Pictures of me

Dr Mary Yang and me..finally not on scan!

First Paediatrician Visit

Today, Im going out!

Im having my very first check up appointment with Dr YY Yip and its a brand new experience! Im back to Gleneagles Hospital which i frequent for the past 10 months.

I enjoyed my little care ride to the hospital in Mommy's arms. I already have a cool like Britax car seat, a pressie from Club Senior BFF, but Daddy could fix it to be backward facing comfortably in the car. Time to buy us a bigger car, Dad!

To DD's amd MM's horror, Dr Yips office was like a polyclinic! There are 9 Paediatricians sharing the office and the admission was a blur.

They took my weight at 3.3kg today and recorded it in my Health Booklet. DD and MM almost over insured me for hospitalisation policies so that i will get the best medicial attention when needed.

My paranoid MM was worried about children with Hand, Foot Mouth disease... and the unknown germs in the air that may be caught by my tiny lungs... she almost wanted me to wear a mask! Is there such a tiny mask for a tiny face??

Dr Yip said that i look a little jaundiced and sent me to do a lab test. The results was positive but my jaundice was very mild..i only needed sunbathing every morning for 10mins.

Mommy protected my eyes from the 8am sun

Wish i was at Club Med Bintan.

umbilcal cord

9th day since birth : My little umbilcal stump dropped off today! All thanks to Por Por and Mommy for keeping my little cord clean with alcohol swipes and infection free!

Hanging on to the little tube that fed me with nutrients for the past 9 months odd.

Mommy says that she will dry and keep it as a momento. It is believed that if Mommy put my cord with my other siblings' cord in future, we will be very loving :)

Mommy says that she wants to find her cord that my grandma kept and put hers togther with Daddy's

and she says its not considered as black magic. -.-"

I'm Home and I'm the Queen!

20 JUNE 2008. It was an exciting day for Daddy (DD) and Mommy (MM) as they are going to bring me home after the short crash course on "How to breastfeed and bath me". I was pretty doubtful -.-

I was brought back to that place where i was familiar with the morning chirping of birds and that humming of the washing machine when i was still in MM tummy. MM told me that HOME is a safe place that i can grow up with lots of love and joy!

I turned the whole "house routine" upside down and I ruled the world at home! The once entertaining long island in the kitchen with pretty cookie jars is replaced with my bathing essentials and swanky bath tubs. My parents bed were shifted to accomodate my little brown cot with nappies, diaper cream,cotton balls and warm blankies. Hampers filled the whole TV console and the laundry rack hangs all my little tiny clothes in the sun.

My Por Por stays with us for a month to nurse MM back to her... hrmmm... normal size and health. While MM and DD takes over the overwhelming role of sleeping with me.

I'm not too much of a difficult baby as i currently only have 5 hobbies.


1. Feed
2. Poo
3. Cry
4. Swaddled
5.Sleep

MM is new to me and I am new to her as well... We have agreed to adopt the "let try again" spirit and MM's patience goes a long way...

I show MM and DD my pouting and licking lips, contort my head to a 90 degrees angle to hint for a feed. If that fails, i wriggle forcfully out of my swaddle to give signs of distress and finally, i give a loud loud wail! I tell you... ... the last resort always works.

Sometimes i soiled my nappy and wanted a clean little ass. Unless my DD and MM caught me guilty of my loud farts, i would cry non-stop till they figured out that Ive pooed. DD always suggest checking my nappy when all elses fails. DD is very good with changing my diapers thou he failed to understand that I am a girl and must be cleaned from the front to back and not the other way round! MM screamed in dismay when she saw that and Daddy said that cleaning the anus from the front to the back or back to the front didnt matter to him for the past 28 years... ... MEN!

Hellooo World!

Hi everyone, I'm Gwenneth Tan, fresh from the oven, on 18th June 2008.

I'm fondly known as "Gwen Gwen" but i would prefer to be called Gwenneth when i turn 18 as it would then sounded more hot n chic.

Mommy would prefer me to be a sweet lil'thing for now.

Mommy did a little pink card for me with my new name (apart from foetus, baby etc) GWENNETH TAN so that everyone can tell me apart from the rest of my friends in the hospital nursery.


I'm blessed with plenty of love from my rookie Daddy and Mommy, and i got plenty of attention from relatives n friends at the hospital!

