Bad luck comes with a consolation prize

Bad luck hits us on the 28th August 2009. Hubby met with an accident when he was on the way to meet a friend at about 7:45pm. Me and Jaiden was at home, suddenly received a call from hubby. He asked me to help to phone up the friend that he is suppose to meet up with, and at the same time informed me that he met with an accident. His voice was trembling, and he hung up the call very fast. I was so worried after that. I do not want to record the details of this bad thing here in my blog, hopefully we could forget this incident one day. Anyway, my hubby is not hurt, but the car is quite badly damaged. The front part (bonet, "sarong", skirting) was badly damaged. Estimated repair fee may be at least RM4-5k. No choice, we have to claim insurance..

Following the unlucky incident, I received a letter a day after from Today Publishing. Jaiden has won a consolation prize as "Star of Pureen" in Parenthood magazine August 2009 issue. We were extremely excited, and went to scout for this magazine. Too bad, August 2009 issue cannot be found anymore. It's already end of August now, September issue is already out. Sigh... Luckily I still keep the record on which photo I had submitted for this contest.

Here presenting "Star of Pureen"

Finally....

After this blog has been abandoned for months, at last I'm able to blog in the office. I guess it should be the outcome from the Employee Satisfaction Survey that they have just conducted that makes our VP decides to open the port for us. But messengers are still no no...

What is Jaiden's development so far? He is able to stand and cruise with help. He is getting more and more naughty nowadays. He is just like a worm (we often call him cacing now). He many times irritates me during his feeding time. Once I lie him down, he will immediately roll and crawl away. That makes me extremely difficult to feed him. Since I'm a hot tempered person, I find it quite hard to control my temper nowadays.

Apart from being naughty, of course he at times melt our heart. He started to talk now. The 1st word from him was ba ba ba ba ba ma ma ba ba... Few tricks that he knows now: -

1) pau pau (full) -> palm on his tummy

2) shake hand

3) where is your leg? -> he'll lift up his leg

4) gong xi gong xi

5) bye bye

6) comb hair

7) dim chung chung

8) call mummy -> he will respond ba ba ba ba....

Something that starts bothering me and hubby now. Jaiden seems to like Ngo Jeh (the babysitter) and her husband more than his papa mama. When we fetch him after work, he will cry and lift his hands towards NJ's husband so that he could carry him. He prefers their house more than going home. Reasons could be: -

1) there are kids at their house who will play with him

2) NJ and uncle seldom scold him. Daddy & mummy always scolds him and everytime says "No" when he starts to hold or play something. If I were him, I will prefer NJ too.... Sigh....

I have no idea what and how shall we raise Jaiden. We can't follow his desire everytime as this may spoils him. We can't be so strict to him as well, as this will led him dislike daddy, mummy and home. How????

New car seat

Jaiden has a new car seat!!! Daddy & mummy just bought Jaiden a new car seat!! Nothing much to talk about, but I think Jaiden likes it very much. Hmmm... at least for the first 20 minutes ride haha... coz he started to complain after a while. Guess he needs some time to adjust to it ;)

Time to enter some contest??

We bought 2 magazines recently, i.e.: Parenthood & Mommy Baby. We don't buy these magazines for the sake of reading, but to enter whatever contests available in the magazines. In total, I've mailed 8 entries hoping to win at least 1 contest in each magazine. At least can keep a copy and show it to him when he grew up next time ;-)

Some of the photos sent for contest...

Fun bath time

Q Baby

Candid

Mummy Babby Look Alike

Abandoned Blog

Finally... I am in action again. At least for the month of February, 2009. I was asked by a friend during our CNY outing "Have you abandoned your blog?". Haha... yes I think I have. No time is an excuse (even though it is partly true). I was thinking, how come I have time facebooking but no time for blogging? I have to admit... I am just too lazy to write :P
Okay! Let's continue the story of my little angel Jaiden. He is reaching his 16 weeks (3 months 4 weeks) this Thursday. I have a question. Why does baby center address Jaiden's age as 3 months 4 weeks and not 4 months? How shall I tell others who ask? This 3 months 4 weeks old Jaiden is now starting to recognize people and places. I was told by his nanny that he cried when she brought Jaiden into her house the 1st day we sent him to her after CNY break (we've been taking care of Jaiden by ourselves for 9 days during CNY). He looked left right center, and started to cry. That clearly tells that he recognises place. Another incident where we are sure he starts to recognise people. My sister-in-law wants to carry him last night when we had dinner at her house. Once Jaiden saw my husband and me infront of him (means we're not the one carrying him), he immediately "bin jui" and cry out loudly. Once I carry him back on my shoulder, he stopped. So, can I say Jaiden started to recognise people? Seeing how they develop day by day is an amazing experience.
Oh ya.. besides, Jaiden's favourite sleeping style would be:
1) latching on his pacifier
2) 2 hands holding a pillow
3) daddy or mummy's hand patting on the pillow
He will fall asleep soon provided he's at home lying on the couch (he like sleeping on the couch than on his playpen).

