Elijah Jerome Chan

A year on...2009... with 2 in tow!

2010-01-31T05:29:00.000-08:00

Well its been an eventful year 2009! What with celebrating Elijah's 1st birthday and a new arrival in June.... well i will just let the photos speak for themselves!

Here are some photos of the latest addition to our little family....

look I can sit on my own already! @ 5mths

1st Nov 2008 family outing!

2009-03-03T18:56:00.000-08:00

Its been some time since iI have had the time to upload and blog about my son....what with another on the way... another son that is... and Elijah's birthday...

Well here is one of our family outing on the 1st of nov to the singapore flyer, the marina barrage, the heritage fire station and the airport T3....

Before the Flyer started to move.... a family Pix of my new small family....

Haha finally one of Elijah looking happy with his outing.

At the heritage fire station opp. Funan IT mall.

At the airport T3 to pick up my youngest aunty and her family.... hahah dinner at POPPEY.

MY Fave Biscuit!!!!

2008-11-18T21:23:00.001-08:00

hahah these are mummy's fave pix today of me eating my biscuit. You want to join me? Hahah I am willing to share the one that I am having … that is if you are fast enough.

me.... I'm almost 6 mths now!

2008-08-24T07:10:00.000-07:00

Am almost 6 mths now (another 5days more to go). What are my latest milestones? hahah I can now happily share with all that, I am able to sit on my own unassisted! Am I amazing? :) My mummy would agree with me that there is none other like me! The world is now a big play ground for me to play and learn daily. Will share with all more as I pass more of my milestones. :)

Celebrations.....29th &30th Mar'08

2008-03-31T07:00:00.000-07:00

Elijah @ 5 days

2008-03-05T05:18:00.000-08:00

elijahjerome's 1st bath

2008-03-05T00:01:00.000-08:00

Hmmm.....
What that slippery, warmish feeling that is flowing down my back....
Whose hands are these? Where is my mummy? How come i cant smell my Milk smell on her anywhere near me?
Oh the hands that are holding me is the nanny's.... and she is giving me a bath....
Actually the feeling in here is similar to that in mummy's womb that is..... 'my own private swimming pool'.
Mummy, hahah she is actually fast asleep now....
So that means that i can play with water all that I want... Haha

delivery (29th feb 2008)

2008-03-02T00:01:00.000-08:00

29th Feb 2008 will not be a day that will be easily forgotten... Its the day that i spent 13hours in labour, not counting in the time spent at home with the cramps. That would add on another 2 days as the cramp- like discomfort actually started on the 27th Feb.
I checked into the hospital @ 9am on the 29th, and that was only after I had camps that were 2-3 mins apart. Now on hindsight, i should have waited even longer as to prevent being induced by the staff.
This was how the whole process went:
7am called Dr Fong as contractions were 4-5mins apart but the pain was still bearable. Instructed to make my way to the hospital. But as the pain was still bearable and this being my first child, felt that i still had time (heard that the first delivery normally takes hours and hours) so went to have my nice relaxing shower.
8am woke my hubby up to get ready to leave for the hospital as by now the cramps were 2-3 mins apart.
8.25am on called a cab, unfortunately met with a traffic jam on the way there.
9am arrived at Mt Alvernia Hospital, checked into the delivery suite. had my particulars taken down by the nurses there and was asked to.... 'go pee need to do urine test'....after which was strapped to the bed (this is major discomfort as lying there on that bed gives you a horrible backache. At 15min intervals a nurse would come in and check your contraction levels. They would also check the opening of your os. At which i was 3 cm open (need to be between 8 to 10 cm for delivery).
9.45am checked in by Dr Fong. No changes.
11am os checked again but to my disappointment there were no changes in the size of my os
2pm os checked again, still no changes. A nurse starts a drip to induce the labour. hubby falls asleep.... I tell him to go home and sleep in anger!@!!
4pm the pain gets to unbearable proportions. I give up my wish to have a drug free labour and begs the nurse for an epidural.
5pm the anesthetist arrives and in goes the epidural. A check to the os is done and in the process, my water-bag bursts with a vengence, soaking the lower half of my body.
5.30pm the epidural effects kick in and my blood pressure drops, hartman's solution was given via drip.... AHHHH pain free.... now i can sleep in peace...
8.30pm woken by the nurse... tells me that she is going off duty and that her workmate will take over the care of me...
9.30pm woken by a new face.... says that it should be soon..... but am still in happy land with no sign of any pain.
9.45pm Dr Fong's arrival signals the start of what I have been waiting for all day. All hands go into a flurry as everyone asks me to focuse and bear downwards as if i am to go to the toliet. Now as this goes on i suddenly feel nauseaous and ask for all the flurry and burry to stop.... in all I vomitted a total of 3 times before baby's head is seen. Hubby can still patronize my by saying how good i am doing and that baby's head is now the size of a 50 cent coin.
10pm Everybody is anxious as baby's head is out but the cord is wrapped around his neck.... I feel as though i have just been told that i have yet another 100km to run after having run a marathon. The nausea is not subsiding at all.... 'hurry you can't give up now... your baby's life depends on you... you have got to push.... dont stop...' were words the nurses and Dr Fong were throwing at me. at this point... I really could not understand a thing as I have yet to feel the urge to push. All this time, I have only been pushing according to their instructions.....finally in fustration.... 'I give up.... dont want to push anymore....' was my reply to their urges. In their urgency for baby to be delivered... the nurses and Dr Fong 'helped' me to deliver baby by pushing on my tummy....
10.13pm Finally..... Elijah Jerome's arrival is marked with a minute wail followed but the feeling of extreme exhaustion.....
10.25pm suddenly there placed on my tummy was an added weight.... 'what are the nurses doing....dont they know that I am so tired that I dont want to be disturbed...' oh look.... its your son...'my son... my son?.... oh my'
Oh that looks like my little brother, Josh when he was a newborn.........