Prenancy and Delivery Story Tag

Thanks Agnes for this very interesting tag. Let's see how far I can remember my pregnancy and delivery journey...

1. WAS YOUR FIRST PREGNANCY PLANNED? Yes.

2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME? Yes.

3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS? I was super duper happy and can't sleep well for whole night thinking of this good news.

4. WAS ABORTION AN OPTION FOR YOU? No.

5. HOW OLD WERE YOU? I was 28.

6. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT? By using the pregnancy test kit to confirm. I used about 3-4 different types and brands of test kit to confirm my pregnancy. Hahaha...just wanted to triple confirm that I was really pregnant.

7. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST? Of course My Beloved Hubby.

8. DID YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE SEX? Yes, definitely.

9. DUE DATE? 3rd May 2008.

10. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS? Yes! During my 1st trimester, I experienced backpain, no appetite to eat, felt like to vomit all the time and I couldn't stand the smell of anyone's cooking.

11. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE? I craved a lot of foods - Ramli burger, Tuaran Mee, Murtabak Jawa, Rambutan, Cheese...everything that have cheese inside.

12. WHO/WHAT IRRITATED YOU THE MOST? I can't stand the smell of Onion!

13. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CHILD SEX? A boy.

14. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING? Yes. My hubby & I wished to have girl so that she can helps in doing house chores and take care of her sibling(s) if any. Hehehe. But we are not dissapointed to have a son first as we know he also can do the same things (provided that we teach him) and protect his sibling(s) as well. =P

15. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY? I think I gained about 15kg!

16. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER? Nope, just a fullmoon party with close family members.

17. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW? We planned it.

18. DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY? Oh Yes! I had high blood - 150/80!!! Detected when I was 5 months pregnant. So I was on medication to control my blood pressure. Luckily after took some rest and with the help of the medi, my blood pressure back to normal. But I still needed to take the medication and visited my gynae every two weeks to check everything was okay. And I had blood test every month to check my kidney and liver functioning well or otherwise. Thank God I passed every tests. I guess I don't have a pleasant pregnancy journey.

19. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH? Rafflesia Medical Centre.

20. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR? Mine was a scheduled C-sec. Due to my high blood history, My gynae advised me for C-sec.

21. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL? My hubby.

22. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH? My hubby, my gynae, anaethestic doctor, 2 nurses.

23. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION? C-section.

24. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN? Epidural.

27. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH? 4.2kg.

28. WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN ? 22nd April 2008.

30. WHAT DID YOU NAME HIM/HER? Daniel.

31. HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRST BORN TODAY? He is 10 months 1 week old.


I'd love to share this story with Bonnie, Esmeralda, KadusMama, Doreen, Passion Mommy, Queenie.

Bath Time...Very Interesting...

It has been few months’ back when I took photos of Daniel taking his bath. So I decided to shoot some to be added in his album. My sister offered to bath Daniel this time, and I’ll be the photographer. Now let's see what mommy had took.

I got the laughs of my life when I took these photos. This time he did some very very funny expressions. Oh my... we kept on laughing in the bathroom. Daniel seems to understand that his acts were funny and kept on doing it. Daniel oh Daniel...don't ask me how he did it...I didn't teach him and never show him any pictures with these expressions. Maybe he born to be a joker. LOL...

Best Mom Award

I received this very special award from Caroline. And I have to say that I am honored and feel truly blessed as being a mother is one of the greatest things I’ve done in my life. Thanks dear for this award. I’ll try to be the best mother I can be.

The rules:
1. Show the award logo in your post.
2. Pick a picture you have with your kiddo(s).
3. Post should include your best experience as a Mom.
4. Nominate other blogger mom's out there that you consider the best mom, like yourself.




Being a mother is really an amazing and challenging journey for me. There are lots of stories to share with but watching Daniel grows up day by day and achieved those little and big milestones is one of the most rewarding parts of being a mother. Everyday I’ll wait to see what his new development is and how he is going to react to certain things. I can't ever imagine Daniel not being a part of my life. My life has been enriched by him.

I would like to pass the award to all the mommies in my blog roll. Every mother deserved such kind of recognition.

CNY Celebration

This year Chinese New Year celebration was the first for Daniel. It was also the “adventure” experience for me and Cyril as this was the first time we traveled with our little one. Just imagine the car was packed with Daniel’s stuffs. From formula milk to pampers, toys to clothes just for 4 days stay at my mom’s kampong – Tenom (3 hours journey from KK). But we took 4 hours to arrive our destination – baby on board!

We expected that Daniel will keep on crying and unable to sleep because of the new environment and new faces (He never met some of my cousins who are staying in Tenom and Sarawak). But things turn out the other way round. He didn’t cry at all and slept very well day and night! We were lucky enough that he didn’t show any of his crankiness…

Every year we will go back to Tenom to celebrate CNY. I can say that it is a big family gathering for us because my QQs and their family also will be there. We stayed under one roof – 6 families all together. We had our lunch and dinner together everyday during our stay.

This year celebration was much merrier as there were two additions in the family – Daniel and his one year old uncle. Both of them were born in 2008 two months apart. Oh..nephew and uncle…..next year there’ll be two naughty monkeys running here running there…

In Tenom, we wore only t-shirt and short, very simple as you can see in the pix. We never buy new clothes just to celebrate CNY. We’ll re-wear our Christmas attires. Why need to spend to get those fancy and expensive clothes. No one will even notice if you wear prada here. That’s one thing I love about kampong besides the clean and fresh weather.

Will Be Back

Dear friends and relatives,

Just came back from my mom's kampung last Thursday. However, regret to inform you all that I won't be able to update my blog so soon as my father-in-law has passed away last Saturday.

I'll be back once everything settled...

Wish you all Happy Chap Goh Mei...