Sharon ...the growing mama..

Here's a pic of Sharon just before we head out for our X'mas gathering with friends. She's into her 5th month now and she has grow much much bigger. As mentioned in previous posts, the babies have started kicking and punching around and that has made resting for Sharon a tad more difficult. It so happens whenever she is moving around, the babies don't move around so much.. only when at rest or when about to sleep, do they start to move around. As expected, as the days go by, it's not going to get any easier so I pray for the babies to be good and for Sharon for strength.

Footballers...we have.

Looks like we have makings of a small-scale football team. The babies have started kicking and they are attacking from all sides. Kinda makes you wonder what they are doing inside there. Well, if you think about it, space is an issue and that kinda makes getting comfortable a continous activity. This has caused Sharon some discomfort and she has not been getting enough rest. Apparently.. only when she wants to sleep, the babies start to kick. hmmm...

Also, Sharon has gained quite a bit of weight.. as of last count, she's weighing in at 62Kg. That's almost a 10kg increase before she was expecting. I think she will reach a target weight of 70kg while the parents are placing their bets on +/- 2 kg of my predictions. In any case, Sharon does not look like she did put on much weight except on where the babies are. Good thing also that she has stopped working. :-)

Will post some pics later...

About 20 weeks now !!!!

I'm starting to feel the babies moving inside.... feels like someone is tugging my insides. Occassionally, I feel a bump on my tummy too. It's a nice feeling. At least I know they are moving inside, no need to see the gynae to know that they are alive & well. For the last 20 weeks, I was always looking forward to seeing my gynae, just to see the babies move, see them in action (kicking, bouncing here & there). Now that i can feel them moving, it's a sense of comfort. But with 3 of them in there, sometimes it feels like a war zone in there too, all moving at the same time, don't know who is doing wat...hahaha... still trying to differentiate who is who..=)

My tummy is also much bigger now, I look like I'm 6-7 months pregnant, but I'm only actually 5 months. Starting to feel tired easily, especially the backaches... it does get unbearable at times. Sleeping is also a problem, can't sleep on the sides too much, the kiddos don't like it, they'll tug at my tummy to get me to change positions...hehehehe..."demanding kids, I have".

Other then that, I'm enjoying my pregnancy..... it's a whole new experience.... enjoying the privillages too... "I'm the queen of the house".... kekekeke =P

Having dinner...

Here's a pic of Sharon at Dinner wearing a Designer Fu$$yPat dress. Can't see much of the dress tho... but it's a good enuff reason to post up pics of my Baby. :-)

16wks this week...

Here's a pic of Sharon. We were over at Mt.A hospital visiting a relative. We did not go up cause I did not want Sharon "catching" any thing. So we kinda just hung around the lobby. You can see that the babies are growing already and she's only about 4 months in.

Scan day with the Prof. 15wks 5d

All looks good. The prof went on to do the usual scanning and measurements of the babies. As usual, the prof did not spare us with his funny off the wall humour and parenting tips. While he was taking the measurements, he failed to mention to me about his ability to identify the sex of the baby. After watching many episodes of CSI, I new the XX referred to females and XY as males where the Y is from the father. So as he tagged XX onto the first baby, I new it was a girl. So happy!!! :-) then while I was out at the loo, the prof scanned the 2nd baby as XX also, another girl. At this point, I started to think about the 3 female trios that I knew and the Charmed sisters came to my mind. Piper, Phobe and Prue. Sharon obviously did not like those names and I don't seriously mean it anyway. I was also kinda praying that the next one would be a XY i.e. Boy not because I prefer any particular gender but because it would be interesting to have a Boy. God answered our prayers and it was a XY. I could not believe it when he said it and I had to ask him a few times and he kept pointing to the baby "noticeable" feature. True enought, there it was. :-) I now have 2 girls and 1 boy. Funny enough is when I told my parents and Sharon told her parents, both dads were happy there were more girls than boys... I wonder why. hmmm... maybe cause Girls would always be Daddy's little girl. So with two I am going to be a very happy Dad and with a Son, a didi or korkor for the girls.

Here's another funny thing. Since all of them are more or less conceived at the same time. (I don't know who came first.. haha) the order in which the babies are delivered determines the older and younger order of the kids. hmm.... and the prof said that the likelyhood was that the girls would be delivered before the boy.. so looks like the boy would have JieJie's instead and they have a DiDi. hmmm......

Scan day! 14wks 3 days.

