两个星期

璇璇，

不知不觉中你已经两个星期大了，虽然爸爸妈妈每天非常努力地服饰你，定时让你喝奶，但是你看起来还是很小。

爸爸妈妈一直把你和当时的姐姐比较，现在的你身材看起来是那么地“娇小”，身体也是瘦瘦的。

这两个星期除了这两天还没有大便之外，你的状况还是让爸爸妈妈满意的；爸爸妈妈不必像当初一样带姐姐去看医生以及担心。

为了照顾你，爸爸妈妈也睡得少了，一天很少超过五个钟头；爸爸星期一晚上甚至将近早上六点才睡觉，睡了一个钟头多后又从床上爬起来去医院了。

对了，你有一个非常疼你的姐姐，姐姐周五到礼拜天在家时，总是不停地走进房间要吻你疼你抱你。

反而是爸爸妈妈过度担心，怕姐姐的过度热情会弄伤了你，所以不停地阻止她。

姐姐跟爸爸妈妈说，她的玩具要和你share share喔。

这几天你对周围的环境越来越好奇，妈妈喂你喝奶时，爸爸站在旁边和你说话，你总是会盯着爸爸看，然后爸爸走到那里你的眼神就会跟到那里。

喝完奶后爸爸妈妈跟你说话时，你偶尔还会对我们微笑，然后嘴巴尖尖的，似乎有很多话要跟爸爸妈妈说。

接下来的日子，爸爸妈妈唯一的希望就是你能健康健康和快快乐乐地长大。

噢，下个星期一你就三个星期大了。

爸爸

Lovely sister :)

Dearest Chloe,

Below is a blog post which mummy had written for your sister, Raeanne.. Mummy has decided to post it on your blog too cos mummy wants you to know how much your sister loves you, even though she's just a 20 months old lil' girl.. :)



Precious sweetheart,

It's been exactly a week since the birth of your lil' sister, Chloe.. And I must say, you have been a very sweet sister! :)

Darling's 1st encounter with Chloe was through Skype.. Mummy was still in hospital then.. and your sister was just a day old when you 2 met.. That wasn't how we planned to let you 2 meet for the 1st time though.. But daddy and mummy missed you.. and we thought we could also let your 外公,外婆 and 阿姨s meet lil' Chloe since they couldn't come to the hospital to visit mummy cos they had to take care of you..

But things didn't go too well that day.. Darling was not your usual self that evening.. You were exceptionally quiet when we introduced lil' Chloe to you.. Normally when we talked to you about your lil' sister, you'd either display affection by kissing mummy's tummy or you'd raise your hand as though you want to hit her when you are in a bad mood..


You were neither that evening.. Darling was so listless and just stared at the computer quietly.. Daddy and mummy got so worried after that.. We were worried that darling was feeling hurt and sad.. Mummy's heart ached to see darling like that..

So mummy was really looking forward to seeing you the next day when mummy and Chloe could be discharged.. 外公 and 外婆 brought you back home.. Thank goodness, darling was back to your usual cheerful self and even requested repeatedly that you want to see your lil' sister.. And not just that, darling would always stretch out your hands and attempt to hug and kiss your sister.. :)

That was such a moving and beautiful sight.. :)


Daddy and mummy also finally presented you with the big carebear that we've been saving for this day! (Took mummy lots of effort to refrain from giving it to you before your sister was born!) And its meant to be a gift from your sister to you.. Well, this was supposed to reduce jealousy, if any was actually brewing within you..



But by the looks of it, we had worried needlessly.. On friday, after daddy and mummy brought lil' Chloe for jaundice check, we dropped by to see darling.. And darling was so happy to see us too.. Especially your lil' sister.. Darling's love for your sister was so overwhelming that we had to try and restrain you! Cos you kept attempting to hug your sister and carry her away from mummy.. Pat her all over and kissing her.. Offering her your fav yakult... and placing your fav handphone to her face asking lil' Chloe to 'Hello'! :) That really amused all of us.. Cos darling used to place your handphone to mummy's tummy asking your sister to say 'Hello'..

