Finally... Cutie.

17 July 2007, Tuesday...

This was the date that I finally see you face-to-face.

We were going for a family dinner at Vienna in United Square. Before the dinner, we made a detour to the hospital to visit our dear little prince. We had been informed by your Mummy on Sunday that we can see you from outside your ward through the glass window. We were very excited as we have been waiting for this day for the longest time.

Your Mummy pushed you from your ward to beside the glass window so that we can see you clearly. She was carrying you and talking to you.. Can't hear what she said but I am sure she is introducing us to you. Poor Uncle Terence, Aunty Rancy and myself (Aunty Addy) were seeing you with the glass window separating us but we are already very contented to be able to see you this way.

We know you are anxious to see us like we are to see you.. There were quite a few times when we saw you wanting to open your eyes but I think there was some 'sticky eyes shit' that kept your eyes closed... Heehee... You were smiling a few times too... and I think you smile like your Daddy with one side of your mouth tilted.

You are one cute, little boy... As of yesterday, you are at 1.645kg... Well done, Baby Jayden. Remember the goal, okie? Let's work towards that...

P.S. Wanna let you know how much your Daddy and Mummy love you. They were informed by the nurse last night that you are only left with 1 bottle of breast milk which might not be enough for you to last through the night. Immediately, your Mummy tried to pump some breast milk at the hospital. After dinner, your Daddy sent us back and went home to pick up the already pumped out breast milk to send it to hospital for you. By then, it should be almost 11pm. For his little darling, he did it without complaints. When you grow up, this blog will serve as a reminder on the unconditional love that your Daddy and Mummy has showered upon you...

Happy Full Month Old, Baby Jayden

Time flies... You are 1 month old already. It seems like not so long ago that you were born.

You are still this mystery baby that everyone knows exist but yet to have a look at you. Every now and then, someone will be asking "Can we see Baby Jayden already?" or "When can we see Baby Jayden?". All of us are anxious to see you but we can wait. For the good of your health, we are willing to wait.

Let's set a goal for you, shall we? Say we aim for 2 weeks from now for you to gain another 0.4kg. I have faith in you that you can achieve the goal. We will be giving you moral supports from the sideline.

Oh ya... we know you love Uncle Terence and Aunty Rancy too... though we think you love Uncle Terence only teeny-weeny bit. Heehee... (If he sees this, he's going to scream!! Hahaha...)

Uncle Terence and Aunty Rancy striked 4D over the weekends and the numbers that they striked are numbers to do with you. They placed a very small bet on the numbers and they bought 'ibet' on the numbers so the winnings are relatively smaller. At least Aunty Rancy striked 1st prize so she still won a few hundred dollars but poor Uncle Terence only striked consolation prize and guess how much is his winning?? A very auspicious $18... :P

Nonetheless... like Aunty Addy, they feel your love for them... :D

Such A Fortunate Baby.

Dearie, you are so loved by all those around you... You have received so many wonderful gifts from people around you. Uncle Shihao and Aunty Nicole bought you a lovely pram to be placed at Grandmama's house. They are really generous with you. The lovely pram is one that your Mummy had wanted to buy for you. When Aunty Nicole found out about THE PRAM, they bought it without hesitation for you. It is really sweet of them. Your Mummy is really appreciative of this gesture from them. I know that if you were to understand things, you will be very thankful too...

And I Know You Love Me Too... : )

3 Weeks 1 Day = 22 Days

22 Days, that is how old you are today. On this 22nd day of your life, I feel your love for Aunty Addy. : )

On Friday, I went to the hospital to meet your Grandpapa, Grandmama, Daddy & Mummy. They were going to visit you again. : ( As we were supposed to go somewhere together after your visit, I decided to meet them there even though I will not be able to see my little darling. I knew it is quite impossible but I ask your Mummy to try her luck with the nurse to see if they will 'break the rule' and let me visit you just this once. Tough luck! Even before your Mummy asks the nurse, we saw 2 incidents where they checked on the visitors' connection to the babies there. I guess I just had to satisfy my request to see you from the glass window. You were sleeping in the incubator further away from the glass window.. so I can only see the shape of your body but not your face. : (

