We Are Home!

We are finally home with our newest family member!

Elaina was born on 18 March 2007 at 8.24 am. Weighing at 3.06kg, with a body length of 49cm and head circumference of 34cm... she is so much smaller in size as compared to Matty when he was born. Then again, that's the size of most newborn... Matty was just alot bigger than average.

Taking after the character of a pig (she has afterall a "piglet" since this is the year of the golden pig)... getting her beauty sleep matters most to her. Not complaining... and in fact Mummy is going to enjoy this moment while it lasts. We had peaceful nights so far and hopefully it will stay this way.

Elaina drinks alot lesser as compared to Matty. One feed of 30ml can sustain Elaina for 2 hours at least and if her appetite is good and can down about 50ml in one go... the next feed will only come 4 hours later.

Despite all that... Elaina is not too far from Matty where her temper is concerned. She is calm and relaxed at most time but when she is upset... all hell will break loose and without any warning.

Matty seems to be taking well about having another baby around the house and will "sayang" the little sister when asked to... and sometimes even voluntarily. Mummy and Daddy miss having Matty and his ongoing chattering. If all goes well tonight again... we are likely to bring him home earlier than expected.

Today's the Day

In another 3 hours, we will finally get to meet Baby Elaina and for her to meet the world.

The past 38 weeks seemed to have zoomed past so quickly but the last 6 hours felt like forever. On a normal night, Mummy would have complained about not getting enough sleep and the night was too short... but last night it was the opposite... the night felt so long.

Things will be different tonight when we start our life of waking up every 2 to 3 hours to clean poo and feed milk... and feel completely deprived of sleep. But like what everybody will tell you... it will get better (just a matter of when!).

See Ya on 18 March!!

Mummy has been so so so tied down with work since the beginning of the week that I didn't even have the opportunity to jot this important piece of news down here.

The date has finally been set... Baby Elaina will be out this Sunday, 18 March. She is still in a breech position and so Mummy is going to get herself cut again. I don't know what is labour pain or contraction but I sure know how it feels to have a 10-cm cut on the lower abdominal... two times.

As at last week, Mummy has put on a grand total of 7kg for this pregnancy. 2kg lesser than the last time round... but I can feel my tummy so much heavier. Wonder why.

Mummy has bought a present for Matty which will be given to him when he visits for the first time and pretend that it is from his little sister. I don't know if it works but almost everyone I know seems to say that it helps to prevent the older one from feeling sore that he or she is not the "star of the day". Anyway... better to err on the right side.

An Acrobat in Action

Just when we thought that there was a possibility of trying natural birth at the earlier checkup two weeks ago, Princess Elaina decides to get back into breech position again. We are not hopeful that she will find the heads-down position more comfy before the next checkup (which is only a mere five days away). In the meantime, her breech position may be the best position for her... not so for Mummy. Her head is pressing against my tum tum and it feels like I have suffered a bruise. The only relief that I get is when I lie down on my right side and with her weight pulled down by the gravity... the tension comes off.

Mummy is all prepared for another caesarean this time round... which is likely to happen either on 17 or 18 March depending on the availability of Dr Lim. Not too far away... just another two weeks more to go to get to D-day. The good part is that because we know when exactly it is going to happen, there are alot of things which we can plan beforehand and get everything in place. On top of that, Mummy is gorging myself silly with all the good food before "confinement" begins. Doesn't bother me much since my weight has been stagnant over the last two weeks and not likely to see it go sky high before D-day.

Not sure if its really so true... Matty is getting more and more clingy these days. It worries Mummy what his reaction will be when he needs to be parked with his grandparents for at least a week while Mummy recuperates from the 10-cm long wound and keeping sane with a cranky newborn. One thing that we should really get done is to bring Matty for another swim. It has been ages since we last did that... either because of the bad weather or someone down with a flu.