Mummy's voice... ...post pregnancy

Why is Baby Asher not blogging today and is Mummy leh? Look at the following pictures and you will get the answer... ...

Baby Asher in mummy's laps and his Blog

Sleeping
still sleeping... ...

Happily sleeping... ...

Well Baby Asher is simply just too sleepy to do his blog. So mummy will blog today.

Has motherhood been fantastic?

Hmm...I can only say it is amazing... ... so much so that in the past, countless alarm clocks would just do the job of waking me up and then getting down to switching them off rather than out of bed..and there's always "the rest for another 5 mins excuse" and when I finally wake up in shock, OMG!!!LATE!!! ;p

BUT with Baby Asher, his cries and necessary feeding times can well keep me aware of the timing so much so that I don't seem to need an alarm clock anymore. Isn't it amazing?

So I am not amazing...but the birth of Baby Asher that's amazing, the process we (together as one)went through, with him in me, coming out of me and adapting to life outside with me that's amazing.

At times I am really pretty bored of the daily routine stuffs like Feeding Asher, Diaper changing, Expressing milk, Bottles cleaning and sterilising, putting Asher to bed, spending time with Golden and Silver(ensuring they are not neglected so that they will welcome and love Asher as well and of course out of love for them)...it seems so brainless stuffs that i am doing everyday...

BUT I know soon it will be over and I will be off into the next stage...so i better cherish every moment now...just like the ten months of pregnancy...Blink blink eyes, over le...

Anyway, Mummies are mummies....I can't believe that almost everything that I google/yahoo for these days, are all about the baby...about his mucus eye discharge, his jaundice, his milk consumption, his growth and jabs, infant's brain development and how to raise a happy baby... ...and the list goes on... ...Does that happen to all mummies?

As Baby Asher has previously mentioned...there were some nights when he was a terror.....i have to admit there was that split second I felt frustrated and wanted to throw Asher on the floor or take a pillow and cover him up(just an exaggerated illustration of the frustration I felt) which of course I didnt lah...but when i have just fed him at 11am, 1am, 2plus am and he still refuses to sleep and cry every now and then...when I have changed his nappies...sang to him...and finally just when I thought I have successfully coaxed him and put him into the cot, got into my bed and closed my eyes.........................THERE HE COMES AGAIN.....CRIES and CRIES and CRIES...and I repeated the same thing almost like 4,5 times in the same night(erm morning le)...until 4plus 5 am....time to feed him again...that's when I understand fully why post-pregnancy depression is so common.

BUT no worries, Baby Asher...I won't let you get Mummy down...I will learn and get going and get better everyday. :) Besides, you really haven't really been that difficult lah...must be fair to you.

So if there's any parents-to-be reading the blog, those "daddy-to-be", please provide more attention to mummy and also necessary moral, emotional and physical support. It's important. And "mummies-to-be", be it breastfeeding, handling the baby and etc...perseverance is the word...ultimately, sure can one...just hang on and the rainbow will come after the rain...

Today's blog by Mummy Lindy, who has embarked on the amazing motherhood journey...

26th Feb 08 - 2 more days and I will be 2 weeks old!

I finally gave mummy a peaceful night's sleep. I didnt cry for nappy change, milk or anything from 230am till 830am...so mummy had a chance to sleep loh. See mummy...i love you so much. 2am to 230am was my last feed until this morning 830am leh...I think I had been a wonderful boy. :)

Last night, mummy gave me milk milk at 1130pm, then daddy changed my nappy for me...

See daddy...like not very professional leh, but i can feel his love for me :)

He is so tired le...still change nappy for me...

Daddy I love you!

Mummy was laughing at daddy...wondering how come he change one diaper for me need to use SoOooOOoOOo many pieces of baby wipes, tissue paper...... see the stack of tissues and baby wipes on the used diaper is like my size le woh....daddy you very wasteful leh...

Mummy say "hang2 qin2 bu4 hao3, must sheng3 sheng3 yong4" ...you like that use hor...one pkt of bb wipes maybe 2, 3 days finish loh...HAHAHAHA...my butt so big meh daddy???