Aunty Addy is constantly checking on your weight cos' it will determine when you will be out of the incubator and subsequently discharge. On Friday, I asked the same questioin again... "What is Baby Jayden's weight?" I can't remember if it is your Daddy or Mummy who answered me but I was told '1.490kg'. I was happy with the answer cos' it only means that you will be out of the incubator really soon. : )

Over the weekends, being quite a regular 4D buyer, your weight of 1.490kg is 1 of the 3 numbers that I bought for this weekends. Guess what?? It came out the 3RD PRIZE TODAY!!! I strike 4D!!! Yipppeeee!! Not a lot of money since I am just a 'small' gambler but I am already very contented. It has come in handy.

I was so happy that I was telling your Daddy and Mummy that our Baby Jayden loves me loads lor.. cos' indirectly you gave me the instinct to buy this number... : )

P.S. Your Grandmama, Mummy and Grandfather went to visit you this afternoon and they brought with them great news that you do not have to sleep in the incubator anymore. It will be really soon that you will be coming home..

Pee-ing & Poo-ing Loads

You are 16 days old today, Baby Jayden. It seems like just a couple of days ago that you were born.

Over the weekends, you were transferred from ICU to the Special Care Nursery which means that your condition has improved. You have been growning steadily over the past 1 week. Your current weight is at 1.430kg. You must 'Jia You', okie? Another 0.570kg to the first goal in your life. I am sure you can do it in real short time.

Grandpapa and Grandmama will visit you every few days to see how is their little darling doing? Like every other Grandmama, your Grandmama was beaming with pride whenever she talks about you. She even thinks you are cute when you were too lazy to wake up when she called you during one of her visits. When your Grandmama visited, the nurse was telling her that you are pee-ing and poo-ing loads.. They have to change your diapers ever so often.

You must continue to drink more, pee & poo more. Most importantly, you must grow more. We can't wait for the day that the doctor announces that you are big enough to be discharged. It will be a day of celebration...

p.s. With the help from your Granny, your chinese name is 卓政贤. LOVELY!!

Another 0.710kg to go...

An update from your daddy brings happy news.. You started on your feeding since Monday. However little is the amount, it is still a good start. On Monday, you were fed 1ml of milk every 2 hours. Yesterday, it had increased to 2ml of milk in every 2 hours. Poor baby, you must have been starving for the past 1 week. No worries... you can start enjoying your mummy's breast milk from now on. Your daddy and mummy have taken great effort to ensure that you have sufficient breast milk once you start on your feeding.

Your mummy started trying from Day 2 to make sure that the flow will be sufficient for you and your daddy has been bringing the milk down to the hospital everyday without fail. We were all just waiting for the day that you can start your feeding and start putting on some weight. Since your first feeding, you have consistently put on 20g each day. Your weight shoud be at 1.290kg as of yesterday. Remember to eat more in the days to come and we will be waiting for the day that you weigh 2kg.

Everyone in the families is waiting for the day that we can see you. Don't make us wait too long, okie? : )

Jayden, Our Brave Warrior!

A quote from your mummy (the power of mother-child connection):
"It's Jayden who taught me to be strong. He has persisted so much and come so far. No way am I gonna let him down now."

Baby Jayden, you had been scaring us enough for the past 8 months. Please stop doing that. You are young but Aunt Addy is not. Sooner or later, I will die of heart-attack caused by you... :P

You were born on 16 June 2007, Saturday, at 10:01am. You were 2 months ahead of your due date so your weight is only at 1.230kg. You managed to frighten all of us 1 hour before you are born though. Your mummy was admitted into the hospital cos' her BP was terribly high and your gynae said your heartbeat was weak. Your gynae wanted your mummy to be admitted for observation. Who is to know that at 9am, your mummy called your daddy to inform him that the doc is going to operate on her to bring you out. We were all sleeping when we received the call about you coming out prematurely. We were shocked out of our sleeps. I rushed down with Grandmama. Your daddy rushed down with your Granny, Uncle Terence and Aunt Rancy. Aunt Nicole rushed down with Greataunt and Aunt Doreen. Aunt Diana and Aunt Eve also came down after Bro Darius finished his class. We were all praying so hard that everything will be fine. There is nothing else that we want more. You can never imagine how happy we were when we found out that both your mummy and you are safe and sound. Everyone was just smiling from head to toe... :D

