Totally Fabulus

The rantings of an underpaid professional babysitter.....

Thursday, 25 August 2011

It's a girl.....

Today was a day we awaited for....
our appointment to scan for baby's gender in Columbia Asia.
All sort of thoughts went through our heads....
wondering...and nervous....
I don't really mind actually if it's a boy
or a girl.....tho we really want a girl....
but a boy would be fine too...
i kinda attach to the name Ethan Gaell and is
halfway fallen in love with it....
So yeah.....
we discover after an hour wait in the waiting room...
that it is a girl....
We were thrilled......but somehow...i kinda miss Ethan....

Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Names......

If our child were a boy, he would begin his public speaking
speech thus someday:
If I were a girl, i would be an Esther Grace....but alas i am not....
so, here I am...an Ethan Gale...courtesy from the EG of Esther Grace.

Well, while walking out from Carrefour, i suddenly asked him:
How about Ethan? Ethan Gale? Ethan Gaell?
He stopped to ponder....
It sounds like one who has good looks, tall, and sharp. I like it.
Ethan Hawke?
In your dream, i said....:p
So we agreed on Ethan....but he is still doubtful about Gale.

Chin and I had earlier on thought about
suitable names for our baby....
and we hope that it will be a girl....
We agreed that
Esther Grace will be a befitting name for her
because she was conceived during the
Holy Month of Lent.
All the processes leading up to the
extraction and transfer fell
in the month of Lent.
The extraction of the eggs was done on Holy Thursday, thus
we missed attending the Thursday Vigil mass.
The transfer was done on Easter morning....
and thank God.....we are successful in our first
attempt...which is a grace of God in itself.
Thus the name Esther Grace.
Gracie Girl.....:p

So, on Sunday evening, we agreed on Ethan.
It sound like a person with strong characteristics.
but we did laugh about it in the car...
What if someday his friends said to him:
Have you eaten already, Ethan?
How about that for a pun?

Meaning: Ethan - origin - Hebrew means strong, optimistic, solid,
enduring or permanent. Also English in origin.
Gaell - origin - Celtic, Irish - is a variation of Gale, means happy, cheerful.
has the meaning of speaker of Gaelic, an Irish language.

I love both names......
Esther Grace or Ethan Gaell.

Saturday, 20 August 2011

19 weeks and taking one day at a time......

19 weeks...seriously?
That fast....yeah...it's from the ovulation stage would be 19 weeks
but from implantation stage...that would be minus 2 weeks.
I still cannot feel any obvious movements yet
but i kinda wonder if the small ticks
at unexpected moment is the baby...
:p
At 17 weeks...i suffered threatened miscarriage....
a sudden bleeding...and not just a little
bit but a lot....
Luckily there was no pain and baby's heartbeat was still strong.
I was warded for one night for observation in
Jelebu Hospital...
got one week MC then...
i went for my long overdue appointment with a gyne
in Columbia Asia on Thursday and got another week of MC...
so all in all 2 weeks.
I am forced to acknowledge that i have to slow down and
take things easy...
which is not so easy for one who tends to walk so fast
everywhere in the school compound.
Dr Intan scan the baby but it was kinda blurry for us to really understand
the image we saw....
so another appointment has been set for 25th August.
The Doc said by then we can see the gender.
Oh...i am a nervous wreck....
I cant wait till next week.
Thankfully after next week is the Hari Raya break and
a one week holiday.
I'll get another week of rest. By then baby would be
21 weeks....
how time flies....
I've put on a lot of weight too.
In one and a half month i've put on 4 kgs which shocks me.
I guess i ate a lot after i was hospitalised. Before that my
weight was just static at 2 kgs for 2 weeks.
Hmmm.....i have to watch it....
or the blood sugar and pressure would shoot sky high...
Oh...oh...
Chin has been trying to feel the movements for days now
hahahaha but failed.....yeah...maybe one more month
then he can feel the kicks and nudges.