Yupz. Had an appointment to visit Dr Nair at 10 and we left home at around 9.45am. haha... so obviously we did not have the time to grab breakfast and so decided to grab it along the way. While we were placing our orders at the Drive-Tru of Mac over at East Coast, Leonard popped up! Apparently, Leonard's mom was just talking about us when the car drove into the drive-in.. hahaha.. what a super conicidence. :-) anyway..I started ordering while trying to not get distracted by Leonard who was just standing behind the ordering station. Placed our order and we were off!

Over at the clinic, the wait was pretty short cause after I arrived from parking the car, Dr Nair just stepped into the clinic. The nurses took Sharon's weight and blood pressure and all was good. Sharon gained about 3Kg since the last visit so...it's not too bad. Need to gain MORE! kakaka

When the scanning started, Dr Nair showed us the babies and he started taking measurements of their growth. While that was happening, he started joking about how the babies were making gestures at us. For the first kid, he spotted a Ultraman!... the baby was making a sign of a cross with it's arms..haha. Next was Superman and finally it was Batman. That kinda made Sharon concerned as Dr Nair seemed to implied that they were all guys. wooohoo. Then he quickly added that they could be girls also and if so, then all would be just Wonderwoman. :-p

14th weeks

Sharon is heading back to work this Thursday. If I had a choice, I would rather she stay at home. If she had a choice, I think she would stay in too. What's not to like about a tai-tai lifestyle. Play Mahjong, sleep when you feel like it, watch afternoon soap operas. Life is good.

As to why she has to go back, well, I think it a mixed bag of things. She has been missing from work since we found out about the pragnancy and that did kinda hit the department where she worked at pretty hard. Nobody was expecting it to be so sudden. And if things were not exciting enuff, we are expecting triplets (if you don't already know.. haha). With that, it kinda mixed our lives (and everyone around us) into a mess. :-)

Alot of changes had to be made and arrangement to be settled. Not easy man.. but so far.. so good. hehe.

Pray for Sharon and the babies. (my preciousousous)

This is my 13th week

I'm now then only in my 13th week. Hubby was getting a little too ahead with the previous blog. Well, like he mentioned, there's 3 of them in there. (triple the headache....haha) Our gynae has been very good, preparing us in advance wat difficulties we will face as I grow bigger & heavier, the complications that can arise...etc. It's good, but at the same time it's scary too. I don't deny it, I am afraid.=( It's natural...I guess. =P

The babies have been very good, not much morning sickness, except for feeling queasy in the evenings. No cravings yet....(hubby keeping fingers crossed...hehe). Feeling breathless sometimes, but Dr. says it's ok, lots of blood flowing from the heart to the babies, especially now that their hearts are pumping faster. They're growing fast. Had a NT scan with Prof. last week, they look more human now, with hands, legs, ears, nose & a big head. I used to call them my little "Peanuts". Looks like I have to call them little babies now... =)

I had a funny question put to me the other day. A colleague ask how big is my waist now... I went..."Wat waist?...Have not seen my waist for a couple of weeks"........ hahahaha.... gives u an idea how big I am at 13 weeks.....I'll be going back to work next week, everyone in the office is eager to see how big I've grown.... =)

ok.... that's about all for this week... will try to update this blog as I progress with this pregnancy.... stay tuned...... =)

13th week

just went for detail scan last week and all the babies look good! :-) The professor that attended to us was pretty funny and yet.. had very strict views on raising kids. After the session, it got me thinking about how we were, moving forward, raise our kids. Of course, the initial plan was to raise the kids with the helps of both our parents... but then that also got me thinking, is that the way you want your kids moulded... by your parents and not by you? Alot of people say that the first 6 years of your children's life is the most precious and that's when you mould them to how they will be when they grow up. Well.. at least I get to this is at one go for the 3 of them and that is why I must really focus on getting it right.

I also attended a surprise B'day party at Mervin's place for Fred. He will be 32 on the 17th of Oct. Mine is coming up in a couple of months........ SURPRISE me. The people who came were of a pretty interesting group... they were all parents and with me as a expected father... it's like it's a gather for parents. Whenever a kid started crying... anxious parents would look around to see if it was theirs... haha. And when one starts crying.. the rest soon followed. This may seem amusing at first..but try having that non-stop, then you will soon realise the pain. I hope I've got a better treshold for this...3 leh.

Also started shopping for kids stuff and let me tell you, they are NOT cheap! Take for example those electronic breast pumps, they start from $200 all the way to $800 for those duo ones (both of the breast lah). Those companies making those thing really know how to milk you. (pun intended).

I'm looking for sponsorship for my triplets...anyone? ;-)

9th week

some issues came into light about sharon's state...

office people thought we were not being nice by telling them what is happening.
my sister apparently told someone else in sharon office about her situation.

why can't people just understand it's not that we don't want to say..but that the time is not right yet?

we would love to tell everyone one.. just not yet.

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