Our Ah Boy drools...

This is ah boy at 6.5 months old.
He is teething at this moment, and he drools a lot ( really alot, just like a leaking tap!).
Only time when he is not drooling is when he is asleep.
You would'nt believe the number of bibs i have at home... easily twenty pieces!
We got to change his bib every hourly....
The above bib was given by a close friend, it comes with a tie sew onto the bib, COOL Right!

Ah Boy growing up

This is Ah Boy Jared. Now he's 18.5 weeks growing strong.

His grip is very strong, able to hang on his own weight. I remember Isabel was able to do the same at the same age, she could hold for a full minute before losing the grip. I believe Jared has the potential to do better.

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Times flies even when you're at home!

Life at home been rather busy with little Jared around. But I must say the bond that binds us together is beyond words can describe. Jared is now 10 wks old and weights around 6kg. He can now make vowel sounds like "a", "e", " o" ... etc
I just can't wait for the day when he can giggle out loud.

Full Month Celebration

Baby Jared's full month celebration... We split the celebration into 2 different Sundays; the Sunday before was with our Church friends while the following Sunday was for our relatives and friends and colleagues.

With all the noise and sound, he managed to sleep through the entire event on the first Sunday. Some say he has my nose, some say he has my wife's cheek...

But all would agree that he is very boyish looking and will be a handsome man when he grows up.

Its nice to have so many uncles and aunties come and give blessings to little Jared.

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Sleepless in Sengkang...

Its close to a month now... still we have not had a full night of undisturbed sleep. But at most we are only complaining to each other of the tiredness that physically we are enduring. Everytime, we look at Jared's big google eyes looking back at us seemingly trying to say "Thank you for taking care of me."


All the tiredness will be worth it.

Now we have established an unspoken pattern for the night... I, who usually sleeps quite late, will take care of Jared for the earlier part of the night while my wife rests. She'll attend to him for the later part of the night when necessary.


We are of course looking forward to the time when he can play and laugh with us, cos by 6 weeks, he will develop the sense of humour and laughs at funny faces and sound which his 2 sisters are very capable of doing such nonsense.


It will be fun.


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Baby Jared is born

Since Thursday night, my wife started to have regular cramps about an hour apart. By bed time, it was half hourly.

The next morning, 10 am onwards, the contractions were 5 minutes apart. We hurriedly went for grocery shopping making sure that the kitchen is well stocked so that our helper can cook for the kids.

When the pain was 4 minutes apart, she wanted to eat Char Siew and roast pork rice. So we settled our lunch at the Food court. All these while, she was still enduring the pain.


Mid-afternoon, I drove her to the hospital, arrived at the delivery suite and got registered. But this day must have been a good day to deliver babies because, their 30 over rooms were all fully occupied delivering babies at the same time.

Near evening, we got the suite. My wife was still contemplating to use Epidural or not, she wanted to brave the intense labor pain to deliver this baby. I told her at least use the gas, it should help make it easier for her.


She said the gas makes her very light headed... very high. So I had a few puffs of it. It felt like floating in clouds...

By 6.45pm, her contractions were very close, she started to twist and turn on the bed. I did my best to comfort her, ensuring her that it will be over soon, but she don't seem to hear me anymore.

Suddenly, she opened her eyes wide and stared at me and said: "The Water-bag broke." I lunged forward and pressed the red panic by the bed side summoning professional help.

The first nurse came in and checked, U-turned back to the door and screamed at someone else who pushed in a trolley with surgical utensils. Everyone started putting on rubber gloves.

In the mist of the pain, my wife suddenly said: "I feel like pushing now!"

But the Mid-wife replied: "WAIT, wait... breath... breath... pant pant..."

My wife waited as long as she could, but when the baby head appeared, they changed the command to "GO! GO! GO!" "PUSH! PUSH!"

The other nurse by my side: "DADDY! HOLD THIS LEG! Don't let it fight with me!"

I held on to her leg and lifted her shoulder to help her push: "COME ON! ONE MORE PUSH!"
Jared had a cord around his neck, but the nurse was quick to spot it, grabbed and pulled it loose before it got tightened.

Soon, I watched the baby came shushing out, heard his first cry.


38 weeks of waiting... finally we met for the first time, face to face on 17 July 2009, 7.20pm

Our Gynae helped us take this picture.

After the ordeal, my wife felt hungry...

At 9pm, where 99% of the hospital stores were closed, I managed to grab the last 2 bowls of noodles before they started cleaning up the store.

My wife, exhausted from the pain of delivery, ate hungrily.

Happy Birthday Jared

By the way... I cut the cord this time.

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Labour may begin anytime from now

Went to see gynae for the routine check last evening.

Was told that Baby Jared is ready to see the world anytime from now.

Was given MC to rest today but somehow there seems to be a lot of things for me to do before the arrival of the baby....stocking up the house with grocery, dropping by my office to clear my work/mails.....picking up baby stuff from friends...