It was a long tiring week for all of us.

We're counting down 7 days to my Mom going back to Singapore. We wouldn't have survived these 3 weeks without her. How are we gonna survive the next 1.7 years with Baby on our own????

Lucas has been getting crankier and crankier ever since we brought him to the hospital's Urgent Care on Thurs night. He had raspy breathing, heavy chest, and it seemed like his breathing was very noisy and I was worried. We brought him into Urgent Care when Hubby came back from work at 1am. When the nurse and doc attended to Lucas, we had to strip him naked .. and he wailed and wailed and screamed. He was so traumatised at being naked. I guess it reminded him of the time he was pulled out from the warm womb and into the bright, cold operating theatre and being priced and poked and touched by the surgeons and midwives.

Ever since coming back from the hospital, he would cry and cry at every little thing. He still hasn't been sleeping well at night, waking us up every 2-3 hrs with his cries.. When he's awake, he wouldn't stop crying unless one of us picks him up and holds him close to us. The minute we fiddle with his clothes to change his diapers, he would start crying even before we unbutton him. Even passing him from one person to another, i.e passing him from my arms to my mom's, he would cry.

He still feels very insecure...We would have to hold him more and cuddle him more and try to rid him of his phobia slowly.

Mom is going back next Tuesday. So we're holding Lucas' full month celebration this Sunday, before mom goes back. I'm lucky to have some of the wives here help us out with it.. They're gonna help to dye the red eggs, bake nice cookies, wrap easter chocolates etc to give out to our friends here. We're also gonna cook up a buffet spread for the party.

And amidst all the hustle and bustle of looking after Lucas and preparing for his First month party, I almost forgot my birthday is this Friday. It seems like my birthday is no longer impt anymorehaha.. guess your priorities change when u become a mother. There's so many other things to worry abt. Plus, its my confinement still, so not that I can really celebrate it by going out or something.

The only thing on my mind now is how to take care of Baby when mom is gone.. Hubby is on leave the week that Mom goes off, because my right hand still hurts and I can't manage BB on my own. Hubby will have to stand in for a few days til my Dad arrives on 10 April.

Oh, btw, Doc says Lucas is fine. Afetr all that wailing he did in the hospital, Lucas didn't seem like he was having any more raspy breathing cos he wailed his lungs and airways open.

The 2 most important Men in my life..

15 days old!

Lucas is 15 days old today.

I finally got down to bathing Lucas today. Bathing him is a real challenge. He really doesn't like bath time, and he used to wail the entire house down.

My right hand was injuried when they stick the IV drip into my wrist for 48 hrs when I gave birth in the hospital. I wondered why they stick it into my wrist, of all places! I tot IV drips either went into the top of ur hand, just below your fingers, or at the elbow joints, where they usually draw blood from. My right hand had hurt ever since the day they plucked the needle out. And it hurts quite alot whenever I have to carry Baby, lift him out of the cot etc.. I cant even carry a flask of water with my right hand nor perform a simple act of just brushing my teeth, without it hurting. Thus bathing Lucas, and holding him in the bathtub is painful for me.

Im just worried it might be a permanent damage to my nerve or something. Only time will tell if it is.

Anyway, that aside, I bathed him for the first time today. He din really cry much.. that was a good sign. He's getting used to the water. Cant say the same for the changing of diapers though. Daddy Saw always kenna Lucas 'wet bullets' whenever he tries to change his diapers. Fountain of blessings will rise and hit Daddy Saw. Thats why they say, all male babies without diapers onshould always be considered Armed and Dangerous.

After Bath Pics!

After bathing him, putting 'Ruyi Oil' for him to rid the wind in the stomach.

Covering him with towel to make him feel warm. Ceserean babies are scared of the cold.. cos they were actually happily swimming in mummy's warm belly and suddenly a hand went in and grabbed them out.. thus Lucas has a phobia for the cold.. probably reminds him of the trauma he went through in the OT.

Playing with him and distracting him so he wouldn't cry..

Wearing his little botties for him..

#1 property of Mom! Daddy Saw demoted to #2 le! :P

A child is born..

Hello!

I decided to set up a blog for our little son Lucas to keep our loved ones and friends back in Singapore updated on him.