Oh...in case you are wondering why got a black box...of cos must cover up my precious area lah...how can anyhow let anybody and everybody see... ;p

This morning, after my morning first feed at 830Am, mummy sun me for a while, not much sun cos it is cloudy... then she bathe me...hmm I am going to smell good and nice loh...

Mummy...do I smell good and nice now after the bath??

Lots of Love Always.

25th Feb 08 - My 11th Day since Birth...

This early morning i was a terror again....almost throughout 1 - 430am i was crying on and off for more milk....Mummy fed me at 12am and then I regurgitate out some milk...then put me to bed, then 230am fed me again...4Am again and in between i cried still...

Was it my wet nappies or that I was fed full? Mummy say I am big eater...eat every 1.5 hrs...she cant even close her eyes to rest, not to mention sleep...

After feeding me, change my diapers and changing my diapers not easy you know...cos' mummy had to "xu1 xu1" me to make me pee in my diapers before she clean my butt and change new diaper...cos I "shot" my pee at mummy few times le...so now she's trying to make me pee first...so far some occasions I had been co-operative...some I had been cheeky...hehe...what to do...boy boy like that one lah

Finally Mummy was able to catch some sleep from 5Am to 7AM...then time to feed me again..
Hiyah...its always the same thing, same routine...maybe mummy not tired i also tired...haha

After feeding and burping me, mummy then sun me for a while... See my "wu3 lian2 pai1"...

See my dimples?? Mummy say they are from her!!

Today Mummy finally tried to bathe me personally....and it was a success!! I didnt cry...see mummy, Asher give you face hor...

To be continued...cos I need to go mum mum loh...

" Hungry Baby is Angry Baby."

My first 10 days...

Obviously 15th till 17th feb morning I was at Thomson Medical lah....

Mummy successfully latched me on for BF the very first night I arrived... Nurse also say I clever boy leh... :p

16th Feb Saturday
Many ppl came to see me....lost count le. But all of you Uncles and Aunties ... thanks for coming to welcome my arrival. You know who you are....

17th Feb Sunday 10 plus AM
We checked out of TMC and on the way home. I am kind of nervous...first time seeing my home...where I will be staying with Mummy & Daddy and Golden and Silver...how would my home be like and will Silver and Golden love me?

Mummy was short of a few items and managed to get Godma Sann to buy for us....but u know
what?!! One of the items is Glucose powder...I need it as a supplement drink before mummy's milk supply comes in enough for me...IT IS OUT OF STOCK IN THE ENTIRE COMPASS POINT!! such a common item...and out of stock...Mummy...did you pass down your "GIAM CAI MIA" to me? Ain't I supposed to be blessed? ;p hehe...just joking..
Thanks to Godma Sann and Godpa Jon that we managed to have those items...BIG HUGZ to you here until I can do it in reality..hmm, guess you got to wait quite a while woh..

Then there's Auntie Tricia who came over to accompany Mummy immediately after we discharged from hospital and stayed all the way till night woh...until Mummy's mummy came over...as daddy need to beout for work...also big HUGZ to you. Auntie Angel as well....and Auntie Quin...all of you so nice to come and see me...

First night I was a terror to mummy & daddy as I cried quite a few times in the night though I slept soundly in the day...I was new to the environment mah....afterall my 3rd day out of mummy's tummy only leh...I have day night inversion mah....just like when you guys take flight to states and back to singapore, will have jet lag also mah...give me sometime and I promise I wont be so much of a terror...

18th Feb Monday - 24th Feb Sunday
My first complete week at home...the pictures (Pictures Time 1-5) will show you part of my life at home...anyway I have been sleeping, drinking milk almost every 2-3hours and mummy has not been sleeping much...but she says when she see my smile, or see my satisfied look after a feed and a nappy change...all her tiredness is worthwhile and somehow her energy just comes back again...

There were once or twice I was difficult in the wee hours...I was fed and nappy was changed and I still made noise, still refuse to let mummy have her peaceful sleep..thus mummy was a little upset...she cried...but only for that few minutes lah...sorry mummy I made you cry...i didnt mean it...you know I didnt mean it...please bear with me until I become older ok? Anyway, mummy always says I make her day more than make her upset... :) So i guess I havent been too naughty bah...

