This is what my mum in-law has bought for my baby. How thoughtful she is...today I'm going to prepare this nutritious dessert to pamper myself and baby!
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Thursday, October 25, 2012
20 weeks detailed scan
Today, we are handled by another sonographer, Alice Oh whom we felt much more comfortable with. 1st, she isn't one of the PRC and she looks singaporean and motherly. 2ndly, the way she speaks is also much more polite compared to the previous one.
Baby was awake when she did the scan, everything seems ok till the part when she needs to check his heart and baby tends to move a lot. She is much more patient and just laugh it off by saying BB is so active now and she would need to scan this area at a later part. Luckily she managed to do it after she has completed the scan for other part of his body. At the end of the scan, BB suddenly put his thumb into his mouth and she managed to capture this moment on the scan for us. SO adorable! All the while, I thought I would only see it online but not for my own but now I witness my BB acting so adorably inside my womb. =)
At the end of the session, she passed us the scan pictures. The scans she captured for us are unique and different and it will be part of our precious memories during my pregnancy.
After the whole session, she has left a deep impression on us. Dear wrote a compliment letter for her and at the same time to feedback about the PRC lady who has served us twice and has left us a deep impression but its a negative one. Well, hope this would serve as an improvement for the department.
Baby was awake when she did the scan, everything seems ok till the part when she needs to check his heart and baby tends to move a lot. She is much more patient and just laugh it off by saying BB is so active now and she would need to scan this area at a later part. Luckily she managed to do it after she has completed the scan for other part of his body. At the end of the scan, BB suddenly put his thumb into his mouth and she managed to capture this moment on the scan for us. SO adorable! All the while, I thought I would only see it online but not for my own but now I witness my BB acting so adorably inside my womb. =)
At the end of the session, she passed us the scan pictures. The scans she captured for us are unique and different and it will be part of our precious memories during my pregnancy.
After the whole session, she has left a deep impression on us. Dear wrote a compliment letter for her and at the same time to feedback about the PRC lady who has served us twice and has left us a deep impression but its a negative one. Well, hope this would serve as an improvement for the department.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
The amazing moment~ Baby Movement
Baby movement is getting more intense each day...The moment I felt his move, it is such an amazing moment! I Love It! =)
Sunday, October 14, 2012
My Baby First Move
Have deep cravings for Thai Express today, but dear don't seem to agree with my appetite. I'm actually craving for their chilli crab, and he is so superstitious to say that if I eat that..BB might become handful...well =/
Luckily, BB gave me idea what to eat for dinner, which is the steam fish head from chinatown market. While I was enjoying my dinner, suddenly I felt a mild punch from inside my stomach. I was stunned for awhile, and realised it was my BB kick! I'm now into 18 weeks, and I remembered Dr Lau mentioned to me that my baby first kick should start from 20 to 28 weeks, so it's about there. And not long after, I felt another mild punch again. So I guess BB must be enjoying the fish that he gave me a KICK!
Luckily, BB gave me idea what to eat for dinner, which is the steam fish head from chinatown market. While I was enjoying my dinner, suddenly I felt a mild punch from inside my stomach. I was stunned for awhile, and realised it was my BB kick! I'm now into 18 weeks, and I remembered Dr Lau mentioned to me that my baby first kick should start from 20 to 28 weeks, so it's about there. And not long after, I felt another mild punch again. So I guess BB must be enjoying the fish that he gave me a KICK!
Thursday, September 6, 2012
PCR results- False Positive!
I am so tensed and stressed for the past 2 days...especially when the result is out anytime today. Since yesterday, I have been calling clinic D at KKH but nobody is picking up my call. Clinic D suppose to recieve my report and passed to Dr Lau for viewing.
I was rather frustrated when I call them many times today and out of desperate I tried calling IVF centre instead which I think it has a higher chance that someone may pick up my call. I called them in the morning around 10.30am, the nurse checked my record and said my report is still pending.
As the result is still not out and it actually affects my mood and appetite for the day. I hardly eat during lunch and was very stressed and worried. I try not to call too frequent in a day inorder not to irritate the nurses there. I waited till 4pm and tried calling IVF centre but nobody picked up my call!! I tried again and again and nobody picked up my call...I was a little panic and tried calling the customer service centre to ask for ADC contact no. Luckily the nurse transfer the call for me to the dept. I spoke to the nurse and she told me my report is already out and it was despatched out to clinic D and she do not have a copy of my report with her.
I knew it is useless to call clinic D, so I decided to call Dear to make a trip to KKH to retrieve the report. He told me he is in the office but he could make it there before the clinic closed.