It seems rather a pity that loved ones back home - his grandmas, grandpas, uncles and aunties will not be able to actually see Little Lucas grow up in the first year of his life. We still have 1 yr 7 mths to go before we return to Singapore.. and by then, Lucas would already be a big boy, running around. Loved ones will miss seeing the milestones in the first year of his life.

I hope I will faithfully be able to update this blog though. :)

Lucas was born 10 March 2010 via emergency C-section. Our boy was actually supposed to be an 11 March baby, as my Gynae - Dr Pittard, had arranged for me to be induced on 10 March ( @ 39 weeks) and did not expect Lucas to be out til 11 March as the induction was expected to be a long drawn process.

I had to be induced because I was diagnosed with Pregnancy-induced Hypertension. The 3rd trimester was really not a very good one for me. I was pricked and poked countless times and had to do many urine tests because of my pregnancy condition, which they considered to be a high risk one. I was returning to the hospital almost 2-3 times every week to be monitored and pricked with needles. In the end, they decided the best option is to take Baby out at 39 weeks to stop my blood pressure from going up any higher.

So this is what happened on 10 March.

4pm: Admitted into hospital to start cervical ripening and induction process

4.15pm: Hooked up to CTG, contractions and regular. BB's heartbeat is good at around 130-160 beats per min.

4.45pm: A ballon Foley catherer was inserted into cervix to ripen it as my body was not exactly ready for labor yet. Doc failed to insert it the first time, cervix too tight

5pm: Doc tried for a second time using spectrums - inserted 2 metal bars into to hold up vaginal walls first (OUCH!!). Again, attempt to insert ballon failed.

5.15pm: Doc decided to try and insert the induction pill called cevidil instead to ripen the cervix. IV drip is set up.

5.45pm: Doc insert pill. Right after he inserted the pill, he joked with hubby and my mom that they could leave me here and go grab some dinner cos I'll be waiting for a long time and won't be able to move off from my bed.

5.46pm: Right after Doc finished his sentence, BB's heartbeart suddenly drops to the 40s and the alarm sounded!! Doc quickly takes the ultrasound to scan for BB, flipping me left and right. The midwives and nurses rushed in and there is a flurry of activity around me. I went into a daze. I was given a shot in the arm to double my heart rate as well and I was shivering like mad. Doc tries to bring BB's heartbeat back up to normal. He takes out the pill. I could hear him asking for the C-section team to be on standby immediately as they were gonna push me in for an emerg C-sect any moment.

6pm: Doc manages to bring BB's heartbeat back up to normal after taking the pill out.

6.10pm: Doc says he cant explain what happened to me and the BB and why I reacted so badly to the pill. He has never had anyone react so poorly before. But he says its a sign that BB prob wun be able to tolerate labor, and recommend a c-sect instead.

6.30pm: The C-sect team is called in to prep me for C-sect. Anesthesialogist discovers that I just had a super full lunch at 2pm. Suggest to Doc to do the C-sect at 10pm instead as worried of how i might react to the spinal block, which is the anesthesia given into the spine.

10pm: I was prepped and then led into the Operating Theatre for C-sect. There was a roomful of people. 3 surgeons, 4 midwives and the anestheologist

10.15pm: Given spinal block to numb lower half of my body. I was really freaking out at that moment. A sharp shot in the back, and then the operation started.

10.29pm: BB Lucas is out, weighing at 2.6kg.

Everything happened so fast. I did not even go through the whole labor process. I did not have the chance to feel contractions etc. But aftre the op, once the anesthesia wore off, Oh boy! The pain from the wound was really bad!!! 3 layers of stitches. Hurt like hell.

But seeing Lucas made everything better. I was still in pain 1 week after the op, couldn't walk around much. I was discharged from hospital after 48 hrs, went home to rest. I had 1 week to recover before I took over some of the taking-care-of-baby chores from Mom and Hubby.

Its been 2 weeks since the birth. Wound is well on recovery; most of the pain from it is gone. Lucas has been quite good, except at night, he doesn't sleep much, cries for milk every 3 hrs. Hubby and I hardly get much sleep these days. Mom is around, but we wanna take care of BB as much as we can now, if not once Mom goes back to SIN, we'll be mostly on our own.

My dad will also be here for 1 mth after mom goes back. Grandpa will get to see Baby Lucas!

Baby Lucas Ruijie Saw @ 2 days old