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Baby Charlotte seems to enjoy listening to music, songs and sounds... last Fri nite, when Dearie was telling her a bedtime story on Cinderella, she moved so much! can practically c my tummy shake! haha! Dearie had fun watching her move n me had fun feeling her move... me been listening to classical music in office, n she'll oso move merrily inside me... heh...

Dearie had wanted to hv supper wif his buddies @ West Coast Mac on Fri nite, but me suddenly felt tummy pains (could it b Braxton-Hicks contractions?)... the pains lasted for a while but stil bearable... in the end, we decided to go for a walk (heard walking can enable me to hv a smoother delivery), so we drove to Changi Airport T3 n explored there... a v big area, suitable for kids to run about... =) hi ceiling too, think the concept stolen fr HKG Airport, wif high ceilings n metal structures @ the ceilings as decorations...

On Sat, we went to buy more maternity dresses... guess wif my baby bump growing, shld switch to wearing dresses nw... Dearie had forbidden me fr wearing pants nw... so he gotta spend money n time to accompany me shop for maternity dresses lor... haha! me had bot most of my maternity wear @ Perfect Mum @ Suntec City til the salesgers thr all noe me liao... haha!

On Sun, we went to pay respects to Dearie's deceased grandparents... but too many ppl, me had to wait outside by the roadside, while Dearie n his mum n aunts made offerings, burnt joss papers etc... thn we went to hv Teochew cuisine for lunch @ Mong Hing Restaurant @ Keypoint... v v nice! Baby Charlotte seemed to enjoy the lunch too, moving merrily inside me... Dearie's parents, sis n aunt had fun watching my tummy move too! haha! in the afternoon, me met my ex-SMRT colligs for karaoke! 1st time me brot baby Charlotte to karaoke! she seemed to enjoy the music n songs too! hee! thn we had dines @ my parents... mum prepared soup, fish, veg n meat wif rice, n the 白果腐竹 dessert for us.... yum yum! hope dis dessert wil result in baby Charlotte's skin being smooth n fair when she's born... hee!

me seemed to hv strayed away fr my title too much... heh... dunno y, but @ nite, me felt more uncomfy wif my baby bump, esp whn lying down on bed... as cant lie too long a peiod on my back, hv to lie on my sides... wil feel v uncomfy, sometimes tummy feel tight or slightly painful... mebbe itz the Braxton-Hicks contractions or jus too tired fr carrying the baby bump the whole dae liao... anyway, 30 weeks nw! so exciting... gg for our 1st pre-natal class dis Fri aft wk...
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Read a bit of the article on Miracle
Baby Jolene this morning before leaving home for office... so sad that she became an orphan overnite... she's only 2 months old... looks so smart and cute in the pic too... wonder who's gonna take care of her now dat her parents, 2 years old brother n grandma r gone... realli hope she wil grow up healthy n fine...

Mebbe cos becoming a mum in Jun, so particularly hv strong feelings for such incidents...








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hee, a pic of my baby bump @ 29 weeks... =) so exciting... went for my fortnightly visit to TMC tdy, happi dat everything's normal... blood pressure normal, no water retention etc...

she said abt 8 or 10 more weeks to go b4 delivery... normalli wun take up to a full term of 40 weeks to deliver... boys may be delivered earlier than gers... hmm... dunno if dat wil b true for our baby Charlotte... we shall wait n see... enjoying my pregnancy... can see n feel her moving her whole body inside me, instead of jus her limbs nowadays... she seems to understand Dearie n me too, when we tok to her, she wil keep still... then when we stop toking, she wil move, as if responding to us =) her movements have oso started to get stronger, where me can feel slight 'poking' around... =P

dragged Dearie to watch "Sky of Love" yesterdae @ AMK Hub... a veri veri touching movie, which moved several ppl in the cinema to tears, including me... he initialli din wanna watch, as itz nt his cup of tea, but after watching, agreed the movie was nt so bad after all... watching the movie brot back sweet memories of courtship daes.... the guy lead in the movie was such a sweet guy in love, steadfast n true to the love of his life, the female lead... as the saying goes, watz urs will eventualli b urs no matter wat happens...

we bot more baby stuff tdy, including 2 packs of mammy poko disposable diapers which r on offer @ NTUC... oso bot some stuff @ the Baby Fair @ Takashimaya on Thur nite... =)) received admission notes from Mt Alvernia Hospital too, gonna fill in the admission form, indicating my room preference, personal particulars etc n mailing it back to them to do the necessary b4 actual admission during delivery... everything is falling into place... =))
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been drinking homemade soups nearly everydae for nearly a month to relieve my water retention prob... the veins on my feet were initially "hidden" n my TMC recommended my MIL to prepare soups for me to relieve my water retention prob... the 四神汤 n 澈小豆汤 realli helped! drinking these soups everydae has realli caused the veins on my feet to "reappear"... haha! DIL n MIL oso commented me seemed to hv shrunk a bit after the month-long soup-drinking... hee! gd to hear... but stil heavier than Dearie nw...

