Some pics of Calista Grace ..

sorry, it's really hard to look glam after giving birth ... lol



Right after she was born ...



She cried for a really short time ... thank goodness !



Ah now, then I don't look so AWFUL ... lol



Here's a nice shot of her ...



Ah yes, all my gals and me .. !




lookin a bit grumpy




At home .. yes, I was discharged today !! YAY!!!

So .. I've POPPED !!!

On Saturday, I was pretty bummed cos hubby said we had to stay home that day IN CASE. I was all game to go down to Vivocity to see the Christmas decorations there .. I hear it's very nice .. !! Anyway, admittedly, like I mentioned earlier ... Vivocity is quite a distance away from KKH so I had to reluctantly agree to stay home that day ...

SIGH.

Nearly died of boredom. When night came around, I suddenly had a bout of dizziness and breathlessness and nausea. Checked my BP with my trusty electronic BP Monitor and true enough, my BP was rather high ... I really really didn't want to go in because of that, so I went to lie down in the hopes that my BP would drop .. it didn't ... Finally, we had to go down to KKH and have it checked out .. I was worried it was pre-eclampsia and decided it was better to be safe than sorry.

At the hospital at about 11pm, I was checked and admitted ... gawd, it was an awful night at the delivery suite .. I was put on all the monitors to check on my baby and myself and a drip ... I couldn't get any sleep AT ALL till about 5am I think. My gynae only came in the next morning .. (Sunday) at about 8am ..

She had my blood tested and all .. and thank goodness it wasn't pre-eclampsia after all .. just a high BP. She decided to let me have my breakfast then said she would induce me since I was going to come in on Tuesday anyway so there was no point waiting. I agreed with her.

At 9am, she broke my waterbag and put me on a drip with medication to help my contractions along. I have to say .. it was a boring few hours with irregular contractions that didn't really hurt all that bad .. They checked me at 11 and baby was till high up and my cervix had not opened.

SIGH.

At 12noon, I was busy sms-ing a pregnant friend and complaining to her that induction was a waste of time for me as nothing was really happening ... dammit. I think I spoke too soon. After that, the nurse came to check on me and asked me to empty my bladder ... I really really tried but the baby was obviously pressing on my bladder so I could not pee at all ... the nurse then used a catheter to drain my bladder ..

The the fun began ...

Well, it wasn't exactly FUN ... more like .. "ACTION" ..

I started to feel quite intense regular contractions at 12.08, 12.09, 12.11 then at 12.14 ..the nurse came to do a VE and I was effaced and about 6cm dilated already!!! My gynae came in at about 12.30pm ... did a check and told me I could start pushin whenever I wanted to ...

WHAT??? So fast? That was my reaction ... !! I was starting to feel really anxious about the actual pushing and felt like backing out .. lol. Of course, I didn't have a choice and started pushin .. I had opted for no epidural or gas mask or any kind of pain relief btw ... *sigh* and had also asked for my gynae to avoid making an episiotomy if possble.

At 1.04, Baby Calista Grace arrived. She weighed 3.61 kg and 52 cm in length ...

I had successfully done it without an epidural or an episiotomy.

YEA!!!

waiting ...

Yup, I'm still waiting ... my induction is scheduled for Tuesday .. but I am still hopeful I will go into labour before then .. I stayed at home today .. I was suprisingly sleepy and couldn't think of anywhere to go. I still want to go to Vivocity ... but, er ... it is a rather far drive from there to KKH should I need to go.

We visited SITEX yesterday (Thursday) .. gosh it was crowded .. and we had to park BEHIND the Expo .. it was quite a walk to Hall 5. dammit. Plus, since we were early at around 11 plus, the blardy management STILL hadn't switched on the escalators .. so heavily pregnant aunty here had to climb up STAIRS .. I was cursing and swearing as I slowly made my way up. We spent about 2 hours there, had lunch at BK the decided to go to IKEA Tampines ... ah, that was fun for me ... replaced some kitchen stuff and bought storage boxes .. my maid happily stocked up on candles cos apparently the ones back in Indonesia suck big-time. We were done by about 4 I think .. I was by that time, quite revved up and wanted to head down to Vivocity so we could walk around there and see their decorations ... I took one look at hubby and the girls' exhausted faces and KNEW they weren't going to make it ... sigh. So I agreed to go home ... much to their relief. Good grief. I thought I was the heavily pregnant one here ... lol.