Precious lil' sweetheart, you've been an exceptionally big-hearted and loving sister.. and daddy and mummy are so touched by your love for your sister.. :) Sweetheart, daddy and mummy are really proud of you!:)
Love,
Mummy

第三天

璇璇，

下午爸爸在医院工作时，妈妈发了一则短讯给爸爸，说你喝了奶后静静地看着墙上的动物壁纸，那种表情非常可爱。

爸爸可以想象到你看壁纸的那种表情，因为这三天你睡醒喝完奶后总是东看看西看看，看到令你好奇的东西时，你就盯着那东西一直看。

有时会盯着爸爸看，有时盯着妈妈；爸爸猜想你心里面一定在想着：哎，这是什么东西啊，怎么一直对着我发出声音？

昨天出院之前护士阿姨帮你量了体重，你轻了一百克；回到家妈妈帮你码身子时，爸爸发觉你好小好小哦，小到令人感觉要好好地保护你照顾你的那种。

回到家后，爸爸对着你说了算许多莫名其妙的话，弄到妈妈在一旁笑，其中一个莫名其妙的问题就是爸爸问你，你几时要叫我爸爸啊。

家里有了你和姐姐两位两个小宝贝后，爸爸无论是去到那里，心里都是觉得甜丝丝的。=）

爸爸

回家咯

璇璇，

今天最高兴的事情就是妈妈和你都可以出院了！

以前你姐姐恩恩刚出世的时候，健康状况不佳，结果妈妈也决定不出院，陪着姐姐在医院度过了接近一个星期。

这次从妈妈怀你到生下你为止，爸爸一直都在担心你身体的状况，幸好今早医生帮你做了全身检验后，说除了盘骨与大腿之间的关节连接有点松之外，其他都是正常。

这意味着你今天可以和妈妈一起出院了！

能回家毕竟是件让人非常开心和兴奋的事情，尤其是折腾了一段日子后。

今早下了一阵雨，耽误了一点回家的时间，不过总算在下午一点我们到家了。

我们到家后不到十分钟，祖父刚好过来了；大约十五分钟后，外公外婆带姐姐恩恩过来了。

姐姐恩恩一直要爸爸抱着你看正在熟睡的你，她还一直不停地俯下身子来吻你，还跟爸爸说她要抱你。爸爸看了后心里甜甜的。

后来祖父外公外婆姐姐，家里只剩下我们三个人，爸爸妈妈努力地观察你的生活习惯，希望在接下来的日子也能让你健康开心地过日子。

晚上爸爸接了祖母以及你的表哥弈泽过来，接下来的日子就由祖母和妈妈来轮流照顾你了，当然爸爸也会努力地照顾你的。

家里多了你后，可以预期到以后家里会越来越热闹了。

好开心哦。=）

爸爸

Precious Chloe's Birth-Day! =)

Precious Chloe,

Finally we meet.. :)

Ultimately, you still chose your own birthday.. 8th Mar 2010 :)

Mummy was supposed to admit into hospital to induce your birth on your EDD, which happened to be 8th Mar.. However, when Dr Tan did a check for mummy that morning at 10am, mummy was already 3cm dilated.. Dr Tan said mummy was already in early labor and so there's no need to induce birth! :)

Excellent! Just what I wanted to hear! Though I didn't really expect to have such luck since mummy was still pukey as usual that morning and did not have the slightest bit of contraction pain nor any signs of going into labor like leaking of amniotic fluid or bleeding..

Anyway, we then proceeded to the labor ward. Once in the room, about 4 nurses started fussing over mummy.. getting mummy changed.. settling mummy comfortably.. asking mummy lots of questions... signing lots of documents..