He waited for quite a while before the nurse attended to him. The nurse actually couldn't trace my report from the system and she was searching high and low for the report and finally it was slot in one of the shelves waiting for doctor's approval. She printed a copy for Dear to see and he whatsapp me the report.
PHEW!!! The results showed my three major chromosome 13, 18 and 21 are apparently normal and my baby is a BOY!
The detail report supposed to tell if my other chromosome are normal which will be out in another 1 1/2 weeks time.
What a relieved!!!
Thank GOD, I can sleep well and eat well tonight! ... Though we prefer girl than boy but as long as baby is healthy we are fine with any gender. =) X 100
Right after work, we are in the mood for shopping and we headed off to suntec for dinner and at the same time shop for birthday present for winter.
We are so delighted and now we can start looking for baby stuffs and we know what we should focus too since the gender is already known.
I was rather frustrated when I call them many times today and out of desperate I tried calling IVF centre instead which I think it has a higher chance that someone may pick up my call. I called them in the morning around 10.30am, the nurse checked my record and said my report is still pending.
As the result is still not out and it actually affects my mood and appetite for the day. I hardly eat during lunch and was very stressed and worried. I try not to call too frequent in a day inorder not to irritate the nurses there. I waited till 4pm and tried calling IVF centre but nobody picked up my call!! I tried again and again and nobody picked up my call...I was a little panic and tried calling the customer service centre to ask for ADC contact no. Luckily the nurse transfer the call for me to the dept. I spoke to the nurse and she told me my report is already out and it was despatched out to clinic D and she do not have a copy of my report with her.
I knew it is useless to call clinic D, so I decided to call Dear to make a trip to KKH to retrieve the report. He told me he is in the office but he could make it there before the clinic closed.
He waited for quite a while before the nurse attended to him. The nurse actually couldn't trace my report from the system and she was searching high and low for the report and finally it was slot in one of the shelves waiting for doctor's approval. She printed a copy for Dear to see and he whatsapp me the report.
PHEW!!! The results showed my three major chromosome 13, 18 and 21 are apparently normal and my baby is a BOY!
The detail report supposed to tell if my other chromosome are normal which will be out in another 1 1/2 weeks time.
What a relieved!!!
Thank GOD, I can sleep well and eat well tonight! ... Though we prefer girl than boy but as long as baby is healthy we are fine with any gender. =) X 100
Right after work, we are in the mood for shopping and we headed off to suntec for dinner and at the same time shop for birthday present for winter.
We are so delighted and now we can start looking for baby stuffs and we know what we should focus too since the gender is already known.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
CVS
Today is the day for CVS procedure. Our appointment is at 8am sharp and we reached there 10 mins earlier. I'm not feeling tense but somehow relaxed.
I was brought to the scan room before the procedure to do a scan for baby first. The moment I saw baby from the monitor, baby was at a weird position which I couldn't figure where his head and body is till the sonographer told me. After looking at the screen for a while, then we saw baby in a "child pose" position which is similar to kneeling with head down like praying. In my heart, I was thinking if baby is praying for good luck before the procedure...lol. With this position, we can see the baby's spine which was not detected during the OSCAR scan.
Baby was very active, not long after he/she changed position again and back to normal lying down position. After looking at baby before the procedure, it actually help me relax a lot.
After the scan, we waited outside the procedure room for the doctor to arrive. Shortly, a clinician approached us to do a survey on a research study. We decided to go ahead with the research plus it doesn't need any extra samples from me except for my blood. In exchange for this research, I am given a free growth scan at week 28.
Not long after the talk and waiting outside the room, the doctor arrives. I was glad I was handled by the famous doctor who is Prof John Tee, an expert in CVS. I heard there is only a few doctor doing this procedure so they are very experienced. I was asked to lye on the bed and the doctor didn't even warn me before he poke a needle into my tummy, the pain is a bit unbearable but I have to control myself. The needle pain is actually from the tube for inserting anesthesia. Not long after he told me it's done, which means he has injected the anesthesia. I saw him carrying a big tube of needle which looks so scary, it seems like a catherer to suck out the tissues from placenta. Inside the bottle there is this pink liquid. He inserted the needle into the tube and keep on sucking out the tissue while viewing the monitor. While he is doing that, I saw baby's head beside the placenta moving about. He draw out two bottles of samples, one is for express result and the other one for the detail report. The after effect is very mild, so while I walk I must be very careful. The whole procedure is very fast like 5 mins only. That tells how expert Prof Tee is to finish in such a short time frame.
Right after I reached home, Dear was very caring. He asked me to lye down and rest while he do all the household chores at home. I know during this period, it is very hard on him. So I must reward him for what he has done for us.
