Sunday, October 18, 2009

Ahhh Monday.

10/19.

This morning we went to the doctors... regular checkup. Your head is still measuring small, BPD measurement but it's okay because the circumference is measuring accurately, thank goodness! Mommy got the full report and it says all your vital organs have developed on schedule as well. Double thank goodness! From last Wed- 10/14, these were your measurements (35w+6d):

BPD (head diameter) 8.3cm, 33w + 3d
HC (head circumf) 31.2cm, 35w
FL (femur length) 6.9cm, 35w + 2d
AC (abdomen circumf) 30.9cm, 34w +6d

Comment: "nomrmal ongoing pregnancy of 34w+3d +/-1 week of gestation. This correlates well withthe clinical date."

So yep! you're GOOD little girl! Actually here were your measurements from today:
BPD: 8.38cm, 33w+4d
FL: 7.21cm, 39w+2d

So dr has concluded that you're a tall baby! :) YAY. That's what mommy wanted... haha. based on 39w+2d of femur length, that actaully puts your due date at 10/24... libra scorpio cusp? ;)
i guess we'll see! huh little girl. :)

On another note- dr had apologized today, because apparently he has to take his wife to the states for some medical stuff and won't be back the weekend till 11/14... it's funny how things work out, i was just telling you last night we were so indifferent during this entire process with the doctors, how next time maybe we'll get a female doctor, etc... well yes, life is funny. I hope dr. tsai's wife of course, is okay... but in the meantime, probably the next few appt's we are going to see a different doctor- dr. stephanie chow. female doctor... i wonder how she'll be-- she practices on Sundays too, so we may see her this coming week since we're supposed to be visiting the doctor every week now. life.... positive thinking, really, you ask for something you just might get it! so in these cases, always think positive, so positive things will come your way. :) Think Positive! +



Anyhow, it was nice today, mommy got to see her old friend, best friend from college kimmy. It's been awhile since she's seen her, but she looks the same and it was soooo good to catch up! Some things don't change and some relationships are so great-- low maintenance yet you know that, true friends will always be there no matter what, no matter how long you do or don't talk... you can still count on them. :) It's a blessing to have friends in life like that. :)

It's a blessing everyday to wake up, breathe fresh air, see the sunshine... have loved ones, family and friends around.

We love you little girl... sooo excited daddy comes home tomorrow night!! I think he's bringing PIZZA too. hahahaha.
Keep growing... keep getting stronger... we're almost there!
BIG HUGS & KISSES.
love mommy and daddy.

Hiccup. Hiccup. Hiccup.

36w+3d.
Today's sunday, 10/18. Little girl has been having hiccups 4xs in the past 3 days, once or twice a day. I googled and supposedly its a good thing, but very funny... Poor little girl. Its cute. It means she's trying to breathe, or mimick breathing! :)

I'm still hoping little girl is earlier than late- maybe next week after daddy gets back to hk? Libra/scorpio cusp? ;). Hey, mommy can hope! But as long as she is happy, healthy beautiful and smart. Best of mommy + the best of daddy!!

Your crib still hasn't arrive, quite annoying since its 10wks already. :( hope it arrives this week so amy can ship. Though we still have a lot to do in the other room... In time I'm sure. :) I am sorry though, you don't get a true "nursery", but mommy and daddy will do our best. We love you so much already, and promise to take care of you forever and ever... We can't wait till you decide to meet us! :)


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On another note- Winnie's getting induced tmrw- crazy, since her due date was fri- 10/16. The 40 wks really flies by.

Last week I found out 4 more ppl were preggo- eva, gina muccino (holmdel), lauren (jen's friend), and rachel from work! Its the preggo train I guess! :p

But life is good...
Big hugs and kisses...
Love mommy + daddy

Ps: only 2 more days and daddy comes home! Yay!!!!
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Friday, October 16, 2009

yay for Friday!