Gwen Gwen gives a BIG HUG for all the lovely presents, hampers, flowers, new clothes, new toys, balloons, gold accessories and tonic for Mommy!God-Daddy and Daddy had to borrow 2 trollies to transport all the hampers and presents to the car!

and of course, the priceless love and concern for Daddy, Mommy and I. Lurrrrvvvves

Mommy's birth story...

My Mommy was diagnoised with Gestational Diabetes (diabetes at pregnancy) at week 37. Dr Mary Yang said that Gestational Diabetes has its complications and often result in a oversized baby which needed c-sect at delivery. My Mommy is very very unprepared to be cut up.

I was estimated to be 3.5kg in tummy then, and Mommy was also already 2 cm dilated. Hence Dr Yang suggested that they shall induce labour sometime next week (week 38).

And 18th was chosen, just because Dr Mary Yang was free! What a fateful day... so 18th it is!

So, Mommy started to go on fasting the night before and was so excited that she only caught 2 hrs of sleep. Daddy snored away as usual.

I could hear that every night.

We admitted to the hospital at 7.30am and Mommy got changed into the blue robe which bears her little ass at the back. It made her really nervous and uncomfortable.

Mommy gave Daddy a pressie, which is a journal that records the whole lovely pregnancy experience, feelings and pictures of my scans and Mommy's ever-growing belly. Daddy gave Mommy a card with mushy stuff which i would... ... rather not tell you.

At about 9.30am, Dr Yang came and checked Mommy for dilation progress since last week... it was STILL only 2cm and she burst my waterbag without warning my Mommy. Mommy felt the exact description of how a waterbag burst would feel like on books.

Mommy was put on drip and the contractions came quickly... Daddy and Mommy was left alone in the labour ward and Daddy timed the contractions to be 2.5mins apart each lasting 50 secs.

My poor Mommy in pain.

Mommy wanna knows what labour pain is all about and beared with the acute pain. She lasted for abt 2hrs before agreeing with Daddy that maybe she should be put on epidural. If you do your maths, Mommy had about 40 waves of excruciating pain of contractions and she thinks its enough to remember it for life already.

"EPIDURALLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Epidural was injected while Mommy hangs on to her life breathing so hard on the laughing gas to relieve some pain. Daddy was super impressed with Dr Ernest Lim that he would name his baby after him if its a boy! Kidding... Daddy was relieved to see Mommy relieved from pain.

"Epidural side-effects should not be considered ; epidural is a necessity." Quoted Mommy.

Mommy felt that she was in heaven and was 4cm dilated at 12.38pm. She dozes off to sleep for about 2 hrs while Daddy grab a bite from Delifrance.

At 3.30pm, Mommy was 8cm dilated.

Im almost there, everyone!

Mommy was fully dilated, 10cm, at 4.28pm... the nurses called for Dr Yang, and she said wait a little longer before pushing.

"WHAT! STILL GOT TO WAIT SOMEMORE!" Mommy cried.

The epidural was fading off and the nurses had to prepare a new one. But i guess it was all too late for Mommy... She felt my head in the pelvic and it causes her to feel a huge pressure on her birth canal. The pain was actually worse than contractions! Mommy turned pale and tears trickled down from the corner of her eyes while Daddy held mommy's hand tight and stroke her hair with his Delifrance curry puff-smelling hands.

Daddy did every deep breathing with Mommy as she moan in pain with each contractions and planted gentle kisses on Mommy's forehead to comfort her from time to time.

AT 5 odd, Dr Yang came and all Mommy heard was "PUSH!", "COME ON COME ON!", "YOU ARE DOING WELL, COME ON!" "PUSH HARDER, PUSH HARDER!", "COMING OUT! COMING OUT!"

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The rest is history.


I was born on 18th June 2008 at 5.25pm

Head circumference : 35cm

Length : 51cm

Weight : 3.27kg

General : BEAUTIFUL.

My first picture.

Mommy said that the pain she went through giving birth to me was... ... ...bad. But i secretly know that she thinks its all worth every bit. Mommy told me she needed 2 years to forget about the pain before she gives me , hopefully a brother :)

Mommy bragging to the world about how cute I am.

Pictures of barely one day old!

People who loves me!