! Shall not talk about weight in this track... hehe... There is such increase of huge appetitie, for eg the day start off with breakfast, lunch, tea break & dinner! Debbie seems to be always hungry and good appetite. However, Debbie also puke @ one morning with water... well that is call morning sickness and thank god it only happened once! :-)

During the visit, Debbie also having kind of blocked nose & Dr has gave her some flu tablets & also the vomit pills to control if she still feel like puking... Everything FOC coz it's inside the package price loh! haa....

Okie here is our lovely bb pic. Left is the head & right is the butt.