Thsi week wasn't too bad. Though i was counting and it's still FIVE days before daddy comes home. Yep.. Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon and finally Tues. Poor thing though, he's sick in the city. But tmrw he is going home to grandma tsang's which i am SURE she will take good care of him and whip up some miracle cure or healthy organic homemade chicken soup. :) i miss grandma... i wish we were home now! It's always so nice to go back home to nj... it's calm, relaxing and we get to sleep. :)

Speaking of grandma's though... Grandma wong will be back tonight. We'll prob see her tmrw though. Although mommy's friend Kimmy is coming to town! It will be SO exciting if she really moves here for temporary, a year or so... due to her fiance's job! I'll keep my fingers crossed... would be nice to have a gf from home- like a true gf, it's been years since we've really hung out. :) It will be good to see her tmrw. She's getting married in May next year, so we definitely will be going back to LA for that! I wouldn't miss it for anything... you'll be about 7 mos by then...

Yesterday I was super tired... we went to sleep at around 11, i didn't want to sleep much earlier b/c i was worried if we went to bed at 9pm we'd wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to go back to sleep. But we slept well! except for waking up at 2:45 and not getting back to sleep till about 3:30... but we got to sleep till about 10am this morning, which was nice since we were woken up by banging instead of drilling. but alas, the drilling did start again later on. :p but I feel more rested, and hopefully you do too little girl. :)

This morning though, walking to the car, i felt a gush of trickling. I think i will be oblivious to labor... i questioned if it was the water breaking but it didn't seem like *that* much, like you see in the movies? but it was more than usual too... oh well. i hope i know when labor starts... supposedly i've read that it's a back to fwd tightening, where as braxton hicks is just in the front.
Either way, i hope that little girl, you're still staying put till at least next tuesday!


Mommy has urge to shop... but so many of the little girl clothes is like, sooooooo girlie! i need to find a non-girlie site to get some neat clothes for you... yet at the same time i know you're going to grow up so quickly... but hopefully not too quickly. I'm sure we'll want you to stay little for awhile. :)

Love, mommy & daddy.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Slight scare.

Yesterday we went to see the dr... since we're almost at 36 weeks we're going to be going every week now! Nuts that there really are only about 4 weeks (or less) left! :)

Anyhow, yesterday was quite a scare... the dr started to measure your head (bpd) and it was only measuring 33w+4d (at most) yet your femur length was measuring almost 38w! so either 1) you have long legs or 2) your head stopped growing... or slowed growth. The dr seemed very very concerned so of course, i was too! He measured a few times, and didn't really know what to say... but after the scan he said oh, we need to do detailed b/c we need to make sure everything is alright! I asked what would be the cause of small head, and he said as long as it's not a growth retardation. the "R" word no parent wants to hear... aiya. what scary word! So we made an appt to get a detailed scan at 4:30 in the afternoon- the soonest available.

So after the appt in the morning, i called m... i was on the verge of tears! though i knew everything would be okay, it's just nervewracking! Dr's from what mom says, sometimes are horrible because they instill fear into us... which is i suppose true... but anyhow, at 4:30 i went back to the hospital for a detailed scan. and nervous.

it was done by a dr.chan, 2nd opinion, he seems nice. I don't know if he's a obgyn or a "scan" dr, eitherway though, he measured everything and he said everything looks ok! so her head, the legs, and her internals are all good. there is enough blood (both from the arteries and veins) going into her brain and also thru the umbilical cord... and her lungs are developing nicely he said. She looks healthy! :) that's all, as a parent you can hope and want to hear each time from the doctor. :)

So this morning dr.tsai calls back and says yes, her head is just more oval, so her diameter is measuring smaller but her circumference is okay at 35w. :) thank goodness. we will go back on monday though... not sure if they're going to start pelvic exams yet? no sign of the "plug" yet. :p

what a scare... :( perhaps being a parent, all you worry about is for the safety and health of your child... i know for the rest of your life i'm sure! I guess we'll find out soon enough, this feeling of loving something/someone to the absolute fullest...


