LS birth was unexpected since he was actually due on 12 february 2012. but my “mini master” decided to arrive earlier on 19 january 2012 (4 days before chinese new year). i’m not sure whether my road trip to phuket in mid-december 2011 or the long hours of shopping had anything to do with his early arrival.

anyway, as usual, on 18 january 2012, i brought LF and my domestic helper home with me from my parents’ house after dinner. once we reached home, i told my domestic helper that i need to pee very badly. and only then i realised i was bleeding. i quickly took my shower and washed my hair then called my hubby since he was out having dinner with his friend. then, i checked with a friend and she advised me to go to the hospital. i also checked with the A&E (accident & emergency) unit at my hospital and they advised me to go to the hospital also. so, we quickly packed our stuff and dropped LF and the maid to my parents’ house. by that time, it was 9:30pm and i already had contractions at 10 minutes apart. it got more painful as we drove to prince court medical centre (pcmc) that to date, i can’t really remember the journey except that i was concentrating on the pain.

we arrived at the A&E at 10pm and was immediately taken to the labour ward. at the labour ward, i was being monitored and given systemic pain medication and nitrous oxide for the pain since i refused to be given epidural (managed my first labor with LF without epidural also). i just remembered being very drowsy and 3 hours plus later, i was told that it’s time to push! LS was born in the wee hours of 19 january 2012.

for the next 2 days, i learned to nurse LS even though i breastfed LF for 2 years but LS refused to open his mouth initially. i also had an incident where i fainted on my way back to the bed from the bathroom. fortunately, 2 nurses and my hubby managed to catch me and take me back to the bed before i fell.

we returned home on 20 january 2012.

i feel almost guilty that i don’t blog as often for prince #2. the reason mostly is because every time LF finds me on the laptop, he’ll ask that i accompany him to play or watch tv. and i’m also working from home now. so, i tend to spend more time on my laptop actually working.

we went for my check up yesterday and baby weighs 1.7 kg… a little bigger than LF when they were at this same point of my pregnancy. i hope that the baby weighs just about LF when he’s born because LF was quite big too i.e. 3.38 kg. i’ve also put on about 8 kgs so far. didn’t see much of the baby because his face was turned in but, glad that all is well.

our appointment today was at 1pm. as usual, gary has to rush out some of his work before we could leave for the hospital. and because we were running late, we brought LF along.

when we went in to see the gynae, the first thing LF said was, “hello, doctor”. after that, he told the doctor, “baby come out from the backside” LOL

during the ultrasound, the gynae told us that IT’S A BOY and we’re thrilled

weight: 52 kg

went for my check up today and got to see the baby’s head, hands and legs. unfortunately, the baby’s back was facing the ultrasound so we couldn’t see much. we’ll need to wait for the next check up to find out the gender. we also did the blood test for down syndrome just to be safe.

LF has grown a lot both physically and mentally. his vocabulary is surprising to us at times because we usually couldn’t remember where he learned them. but if we ask him, he’ll be able to tell us where he learned certain words.

last night, he surprised me by telling me this story:

once upon a time, there is a queen who is stuck in the castle and the knight saved the queen.

THE END.