After all, I hope baby is fine and gender is not important to me. Though the nurse told me that the result will be out within 3 days but I am still very eager to find out before the 3 days.
Really hope GOD grant me my wish for baby to be healthy and nothing is going to happen to baby.
I was brought to the scan room before the procedure to do a scan for baby first. The moment I saw baby from the monitor, baby was at a weird position which I couldn't figure where his head and body is till the sonographer told me. After looking at the screen for a while, then we saw baby in a "child pose" position which is similar to kneeling with head down like praying. In my heart, I was thinking if baby is praying for good luck before the procedure...lol. With this position, we can see the baby's spine which was not detected during the OSCAR scan.
Baby was very active, not long after he/she changed position again and back to normal lying down position. After looking at baby before the procedure, it actually help me relax a lot.
After the scan, we waited outside the procedure room for the doctor to arrive. Shortly, a clinician approached us to do a survey on a research study. We decided to go ahead with the research plus it doesn't need any extra samples from me except for my blood. In exchange for this research, I am given a free growth scan at week 28.
Not long after the talk and waiting outside the room, the doctor arrives. I was glad I was handled by the famous doctor who is Prof John Tee, an expert in CVS. I heard there is only a few doctor doing this procedure so they are very experienced. I was asked to lye on the bed and the doctor didn't even warn me before he poke a needle into my tummy, the pain is a bit unbearable but I have to control myself. The needle pain is actually from the tube for inserting anesthesia. Not long after he told me it's done, which means he has injected the anesthesia. I saw him carrying a big tube of needle which looks so scary, it seems like a catherer to suck out the tissues from placenta. Inside the bottle there is this pink liquid. He inserted the needle into the tube and keep on sucking out the tissue while viewing the monitor. While he is doing that, I saw baby's head beside the placenta moving about. He draw out two bottles of samples, one is for express result and the other one for the detail report. The after effect is very mild, so while I walk I must be very careful. The whole procedure is very fast like 5 mins only. That tells how expert Prof Tee is to finish in such a short time frame.
Right after I reached home, Dear was very caring. He asked me to lye down and rest while he do all the household chores at home. I know during this period, it is very hard on him. So I must reward him for what he has done for us.
After all, I hope baby is fine and gender is not important to me. Though the nurse told me that the result will be out within 3 days but I am still very eager to find out before the 3 days.
Really hope GOD grant me my wish for baby to be healthy and nothing is going to happen to baby.
Friday, August 31, 2012
Poor OSCAR result
Today I'm feeling tensed because it is an important day for us.
We are going for our OSCAR test appoitntment. Waited for about 15 mins outside the counter and we are lead to the waiting area for the scan. I was asked to clear my urine before doing the scan, and I did. The wait was long as there are only two rooms available for scans. After about 45 mins, my name was called and I went into the scan room. The sonographer is a china lady and she asked me to lye on the bed while she performed the scan. While she is moving the scan on my tummy, I was looking at the monitor screen and her expression too. I can sense something is not right as she seems very impatient while doing the scan. She commented that there is some urine in my bladder and she couldn't see clearly, but she didn't ask me to clear my bladder 1st but continue to scan and take pictures. In the end she finally asked me to go clear my bladder as she couldn't trace the part she wants to scan. When I came back, she seems even more impatient and rough and keep shaking my tummy with the scan and I saw my baby swaying here and there in my tummy. I understand she wants to shift the baby position but at least she should warn me before doing that, so that I'm mentally prepared for it. After the scans was done, we waited at the waiting area and it took a long time before we are called again. We saw a few couples paying for their balance fee, but for me the nurse told me that I can't pay 1st as the doctor needs to speak to me 1st. From here, I knew something is not right.
I was sent to the counter by the nurse and shortly doctor called my name. She analysed the result with us and the only problem with the result is the T21 chromosome which is the measurement of the neck thickness too thick and the overall reading is 1 : 258. It should be above 1 :300 to be normal. This means there is a slight risk of down syndrome but she says it may not be true that baby is really down syndrome. It's just an indication that further test needs to be done. When we hear this from doctor, I was a bit lost and almost cried but I control myself. I turned to dear and I could feel that he is very sad too as I saw a pair of teary eyes.
Doctor offered us to do CVS test (chorionic villus sampling). It involves taking a sample of cells from the tissue of the placenta and test for the important chromosomes to confirm if baby has down syndrome. I had done some read up before the OSCAR test and I immediately agreed to go ahead for the test. But this carries a small risk of misarriage, according to her is 1 :1000. This test can only be conducted between 11 to 14 weeks. We went through the conselling for the CVS and we even opted for express result to be known within 3 days. The detailed report will only be out within 14 days which is too long a wait for us. For the express report, it will cover the 3 main chromosome T21, T18 and T13 and also one more chromosome to test for the gender of baby. I am scheduled on tues for the test and heard It is a bit taxing on the mother as there could be side effect from the needle and procedure. I will be given 2 days MC after that.