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On another note... i did stop by to say hello to Natalie, who had her baby jiselle (your 2nd cousin) born on 10/12, 8.bs, 6oz. quite a large one! though she said jayden was 9lbs 1oz. eek! but she looks good, for natalie and the baby is healthy. :)

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daddy is sick in the states. he sounds REALLY nasal. tmrw he is going to nyc. i hope he doesn't stay out TOO late, otherwise i'm worried he's going to bring some yucky bug back home... and quarantine would NOT be fun thru HK airport.

grandma wong comes back with your uncle aaron on Friday.

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mommy is really tired today despite sleeping from 11pm-930am (woken up by lovely drilling, surprised?! :( ) i need to sleep.. we need to sleep so you can grow more. i hope to stop working soon but at the same time i feel a bit trapped because we can't stay home, b/c the noise... so then maybe we move to grandma wong's house or even great grandma ying... sigh. yawn. tired.

but try to keep growing... mommy wants to listen to her body to sleep, maybe we will leave work early today so we can go home. :)

i love love love you little girl.
big hugs, big kisses... can't wait to meet you!
love mommy (and daddy)

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

home alone again...

so m left for the states y/day morning. 7am. his flight was at 930 to jfk. longggg flight. i'm a bit sad i can't go back to the states but at the same time i don't envy the 15 hr flight. unfortunately though due to waking up at 630am, we didn't get enough sleep. so by 3pm we left work to go home. little girl though, you were quite active! moving around a lot. which is a good thing, i think. but i hope you're growing. :) shanghainese for dinner... yum.

the upstairs apt however did start to rennovate. so now we have construction both upstairs AND downstairs. soon probably across the hall as well. AND our ceiling in the bathroom is leaking due to the construction. it sucks. i hope that nothing is damanged when i go home today.

daddy said he had pizza, TWICE in lga airport while waiting for his flight. i think we will have pizza tonight. :)

today was a normal day at work. a few things to do since your grandma wong is in the states with daddy and uncle... we did however finally make it to GATEWAY which is a store with american products and in BULK. kinda like costco! we actually bought a few things but i think b/c the store is the basement it's a bit bad, b/c if you're buying in bulk, stuff is HEAVY and you need to lift it up the stairs. anyhow. mommy bought lemonade and iced tea mix. along with some kirkland detergent (free of dyes/perfumes)... some banana peppers too. yum. oh! and i found reese's pb cups! finally! Of course they were SOOO over priced but i bought them anyways. they're actually a lot sweeter than i remember... so i just had one. i could've waited for daddy to bring some back actually but oh well.

there's a few things i need daddy to bring back actually... i need to email him. he actually is in cbus now! but he said he's feeling sick b/c he sat between two ppl on the plane and didn't wear a facemask... i hope he doesn't bring any germs home and gets better soon w/o being sick all week in the states. that would be no fun.

anyhow... we're going to go to the dr on thursday... that will be 36 weeks! so yes... i hope your lungs are maturing and you're growing growing growing!!

love and hugs,
mommy

ps: today i set up your email account. sofiamwong@gmail.com :)

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Almost the weekend...

This week has been looong. too long. restless nights especially... tossing and turning, and just can't seemingly be able to fall alseep. :( unfortunately they're still doing rennovation downstairs too, so the drilling starts up at about 9:30am... poor us, we can't sleep. i really hope they stop soon... or perhaps when we get into bed at night, we are able to sleep okay... peacefully!

yesterday we were VERY tired. we had to come to work early due to some meetings which in the end wasn't very exciting. but poor little girl, you hardly moved all day! i think you were probably grumpy from lack of sleep. mommy wants to sleep and make sure she listens to her body and you, so hopefully at least this weekend we'll get some more rest.

daddy goes to the states on Monday till next monday... seems like a long time too. :(

oh well.

today is 35 weeks! about 35 more days to go... can't believe it. Thirty-five. that doesn't seem like very many days at all... though mommy's tummy is still about 38" around... so not much change there! next week we will go back to see the dr... since it'll be about 36 wks... i wonder when we will get to see how dialated mommy is... but keep growing in the meantime!!

big hugs and kisses :)
grow grow grow!!