In retrospect, mummy really wondered how did I manage all these the last time mummy was in labor.. All I can remember of that 1st labor experience was pain, pain and more pain.. Of cos, there were lots signing too.. But mummy was in so much pain then that mummy's ears could no longer register what everyone was mumbling around me.. so mummy just signed blindly.. Anyway, that's what happened when mummy was about to deliver your sister.. :)

Once settled down, at about 1130am, a lady MO came to break mummy's water bag.. That was to expedite your arrival.. But by 230pm, Dr Tan felt that our progress was still a bit slow.. So he started mummy on oxytocin.. (Dr Tan promised mummy that I'll be able to have dinner :) )

That was when mummy started to feel a bit of contraction pain.. Still bearable though.. Mummy could still watch the oscars live! Haha.. By about 3 plus, the pain intensity had increased and mummy had to use the gas mask.. and once mummy started on that, things started to become hazy.. cos it makes mummy drowsy..

By about 430pm, mummy had fully dilated and the pain was now unbearable.. the gas mask was no longer working its magic.. mummy got anxious and breathed in so fast that mummy hyperventilated and muscles went all stiff.. SN Kamsiah had to hold a paperbag for mummy to breathe into.. Daddy helped mummy massage my stiff fingers.. and Dr Tan was telling mummy to "Breathe in.. breathe out.. slowly.. relax"...

And then it was time to push.. i.e. time to let go of the gas mask.. well, doesn't really matter anyway cos it wasn't really helping already.. so daddy offered his hands.. Mummy squeeeeezzzeeddd daddy's poor hand when the pain came on.. But it probably wasn't so bad this time.. cos mummy didn't have anything to eat all day and was beginning to feel weak.. At one point in time, mummy really felt like biting daddy's arms! Haa.. cos mummy didn't have the energy to squeeze daddy's hands.. But daddy's lucky.. mummy still had that bit of sanity left.. so mummy only pressed my forehead against daddy's arms..

Push once... not out..

Push twice... and... :)

8th Mar 2010, 1656h, mummy and daddy's precious lil' gem was born :)

First thing mummy said to daddy was, "Pass me my glasses!" :) Hee.. Cos mummy couldn't wait to see darling... :)

Precious lil' Chloe, welcome to this world...

Welcome to our family.. :)

Daddy, mummy and jie jie love you lots... =)

璇璇，生日快乐

璇璇，

你毕竟还是足足等到了四十个星期，然后在妈妈怀孕后不久陈叔叔医生计算好的三月八日才跟爸爸妈妈报到。

好准时哦。

两个星期前的星期四妈妈回去复诊时，下体已经开了一公分，上个星期四再回去时也没有什么进展；那时陈叔叔医生问爸爸妈妈要周末还是今天，我们选择了今天。

今早十点检验后，医生说开了三公分，应该今天你就会出来了；看完医生后爸爸陪妈妈进去产房，然后就开始了差不多六个钟头的等待。

护士阿姨先弄破了妈妈的羊水袋，羊水袋被弄破后妈妈开始觉得肚子里开始一阵又一阵的痛。

爸爸非常担心妈妈会像上次生姐姐时经历的惨痛，就一直问妈妈要不要打epidural，妈妈每次的回答总是皱着眉头摇头说不要。

下午两点半，护士开始注射Oxytocin，先是每小时一mL，三点十五分时增加到三mL，然后是六，十二，到最后十五分钟时增加到廿四。

妈妈脸上的表情随着疼痛的程度而越来越扭曲，最后捏着爸爸的手也越来越紧，到了最后廿分钟时痛到呼吸已经非常急促了，吸入过多氧气的结果让妈妈手脚开始抽筋，陈医生叔叔及护士必须拿纸带给妈妈，让妈妈吸近二氧化碳来中和。

而爸爸妈妈的心肝宝贝你也是非常合作，头部也越来越低，医生每次检验妈妈的下体，你的“出口”总是越来越大。从刚进产房的三公分到五公分，然后差不多四点时的七公分，四点廿分的九公分，四点半时完整的十公分。

说到这里，爸爸想到之前三点多时妈妈肚子开始收紧时，你和妈妈一起努力到一半时居然睡着了，弄到护士阿姨必须拿出一种特别的震动器来把你唤醒！后来妈妈住进病房时，爸爸和妈妈说起时，我们都笑了。