Anyway, we went to Cold Storage today to stock up on groceries in case things happen this weekend. Gosh, the waiting game ... Arghhhhh!

my 39th week appt ...

well, my bp was high ... it came down after testing at 15 minute intervals .. the 4th time .. lol. I am really sensitive to bp taking .. I get quite excited ... it affects the reading. I don't know how to control it ...

anyway, my gynae quizzed me on whether I was having any headaches (no), any water retention or body aches (also no) and decided to let me continue with my pregnancy till next week ... my water level is good and baby is fine ... but we've gone ahead and scheduled an induction for the 2nd of Dec .. a day before my EDD. After all, no point waiting once I've hit my EDD and there's no sign of baby ... so we decided to just book the date anyway.

She did however do a vaginal examination and basically tried to pry my cervix open in the hopes that it'll get labour starting before the 2nd ...

hopefully, it'll work so I won't have to get induced at all ...

In the meantime, I am aiming to go to Vivocity and also IKEA so please, please baby .. stay in there till I have a chance to go to these 2 places to see the Christmassy stuff ... lol !!

yes I still am ...

pregnant ... lol ..

I'm 39 weeks today .. I think I may just make it to my edd ... after all, I did for my last 2 pregnancies ... despite my running around here and there ... I went to Paragon on Monday ... walked from Orchard MRT station and nearly died ... I was with my friend and her 2 month old boy .. and he was in a stroller ... and I couldn't keep up!!! The minute we reached Paragon and she went off to meet her parents .. I started on my slow slow journey back to the MRT station ... I was walking so slowly I was hardly moving ... !! lol. It took me a hell of a long time to get back to the MRT station to catch a train back home ...

*sigh* yes, I stupidly thought it would be better for me to take a train instead of driving down to the CBD area earlier to meet another friend for lunch ... what an awful mistake .. !!

My first option was to park at Raffles City and then take the train one station up to Raffles Place ... I should've stuck to that plan instead of leaving my beloved vehicle at home and relying on pur public tranportation system. It wasn't the system that sucked ... it was the PEOPLE on the bus and train that MEGA SUCKED ... especially the MEN. Both ways up and down .. WOMEN were the ones who offered their seats to me ..

SHAME ON THE MEN.

I came home and told my maid that if sir died, I'd rather stay single the rest of my life than marry these horrible horrible Singapore men ...

Hubby keeps asking me why my "if-I'm-ever-single-again" scenarios always has him dying ...

hahahahaha :)

Anyway, I see my gynae today later at 2.30pm. She wants to talk to me about inducing since I have such fast and short labours and she doesn't want me driving myself to hospital while I'm in labour ... which of course is my plan .. duh ... I can still drive I'm sure .. possibly even road bully on the way to KK ... hahaha!!

Besides, inducing didn't work the last time with Emily ... only caused me a nite of unnecessary pain ... huh. So I'm sticking to my guns and telling her that I am not keen on being induced .. my BP is fine so I don't see why not ... I can still wait .. I have time .. another week in fact ..

Time enough for me to go to IKEA and some other shopping I haven't quite finished with ...

lol :)

Baby at 38 weeks

Gosh, I can't wait to see and hold her in my arms !!!

again and again ... lol

So the next day after our zoo outing ... we dragged Daddy to Orchard Road to see the Christmas light-up ... boy, was Daddy Mr Grumpazoids about the whole thing .. hahaha ... he claimed it was the lousiest birthday he had every had .. and that it was way past his bedtime (we arrived at Orchard Road at nearly 9pm so as to avoid the crowds). We parked at Holiday Inn Parkview near Centrepoint and headed to Macs first for ice-cream since it was still drizzling at the time. Once the drizzle stopped, we made our way slowly to Ngee Ann City ... and took photos along the way ... it was actually quite a disappointment .. which made Daddy more grumpy ... he was grumbling to our maid ...hahahaha .. she just kept laughing ... I ignored him and happily snapped photos of the girls ...

It was very tiring for me admittedly ... on the way back to Centrepoint, my tummy was beginning to feel crampy and I had to support the weight with my hands ... gawd, I hate it when I see other pregnant women do that ... well, now I know WHY they do it .. hahahah. My feet were aching too ...



But of course after a good nite's sleep, I was rearing to go out the next day as I'd already made a lunch appt with my friend and her kids at Suntec ... I really didn't intend to stay as long as we did .. we were at Suntec from 11am till 5.30pm ... my parking charge came to $14.98 ... *sigh* and yes, my feet were aching by the end of the outing. Plus I was an unhappy driver on the way back home and horned ungraciously at stupid drivers on the road who kept pissing me off with their terrible driving. hahaha. One of my friends has pointed out that pregnancy has been me somewhat of a road bully.

huh.