Thursday, October 1, 2009

National Day, 10/1

**oops did not post on 10/1... a little late!***

Yesterday was National Day. Meaning, China's communist party took over on 10/1/1949. The 60th anniversary. Parades, fireworks, the whole sha-bang. What does this mean for us? Woohoo! the day off. :)





Sleeping till noon, hanging out not doing much... sounds good to me! Actually yesterday I set up the playard. I'm glad we got the graco one, it's quite easy to setup/take down... though I think the sleepy safari one is probably still nicer, though i'm sure little girl won't know the difference. It's a green/brown colorway, which isn't super girlie either, but I think that's kinda what i wanted. it works okay, and as long as it's safe and serves the purpose, then that works for me!





Yesterday though I did feel some funky cramplike things... lower abdomen... yes, i can admit i am anxious, afterwall we did setup the graco! haha. but then again, it's best little girl stays inside for a few more weeks so she grows healthier by the day. :) but cramps, yes. though they weren't very consistent nor did i see any plug come out. so i guess we'll just wait for now! i really hope though, little girl is a libra... or libra/scorpio cusp...

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well today is actually 10/5, monday. This year really has flown by...
The weekend was uneventful despite being "Mid Autumn Festival" Saturday, but also not really restful. I should've slept more. i don't think little girl had a very restful weekend at all. we're both very tired today, especially. hopefully tonight we will sleep more.... shouldn't have watched the Liverpool v. Chelsea game last night! Liverpool lost too! At least waking up at 8am on Sun for the SC game (which btw wasn't even on tv, so i had to espn-it from blackberry!) was a WIN. WOOHOO SC.

Mid Autumn Festival was nice... we went to Yuen Long for dinner with yeye and mama and relatives... nothing super out of ordinary but okay. sharks fin soup. then we came home and took a walk in the park, daddy and i have been walking a little bit everyday, which is nice, even if it's only like 5-10 min from manhattan hill to home... but anyways WOW. SOOOO Many people in the park and SOOOO MAny kids! We've never seen so many ppl before there. it was pretty nuts. To think next year you will be playing with lanterns? or maybe just holding onto one glow stick really haah. awww.

Mommy was nesting too this weekend... cleaning and such. ahhh. need to buy detergent so i can start washing your things! though since we still haven't a place to put them i guess i have some time...


But we went to see the dr today (10/5)... i think his measurement wasn't very accurate today though b/c your head measured smaller than last week? i don't think that sounds right.. but your lungs aren't developed well enough yet and he says you're about 2kg which is still very small. So according to your due date it's now almost the end of November. Perhaps instead of thinking you'll be a libra/scorpio cusp mommy should now think of scorpio/saggitarius cusp! Mommy gets along well with saggs anyways. they're fire and quite lovely. mommy's best friend from college actaully is one... hopefully you'll meet auntie kimmy some day. :)

Auntie Maryann also sent you some books which was nice... i told her kids really are blessings... to remind parents of their own childhood and how we should never ever grow up! Of course there is a certain time and place for everything, but we should remember to be children at heart! <3

We also went to eat at Outback today... talk about carb overload. cheese fries, and split a burger w/daddy... the people were really nice though, they gave us free soup and salad. :) maybe b/c mommy is pregnant with you!! so they figured that we needed to eat more haha. We went to Nuskin today to get some stuff. Mommy wants to try to do more Nuskin business like grandma tsang so that she has more free time to spend with you when you are here. :) need to start planning for the future better now!!

Oh btw, since it seems like dr says you're not going to be coming out anytime soon, daddy will be going to the states next week. 10/12-19. Yes we'll miss him... but who knows, maybe he can buy some stuff for us and bring it back. hahaha. he does probably get to see grandma and grandpa too which is nice... and TORRANCE! i miss her too. you'll get to meet her i hope someday soon too when we visit to NJ where mommy grew up.

But keep growing!!! GROW STRONG and HEALTHY!!
Mommy and Daddy love you.
big hugs and kisses. xxxxooooo