Oral fungus

Jaiden has developed oral fungus, thanks to the confinement lady!!! Oral fungus is caused by unhygienic way of preparing milk. The paed asked us how did we prepare Jaiden's milk. We told him what the confinement lady does normally. She will boil the bottles once a day in the morning. THAT'S ALL!! After feeding Jaiden, she will wash the bottles with plain water and soak it back into the same pot of water that she boiled in the morning. Urrrrggghhh!!! I didn't know that's how she prepare milk for Jaiden. Due to this, Jaiden has to suffer from oral fungus. And due to this too, we have to change all the bottle teats and the pacifier.
Paed prescribed Jaiden Daktarin Oral Gel. We have to apply the gel on the pacifier and let Jaiden to suck. This medication is very effective. After applying once, we saw a major improvement in Jaiden's mouth. The fungus has reduced a lot. After 5 times, fungus in Jaiden's mouth has totally disappeared.

Now onwards, I have to take control on sterilizing all the bottles to make sure that they are clean before every feed.

Jaiden 2nd outing (both 1st and 2nd outing is going to see the paed): -

Not too clear, but some fungus grown on Jaiden's lips can be seen...

Baby Lim Fang-Ze, Jaiden has arrived!!!!

Finally, our loooooong waited baby has arrived on the 16th October 2008. That's the day daddy & mummy are longing for. Daddy & mummy has been telling baby Jaiden every now and then to only come out to the world on the 16th October 2008. IT WORKS!!! Fetus education works!!

Labour process
I have started on MC from 13.10.2008 as my gynae told us that baby will be arriving anytime. On the 15.10.2008, before we go home from my dad's home, we went to Taman Segar for hokkien mee. While we were walking towards the car, my water bag burst! I felt a sudden rush of water for 3 times.
We rushed to the hospital and reached at 9pm. The nurses did all the necessary checks on me, which of course makes me very uncomfortable. Anyway, this is part of the process and I have to bear with it.
They asked my hubby to go home as the labour will not start so soon. He went back unwillingly at 10:45pm.

Time pass... and my contraction became more severe. As the nurses came for check-up, they told me that it was only a mild to moderate contraction. Hence, I have to wait... 1am... 2am... mild to moderate contraction. OMG!! I was thinking, how long more do I have to wait... 3am... ouch!! The pain became more severe. However, I'm not sure if it has now reaches the major contraction. Hence, I used the breathing technique to hold on to the pain meanwhile hoping that the process will end soon. On the other hand, I am asking myself, when will I be given the pain killer....4am... 5am... the pain was almost unbearable. The nurse came and asked how do I feel. I told her that the contraction is very painful. She quickly did a dialation check on me, and to her surprise, it was 8cm dialated. In a hurry, she demanded the other nurses to get prepared and send me to the delivery room. I quickly send hubby a short SMS to inform him about the status and asked him to come to the hospital.

5:15am, I was in the delivery room. Contraction continues... I took a 2nd look at the clock after 2 times of major contraction, and it was 5:20am!!! Gosh!! Only 5 minutes, and I had 2 major contraction. It was soooo painful. I was given the gas as one of the pain reliever. Hubby arrived at about 5:30am seeing me in pain. He can do nothing but to look at me in pain... using the gas, fingers holding it sooo tight until my nails turned purplish in colour. As contraction goes on, I felt an urge that the baby is pushing himself out. As the gynae is yet to arrive, I was a bit panic as I do not know how to control the baby from pushing. In pain, I told my hubby to tell the nurses that the baby is pushing himself out. The nurses came and asked me to push hard once the contraction begins. PUSH... PUSH... PUSH... It was extremely difficult. I have 2 things in mind: -
1) can I manage to push and deliver the baby?
2) I must push hardest possible, soonest possible, to end the process.
The gynae finally arrived. He asked me to push. Again, it was an unsuccessful attempt. He performed episotomy and said that the next contraction, I will be able to push the baby out. It's true! Next contraction, I used all my strength to push and finally.... I heard Jaiden's cry. The process has finally ended!!! And I have delivered a baby boy.

Jaiden - 40 minutes old.

Jaiden - 3 days old

Jaiden - 8 days old