Baby cot

60cm x 120cm baby cot we found at IKEA
Alexandra Rd, so far we only saw blue and white.
Real basic cot.

Might go into inventory.

Teddy bean at 12wks

Space-bean is sprouting active limbs. The
eye sockets and left/right brain division is
increasingly apparent. From this level of
resolution, the image of our precious bean
is abstracted as a teddy bear. Well, not until
our dear gynae got a little playful by
extrapolating some teddy bear ears during
the ultrasound scan shown in the video below
, hence the new name of our foetus.

Multiple Fibroids

This was a scare, pain felt in the lower
abdomen, so we went to consult our gynae.
The later part of the above video shows the
measurement of multiple fibroids which our gynae
so endearingly called "bean's playmates".
In the beginning of the video is perhaps one of
the clearest depictions of our bean who happens
to be doing a little leg stretch, measured at 12wks.

space bean

2nd time we see our baby in ultrasound,
moving on from 'bean' stage to the 'spaceman'
stage hence the naming 'spacebean.

Also, notice the handwave at 0:21!! followed
by a semblance of a slight bodywave!, as we
would like to imagine. Salsa bean!

belly belt - useful?

For mothers-to-be who are finding it
hard to cope with their pants or jeans, heres
a simple solution that we found from the maternity
shop at marina square. It works to a certain extent.

8 wks - the miracle

There are people who think that embryos such as the vaguely human-shaped one on the left (head next to roundish yolk sac) are merely accumulation of cells with no status of being, but for us, it demonstrates the Miracle of Life, the gift of God bestowed upon us. This is an embryo which will very quickly become a foetus, whose senses and organs will start developing into a complete human baby. We just had the first glimpse of our child.

Its amazing. 2 weeks ago, there was nothing but a yolk sac, but now, the embryo has appeared, bigger than the yolk sac. Wondrous work of nature.

Yolk Sac - 6wks

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our personal breakthrough,
the stage we never got to during the last pregnancy, which
ended up with a blighted ovum.

This is the first time we are seeing a yolk sac (the smaller
circle with a black dot in the center) in the gestational
sac (the bigger black oval), which means the pregnancy
has taking its first step of being viable.

Positive

Positive! Apparently, the HCG levels were so high the
plus sign appeared almost immediately. Thus begins our journey.