Heidi's smiles

Heidi likes to smile a lot nowadays. I'm sure it's involuntary but adorable nonetheless! I never seem to have my camera ready, so I was determined to get some nice shots today. The first one is my favourite :)

Penang Butterfly Farm

Last Friday, Daddy was on leave, so he and Mummy took me out for the day while Amah looked after my mei-mei.  We went to Penang Butterfly Farm as I had never been there before. The last time Daddy and Mummy were there was three years ago, when I was just born and they discovered that the entrance fee for adults had also gone up; it is now RM18 per adult (with MyKad). Good thing it is still free for kids under 4.

When we were there, there was this one butterfly that refused to leave Daddy's finger. I was quite amused by it but I didn't want to touch it.



The butterfly stayed on Daddy's finger for quite a long time and didn't want to fly away! I was pointing to it excitedly and telling Mummy about it.



There were lots of pretty butterflies at the butterfly farm.



I enjoyed myself a lot! Thank you Daddy for suggesting to come here :)

A special snack

Look at what Daddy made for me as a snack the other day - a special cheese sandwich! The eyes are made from vitamin C pastilles and the nose and mouth from Milo cereal.

 

Yummy!



Daddy had a bite (pretend bite) too!



Let's share! :)

Heidi's Full Moon

Little Heidi turns exactly one month old today. It seems like just yesterday that I was in the labour room giving birth to her and now she is already one month old.

We had our paediatrician's check up today for her necessary injections and her birth weight has increased by 1 kg to 3.87 kg (she was 2.82 kg at birth). However, she is still a little bit jaundiced so doctor advised to stop the breastfeeding completely for 48 hours and they will do a comparison of the jaundice level again on Thursday. If it has gone down by 50%, then the jaundice is due to the breastmilk and I can go back to breastfeeding as usual. Breastfeeding with Heidi has been more successful than with Hannah - but I will save that for another post.

So anyway, the tradition is that the full moon can be celebrated earlier for baby girls, so we did Heidi's on Saturday, 5 May 2012. Hubby bought her a new outfit for the ocassion and here is she is all dressed up, ready to go!


For Hannah previously we ordered the "nasi kunyit" (glutinous rice) packages for her full moon, but we found it quite a hassle to distribute, so this time around, we settled for KFC vouchers. To make it more presentable, Hubby had the idea to put the vouchers in colourful envelopes and clip a litle teddy bear on them. We bought up all the teddy bears from Living Cabin in Queensbay Mall and almost all from Tesco E-Gate :)


Family picture with Hannah and Heidi - Hannah insisted on wearing a matching outfit with her little sister, so we found a white top and red pants (good thing she already has them!) for her to wear.


Mummy and Daddy with Heidi:


Happy one month old Heidi! Daddy, Mummy and Jie Jie Hannah love you!

Heidi's Birth Story - Part 1

It is 9.20pm (22nd April, 2012) when I am typing this blog entry. I just managed to find time to sit down in the room and go online. Angeline is downstairs watching TV while Hannah and Heidi are both sleeping. Both of us have been busy the whole day welcoming our relatives that came to our house in several batches and at different times throughout the day. Of course their purpose was not just to visit us but they were here to see our 2nd princess, Lim Heidi who was born on 8th April, 2012. We really thank them for their visits, gifts and ang pow for Heidi. THANK YOU!!!

I just realised that neither Angeline nor me has blogged about this 3rd pregnancy and this would be the first blog which is relating to the pregancy with Heidi. Yes, it was Angeline’s 3rd pregnancy as the 2nd pregnancy had resulted in a D&C around 8 weeks of pregnancy sometime in September 2010 due to a blighted ovum. We were indeed very sad and disappointed at that time but we always believe that God already has a plan for us and children are always God’s gifts. We were indeed very blessed that we didn’t have to wait long to receive a positive result through another pregnancy test sometime in July 2011 once we started trying to conceive again. 

Alas, around 7 weeks of pregnancy, just after our first visit to the OBGYN, Angeline spotted a streak of blood which caused us to be alarmed as the situation was exactly like the 2nd pregnancy. We immediately rushed to the hospital and the OB told us that baby’s heartbeat could be seen, so she injected progesterone in order to stop the bleeding (spotting) and Angeline was put to bed rest. After the injection, the bleeding (spotting) did stop the following day but it was not for good. It came back few days later and Angeline was given another injection. The OB told us that this was the best she could do and hopefully the bleeding will stop eventually. It was indeed a nerve-racking situation for us as we were facing with such uncertainty in the progression of the pregnancy. We even went to consult another OB’s opinion but we were told the same thing. Other than bed rest and praying, there was nothing much we could do at that time. All in all, Angeline was on bed rest for almost two weeks (accumulatively) and the bleeding (spotting) became less and less and eventually stopped completely. 

We finally made it through the 1st trimester which according to our research, the risk of miscarriage has gone down to 2% by that time. Angeline had more nausea compared to when she conceived Hannah during the 1st trimester. In fact, her nausea lasted until mid of 2nd trimester. Hannah also noticed why her mummy kept vomiting on a frequent basis in the drain behind our car park lot before we went up to our house. She would sometimes point to the same spot and said “This is the place mummy always vomit”. We kept telling her that there was a baby in mummy’s tummy in order to prepare her mentally to accept the presence of her sibling when the time came, and also to let her understand why her mummy could no longer carry her at all. Thereafter, whenever she saw anyone with a big or bloated belly including me and herself, she would say that there was a baby in the tummy. At one point, my mother who looks after Hannah during the day also told her that she had a baby in her tummy whenever Hannah insisted to be carried rather than walk! 

Throughout the 2nd trimester everything was fine until we did the triple A blood test when Angeline’s pregnancy was around 15weeks and the result turned out to be “high risk of down syndrome”. We were hit by another nerve-racking situation! When Angeline was conceiving Hannah, we also did the same test and the result came out to be “low risk of down syndrome”, so this time it was rather unexpected. The doctor advised us to go for an amniocentesis test to confirm the risk of down syndrome as the triple A blood test has the tendency of showing false results. We took the advice and did the test which cost us RM1,700 ++, though expensive but the situation necessitated such test otherwise we would keep worrying throughout the whole pregnancy. The amniocentesis test only lasted for 15 minutes and Angeline was given MC for two days to rest at home after that as such test possesses 2% risk of miscarriage. We were thankful that Angeline was fine after the test. So after the test, a stressful waiting game had started as according to the doctor, we would only know the result in two weeks time. The two weeks appeared to be very long at that moment and other than praying and praying, we also kept calling the hospital hoping the result was out early. When the two weeks period was up, we still did not receive any call from the hospital and that made us even more frustrated. We then immediately called up the hospital but was told that they could only contact the lab in Singapore on Monday as the Friday at that time was Singapore’s public holiday and the lab is closed on Saturday and Sunday. So another three days stressful waiting game! On Monday, when I was at work, I received a phone call from Angeline and I knew she must have known about the result and I was hoping that it was good news, and true enough it was indeed good news as the hospital called her and told her that the test had revealed a low possibility of down syndrome. What a relief!!! Phew..................... 

Hannah and Heidi

Hannah loves her little sister very much. She is always willing to help to bring her little sister's diapers, burp cloth etc. Here was the result when we asked Hannah to "sayang" her mei-mei:

In spite of that, she is still her cheeky self! Looks at the funny face she is making to her little sister.

This is one of my favourite pictures of Heidi so far. Wonder if she will look like Hannah when she is bigger? :)