I have settled into taking care of my lil' milk monster. I even have some free time to nap today!

If anyone ask me how is motherhood, I would tell the person, it's not easy as it looks. I don't think I had felt the maternal instinct right away after I had given birth. It may be due to the pain and exhaustion. I remembered first seeing Alex's photos taken by hubb, thinking "Is this really my son? He looks weird! Oh he has my flat nose!" When I first laid my eyes on him, I thought, "Wow, he's so tiny". He's not so tiny now and I kinda miss he being so small (easier to handle mah).

The one moment when I clearly felt the bond between both of us was a few days after the confinement period. I was holding him, and this sudden gush of love came from within and I almost teared looking at him. Quite an awwww moment really. Of coz Alex wouldn't care less for my gush of love, he would rather have gush of milk... heh.

Now I can't stop kissing the little fella. He doesn't seem to mind, coz he hasn't smack me with his mitten cladded hands. I wish he would smile more at me, coz he's such a serious baby.

Anyway the purpose of this post is to really showcase the current backdrop on my desktop. I think he looks hilarious and so darn cute. *biased mummy* :D Check out the new photos here at FB.

Alex the Dutch lady

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Failed Asia campus cost $47m

UNSW Audit Report

It has been almost a year since the closure was announced. People have forgotten about the matter. Well, I know coz of the few times I mentioned what I do before I became a stay-at-home-mother, people stared blankly at me... Heh. I know some of my ex-colleagues still haven't quite let go of the unjust feelings. It takes time to heal, but what matter is we have all move on in life in our own way. I know for sure that I can close this chapter of my life and continue my walk stronger than ever.

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Hip hop Alex

Alex is 6 weeks old! I meant to do an update on his milestones to keep track of it but I have been busy taking care of him, let alone blogging. This post alone took me two days...

Milestones

• Lifts head- Yes, but he mostly does it when he's lying on our chest
  
• Responds to sound- Yes
  
• Stares at faces- Yes
• Follows objects- Yes
• Ooohs and ahhs- Yes
  
• Can see black-and-white patterns- Yes, any bright colour object will attract his attention
  
• Smiles- Yes. He first smiled at me when he's 25 days old. I was so tired to feel excited and I fell asleep the next moment.
  
• Laughs- Not yet
  
• Holds head at 45-degree angle- Yes, again when he's on our chest

• to be carried to sleep (so spoilt by the family members!)- I wait for the day when he can sooth himself and doesn't need to be carried to sleep.
• when we clap his hands

• about 4kg at his one monniversary- from his birth weight of 2.97kg
  

Carbon copy *^_^*

The donor and Alex

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Last Sunday we had BB's first month celebration. We had over 100 ppl at our house in all and it was like a madcazynoisy house. I was trying to mingle around and didn't drink anything for the whole afternoon! We also forgot to take pictures inbetween! Thinking about it, I still feel tired.

It's on the very day itself that I realised that I had forgotten about getting a new outfit for myself. Luckily I could still fit into an old dress and it hid my bulges well.

Alex's man yue

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Alex the ultraman

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Alex the sausage mouth

Burping is one of Alex's favourite activity. I find that he looks so funny whenever he's been burped. This is my current fave pic of his. He just had his feed and was feeling rather dazed. Doesn't he look like Tony Leung Chiu Wai? ;)

Tony Leung the sausage mouth

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My birth experience is a terrible one. For aspiring mothers-to-be/wannabe, dun let me scare you off.

26 mar
12 noon: Went to my obgyn, Dr Ang's clinic for induce.

10:30pm: Admitted into Mt. Alvernia hospital. Obgyn came for check up and found out that iI was still 1 cm dilated, as of the case for the past 3 weeks, so he inserted more dosage of pill in me to aid the dilation.

27 mar
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By 4:45pm, I was in the OT. I could feel the needles pricking me, as they tested me for sensitivity to pain, so I opted for GA. By 5:26pm, my Alexander was born. :)

BUT

His face was accidentally nicked by the scapel during the c-section and that resulted in a 2cm long wound. The wound is superficial but we feel so heart pain about it. :( The PD used some glue meant for facial use to seal the skin together. The wound is healing fine now and I hope there is no scar. During the operation I had almost required a transfusion of blood as there were some complications. :(

So this is my long and detailed story of my delivery which in all took 17 hrs. Giving birth was really not easy for me and I salute those who go natural all the way. Having a no.2 is faraway from my mind now but bb Alex is our bundle of joy and I could never trade off this experience.

Alexander on 30 March

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Our little one has arrived on 27 March 2008. He's been a joy! My labour process was at the other end though. 17 hours in all and ended up in emergency c-section. Will update more when I have time and energy.

Alexander on 31 March

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Haizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. I still haven't give birth yet. So I went out many times to walk n walk. Also took some pictures with the new toy. Took some pictures of hubb racing with his brother. Hubb's hobby is to build model rally cars and he has influenced his brothers with this hobby too.

RC run collage

View my flickr set for close up of the photos that made up the ECP collage. Wondering whether I should get a paid account for Flickr. I realised that using free account, I could only view 200 of my last uploaded pictures, and I couldn't create more than 3 sets?! Any opinion???

ECP collage

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