Rainbow Baby

I started this blog a year ago to note down this fertility journey.  What started as a fertility or rather infertility journey has blossomed into a pregnancy blog.   While re-reading the blog posts that I have written, I felt that many a time the posts can be quite depressing, especially during the TTC period, the struggling times.  It was at times very difficult to read because it's too depressing. Anyway, TTC can be very challenging for some people.  I don't know what else to say but if you want to go the natural way, try every method under the sky.  Be it homeopathy, TCM, Malay urut, chiropractor, acupuncture, Ayurvedic and so on and so forth.   If you would rather go direct with the artificial method, go ahead, be it IUI or IVF or ICSI, etc.   For those who are going through some infertility problems and so on, if you go to a Fertility Specialist, he/she will: 1.  Test your hormones. 2.  Check your Vitamin D levels....

Oh well, apparently my posts on Lari Laki Korea (you please translate yourself to English) has some copyright infringement.  I have thus deleted the 'offending' posts just to keep the Mr G.o.o.g.l.e happy.  No idea what infringement it was.  First, I was not paid to do the posts on it.  Second, I was not endorsing any brand on my blog.  Third, I wrote it because I have nothing to write during that time.  It's just so weird.  Anyway, just for your info, I have stopped all Lari Laki Korea episodes few months back.  Just completely lost interest in it.  Too much of betrayal and the guy who betrays has many fans who like him being a bad guy.  I don't know.  And honestly speaking, as much as I love how funny the show is, I feel the games are very repetitive and scripted.  No regrets in deleting the 'offending' posts.  Don't think anyone read it either.  Moving on. Back to pregnancy post.  One of the more annoyin...

Not sure if you have seen this, but here it is.  Emily Bingham, a writer from the US wrote the following post on Facebook: "Hey everyone!!! Now that I got your attention with this RANDOM ULTRASOUND PHOTO I grabbed from a Google image search, this is just a friendly P.S.A. that people’s reproductive and procreative plans and decisions are none of your business. NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.  Before you ask the young married couple that has been together for seemingly forever when they are finally gonna start a family … before you ask the parents of an only-child toddler when a Little Brother or Little Sister will be in the works … before you ask a single 30-something if/when s/he plans on having children because, you know, clock’s ticking … just stop. Please stop.  You don’t know who is struggling with infertility or grieving a miscarriage or dealing with health issues. You don’t know who is having relationship problems or is under a lot of stress or the timing just isn’t ...

At Week 22, I start to have puffy eyes every morning upon waking up.  It doesn't seem to help that I slept late and drink a lot before sleeping.   Sometimes it feels like my eyelid can't open at all.  And my eyes teared.  I guess it's water retention.  But my hands and ankles and feet are not swollen. Oh well.  One of those things that we have to just accept and continue.

I have a little nephew who is now 2.5 years old.  Just want to share some of his cute antics that really made my day. The other day, he asked me to carry him to see what's cooking in the wok.   Me:  I can't carry you now.  My stomach is too big already. Him:  You try and see. Me:  No, I really cannot.  No need to try. Him:  You try first. This is what happens because we always encourage him to try on his own before asking someone else for help. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Then another evening, he slipped out of the bedroom where he shares with his grandparents while both of the grandparents were asleep.  He knocked on my bedroom door. Me:  Yes, why are you still awake?  It's already 11pm.  Where is gong gong?  Where is po po? Him:  I want to sleep with you. Me:  How can you sleep with me when you didn't bring your pillow?   (trying ...

I was looking at some YouTube videos on breastfeeding and found this channel that has all that you need to know about looking after yourself during pregnancy and the baby after birth.  It is presented by an Obgyn from India.  Though some of the methods taught are quite Indian tradition, like massaging the baby and bathing the baby traditional way, you sure learn a lot from the info given.   It's Pregnancy Care .  Very useful advice and I like the part about exercises to be done during pregnancy.  Also about the part on breastfeeding. In fact, I like everything in this channel.  For all mothers-to-be, please go and have a look.  It will worth your while, I promise.

So I just had a detailed scan and everything is alright.  Thank You God!  What the Obgyn did was to scan the whole of the baby, inside out and see if there are any abnormalities.  He said if there is a huge abnormality, they would sometimes asked if the parents want to keep the baby or not.  Parents still have a choice to do a medical termination before Week 22.  He explained that even if there is a hole in the heart, that can be corrected upon birth.  Same thing with cleft lips.  But if major organs are missing, then it's bad news. I remembered an incident that happened to an ex-colleague.  She got pregnant before marriage and immediately got married after that.  In her 5th month of pregnancy (around Week 20-21), she started scratching her stomach very badly.  No cream can sooth the itch.  Upon checkup with the Obgyn, found that there was an abnormality with her baby.  She didn't tell me the medical word for it but sounde...