Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Countdown - 8 more weeks to go

It's such an understatement to say that time passes you by so fast, especially when you're parents-to-be. Before we even knew it, excluding all the minor signs such as a rapidly expanding uterus (instead of stomach as we were reminded last week), there's only 8 more weeks to go.

Here's a pic of Claire at 32 weeks. Her head is slightly tilted to her left, and her nose bone and eye sockets are visible. I hear from Mummy that her position is also changing, from a horizontal lying position, to a more vertical position, readying herself for birth. Doc says all's well, Mummy and Claire are both doing fine, and Claire is now 1.9kg. Literature for expectant mummies suggest a major growth spurt in the last 2 months, so we'll be seeing Claire grow in size and weight for the coming few weeks.
Preparations, preparations, preparations. When will we ever consider ourselves ready to receive the baby? It's not as easy as packing for a trip (more on that later), or renovating a house. I guess we'll never know what we really need until Claire's born, but thanks to all the kind aunties and uncles (our frens and relatives), I am confident to say that we probably have 70-80% of required baby stuff covered. I think that's no mean feat in itself, but the credit probably has to go to Mummy for buying most of the clothes and other accessories. I'm just the "buy lo..." man, fully supportive.

Anyway, even as most people say expectant mothers shouldn't travel too far or move around too much, we made a trip (probably our last until Claire arrives) to KL together with Aunty S and Uncle R, with R being the driver throughout. It was really an enjoyable short holiday. Since both S and Mummy were expecting, we didn't do much walking, but rather watched a movie in KLCC, and savoured the various delicacies KL had to offer. My fav portion was drinks and chill-out at Starhill. The decor of the entire place was amazing. Themed restaurants in the entire basement despite being a bit on the expensive side, a jazz singer with fantastic vocals, good ambience on the whole.

I would've put pics up on the blog, but i can't seem to get the SD card to function properly. So, I'll put them up next time.

Till then, take care and cheerios...

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