3 weeks old

As of today, Jod's officially 3 weeks old. Gosh, time does fly when you're having fun doesn't it?

Milestones a plenty at this point in time.

For starters, Jod's finding her personality right now. Habits are also starting to develop with her. When the girl wants her milk, she wants it now. Not later, it has to be now. If the milk is not to her liking.. it takes a bloody hour to feed her. With this girl, I never know when she's had enough. She seems to be feeding all the time. Not that I'm complaining. She's on a gain weight mission as ordered by the Doctor so I'm letting her feed all she wants.

Jod likes to be walked. By walking I mean she likes to be carried and walked around the house so she can check out the scene. This is going to be one party animal in the making.

When milking her cow of a mummy, she likes to kiao kah (curl her legs), she has to be a 45 degree angle from the boob. No more and no less. Just 45 degree please. You don't tell her she's done. She tells you when she's done.

She doesn't sleep at night, she just wants to milk her cow. When preparing her for a bath, she only likes water to be splashed on her, she doesn't like to be cleaned with a cloth.

She has this silly smile when she tries to fall asleep which is damn cute cos she shows off her one sided dimple.

All in all, this is one cute calf in the making. =)

Birth story

So here it goes, Jodie's birth story.



It all started when we checked in at 12 midnight into Raffles Hospital. Shortly after, the nurse started to induce the labour and this was the beginning of my 14 hour labour before the birth of my first born.

After the inducing, there was generally nothing to do but get some sleep. To me it was tough was the mild contractions were coming in gently and surely. Then... there was hubby's snoring which generally kept me awake quite abit. Surviving on very little snooze, 6 am quickly approached and the nurse woke me up for breakfast and at that time I think I was 2 cm dilated.

At about 7am or so, Dr Goh came in to break my water bag. When she did the check, my waterbag had already broke by itself. So it was all that jabbing around for nothing. Ouch. By then, the contractions were coming in stronger and the nurses were telling me that I should make up my mind when I wanted to do the epidural. I was generally expecting a pretty long labour and the contraction pains was starting to get to me. After 30 mins, I gave up. The pain was driving me crazy. That's when I asked for the epidural.

When they gave me my epidural, it was pure relieve as I started to feel all numb in my legs. I kept wiggling my toes just to make sure that my legs were still there. I was glad that I made the decision to get epidural as it really made me feel more comfortable during the labour.

Doc Goh had predicted a noon delivery and I honestly thought that we could get it done by lunch time. Woohoo! Talk about efficiency. Then she said, my dear, noon came be late noon you know! Oh drats.

As we progressed to lunch, I still wasn't very dilated. I got bored. TV wasn't entertaining me enough. At about 2 pm, I was all alone in the room and then I felt it. Jodie's head was starting to poke through. Okay. I thought to myself. I don't know what this means but I think I'd better call for help.

When the nurse came in, she did some checks and I asked if I should hold or something cause I wasn't able to stop her come proding any longer. The nurse wanted me to hold as Dr Goh was suppose to be with another patient who was delivering before me. The good nurse left me alone to "hold" the baby which I had no idea how to.

5 minutes later, she came in and asked me to practise to push. I had question marks all over my face. She looked at me and said ok I'll guide you. The next thing I knew, the nurses comes in to prepare for delivery, I was calling the hubby to come back into the room and then Doc Goh walts in and puts on her gear and preps me for delivery.

With the epidural, I couldn't feel a thing when the contractions came in. We had to depend on the monitor to tell when it was coming and I was ordered to push was if I was having the hell biggest poop of my life.

It took about 5 contractions of pushing with 2 nurses at each side to help move the baby in the tummy to deliver the baby. Poop! and Jodie was out! Woohoo! That's when I heard her first cry and held her in my arms for the first time. Oh my goodness. During this time, Doc Goh gets hubby to cut her umbilical cord. I must say I'm proud of hubby. He did not faint and it actually cut the cord.

So they then cleaned her up and weight her and all. She's was weighing only 2.45kg when she popped. We were expecting her to be heavier but what the hell. Oh, by the way, did I also mention that she's half a metre long in length?

About the moo

It's been a long and tiring journey these past 9 months and in a matter of days, we welcome the arrival of our little precious one.

We had our doctor appointment last saturday and were met with not so good news. The doctor did a scan and proclaim that our darling is doing fine. Then as she scanned on.. she discovered that I'm low on amnotic fluid. That was some cause for concern. So I'm on strict orders to drink up and get my amnotic fluid back on track otherwise, we would have to induce the princess on tue. I was pretty unsettled when she informed us on the plans. When she asked if I had any questions, I was so disturbed that I didn't have any questions in my mind. But hubby, bless my sweet sweet hubby kept everything on track and asked the right questions.

So tomorrow is the next check up and I've been diligently drinking up. Now I feel like a water buffalo now. I hope there's enough liquid in the belly now. I do feel the moo doing her water ballet stunt these 2 days.

*cross fingers that all is well*

It amazing how we've all survived the past nine months of my pregnancy as a couple. There was so many sacrifies that he made for the baby and so much temper control I had to do. I've still got so much growning up to do and the baby will be arriving soon. Do I have enough time?


At the most recent checkup, the moo was 2.9kg and busy playing with her fingers. *heart melts* Let's see how big she grows in just 3 days. But in the meantime, it's bed rest for me. My back hurts like hell.