My Lovely Babes

Here's me carrying no.2 at the end of 35 weeks and my sweetpea hugging us so affectionately!

Name for the Boy

Here's some names which I've shortlisted for our boy. As you can see I'm more inclined to choose names starting with J or T, dunno why but think it goes well with Phang. The only name starting with H I could think of was Hayden... now I'll leave it to Hubby to make the choice.

• Blake
• Hayden
• Jake
• Jesper
• Jett
• Jerel
• Julian
• Lloyd
• Tyler
• Tristan
• Toby

Bird's Nest and Coconut

One of my favourites during pregnancy is being able to indulge in birds nest almost every week after the 1st trimester and it's not the bottled ones I'm talking about but the one's we get from the medical shop that we need to double boil. Not sure why I like it but its refreshing for the throat.  I have taken it for my last pregnancy as I heard it's good for the baby's complexion - baby will have a beautiful and glowing complexion, which I think is quite true as no. 1 was very fair at birth and still has very rosy complexion! And of cos it's good for my complexion and aids in digestion.

As for drinking coconut during the last trimester, it's meant to cleanse the baby of the greasy white substance that protects his skin from the amniotic fluid -- well that's what the old folks tell me. No harm trying this since the drink is so refreshing and cooling for the body -- pregnant mums will appreciate this since our body temperature tend to be higher than normal! So far have started drinking twice last week, and will need to get them at the supermarket weekly. Haiz... once confinement starts can't drink anything cooling /cold etc.. so must enjoy now!

Maternity Leave

Ok I have finalised my work arrangements and maternity leave (ML) period.  I will officially be on leave from 23 Aug 2010 - 2 Jan 2011!! Part of it will be my 16 weeks ML and the rest will come from my 2010 leave. Anyway I will be 39 weeks pregnant when the leave starts, hopefully the boy chooses to allow mummy dearest to have some "me" time before arriving, cos Jie Jie dearest arrived at 37 weeks.

Baby @ Week 35

Today I went for our routine checkup at the Gynae.  The boy is 35 weeks and all looks good, he's growing well and in a head down position- keep it up son! He's gain about 700g while I put on another 1 kg over the past 2 wks.  Oh and today no trace of protein in my urine - yippee! Think drinking lots of water really helps!

Gynae also did a swab for Strep B test today and results will be out in 2 weeks time. Hopefully it will be negative, unlike when I had No.1. I was diagnose as positive and was suppose to be given antibiotics during labour, but because my labour was so fast the nurses didn't administer the antibiotics.  Luckily Hazel was born healthy and with no infection what so ever. However I did read that infection in babies is very rare even if we're diagnosed positive - but of cos it would be better if result is negative so we have one less thing to worry about.

Anyway from now onwards it will be weekly visits to the clinic to check on his development! See you again next week babe!

His Vital Stats @ 35 wks:

BPD: 87mm

AC: 302mm

HC: 306mm

Weight: 2582 grams

Here's today's scan of his heartbeat

Thinking about Baby's Full Month Party

Ha 35 weeks into pregnancy and I'm already thinking about No. 2's 1st month celebration! Anyway, base on our last experience, we actually had very little time to prepare and book the venue for No. 1's 1st month. So I have kind of listed some of the items we would need to look into:

1. Venue: SIL's condo - BBQ area/function room (must get SIL to help us book).

2. Baby Man Yue Cake: Stick to Sweetest Moments (they have a new petit version). This round we'll probably get for colleagues only.

3. Was thinking if we should get this for our guests - Baby Shower Cookies http://bakedwithlove.wordpress.com/baby-shower-cookies/

or a cake/cupcakes http://www.cottoncandybakeshop.blogspot.com/ or http://www.mylittlegems4u.com/mini_cuppies since we're not giving relatives man yue cakes this round.

5. Caterer: Will Look into it during confinement

6. Decorations: Minimal - have ordered some cute new baby boy decorations/items from spree.

7. Photo taking - must assign someone to take as I realise the last round we didn't take many shots.

That's about it I suppose, although it's our 2nd child must give equal importance to the occasion. I'm actually quite excited and happy planning for this - ha ha ha...

Movie before Delivery

Had a Dinner cum Movie date with Hubby  last Thursday. Think this would probably be the last movie we can catch alone at the cinema before no. 2 arrives - not that we do this very often but we do occasionally go for late night movie dates if there's any good movies. Thereafter begins our laborious journey of looking after the kiddo and his needs.

I remembered for no.1 my last show before delivering her was Bourne Ultimatum, lots of action and shooting / explosions and each time she would move with the loud booms!! This time we caught Inception, the show was interesting and it didn't feel like a 2.5hr movie - though my bladder probably felt it and no.2 also moved quite a bit, I suspect he was enjoying the popcorn!

Oh oh oh.. remember I was not suppose to take sweet stuff??!! Anyway the next morning when I took my urine test surprisingly the strip showed very little colour change, I'm crossing my fingers that the protein is slowly diminishing.