Elroy's Full Month Celebration

I have never plan a party before and I was super excited to plan for Elroy's full month celebration. Planned months before he was even born :D

 

Anyway, held Elroy's Full Month Celebration at Bliss Restaurant @ Cheng San CC. I chose this place because it is near to the place we stayed, near to MRT station which is convenient for my guest to come, and most importantly the restaurant is cozy and bright. 

 

We needed to place order for a minimum of 30 pax at $23++(7% GST, $4 for weekends) per pax in order to use the restaurant for this event. Its a closed door event whereby we can have the whole restaurant to ourselves for 3 hours from 11am-2pm. It is definitely not cheap considering the fact that this restaurat is located at a community centre.

 

 

 

I also ordered baby full month gift from Singapore Mochi. I personally felt that the price is cheap at only $4.50 for 4 items which includes two Ang Ee Kueh and two red eggs. And the packaging is super cute and the kueh tasted yummy.



 

 

 

Ballon decorations were bought from Harvest Well Enterprise, whose shop is located at Parkway Parade Shopping Centre. $39.90 for 1 set of balloon bouquet with 10 helium filled latex balloons. I added on 10 additional helium filled latex balloons at $1 each. To make it more convenient, I opted for delivery service which cost additional $30. So, total $79.90 for balloon decorations.

 

 

Some photos from the party: 

The buffet food spread:

 

The food was average :0

 

Photos taken with my friends and relatives:

As the party is coming to an end, Elroy decided to poo and we got to change him on the table. :X

 

To conclude, it was a tiring day for both my husband and myself. However, we managed to get the chance to gather with our families and friends. :)

Baby Elroy's Birth Story!

I can't remember every single detail of my birth process, but I will try to recall as much as I could. I was 39 weeks and 3 days when I was in labor :)

I remember I saw "the show" when I visited the toilet at about 5am in the morning. Then after peeing, I knew that my water bag has burst as my pants was wet. I then immediately wake my hubby up and called up the hospital to check if I should head down to hospital as I did not feel any pain/contractions. And I was told to head down to hospital! Then I bath and all and we drove down to hospital.

Upon reaching hospital, the nurse put me on CTG to monitored my contractions, baby's heartbeat, and also did dilation check. Then doctor Dolly Wee came and instructed the nurse to put me on some drip to make my contractions stronger so that I could dilate faster.

Then after about an hour, I could feel very strong contractions at about 4mins apart and I quickly asked for epidural. The contractions were super painful :/

In between, I had dilation and BP checked by the nurse.

Then about 5 hours later, doctor Dolly came in, checked my dilation, and said that I'm ready to push! I was like: "OMG! Its happening!".

I was told to push all I can for each contractions that I experience( I can't feel anything since I'm on epidural, so the doctor and nurse checked on the CTG for contractions and guided me when to start pushing)

After 3 pushes, doctor Dolly decided to use vacuum on me( I believe I didn't do a good job at pushing, and doctor Dolly didn't want to drag the time any longer in case the baby is in stress mode). Everything happened so quickly and before I could react, I sort of saw the doctor pull out the baby! That's it! Baby was born! He was crying so loudly!

** Baby Elroy was born on 2 Feb 2014, at 2.41pm, weighing at 3.52kg and 50cm in length :))

38 weeks: 10th Prenatal Checkup

As usual, for every checkup the doctor will ask whether I have any discomfort, blah blah.

Was told that I have no weight gain. So, I'm still 62kg with total weight gain of 14kg!!!  :) However, doctor commented that if by next week still no weight gain will need to induce. Hmmm...

Anyway, asked the doctor how heavy the baby is~ Doctor measured and said baby is 2.8kg! Ok la. Not too heavy/ big I think?! :P

Oh ya.. Also did a baby heartbeat scan today...  Because I was unsure of how many movements baby has each day when doctor asked about it *opps*

My 38 weeks baby bump photo, not only stomach bigger, arms also bigger :/ :

Next appointment on the 30th Jan, which is Chinese New Year Eve :P

37 weeks: 9th Prenatal Checkup

Currently at 37 weeks, the baby is considered full term, and is ready and safe to pop anytime :)
So... Waiting game now... :P

Check-up was super fast. Just normal scanning of baby.