On the way home, we both felt very depressed and sad. Surprisingly, I'm not really hungry and no sign of nauseous also today. I guess my mood has affected my baby's appetite also. After lunch, we head home and we both slept and I felt drained off. But I felt better after a sleep and went to do some research regards to poor OSCAR test. It seems it is very common for people to get bad results from OSCAR test as it is not an accurate test. Because the results could be due to baby's position or sonographer's skill to detect the sign. So a more accurate test which is the CVS or Amniocentesis are the best option for detecting down syndome.
Dear was not very pleased with the sonograper, the way she handle me during the scan. I know he is sad but he feels the result is partly due to the skill of the sonographer. He wanted to file a complaint against her and hope she can improve her service to other patients.
I believe this is a test from GOD, to strengthen our relationship and also to know how much we treasure our baby. I have faith in him to protect my baby but still the fear can never eased till the result is out.
May GOD bless my baby to be well and healthy and this would be the best gift he has given us.
We are going for our OSCAR test appoitntment. Waited for about 15 mins outside the counter and we are lead to the waiting area for the scan. I was asked to clear my urine before doing the scan, and I did. The wait was long as there are only two rooms available for scans. After about 45 mins, my name was called and I went into the scan room. The sonographer is a china lady and she asked me to lye on the bed while she performed the scan. While she is moving the scan on my tummy, I was looking at the monitor screen and her expression too. I can sense something is not right as she seems very impatient while doing the scan. She commented that there is some urine in my bladder and she couldn't see clearly, but she didn't ask me to clear my bladder 1st but continue to scan and take pictures. In the end she finally asked me to go clear my bladder as she couldn't trace the part she wants to scan. When I came back, she seems even more impatient and rough and keep shaking my tummy with the scan and I saw my baby swaying here and there in my tummy. I understand she wants to shift the baby position but at least she should warn me before doing that, so that I'm mentally prepared for it. After the scans was done, we waited at the waiting area and it took a long time before we are called again. We saw a few couples paying for their balance fee, but for me the nurse told me that I can't pay 1st as the doctor needs to speak to me 1st. From here, I knew something is not right.
I was sent to the counter by the nurse and shortly doctor called my name. She analysed the result with us and the only problem with the result is the T21 chromosome which is the measurement of the neck thickness too thick and the overall reading is 1 : 258. It should be above 1 :300 to be normal. This means there is a slight risk of down syndrome but she says it may not be true that baby is really down syndrome. It's just an indication that further test needs to be done. When we hear this from doctor, I was a bit lost and almost cried but I control myself. I turned to dear and I could feel that he is very sad too as I saw a pair of teary eyes.
Doctor offered us to do CVS test (chorionic villus sampling). It involves taking a sample of cells from the tissue of the placenta and test for the important chromosomes to confirm if baby has down syndrome. I had done some read up before the OSCAR test and I immediately agreed to go ahead for the test. But this carries a small risk of misarriage, according to her is 1 :1000. This test can only be conducted between 11 to 14 weeks. We went through the conselling for the CVS and we even opted for express result to be known within 3 days. The detailed report will only be out within 14 days which is too long a wait for us. For the express report, it will cover the 3 main chromosome T21, T18 and T13 and also one more chromosome to test for the gender of baby. I am scheduled on tues for the test and heard It is a bit taxing on the mother as there could be side effect from the needle and procedure. I will be given 2 days MC after that.
On the way home, we both felt very depressed and sad. Surprisingly, I'm not really hungry and no sign of nauseous also today. I guess my mood has affected my baby's appetite also. After lunch, we head home and we both slept and I felt drained off. But I felt better after a sleep and went to do some research regards to poor OSCAR test. It seems it is very common for people to get bad results from OSCAR test as it is not an accurate test. Because the results could be due to baby's position or sonographer's skill to detect the sign. So a more accurate test which is the CVS or Amniocentesis are the best option for detecting down syndome.
Dear was not very pleased with the sonograper, the way she handle me during the scan. I know he is sad but he feels the result is partly due to the skill of the sonographer. He wanted to file a complaint against her and hope she can improve her service to other patients.
I believe this is a test from GOD, to strengthen our relationship and also to know how much we treasure our baby. I have faith in him to protect my baby but still the fear can never eased till the result is out.
May GOD bless my baby to be well and healthy and this would be the best gift he has given us.
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