Friday, April 23, 2010

Kai Ning's Day 1- 8 Photos

Day 1
Picture taken by the anesthetist Dr. Loo


Eh? I thought the birth weight is supposed to be 2.59KG?


2.59KG . 07.32AM . 46cm long . 14/04/2010.

Look at the proud and happy Jie Jie :)


Jie Jie is not shushing Mei Mei to stop crying.
She's asking the visitors to be quiet.
There were many people in the room. Uncle Edward's family, Grandpa, Grandma, Aunty Erny & Jared, Yi Ma and Ah Ma, Por Por, Pa Pa and Mummy.

It's Xin Yi Jie Jie's birthday too! She's our second visitor, after Pastor Kee Oon.

Grand Uncle Edward

Grand Aunty Annabel

Aunty Bri Bri

Yi Ma

Day 2
Mummy with her 2 darlings


Pa Pa and Mummy always forgets to take photos of the room before they mess everything.... It's the Thomson Medical Centre's Premier Single Room (actually used to be Premier 2-Bedded Room)

Comes with a small kitchenette area

Day 3
Jiu Jiu and Kim Kim

Day 7
Lying on our new L-Shape sofa











Kai Ning's first tummy time. Do you know that babies can crawl?
But she didn't really crawl much that day. And shouldn't have the cloth cos won't have enough friction. Mummy removed it later.

Day 8

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Kai Ning is born!

My mei mei was born on 14th April 2010 (Wed) at 7.32am. 2.59KG. 46cm long. At Thomson Medical Centre.  Dr. Lawrence Ang. Paediatrician is Dr. Ong Eng Keow (though he was off on the day she was born). Room 523.

Mummy and Papa checked into the hospital at about 11pm on 13th April 2010 because Dr. Ang said that it would cost the same whether they checked in at 6am on the 14th or anytime after 11pm the previous night. So, they decided to enjoy the room a little longer.

They wanted to stay in a standard single room but Dr. Ang's nurse didn't change the booking to single bedded room cos Dr. Ang always automatically book 4-bedded room, which will be auto- upgraded to 2-bedded room. His patients will still pay for only 4-bedded. But Mummy wants Papa to stay with her so only one-bedded rooms allow that. Anyway, there were no more standard single-bedded rooms that night and so they stayed in a Premier Single Bedded Room, which is $158 plus GST more per night. Of course they might have chosen to change the room on the second day if there are available standard single but Papa decided to pamper Mummy by staying in the existing room.

God blessed them with a 2- bedded Premier room which has 2 flatscreen TVs and Papa gets the same bed as Mummy (as opposed to sleeping on a couch with a study table in a normal Single Room). And there is a touch-screen terminal which has free internet access (though the touch screen quite irritating cos not very accurate), and a small kitchen top area which just has a kettle and free coffee/tea/milo thingy. And of course the decor is nicer I suppose... Otherwise, the size of the room is about the same as the Standard Single.

Mummy was so excited she couldn't really sleep. Went to bed around 1am, woke up at 5.15am cos at 5.30am the nurse was coming to make Mummy poo. But Mummy woke up so many times during the night. Anyway, before the surgery started, Mummy's blood pressure was really high at about 158, which is not normal for Mummy cos Mummy's blood pressure is usually ok. It continues to remain quite high from then on.

Things happen fast for a C-Sect operation. Mummy was wheeled to wait outside the operating theatre at about 7am. Then wheeled in at about 7.10am to be anesthetized at the spine and insert the urine catheter. The anesthetist asked Mummy if she was nervous and she said yes. So Dr. Loo gave her the gas to relax her while he injected about 4 times in her spine. Man, did she become high and drowsy after that. After than things happened quite fast. Dr. Ang came in and very soon he started to cut Mummy up and at 7.32am, Mei Mei was pulled out! Mummy didn't feel as much tugging this time round.

Papa said that Mei Mei cried more than me, and like me, the voice was so muted. I think cos there were lots of things stuck in her throat. She is so much smaller than me! Cute also lah. :)

Mummy was very drowsy the whole day and the whole body was itching like mad. Probably reacting to the anesthetics or IVF or the gas. She felt much better after they got rid of the IVF the following morning.

Mummy and Papa like having the operation so early because Papa was awake the whole day to help Mummy and they were able to rest before visitors arrived earliest by Pastor Kee Oon at 3.30pm, Xin Yi later, and the rest coming in from 5 - 8pm plus. 

I reacted well to Mei Mei. It was evident that I love Mei Mei cos I loved to carry her and sayang her, and kissed her. And shushed others to be quiet so that Mei Mei won't be frightened. I even knew how to push Mei Mei's hand away from her nose so that Mei Mei didn't suffocate herself. I think Mei Mei is very cute. I also didn't want others to carry her cos I wanted to carry her all the time.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Mei Mei is coming soon!

Hi! Mei mei is coming out on 14th April 2010 (Wed) in the morning between 6 - 8am at Thomson Medical Centre! I'm not that excited to see her actually.... I'm more excited to see the present that she will give me :).

Mei mei will be coming into the world the same way as me (c-sect with epidural - means Mama will be awake during the operation) because she's as clever as me. Doesn't want to be upside down. isn't it better to kiao kah and be upright?

Currently, Mei mei's name is most likely Lee Kai Ning but many (as in many) have difficulty hearing the Ning and poor Mama has to repeat so many times before people can hear her name, especially at noisy Causeway Point....