How the LNY Has Changed

I used to love it.

Now I absolutely hate it.

But much as I hate it, an episode of it this year has enlightened me on who was the more important party in someone's life. And it is contrary to the verbal acknowledgement when asked.

Ooh. How I hate liars

One Month

Kaitlyn celebrated her first month today.

Which means the end of my confinement. Which also means the end of help from the confinement lady. Which translates to waking up every 3 hours in the wee hours of the morning to feed, burp, change diapers and rock Kaitlyn to sleep.

I think I will be zombified.

Well, like my last confinement and contrary to what many say, the confinement month really isn't all that bad. I liked the longan-date drink, and the food can be really quite yummy. And of course, the help rendered by the nanny, Siew Hoon.


If anyone needs a confinement lady, you can consider this one. Food's not too bad and she's pretty good with the baby. She can be reached at 84203549/60163760125.

Baby Kaitlyn

So on 17th Dec, I went for my weekly check up. I was 39 weeks and 2 days pregnant. Upon doing the usual urine test, I noticed some pinkish spots. I mentioned it to the gynae, and she said, "Ok, let's see if you are in labour." So she did the usual VE (which I totally hate) and after prodding for about half a minute, exclaimed, "Oh, she's in labour. 2 cm." And the next thing I knew, I felt water tricking down my legs. She had burst my waterbag. Next thing I knew, I was on my first wheelchair ride to the labour and delivery room. Then the usual shaving, enema, passing motion and changing into the hospital garb. Only this time, I had to do all these while dripping with water.

"Can I get an epidural now?" I asked. The nurses got my requested anaesthetist and she came down within half and hour. The pain was still very much bearable.

"Painful or not ah?" I asked. "The last time, the contractions were so bad I couldn't feel the epidural being administered."

"If I tell you it's not painful, I will be bluffing la." the very motherly doctor replied.

It was quite painful la, but nothing compared to the contractions though. And then Ron and I started our wait for our second born.

"The second time round, it will be faster and easier. Don't worry." That's the typical reply I get from people when addressing my fears of labour pains and the aftermath.

My second time round took five hours (the first was four and a half).

My epidural this time somehow did not fully work on the right side (the first time it worked fully on both sides).

The second time round, I started crying 4 hours into labour and needed the gas as additional painkiller. "You don't cry la. Wait you cry you cannot breathe, cannot push how? the nurse asked. " I check how come so painful ok". She checks and then says, "Oh! No wonder la! 8 cm already!"

Then another nurse comes in and says, "You want to try to push? What for you breathe and breathe gas. Just push and get baby out la."

"I cannot push la. I can feel on the right side you know. Wait pain." I said

"No la. Now I press like that not pain right? That means not pain la." she said

"Then I push wait Dr Tan come and sew I can feel also cos I can feel on the right side!" I said

"No, not pain la." she said.

Tsk. How can be not pain????

In any case, Dr Tan came in not soon after and baby was out at 315pm.

So here's the latest addition to our family, Baby Kaitlyn.

Where's Mary Poppins??

When Kieran plays, this is the kind of mess he is capable of.

And then I wish we had Mary Poppins' capability of putting everything all back in place with just the snap of her fingers.

Looking for Who, What??

When my husband realised (through a conversation with a client who drives the same car as my parents) that there was a technical problem with a certain batch of cars, he immediately called the motor company to clarify. Not that our car was in the same defected batch, but we had encountered similar problems that sounded alarm bells. In any case, the salesperson who had sold us the car was most unhelpful (I hate salespeople who have no aftersales service and avoid problem calls). I so regret recommending a friend to purchase her car from this particular person.

Anyway, after being routed from one department to another, RT finally got help from this ang mo named Matthias. So Matthias expedited our case after saying that, yes, it posed a safety problem (which everyone else did not admit) and scheduled for a check the very next morning.

Ok, this is really the reason for this post:

RT went into the motor company and told the receptionist that he was looking for Matthias.

She said "ok" and took him around the office, asking people (what RT thought) where Matthias could be found. After walking around a fair bit, she turned to my husband and said, "Sir, if you want to change your tyres, you will still need to talk to a sales person." To which RT said, " I am looking for MR MATTHIAS, not MY TYRES!""Ohhhhhh!" came the reply. (I bet she must have felt so stupid)

When RT related this to me, I couldn't stop laughing and asked him, "You didn't laugh ah?"

"So angry already how to laugh!" was his reply.

So funny how can don't laugh? Each time I think of it, I break out into laughter leh!

A Bedful of...

....everything a 15 month old can fill it with.

Kieran's not been feeling well recently, so he has been sleeping on our bed with us. (Actually sometimes Daddy sleeps on Kieran's bed).

Anyway, our bed is now infused with milk, medicince, urine and mucus. I have decided to leave it be and just sun the mattress protector the next time the sun is out in full force.

Once you have kids, I think you learn to live with such things.

My husband is going to have to start learning to live with shoe prints, food crumbs and other stains in his car soon. Right now, his car is in tip top clean condition. (it's a guy thing is it ah?). When he is away on work trips and the car is at my disposal, I get chided for the bird poop on the car and the leaves that i bring into the mat on the car!

We'll see what happens in a few weeks when number 2 comes along.

34th Week Update

Just had my 34 week update today.

I've put on 300g in 2 weeks, but someone has outdone me! The baby has put on 500g and now weighs 2.3kg, The last check 2 weeks ago, she was 1.88kg. I did a check and kieran was about the same weight at the same time. But this one is girl you know, how come so big?

Anyway, the blood test results for Protein S is low, so I'm likely to have to start jabbing again at 36 weeks. Am so NOT looking forward to that.