Prenatal Class Day 2: O&G talk

The second day of the prenatal class started punctually at 7.45 pm with a talk given by one of the hospital's consultant O&G (I didn't spell it out in full because I don't know how to spell it! :p) specialists. Although he looked rather young, his talk was clear, precise and informative.

Just like the first day, we were given another goodie bag with more free stuff inside as we entered the auditorium for the talk. We got these on the second day:


Second day goodie bag



Breast pads and stretch mark/nappy rash cream samples


Before the class however, Hubby took me to have dinner at the Midlands shopping centre opposite the hospital. We had noodles at a Taiwan cafe. This is me enjoying my dinner-noodles with dumplings:



Hubby's dinner-seafood mee suah:




Anyway, back to the talk. The first part of the talk was about ante-natal care, development of the baby and screening for fetal abnormalities during the different trimesters. Most of what the doctor spoke about we had already learnt from reading materials as well as off the internet, but it was no harm to listen to it again to refresh our memory. One thing that we found quite useful was learning how to count the baby's kicks to make sure that the baby is moving constantly. He said that the baby should kick 10 times in 12 hours. So today I started counting Baby's kicks. So far she has kicked/moved 6 times today since 7.00 am this morning.

After a short break of drinks and biscuits, the talk proceeded with the doctor speaking on changes during pregnancy, complications during pregnancy as well as labour and delivery. It was interesting to know what could possibly happen and what are the steps to be taken by the doctor and hospital if such an event were to happen.

The talk ended at about 9.50 pm.