No News is Good News

I just called my ob/gyn to find out about my blood test result. The nurse told me he won’t be back till 2:00pm. I asked her is my blood test result is out and she put me on hold for 10 minutes. Then she told me to call back at 2:00pm and speak to the doctor directly. (I guess nurse are not allowed to discuss patient test result cause they are not fully medically trained). She continue saying that when there are problem with test result, doctor will call the patient immediately. When there is NO NEWS is GOOD NEWS. Keep my finger cross that I won’t receive a phone call from my gynae.

 

Blood Test

I went for my obs/gyn check up last Wednesday. Baby is moving (swimming) while my doc doing the ultrasound scan. It is very cute. Doc said it is still too early to tell the gender but everything looks fine until he asked me: -

Doc: Do you know what is Down Syndrome?

Me: Yes. Is there a concern?

Doc: (Quick and firmly) No. But I have to show you this chart. Because you are 32 now, out of every 461 babies, there will be one baby with Down Syndrome. We can’t detect that from normal ultrasound. The normal procedure is do a blood test first and if it does show there is a risk then you have to do the ammonia fluid test.

Me: Okay.

Doc: So do you what to do the test?

Me: Let’s do the blood test first.

Doc: Okay. It’s need to be done on Week 15. So I shall see you in 3 weeks time.

 

The whole conversation makes me worried after I left his office. If there is a risk, I’ll hate to make the decision. Keep or not keeping the baby? Can you imagine a pregnant women have to make such decision. It is torturing. Worst than given birth. Everything should be okay cause both families history does not have down syndrome babies. But again you never know.

 

Updates

Just some updates. I don’t really know what to blog. In fact, I’m getting lazy to update the blog.

Anyway, I went for my second check-up on Feb 28. Happy to said everything is fine. Saw the baby with strong heart beats and there is only one not two (thank god). This time I bring along Claudia, and she is very excited to see a tiny baby inside my stomach. From time to time I have to remind her that I’m pregnant cause she forgets and like to climb on my stomach or asking me to carry her. EDD is Oct 5, 2008.

This pregnancy is totally different from my last pregnancy. I got mild morning sickness (minus the vomiting) and very sleepy all the time. Loves chili which I’m not suppose to eat all due to I have bad skin. To ease off the discomfort, I eat green apple, tomato & orange juice. Also I have booked my confinement lady. It is going to be my last pregnancy so I want to make sure that I will get enough rest and I will have a good health after that.

Claudia is getting more demanding everyday. She is bore at home and always look for other children to play with. She always refuse to go home or let the neighbour children to go home after they finish their play. She will cried and said she lock inside the castle like Cinderella, yes she adores Cinderella. Physically, she grow taller and heavy too. Mr.Wallace take her for swimming almost every weekend at FIL place. My in-laws just shift to a new condo near our place. So it is very convenient. I guess I shouldn’t have any excuses for not exercising.

Finally, I just want to said I’m very happy with the general election results. Hope this change will bring us better quality of life and for the better future for our children.

 

Bed Position

Thank you everyone for sharing this great news with us.

I don’t know this is coincidences or it’s really the work of feng shui. Well, it about the position of our bed. As you all already knew that I had moved Claudia to her own room when I got back from Adelaide, Australia last December. Naturally we had our own bed moved back to the old position. And at this time, I conceive No: 2. Just like that. No extra effort. The funny part is I conceived Claudia with the same bed position and on the 1st month we moved into this house. Previously, we rented a condo before we brought this house and we did tried for a year for a baby but no luck.

Feng shui or not its up to you to believe. For us, the timing is just right. Claudia will be 3 by the time No: 2 arrive.

I explained this to Mr.Wallace and he said “Wow! It took us one and a half years to realise this. Should have moved Claudia earlier then”.

 

New Year comes with Good News

Happy Chinese New Year, everyone.

May the new year brings you happiness and joy.

As for us, this new year has brings us good news & hopes.

Yes, after trying slightly more than a year, we are finally blessed with No:2.

I had my first prenatal check-up at week 5 (thats what according to babycenter website).

But my gynae can’t give me an exact due date cause No:2 did not have a heart beat yet. In fact No:2 is so small that we can’t even see him/her.

The only news comes out of the visit is that I’m confirm pregnant.

Next appointment would in three weeks times.

 

Clumsy Girl

 

Clumsy girl fall down in the bathroom. As usual I place her on the dressing table so she can entertain herself with the mirror. So I turn around to test the temperature of the bath water. Just for less than a minute. When I turn around again, she actually falling down right in front of my eyes. Managed to grab her in time. So it is not a hard fall. Some scratches on the chest thats it cause she is naked at the time.

 

Back to 99%

Well, after a week of sickness, Claudia is back on her feet. Therefore, we did not do much accept chilling out in the house to avoid any accident (vomiting & diarrhoea) happen in the public area. Bbelow are some photos taken during our house confinement. LOL.

The tree is up before we got in from KL. No presents under the tree yet because of Claudia. You know why.

Sorry for the poor quality pictures. Clockwise: Top 2 is showing bush fire. Pictures taken from our house. Bottom 2 is showing the sunset at 9:00pm.

Miss Pink for the day.

Chilling out at home yesterday. She is in pretty good mood. Don’t know why.

 

 

Recovering

 

Thanks for all the wishes. But our little girl is still not fully recover. She still having diarrhoea since Monday and no vomiting today. But she did have an episode when we walked in the Esprit shop. I was carrying her and she vomited all the milk that she had 3 hours ago all over me. Mr.Wallace had to knee down to clean the floor with the kitchen towel and wet wipes. Luckily the the store manager is very helpful and understanding. Then we decided to bring to see the GP. He checked her temperature and her stomach, then gives some advices. Thats it. No medication. He said just let the diarrhoea stop by it self but if it still continue over the weekend, he need to see her again. And AUD50.00 please. Amazing. Clinic in Australia is run by appointment system and do not sell medication. If you are very sick and need to see a doctor urgently, then you have to go to the hospital emergency room. You have to buy your medication at the pharmacy store with the prescription given by the doctor. I must said that I don’t quite like with this kind of system.

 

Shivering, Vomited & Fever

It is 11:47pm now and I’m waiting for the laundry to finish.

Claudia had fever, shivering & vomited on the bed. Mr.Wallace & I just finished changing the linens, changed Claudia into a new clothes & washed her hair as well. It’s stink. Poor little girl. She must have caught the cold this morning. I think she went outside (the garden) without a jumper & shoes. Where am I? I decided to sleep in this morning. Bad mummy. Let’s see is she better tomorrow morning.

 

Hello from Down Under

 

Hello! Everyone. We are at grandma house in Adelaide. Got in last Thursday morning and it has been a week already. Weather is great. Sometimes hot and sometimes mild, ranging from 22°C-37°C.  I love it over here cause grandma has a bigger garden and it is at the back of the house. Mummy said it is safer to run and play at the backyard. Food is delicious and mummy said that I eat like a horse now. I love the fruits over here too. The only down side is, it’s very dry over here and mummy have to applied moisturize for me twice a day.