Mummy walked me couple of times downstairs, so as to sun me to reduce my jaundice... cos I need vitamin D from the sun!! Then twice some aunties came over and shake head...say I not yet full month and mummy actually bring me out?! Hmm..mummy also don't know what to say...

Daddy didnt feed me last night at 1AM..mummy already prepared the expressed milk in the fridge for him to take out and warm to feed me at 1AM and he didnt....so i made lots of noise once at 205am which mummy fed me and another time at 5AM, which mummy tried but couldnt feed me...she bled and then daddy gave me expressed milk warmed...but i kept crying while waiting...after i was fed,mummy sang lullaby and put me to bed. BUT at 6plusAM i made noise again....this time mummy want daddy to coax me...

Mummy was angry that Daddy didnt feed me at 1AM, cos' she thinks that's y I gave them such a hard time...hmmm i dunno leh.

24th Feb Sun..my Day 10: Today as I create the blog...

I have been a fine boy!
and
BYE BYE...
I want to go mum mum loh...
Gd Nite!

Pictures 5!!

My Day 9 230208:

My Granddad and Grandma come visit me...daddy's daddy and mummy lah
See...mummy so worried of my jaundice that change diaper in the morning also must sun me even for few minutes...my jaundice is now at 14.9
I am just like the size of the pillow and bolster...I am 3.5kg le

My Day 10 240208:

Can see what Mummy is trying to show?? My pi sai lah! HAHA

Happily fed le!

Pictures Time 4!!

My Day 8 220208:

See..all the gifts that the many uncles and aunties sent as well wishes for the welcome of my

arrival and encouragements to mummy...first time mummy upgraded!

Dr. Allyson Tan, my PD, says I have jaundice now at 16.1 almost need to admit hospital for phototherapy...I made mummy worry...so mummy got to sun me... Me, Daddy and Silver at the cosy corner
Golden and Silver looking after me...

Hehe...I am sleeping again...have i grown bigger?

Pictures Time 3!!

My Day 7 210208:

At ACJ Women's Clinic, to see Dr. Caroline Khi
Daddy & Mummy & Asher
Mummy's Sister-In-Law, Mummy & I ... Hmm how should I address mummy's SIL??
Back home, fed and asleep again....Hey...it's my priviledge now hor...

Pictures Time 2!

My Day 4: 180208: Me sleeping away in my cot
My Day 5 190208: Mummy just finished feeding me and changing my diapers
My Day 5 190208: Auntie Irene and Godma Sann came to see me. :)
My Day 5 190208: Aiyoh...no image leh...sleep until mouth open so big
My Day 6 200208: Mummy & I after my first visit to my Pediatrician

Pictures Time 1

14th Feb 2008 Valentine's Day: The last day Baby Asher (ME) still in Mummy's tummy. Asher's Mummy and Her Mummy... ... taking a final shot at home before going to hospital ;p
Finally I arrived. Reached home on 17th Feblying asleep in my baby cot that mummy prepared.
17th Feb Sunday: Auntie Tricia and I
Daddy and I

I have arrived!!

I am Asher Seah Z-I. (Xie Zeyu)
Delivered in Thomson Medical Centre on 15th February 2008 Friday.
My mummy is Lindy Jin, Daddy is Alvin Seah.

Many of mummy's and daddy's friends say I am "tee gong kia" because 15th Feb 2008 is Lunar CNY Day 9, which is "Tian Gong's Day" when every religious chinese will pay respects to the "Tian Gong"...hehe...if I really am, I hope I will be able to bring blessings and abundance of happiness to Daddy and Mummy and our family, which of course comprises of Golden and Silver lah.

Today is the 10th day of my life and Mummy and I have decided to start a blog to record my progress and life journey...