For the next few days, we were just busy visiting your mummy. Please do not misunderstand that we were not concern about you cos' we are not visiting you. It is because you are in the incubator in ICU and only your daddy & mummy and grandparents are allowed to visit you. In fact, I 'play cheat' and wheel your mummy down to see you on your 2nd day. When I wheeled her into the ICU to your cube, I managed to catch a glimpse of you before they chased me out. : ( I remember you were squinching your face with your eyes closed. I also remember that you have really long fingers and I mean REEEAAAALLLYY long. I bet you are going to be 1 tall guy when you grow up which I am glad for you...

Last night we received not so good news from the doctor. Doc said that seems like you are unable to get rid of your waste which is causing your tummy to be very bloated! I can see that your daddy and mummy were heartbroken, especially when the doc said that an operation might be needed to solve the problem. Our darling Jayden is only 2 days old and have to go through a major operation (by your standard). We can't bear for you to go through the pain. :_(

By early afternoon today, doc confirmed that an ops for you is inevitable and has to be carried out immediately. Your ops was scheduled in the evening after ops of another 3 babies. Your daddy and mummy were so worried. Grandmama and Granny were feeling the pain that you had to go through the ops. Aunt Addy, Aunt Rancy, Aunt Diana, Aunt Doreen & 4th Greataunt went down to the hospital to give you our moral support. All your greataunt, uncles and aunts who were not present were equally concern about you too. We were giving them constant updates to let them know the latest situation.

At 7:30pm, your daddy and mummy received a call from the doc to inform that the ops is over and wants to see them. After about 30mins, they came down and delivered happy news...

Darling Baby Jayden,
We are very happy that you had won yet another battle. We know it is not easy for you but each time, you had made us really proud of you. This is only the 3rd day of your life but you had been through what Aunt Addy has never been through and I salute you for your courage. I strongly believe that you are going to be a very strong boy from now on and you will fight and win every battles like a warrior...
We love you for being such a brave boy...

Baby Cot For Baby Jayden

Baby Jayden, Aunt Addy has bought you your first bed in your life... :D

Aunt Addy has always known that she would want to buy something for you to welcome you into our family but I did not have any idea what to get you until 2 weeks ago. I was looking around for something to buy for you when I chanced by baby cot. That is when I knew that is what I can buy for you. I started shopping around, with Aunt Diana's help, to look for one that is relatively good and stable for you.

We went to the Motherhood fair in Expo yesterday and with Aunt Diana and Uncle Don's experience, I decided to buy a white colour pine wood cot from the fair. Its usual price was $400+ but at the fair, it is going at $229. With an addition of a mattress, it comes up to $269 for the whole thing. Like most of the cot, you can use this as a bed even when you are slightly older.

I actually have an idea to paint the white frame of your cot with nice, cute picture but Aunt Addy is never good at drawings so I guess we shan't 'spoil' the cot with my 'artistic' drawings... : )

This looks a bit like your cot minus all the accessories inside of cos... or do they just look the same to me?? :P

Jayden, You Shall Be...

Aunt Addy has not been updating your blog regularly cos' you have been a really good boy. Your mummy just give me the 'go-ahead' that I can call you Jayden from now on. She said it is more or less confirmed unless your daddy changes his mind. I am hoping that he will not cos' I think Jayden is a very very beautiful name which really suits you..

Meaning: God has heard...

Given what we had went through, I really think 'God has heard' our prayers...

Darling Boy, You Are Going To Be One Persistent Fellow.

Darling boy, Aunt Addy already know that being persistent will be part of your personalities. I won't know if that will be to your benefit or not in future but for now, I am very proud of you for being so persistent in joining us. Having you is a god's gift to us but what has happened for the past 1 month is a miracle. I know you had worked very hard in your mummy's tummy for the past month and that itself already shows that you belong to our families cos' in our families, we work together and support each other when problems arise.

This is the 24th going to 25th weeks. You will be joining us in another 4 months and we can't wait for that day to come... : )