We welcomed baby junior on 7th July

Pheww.. finally the trauma preggie period is over. And yes, we did it with lots of encouragement and help from close friends and relatives and welcomed baby junior on 7th July. Here's the birth story, more pictures on the way..

6th July Noon - Encountered some show, called Doc and was asked to monitor and visit him next day

7th July
11am - Doc checked that dilation is 3cm.

1250pm - Broke waterbag in clinic and proceed to admit to Mt A

330pm - 4cm dilation. Contraction still bearable, but based on 1st experience with VE. Opted for Epuridual to perserve energy

545pm - Dilation 6cm

720pm - Dilation 8cm

8pm - Dilation 9cm and waiting for doc to finish his c-sect case before trying to push

940pm - Midwife start to encourage pushing.. countless pushes, still not desirable. BB abit bit for my bonestructure to handle. Need assistance.

1020pm - Doctor came and prepare for assisted delivery

1039pm - BB finally out with help of vaccum. Weighing 3.215 kg, 50cm

36 weeks plus now :)

Happy then we are still hanging on to it. By this Friday which is week 37, will stop the anti-contraction medicine. BH is getting more intense though, hence its anytime from now.
Shall continue to update when available.

21Months Old Darius Boy

Hello, greetings from sunshine boy. This month we didn't had a lot of outing as most of the time daddy bring darius out without mommy, hence unable to go too far. Recently Darius became a fan of Barney, at least there is some entertainment for him. Hope to spend more time or plan a trip for him after we settle down.

Milestone wise, he have been very adventurous in trying new food. Favorite food of the month is King of the fruit "Durian", whatever mommy eat Darius will "steal" a few mouthful. So as mommy is ballooning, reckon Darius also put on some weight due to the junk food. He tried to mimic a few words and like to mimic our actions too.

We enrolled Darius and cousin Kimi to Music discovery class as they seems to enjoy the trial class. Its all fun and music anyway. After the first 2 classes, he is attempting to jump, dance when there's music going on. Hope this can temporary keep him occupy.

Hello, this is me and my favourite bear

Helping Granny to pluck vegetable...

Gong Gong 60th Birthday Celebration

Lim Look-alike Meter

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Our housekeeper ~ Mr Darius

This is our personal housekeeper, he loves to sweep and mop the floor but ironically he is the one who create the mess. Surprisingly, he did quite a quite a good job in mopping, going tiles by tiles. Reckon he had been observing grandma doing chores. On the same afternoon, he was knock out for 3 hours of nap. Not bad exercise for him, ha.

Surviving Bedrest

Didn't had the mood to update blog last week due to some hiccup news from gynae. Apparently I was observed with some pre-term symptom during the last check. And with the pressure from the baby had head down position, it worsen the situation by shortening the cervical length. Was put on prolong hospitalization leave till a safer period (probably week 35).

We have did a lot of research during this pregnancy for prevention of another premie and did our utmost best to be positive. We were convinced that the last pre-term was due to PROM due to UTI. With research online, i doesn't seems to fit into the bill of any specific category as incompetence cervical (as if it happens its tri 2 or b4 week 24), too "liang", too weak, overstress or what so ever you call.. That's the frustrating part.

I didn't take the not so good news as well as daddy did. Or perhaps its daddy's character to be a cool cucumber even if the heaven is down. Mentally and Physically are a torture during bedrest as all the body aches and headaches starts knocking on my door. Been not able to do much physically, alot of things will start to be wander on my mind.. Should I go KKH or Mt A? High cost if its a premie again, can the family cope with the load with one premie and one toddler? For Darius, our whole family spent a lot of effort and time on him to ensure his back on track like normal baby. Although this make us appreciate his milestone more than normal baby, but we hope once is enough. I really hope god won't make me go through this twice.

Work wise its also affecting me a lot. I don't like to drop all stuff and take emergency leave and leave the mess to my colleagues. Moreover there are some situation in company that I hope I can accompany my colleague who is leaving next month. Fortunately I have a good team lead, manager and colleagues who urge me to rest assure on work stuff.Flower Hamper from Company

Many was asking me "What's the rational of safe period". In KKH terms, a premie baby will not be discharge upon hitting the two criteria which is below 35 weeks or below 2kg. I have just reached 2kg target from last week checkup and aiming the min 35 weeks dateline with aid of bedrest. Everyday is a blessing for us after next week. Looking back, probably its a blessing to discover there were risk involve from week 31 which keep me in bed till now and further, otherwise we might go into another repeated history. Keeping finger cross and hoping the best.
Blessing needed..

Backdated Sentosa Chalet Outing Posting

Darius had his first overnight stay in a chalet at Sentosa along with grandparents and granduncle/aunt sometime back. Needless to say he brought along joy as well as trouble to them during the stay. Didn't manage to capture a lot of photo as we joined them later. Nevertheless, some shots from his swim session with Kelvin Jiu Jiu.

