Third Gynae Check-up

Today we had our third gynae check-up with Dr Mary Yang -- the third in three weeks. It is important for us that our Baby is growing well, and today's check-up proved just that! Our Baby has grown by 1cm during the week, and is about 1.5cm now. The photo below shows the ultra-scan image of our Baby:



Also, our Baby's heart is beating at a rate of 175bpm, which according to Dr Yang is a good thing. The photo below shows the strong heartbeat of our Baby:


These past few weeks, Sweetheart has been very tired and recently her appetite has not been very good. Also, she feels generally unwell but these are normal signs of pregnancy. With things more or less stable, we feel more comfortable about going to Nepal (this coming Monday). We will be back in Feb for another check-up with both Dr Yang and Dr Soon.

Baby, grow healthy and strong in Mummy's womb ok? We love you!

Second Gynae Check-up

On the 28th of December, we went for our second gynae check-up. During the previous visit, Dr Yang had said that we should be able to hear our Baby's heartbeat and indeed we did! We saw our Baby's heartbeat on the monitor (see photo below; the black "bag" between the white is the water bag, and the white within the water bag is our Baby), and also heard it! Dr Yang estimated the heartbeat at 120 per minute, which is normal. Also, she estimated our Baby to be about 0.5cm "big" now. With this information, our Baby supposed to be due between 19-22 August.




For the past week or so, Sweetheart has been feeling tired and has morning sickness, which is considered normal. Also, she likes "western food" such as fried chicken, pizza, grilled chicken, garlic rolls, potato wedges, etc. Looks like our Baby has similar taste to me :)

First Gynae Check-up

Today we went for our first gynae check up. Our gynae is Dr Mary Yang and she has been recommended by Dr Soon. We like Dr Yang as she is patient and makes us feel very comfortable. Here is the photo of our Baby's very first ultrasound scan:




As you can see from photo above, Sweetheart got pregnant from the left ovary and our Baby is only the size of a sesame seed now (can see our Baby in the bottom ultrasound scan; the white spot within the small black spot). Below is a closed-up photo of our Baby:


Our Baby is now 5 weeks old, and because we need to visit both Dr Yang and Dr Soon next week, our trip to Nepal needs to be postponed by two weeks. Thankfully, the blood tests done at Dr Yang's showed that Sweetheart is good thus far, so we are all hoping to "see" a heartbeat next week!

The Pregnancy Test

Today we purchased a pregnancy test kit. Since we had several unsuccessful tests with "Clearblue", I decided to try a different, more sensitive brand called "Fortel", and Sweetheart tested positive! (see photo below)


After many, many months of trying, we are finally successful! Sweetheart and I have been discussing names for our baby, and I think we have finalised names for both a boy or a girl :) More details to come in future!

The Genesis

Today, we created this website in anticipation of our kids to come :) Together, we picked the name (soongkids, which really is kinda inspired from Daniel's blog [markids]) and the template. Veronica wanted a clean, neat design that is easy to read, so we picked this template :)