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I am about 28 weeks pregnant now. Mummy’s weight is 47kg and Dr Chan said baby’s weight about 1kg. It should be a small baby like my second pregnancy. From the scan, the weight indicates 1059g. I compared against Amilie’s and Izaac’s and it’s around the same as Izaac’s. I could feel more and more movement of the baby now.

Still feeling tired easily and appetite had not changed much. I had not much cravings for food on wee hours. Just that sometimes we would order delivery when feeling hungry in the middle of the night. I feel thirsty most of the time and I kept drinking a lot of water to quench my thirst. In return, sometimes, I would wake up in the middle of the night and unable to get back to sleep after going to the toilet.

My next visit will be 3 weeks later as of 28th May 2009.

Just some thought:
I went for Manicure and Pedicure recently and the manicurist told me that some of her customer don’t do nail polish when they are pregnant or within one month after they had given birth. I wasn’t sure about it. So I went home to do a research about it. It seems that there were saying that the chemicals in the nail polish that could be harmful to the fetal development but there were no prove of it yet. Some articles do indicate that it’s alright to polish the nails but it’s better to do it at a well-ventilated salon.

So whether is nail polish safe for pregnancies, it’s up to the individual to decide. I guessed I won’t be going for the next manicure and pedicure after my confinement now.

We gathered at my friend’s house for a belated birthday celebration of 2 of my friends, Xiumin & Yong Lian. Brought the kids along and of course the kids were happy about it. As Yong Lian had just given birth to Shannon not long ago and it was the first time the kids saw the Shannon.

They were happy to ‘play’ with Shannon and even took a picture with her with her daddy’s help on letting her sit on both of the kids lap.
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Other when they are asleep, the rest of the time, the children potty trained. They are able to use the potty and able to hold themselves when they want to go to toilet. Recently, we decided to change to let the kids use the toilet instead of the potty.

We bought a child toilet seat for the kids so that they will not feel that they are going to fall down into the toilet bowl when they used the toilet. For the first few days, both the kids were alright using the toilet for peeing but they had problems when it comes to poo.

Amilie was able to overcome that after a few days of letting her sit at the toilet seat and now she does not use the potty anymore but Izaac couldn’t poo when he sits on the toilet seat. Couldn’t really understand what’s the reason was. At first, I thought that he was not used to using the toilet seat but once when we were at my friend’s house, he did poo at the toilet.

Too bad, when he was back at home, he still couldn’t poo. He preferred to poo at the comfort of his small potty than at the toilet. Guess he would need some time before he is ready to use the toilet. And the next step for Amilie is to stop using diapers at night instead.

14th June is Izaac’s birthday and also happened to be Father’s Day that day. Though Izaac had celebrated his birthday in school on Friday, I still wanted to help him have a small celebration at home on his actual birthday.

In the afternoon, I went to buy a small cake from Crystal Jade (No ice-cream cake this year) for Izaac. Izaac is happy of course. And Amilie was asking me why didi have 2 birthdays. And I told her that she will be having 2 birthday celebrations next year too.

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Recently, Izaac told me that his teacher taught him a new song. Then he started singing for me and even did it with actions. It’s really cute to see him doing it. Tried to record down his singing but he was a bit shy to do the actions and he wasn’t familiar with the last verse of the song.

Here’s the video clip of Izaac’s singing.

Today’s Izaac’s 3rd Birthday. On Friday, it happened to be Izaac’s last day of playgroup before the 2 weeks school holidays, we decided to help him celebrate his birthday in advance in school. 1 week before the actual day, which was 12th of June, Izaac was all excited about it. He saw that we had bought the items for goodie bags and kept asking whether those were for his birthday.

Goodie bag for boy

Goodie bag for girl
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It’s another visit to the Gynae. Baby about 24th week old and my weight had increased to 43kg. Checked with Gynae what’s the baby’s weight but he told us that still unable to weigh the baby, roughly around 600g.

The Gynae measured the head and told us that the baby is fine. Below is the scan of the baby.

My appetite remained the same. Prefer eating cakes a lot and had stop liking potato chips. I had grown out of potato chips. The weather is getting warmer every night, sometimes woke up all sweaty. I would wake up in the middle of the night to on the air-conditioner to get back to sleep.

Sometimes I would feel a bit of the baby but not as much as when I was pregnant with Izaac.

Next visit will be 4 weeks later.

After the first Art & Craft we had, I had started searching online and bookstores for some Children’s coloring worksheets for the kids.
Here’s some websites where I printed out for the kids to do at home.
- Alphabuddies
- Abcteach
- First-School Preschool Activities and Crafts

The kids got to color different alphabet and the pictures that begin with different letters. Sometimes, we even got to do some crafts that were printed from the website. The kids prefer crafts to writing. Think their best type of coloring is using water colors and using fingers to paint the pictures.

Though it’s easy to find worksheets for English and numbers, I did not manage to find any on Chinese. So I had to find from the bookstore. We bought some Chinese book with activities for the kids to do at home. However, think the kids had a hard time recognizing the Chinese characters as they seldom come across Chinese characters as much as English Alphabets.

We were supposed to see our Gynae on 2nd of April but he was on some seminar. We went for the Fetal Assessment Scan at Thomson Medical that day.

I will be having a baby girl as confirmed by the Obsterian. The fetal assessment went fine and the Obsterian explained to us the baby organs and told us that the baby is about average size. Baby covered its eyes with its hand on one occasion. We got 2 printouts of the baby and were told that the report will be sent to the Gynae’s since my next appointment will be one week later.
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Amilie’s finished her Music Wonderland lesson at Yamaha in March. On the last day of the music lesson, also the graduation day, the kids had a mini concert in the classroom. Every parent brought their own camera to take down their own children’s performance. We are no exception. Some even came with the grandparents. The classroom was crowded that day.

Izaac also got to sit at the electone with Amilie. First the kids sang the first song that they learnt in the class. Amilie, as usual, taught Izaac the songs that they sang and demonstrated to him the actions of the songs.

Then they sang another song which they had learnt in the class.

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