Baby Brandon's world

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Brandon recovered from jaundice

Brandon has recovered from jaundice and is doing really healthy. I would be taking a break for a while as recuperating for the chinese confinement month and will blog back soon :)

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Poor brandon with jaundice..

Brandon was admitted to hospital on the 11th sept due to high jaundice level 215. He was put under a photo light.. was then reduced to 160.

After that we had him for follow ups from government, his jaundice level went up and down right now, it is at 116

Hopefully it will go down below 100 by saturday :)

The journey of breastfeeding and motherhood..

Having baby brandon is magical..and the journey has been full with ups and downs...
At begining, I started to breastfeed, and it wasn't easy to latch-on the baby... I was afraid I didn't have enough milk, I was afraid I can't be a good mother..there's so many things to pick up on, changing diapers, feeding the baby.... bathing the baby.. I remembered breaking down and cry because of that..

But thank god, with the support from my husband and friends, I have now picked up some skills, although not expert yet :) and will continue to learn and experience motherhood... milk supply has also picked up... :)

hello world, baby brandon :)

Haven't been updating the blog in a while..

Brandon Ng Yuan Khai was born on september 7th 2009, at 9.45pm. When I think back of the experience, all I could say is unbelievable and wonderful, suprisingly labor pains is no longer a pain..

On 6th september, on the doctor's checkup, the doctor had suggestion for an induction due to some minor complications. I started having some pains on the 6th night, and I remembered having a very good dinner before the next day. My hubby took me to a nice restaurant and we ordered lemon chicken, vegetables, prawns.....mm..yummy..On the 7th morning at around 3am, I started having some bloody show, was so excited baby is coming soon.....

Of course the journey to the hospital was not so pleasant, having pains on and off....the pain was like having bad menstrual cramps or feeling of diarrhoea. I was then pushed to the labour room, only to wait another 12 hours... What a 12 hours that was, the pain started at 1 hour intervals, followed by 1/2 hour, 15 minutes, few minutes and the pain was going stronger and stronger, of course... I was shouting in the labour room as it was closing to labour...thank god I had epidural, had me 2 hours without pain and a little sleep..

Around 8.30pm, the nurse said...your cervix is fully dilated, at that time they lowered the epidural and I was feeling the pain all over again, and they don't even let me inhale gas to lower the pain.. Doctor came in and said "your baby position isn't looking that good, baby is facing upwards instead of downwards". We waited 1 hour to see if there's any progress.

There were no progress at 9.30pm as the baby was still looking upwards, and the doctor said let's go for it and don't delay any longer. The nurses asked me to push and my hubby was in there too to support me. Funny thing, at first I didn't really understand the instructions, I thought I was pushing but all I did was pushed air :P

Finally I understood and really started pushing. Gave a few pushes, still no go.. Third time, doc said.. if this is no go, we have to go for caesarean. Oh no, tried pushing all I got...and voila..baby came out, heard him crying for first time. I couldn't describe how was my feeling when I heard his first cry..it was magical. Suddenly all the pains dissapeared..doctor was stiching then but I don't feel a thing...all I wanted to see my baby boy..

They weighed the baby, baby is 3.46kg and laid the baby in my arms for the first time. That was the most magical moment I ever had and then it started the wonderful journey of baby brandon and parenthood :)

More photos in facebook

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=109937&id=695453047&saved#/photo.php?pid=2500259&id=695453047

Monday, August 24, 2009

2 more weeks to go

It's 38 weeks and Brandon is 3.1 kg. We can't wait for Brandon to be born, time is passing so slow..

At the same time, we're so excited to welcome baby Brandon to the world :)