最后二十分钟是妈妈最痛的时候了，爸爸非常担心妈妈会捱不过来。

不过勇敢的妈妈还是努力地把你给“挤“出来了，你“冲”出来的时候血溅了满床，爸爸也看到相当分量的血溅到地上。

事前妈妈已经交待好爸爸，你一出来就要帮你进行录影，所以护士阿姨一把你抱起来后爸爸就开始帮你录影，然后拍照。这样很多很多年后，这一刻属于你生命中刚开始的前几分钟就有很美很美的纪录了。

妈妈生下你后，后来吃了几口饭和Milo不久后又吐了出来，这次妈妈怀你四十个星期，可以说除了刚开始的四个星期没吐之外，其余的日子都是在呕吐，连你出来后不久也在吐；不过庆幸的是这一切已经过去了。

刚刚爸爸妈妈带了你进来病房，你和爸爸妈妈度过了快乐的一个多钟头。

而现在爸爸妈妈要等明天医生阿姨帮你进行检验确定一切正常后才能完完全全地放心。

等了这么久，爸爸妈妈总算见到我们的宝贝璇璇了。=）

璇璇，生日快乐。

噢，还有妇女节快乐。=P

爸爸

Finale..

Hello precious lil' princess,

This is certainly going to be mummy's last entry before we meet... Officially! =)

As usual, mummy's entry is going to go back a few weeks.. Right, let's start from 25th Feb.. We went to see Dr Tan that afternoon.. Darling was then 38 weeks and 4 days old.. And Dr Tan's first question to mummy was, "So when do you want to deliver?" =) Looks like Dr Tan's more anxious than mummy to bring you into this world..

But after a check, we knew that darling wasn't ready to meet us yet.. Cos mummy had all but dilated 1 cm.. and according to Dr Tan, mummy still had lots of 'water'! Darling must be happily enjoying your spa huh?

Well, in order to wait, Dr Tan said we had to ensure that darling was still doing well inside.. So he sent mummy to the labor ward to have a CTG done.. Hmm.. within 30 mins, mummy apparently had 2 contractions.. but mummy totally did not feel it until the nurse told mummy about it.. And darling also decided to 'communicate' with everyone by being super active.. When the nurse saw the chart documenting darling's progress, she went 'Wow, very active baby huh.. Boy or girl?' :)

Anyway, Dr Tan was satisfied that darling was doing well inside mummy and so allowed mummy to go home and 'wait' for darling to be ready to meet us..

Another week passed... 4th Mar, we went to see Dr Tan again.. And this time, Dr Tan asked mummy,'So, fri or sat?' :) Mummy and daddy didn't want to choose your birth day.. We'd rather darling choose your own special day.. Eventually, Dr Tan relented.. because mummy still had a lot of 'water' and that darling seemed to be pretty happy inside still.. But he's giving mummy only up till either 8th or 9th Mar before he's going to induce your birth.. So daddy and mummy chose 8th Mar.. since that's your original EDD...

Daddy says darling is a very good gal... cos darling heard what mummy has been telling you.. 1st, mummy told you not to arrive too early so that mummy will have more time after my exams (due early june) to spend with you before mummy has to head back to work.. Then mummy told you not to arrive before 25th Feb.. cos that's the earliest mummy can go sign up an iphone for daddy... And after that, mummy further requested that you arrive only after 1st mar.. so that mummy will be able to celebrate your sister's birthday with her before mummy goes back to work...

Looks like darling heard mummy's every request and has accomodated every single one of them yar? :) Thank you darling.. You've been a very sweet and understanding lil' girl... But its really time for you to step out of your comfy lil' spa to meet daddy, mummy and your sister.. :)

Well, you've just 1 more chance to choose your birthday... If not, we'll most likely be meeting on the 8th yar?? :)

Looking forward to meet you, precious lil' one.. Seeya!

Love,
mummy