Anyway, gained 2kg since the last check up. Currently 62kg!! Total weight gain as of now is 14kg..

OMG! I'm feeling so fat and heavy now! Can't wait for baby to come our soon as I'm afraid that the longer the baby stays in my tummy, the bigger he will grow bigger, and I will have a difficult labor delivery.

Here's my baby bump photo:

 

 

Oh ya, I have also gotten the admission letter to the hospital from the doctor today.

 

Hmm. Now that baby's arrival is nearing, I'm having mixed feeling.. Both excited and nervous. Excited to meet the baby and nervous about labor and delivery. :/

 

Well~ It's time for me to start packing my hospital bag and wash all baby clothes and stuff :)

 

 



Till then~ Next check up is in a weeks time! :)

 

35 weeks: 8th Prenatal Checkup

Today's checkup was like usual. Except that doctor dolly explained to us about signs of labour, etc.

Plus, I also stayed on for another 20 mins to do a baby's heartbeat scan.

Doctor commented baby is still head down and is weighing about 2kg plus. :)

I gained another 1kg. Meaning I'm now 60kg. Total weight gain of 12kg!

Here's my baby bump photo:

Next checkup is in 2 weeks time :)

32 weeks: 7th Prenatal Checkup

Today, went alone to see Doc Dolly Wee as hubby needed to be at office.

Anyway, checkup was pretty normal. Doctor commented that baby's head has already turned down! So means I can have natural birth. However, doctor also commented that baby's head is alittle big but can still try natural birth. Doctor also commented baby has big nose~ Well, shall see when baby's out. :D

I gained another 3kg~ Total weight gain is 11kg as of now! Now I'm weighing at 59kg!!

Here's my baby bump update:

28 weeks: 6th Prenatal Checkup

Finally I'm now in my 3rd trimester of pregnancy which is 7 months :)

Was supposed to see the doctor today. However, went to see doctor earlier on 20 Nov 2013 instead as something happened.

Here is what happened:

On the 19 Nov 2013, upon returning home at around 7pm, I found some pink spotting on my panty liner. And when I wipe, there was also pink stain on the tissue. I panicked and call up hubby immediately. He told me to call up Mount E and seek for advise.

The doctor advised me to head down to the hospital immediately if I am still experiencing spotting after 1 hour. At around 7.30pm, hubby returned home. I was still having spotting and hubby decided that we should just head down to hospital to find out what's wrong instead of waiting and worrying.

At about 8.15pm, we reached Mount E and I was taken to the delivery suite immediately. I was asked to changed, and this was when I saw the pink spotting becoming bright red spotting. It was scary!

Anyway, I was strapped on for the next 1 hour or so to monitor baby's heartbeat. At around 10pm, the "back-up" doctor (Dr. Dolly was away and only back the next day) reached and examine me. I was told by the doctor that there wasn't any blood coming from my vagina or any open cut outside. She wasn't sure where the spotting came from. However, she said that as long as I was not having pain or contractions, and that baby was constantly active and moving, I am fine to leave the hospital.

The doctor also told me to visit Dr. Dolly Wee the next day for a check-up again.  So ya, that's about it. What a scary experience.

So the next day at 11am, paid a visit at Dr. Dolly's and told her the whole incident. She was like not surprised at all and commented that we youngsters see a little blood get so "excited", etc. Haha! She assured us that it's not unusual to see some spotting at this stage of pregnancy and long as I'm not having pain and contractions every 10 mins. Then, we proceeded to do an ultrasound. Doctor measured the baby and said that baby is in good size at 28-30 weeks :) She also checked my vagina and said there's no blood too. Hmm..

Anyway, since both doctors reassured me that baby is fine than I gladly accept it, although the spotting part is a little disturbing :P

Enough of stories, here is my baby bump update:

*Side note: I gained 2kg and am now 56kg!!*

My next appointment is in 3 weeks time. Till then :)