From Soon-to-be to Now Mrs. Keir Blog

and so as predicted by our gynae, Dr James Lee where i will probably give birth by the weekend, Sticky Bean chose to arrive on 27th September 2013, Friday, prematurely at 34 weeks. (read about my admission to Mt A the week before)   premature baby at 34 weeks As i was already admitted to Mount Alvernia on Monday which i truly appreciate now given the panic and sense of loss when my water bag burst, seriously i can't imagine if i'm at home and i kept leaking water like that, how am i supposed to get to the hospital without looking as though i'm wetting my pants or wetting anyone's transport. The Bursting of the Water Bag  premature baby at 34 weeks It all happened at 3pm when i was prepared to take a nice, warm shower after my pee. When i was about to pee, i felt a "pop" sensation and a gush of water together with my pee. Was thinking something is not very right as the water is still gushing out like pee but i've finished peeing. Ok this is disgusti...

Haven't been updating for quite a while, well this was what happened, I was actually admitted to Mt Alvernia at 33 weeks, sometime around 23rd September and eventually gave birth prematurely at 34 weeks when sticky bean a.k.a Ashlene is supposed to arrive during 37 weeks will be updating the birth story and ashlene soon. Baby ashlene is now coming to 3 weeks old! These were the last few shots of my preggie tummy at 32 weeks before i pop so suddenly, haven't even got to taking more shots and a friend of ours is supposed to help take some maternity shots.. The story ok so it all started when i went to the toilet one friday night, to my horror there's pinkish stain when i wipe and thereafter spotting on the pantyliner for about an hour. Somehow i felt uneasy especially when my tummy feels tight all the time. Unfortunately, my gynae was not in town and 6th sense actually brought us to Mt Alvernia just to play safe. As SOP, as long as you are more than 20 w...

Well being a woman, we're more or less aware of what's gona happen to our body when we are pregnant, of course we put on weight, our figure goes haywire, there's the typical fatigue, backache, lack of energy, frequent need to pee, water retention, restriction on the drinks and food intake. Each mummy tend to get different symptoms. Apart from the above common symptoms, there are other symptoms which i was totally caught off guard, just thought of sharing it here.. 1) pimples/ breakouts not just on the face but all over my body 2) frequent itching all over the body even though i do not suffer from heat rash 3) greasy / oily hair and face 4) much bigger nose somehow with black and white heads and tiny bumps on them no matter how diligent i am in putting a clay mask and squeezing those black heads out 5) this is the worst. Black armpits!! oh yes BLACK!!! nobody tells me and i never read about preggie mummies suffering from BLACK armpits as part of the pregnancy s...

another milestone to chart, we've officially entered the final trimester at 28 weeks, 7 months! let's take a look at how the bump is growing with our sticky bean inside. of cos we can't really tell how much it has grown based on the current pics.. so here's one comparing 6 months and 7 months Our sticky bean is estimated to be weighing 1.3kg on average based on 28 weeks check up and at 26 weeks, she just hit her first kg! Gynae still stays with his "sticky bean's gona be a big baby theory" hehz..but apparently he is happy that sticky bean will be big as there's a high chance that i have to be induced early due to my blood pressure so it's a good thing that baby is big and not too small should she be induced early.

ok today marks the official day of sticky bean being 24 weeks, aka 6 months... didn't really take a lot of bump shots as i started only in the 5th month, before that can't really tell that it's a preggie bump so didn't take any pic. a huge difference between 5th and 6th month hor? the bump seemed to balloon after we came back from our mini babymoon early July.

Before I start off with Baby Baby expo, just to share some additional stuffs for our girl. My mum just came back from Bangkok and our sticky bean being her first granddaughter (she has a 3 yr old grandson and another grandson on the way already so she was hoping that sticky bean will be a girl so she can dress her up), she can’t resist buying all the girly stuffs for sticky bean. Sticky bean’s so blessed. All of the above items belonged to her. Maybe it doesn’t look a lot from the photo as I’ve to stack items on top of each other to take a group pic but it sure is a lot man..plus some of the other things we’ve bought for sticky bean, her clothes, hankies, booties, mittins, caps etc already occupied 2 drawers.. Another buy I would like to share. look at how small and cute it is!! Can’t resist buying this pair of socks for sticky bean! Thought it would be perfect for her to wear during her 1 st month baby shower. Robinsons having 20% off, plus being...

We still have >4 more months to go, but we've already started buying bit by bit for the necessities. As my brother advised, it's better to take our time and buy the items bit by bit than wait till last trimester and rush to get everything at once, very "xiong on the pockets as well". So we just went to look see when we happen to be out on the weekends for any good deals, or sales items and to purchase some items for fun, in just limited pieces so we won't over buy. though it's so hard to resist buying the cutesy girlish stuff for baby girls! here's what we have on hand, little sticky bean even start to receive pressies already. i've couple more items ordered online, which has not arrived yet. As for big ticket items such as cots etc, we'll buy it probably nearer to last trimester or at the taka fair happening end july. Let's start off with the lovely pressies sticky bean has received:  Hanging musical mobile to keep her entert...

What a pleasant surprise, we didn't expect to receive a free goodie bag or welcome pack upon signing up for our pre-natal package at James Lee Women's Clinic. Since we've decided to stick to Dr. James Lee to deliver our sticky bean, it only make sense to sign up for the pre-natal package. We can do so from 14 weeks in fact. So what does the pre-natal package entails? For a lump sum of $700, it includes 14 consultations + scans and basic multivitamins. That makes each visit to be $50 only! Else separate consultation before the package costs as $120 - $150 each time. We can also claim this outpaitent amount from medisave at the hospital when we give birth later, cap at $500. and so here's what included in the little goodie bah, mostly milk powder samples for the mummies..  Mummies milk powder samples from Similac and S26. Tried the S26 but er..totally cannot take the taste at all, personally i find a strong unatural metallic taste in the milk whi...