managed to catch a video clip of baby Charlotte moving n creating a pretty big bump in my tummy last weekend... showed my colligs after lunch ydae... they all gasped in surprise @ the impact! hee! asked if dat felt painful.. me smiled n said nope.. =) could hv taken more clips of her many little merry movements if the timings were correct... but timings either nt correct or she too shy... haha!

tonite gonna watch "Evangelion" wif Dearie n his buddy, Aaron, at The Cathay... nt many ppl, including his other buddies, wil appreciate such anime movies... me onli know abt dis anime thru Dearie n he had watched wif me, explaining to me some "cheem" parts... heard the movie wil b a simplified re-telling of the anime... hope can enjoy... but think due to itz exclusive fans, the anime movie is onli shown @ Cathay cinemas...

oso watched "Horton Hears A Who" last weekend, using the pair of free Eng Wah movie tics... the movie was so cute n enjoyable! think baby Charlotte oso enjoyed, moving merrily inside... =) think itz the next nicest animation me watched since "Nemo" and "Shrek"...
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tdy is my 11th appointment wif Dr Lui =) 28 weeks liao, Dr Lui gave us ultrasound pics of Baby Charlotte's head n eyes... v cute... me gained another 2 kg since last visit n Baby Charlotte is now 1.4kg =) nxt appointment will be in 1 month's time on 12 Apr =) 12 April is oso our 2nd pre-natal class.

Dr Lui asked how me been feeling, told him fine... can feel baby's movements v regularly... in fact, Dearie said last nite while me asleep, he placed his hand on my tummy n could feel her movements v regularly... luckily me nt disturbed by her movements =P he said he had wanted to wake me up to tell me so, but din... haha!

Actualli me came down wif a bad sore throat n runny nose ydae... nt been feeling well since Thur evening, throat super painful n nose v irritated... ydae morn woke up feeling even worse... doc gave me mild medicine for my runny nose n onli lozenges for my sore throat... said itz viral infection n din dare to gif me antibiotics, even thou safe for pregnancy... so nw taking lotsa water, hope get well soon...


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The following are some advice given by my colligs cos of my round baby bump:

1) Dun wear green tops wif black stripes

2) Dun wear orange tops wif black stripes

Do u noe why? Hmm..... Because of the following reasons:

1) Will look like a watermelon

2) Will look like a basketball

Funni yet true hor? Haha!
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Yeah! Dearie is finalli back! =) He reached Singapore on Friday midnite, 0003hrs, which technically was Sat early morning... MIL n me went to Changi Airport to wait for him, meaning to gif him a surprise... but he wasn't surprised, he said he had more or less expected it... mebbe a much "successful" surprise would b nt waiting for him @ Changi Airport, but rather jus sleep @ hm.. haha! But we were nt so cruel lah... hee! =P

Dearie bot me souvenirs fr Dallas - a white nightie wif pink pokka dots (his usual gift for me whn he goes overseas w/o me) n a white tee-shirt which reads "I am a sexy pregnant woman" wif many funni but real descriptives of a pregnant woman (v cute!) So happi he is back! =)

MIL can finalli return to her normal life, no need to work "night shifts" in "taking care" of me... hee!

Think Baby Charlotte is oso delighted dat her Daddy is back... she has been moving more n more in my tummy, as if showing her excitement! haha! just now, after dinner of nasi padang @ Hotel Rendezvous, she was so active! bump here bump there, my tummy was practically having a "tummy-quake"! Hee!
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Hurrah! Dearie is finalli on plane back to Singapore! =) He would reach Singapore at around 0020hrs tonite... so looking forward to it! MIL n me gonna gif him a surprise by waiting for him @ Changi Airport =)

Been writing short notes (something like a diary) while he is away... he is oso doing the same in Dallas =) Everynite, b4 sleep, will pen sth for him n Baby Charlotte wil move happily in my tummy =P Can c ripples n bumps... tried to catch a video clip of the movements last nite to show Dearie whn he's back, of Baby Charlotte's way of missing him... initially she was v shy, kept stil whn me start recording n start moving onli whn me gave up... so spoke to her, asked her nt 2b camera/video-shy, cos itz a special way of recording special n memorable moments.... n subsequently, whn me start recording, she realli moved! =) hee! so cute! mebbe she under stood wat me telling her! =) so amazing!!! hope Dearie can c the movements clearly on video clip whn he returns!