Happy Birthday to Daddy

Darius was so excited whenever he see any birthday celebration. He will clap his hands excitedly and gesture candle blowing. In the morning, I ask Darius to pass Daddy the Crumpler laptop bag because its Daddy's Birthday, Darius followed my instruction, brought the bag from living room to bedroom and call out sweetly "Pa Pa", hold his hands to the bag.. so sweet. Like the past, we just had a simple celebration, this year its yummy D24 durian cake from 717 cakeshop. Most importantly its a family celebration that matters. :)

Grandma Bday Celebration

We had a simple birthday celebration for Grandma today over dinner today. After dinner, we proceed to Uncle's house for cake cutting. The above photo is featuring the 4 heavenly king of Lim family. Really tough to get a decent shot with everyone not synchronizing..

Testing out Cousin Caleb's F1 car..

DB @ 19months

Darius Boy is growing from a baby to toddler boy. Recently he have been really angel at times and devil most of the time too.. Enough of mentioning of the evil deeds, need to give him some praises. He keep calling Mama.. mama in his sweeeetest tone and offer me chair to sit and offer to share his food with me. He likes to tell popo this n that belongs to mama.. He likes to kiss mommy tummy recently, probably due to the growing size.. But something very hilarious, last weekend while he was resting with me on the sofa, and baby was moving a lot in me. So I told Darius, "look darius baby is moving..." he stared for a while, then say "eee eee" , guess what's his next move................. he gave a smack on my moving tummy.. aiyooo... guess he was trying to help but ouch...

Another progress, he had been attempting to feed himself and hold the bottle finally (plain lazy).
He is now sleeping alone at his single size mattress just beside our bed. Hopefully this continue and the newborn can sleep on the babycot.

Bossy boy in action

Hi everyone..
Playground@Pasir Ris

Wild Wild Wet... See his unhappy face after being drag out of the pool

Outing @Airport

Hey I am 18th Month Old already...

Darius with Baby Owen

Darius with Cousin Kimi @ Playgym

Happily exploring in Gym

He luv the slide

Darius with new toy car. (Thks Ping YeeYee for helping to transport the car back)

18th month old cheeky and mischievous boy milestone update:

1) Still picking up new single/double syllabus at this stage. Favorite syllabus are papa, mama, popo, ah neh neh (ha, this is the only thing he fear of) , jie jie...

2) Attempting to run especially in open area/malls

3) Attempting to feed himself at dinner table, but definitely in a mess

4) Relocated car seat to front passenger seat and he is able to stay seated till destination with tibits/ entertainment

5) Undergoing another stage of grow spurt, more milk n milk n milk... snacks, beehoon, noodle...

6) Transiting him out of babycot and sleeping on single size mattress (But still in our room)

7) Favorite food for the month.. Strawberry, roti prata, raisin, yakult

CNY Pictures

Baby Darius with Kelvin Jiu Jiu during CNY'08 (He was so baby looking and chubby)

Toddler Darius with Kelvin Jiu Jiu during CNY'09 (Two Mr Cool)

Darius with Cousins during CNY'08

Darius with Cousins during CNY'09 (Any resemblance ?)

Finally its Darius greeting you a Happy Ox Year

Viral Attack

Poor Darius boy was down with fever since Friday night, hitting an high of 40.1 Deg today. :( Brought him to his PD today in case his wheezing is back, fortunately there were no wheezing. Reason for the high fever was due to viral. Poor baby was having flushing red cheek when the temperature hit an high. Need close monitoring over the next few days. Hope he recover soon.

Happy Ox Year

Just finish our reunion dinner and cleaning up. This is the first year we are having it at our place with our immediate relatives, usually we will have it outside or at granny place. I wish this is a simple and peaceful year for our family and in work. Hope we will be blessed to carry our baby junior to at least 37 weeks. That's our humble wish. Happy new year to all.

Ouch.. Pain Pain

It all begin with a happy morning when mommy is not working, family was chatting and Darius was happily walking about showing off his things on hand. Then... he trip and fell over my mum leg and his mouth bled. He was so angry and embarrassed and he cried and threw out his milk. We use ice to soothe the wound and apply gel on it. Hope it will be heal before CNY. :(

Mr Cool @ 16th Month

Here comes the 16th month update. Recently grandma commented that if a baby still unable to walk by 15th month then he will only walk on 18th month.. Also there were comments that a late walker means good life ahead.. I was amused by these myth and I thought it was meant well as a consolation.. Nevertheless it happened, on the very last day of the 15th month... (read on)

I was glad that I pushed away a business dinner yesterday as I was tired and also wanted to catch more time with Darius. When I came home still feeling exhausted, I was cheered by a toddler which started only walking on the lat day of his 15th month.. Some more he can also get on the bicycle on his own now (Enjoy video). It was indeed a priceless moment watching his first few steps. :)

~ Started walking without aid
~ Another teeth is spouting out
~ Say "Pa Pa" very loudly
~ Try on other variety of food this month, etc Marconi, spaghetti, Mee sua, bee hoon etc
~ Had his last 2nd jab
~ Super cheeky and lovable