I am named Asher because of 3 reasons:
1. Asher follows Alvin Daddy, both start with the letter 'A'
2. Asher = Happy & Blessed. Mummy says when I was in her womb, she had a happy and blessed pregnancy, which I had not been naughty and most importantly, she wants me to be happy and blessed in my life journey
3. Asher contains 5 Letters, same as Alvin and Lindy. So mummy says, if I have a younger sister who comes along later, she will be named Leann Seah, but if it is going to be a younger brother...... no name yet loh. HAHA

I was originally due on 13th Feb but I was simply too comfortable in Mummy that I refused to come out....and I wasn't gaining weight anymore...so Dr. Caroline Khi suggested inducing my arrival...

14th February 2008:
1600hrs:
A tablet was inserted into mummy to commence inducing, to have more contractions, Mummy's dilation improved from 0.5cm to 1.5cm within half hour...

15th February 2008:
0000hrs:
Mummy admitted to hospital but the CTG scan shows not much improvements...seems like I was very stubborn ... SORRY MUMMY
0900hrs - 1030hrs:
Mummy's dilation only at 2.5cm...Dr.Khi had to burst waterbag...mummy was very disappointed why I just dont seem to be interested in coming out.
1040hrs:
Still not much improvements...so had to put mummy on a drip to induce more contractions to get me out...the nurses say judging at the rate, i will comeout prbly only around evening before dinnertime...
1245hrs:
Daddy had to go becos' of work and Mummy also agreed he should go now instead of delaying and dragging, so that he can rush back in time to witness my arrival...
1310hrs:
Dr. Khi came by to check and realised mummy's dilation already 5cm...I could hear her encouragements to Mummy, telling Mummy that she's doing well as so far did not even request for any pain relief...and Dr. Khi say I will likely be out earlier than evening. BUT HOW?! Daddy's not here and will only be back by 6pm. Upon hearing that, Dr Khi said had to remove the drip on Mummy to slow down the contractions...so Mummy and I tahan....
1610hrs:
Mummy's dilation 8CM le!!! Daddy!! Where are you??!!! Asher is coming....
By now, mummy started using the "Laughing Gas" to minimise her feel of the pain of me pushing down the birth canal...BREATHE IN, BREATHE OUT....
Maybe becos I am inside mummy, I could feel she felt lonely in the delivery ward as the nurses walked in and out to check on her...as much as she tried to relax and think of Golden and Silver, with the classical music playing in the background, I could still feel her loneliness without daddy's presence...daddy where are you??
1755hrs:
With her blurry eyes, she finally saw daddy!!! Few drops of tears rolled down mummy's cheeks as she see the nurse bring daddy in...
mummy's dilation about 9CM le...soon I will be out to see you Mummy and Daddy!!
Mummy & Daddy's conversation:
Blurr Daddy: Dear, are you ok? BB leh? Where's BB? U saw BB already?? (Touching mummy's tummy)
Confused Mummy: BB is still here. (Pointing to her tummy) What are you talking?
Blurr Daddy: Eh...Don't bluff me...the nurse sms me to tell me you give birth le..and Asher's ok. (showing mummy the sms on his mobile phone)
Tired Mummy: That number is SANN loh. Didn't you read the QUESTION MARK tagged behind the words? "Lindy ok? Baby out?"
Blurr Daddy: OMG!! I already sent sms to everyone, say you delivered and my baby boy Asher is out le.
1800hrs:
By now confused mummy is so tired to even laugh at him le....she immediately asked the nurse to ask for Dr. Khi to come ...but nurse say still must wait till 10cm...
1830hrs:
Dr. Khi camed mummy keep telling her she feels like shitting....which is a sign of me pushing out of the birth canal severely le...mummy can finally start pushing to get me out
Mummy started pushing and pushing...using all the strength she has....but still cant get me out..mummy felt so demoralising when nurse say only can see 3 STRANDS of my hair...but slowly push again and again...Dr. Khi say can see my head le....try harder...MUMMY...you can do it...focus..
1930hrs+:
Finally I was vacumned out by Dr. Khi as Mummy was too exhausted to push le....and there I was...came out without even crying...HEHEHE

Other than Dr. Khi, the nurses, Daddy and Mummy, the next first person I met is Godma Sann..

To be continued....