10 more hours to Dearie's arrival in Singapore! Counting down... =P

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Yeah! Today marks Dae 5 of Dearie's trip in Dallas! =) He will be back on Sat morning, meaning we have passed the halfway mark of his trip =) He jus emailed me about his flight details back on Sat, but me trying to get more details from him... hee!

As our time difference is 14 hrs, where it could be daytime for me in Singapore but nighttime for him in Dallas, itz quite a challenge to keep in contact via telephone conversations... so we mainly communicated wif each other through emails... itz quite refreshing n nice to receive his emails first thing in the mornings =) But he did gif me a call upon his arrival in Dallas on Sun =)

My gynae's nurse jus called me, asking me about my room preference at Mount Alvernia Hospital cos she is booking a place for me oredi... Getting more n more excited liao, about 3 more months to my delivery! Will be 27 weeks preggers on Sat =) Told her me prefer single bed kind, so dat Dearie can kip me company n we can some privacy...

My MIL is veri sweet to me, she kips me company @ nites... in the mornings, she accompanies me to office via cab b4 she takes mrt hm... in the evenings, she waits for me @ Raffles City till me knock off @ around 6.30pm... we wil hv dines tog b4 taking cab hm... There's a new Japanese style Marche-like restaurant at Raffles City basement, we have been hvg dines there since Mon, each dae trying out different food... but she wil make sure me hv veg, fish, egg/meat, rice/noodles for each meal, she wil oso make home-cooked soup for me to relieve my water retention... we wil oso purchase donuts from the J-Co shop set up by Breadtalk, again each dae buying different flavours... hee! Happi we din hv conflicts, Dearie is oso glad we getting along fine... =P

Baby Charlotte is very cute n smart... she seems to noe itz nt me or Dearie whn my colligs placed their hand on my tummy, trying to feel her move... but when we r alone, she is very active, moving around, causing bumps n ripples on my tummy... jus nw, she was moving so much, but when my collig tried to feel her, she refused to move til quite a while of patient waiting on my collig's part. =)

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Dearie has left for Dallas earli dis morning... he will be attending a 3d conference from Mon to Wed... but cos of the time difference of 14hrs (Dallas's clock is slower than Singapore's by 14hrs), Dearie has to fly earli dis morning so as to reach in time for the conference on Mon...

So me n baby Charlotte wil b alone @ hm dis week til he comes hm nxt Sat... MIL has kindly volunteered to cm over n kip me company @ nites... whn me go to wk in the mornings, she wil oso return hm n in the evenings, she wil wait 4me @ Funan til me knock off wk n kip me company @ hm til the nxt morn... touched by her gesture but oso worried abt any possible conflicts between us esp nw dat Dearie is away, as in realli away... jus kip my fingers crossed... she wil b cmg over tonite n hv dines wif me...

Me nw 26 weeks into my pregnancy, went for monthly checkup wif Dr Lui 2 weeks ago... discovered to my amazement dat me hv gained 13 kg so far! OMG! got me worried n asked Dr Lui if my weight gain was of any concern... he said not to worry as my blood pressure was v normal... nevertheless wil stil watch my diet n weight gain cos wanna b able to shed off the excess fat easily after delivery... last week went for fortnightly checkup wif Jin Yi Shi... she said my tummy a bit too big for 25 weeks, n there's slight water retention in my legs to support my tummy... she immediately tot my MIL (who came wif us as she wanna noe exactly wat Jin Yi Shi had prescribed me) how to prepare soups to get rid of the water retention... MIL was pretty impressed wif her n said she wanna go along nxt time too so dat she can ask her wat me can n cant take during confinement.. =P

oso bot more clothes (pink ones nw) n other stuff for baby Charlotte wif MIL... baby Charlotte is so active nowadays... she seems to understand wat me n Dearie speak to her n responds to us by moving inside my tummy... last nite, b4 we cot a short nap, Dearie spoke to her, she was moving so 'violently'! when Dearie started telling her a bedtime story, she was v stil, like listening v attentively, then whn Dearie put his hand on my tummy, she started moving v 'violently' again, like v excited! haha! so cute! was telling Dearie me can jus sit on sofa/bed, do nothing but jus watch the ripples or bumps appearing on my tummy whneva she moves! haha!

b4 Dearie boarded the plane @ 6.20am dis morn, he sent me an email... when me was reading n replying to his email jus nw, she oso moved... seems to be telling me to convey to her Daddy dat she misses him too... heehee!