Sarah has been putting us through her terrible two antics for quite a while, ever since she discovered the power of 'NO'. She has blatanly defied her parents in public by refusing to walk, to come down the stairs, to hold hand while crossing the road, to leave the supermarket........ Every visit to the supermarket is traumatic for us, it almost always end with a wrestling match, force has to be used to evacuate her out of the supermarket. The most tricky sections are the fruits section, where she must grab the apples; and the cashier counter, as they have colourful wide variety of candies on display besides the cashier.
Even though saying 'NO' is a norm attribute of the terrible two, she has left us scratching our heads as she uses 'MAI' instead of no'. Mai is the hokkien for no, no one in our family, extended family or school speaks any dialect to her. She will 'MAI' at us loudly and swings her arm wildly and furiously like a drama queen.
The dilation has began, which means Bei should be borned within the few days or by the end of the week.
We went for our scheduled consultation with Dr Fong today, it was brought forward from the end of the week as Flo has been experiencing contractual + lower abdominal pains since the latter part of last week. Upon hearing the symptoms, Dr Fong said there was a lot of downward pressure and wanted to check on the cervix. From the examination, he discovered that the cervix has already dilated to a width of about 2cm. Next he proceeded to the ultrascan, due to some unknown reasons, the attempts to gauge bei's weight were in-conclusive, the first take was 3kg, the second 2.1kg and the third at 2.3kg -_-" . After doing an ECG test, bei's heart rate was normal but contraction movements was charted as well. Dr Fong decided to send us to TMC for a more thorough scan to ascertain his weight as well as the blood pressure.
The test results at TMC were good, bei has grown to 2.5kg, his blood pressure is normal and the best news was the placenta has fully moved up, as such c-section is not necessary for delivery! However, as the cervix has dilated, we are told to monitor bei closely and be prepared for delivery any time this week.
We are very excited and looking forward to seeing him.
We had our 元宵 dinner at the 7th Storey Restaurant at the Marina Barrage.
But instead of having it on the 15th night, we brought in forward by a day to fit into everybody's schedule.
We had to sit outdoors as we were having the steamboat. Even though the weather has been terribly warm and humid, it was quite enjoyable as there was a constant sea breeze.
Sarah enjoyed it, especially the crackers.
We had the ala-carte + steamboat set for 10. The portions was too much as we had only 7 adults and 2 toddlers.
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Their specialty, the charcoal fish steamboat. There was really lots and lots of fish meat inside, we ate until we were so sick of fish.
