Welcome Baby Chloeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the post where everyone else is waiting to see(i supposed). I'm gonna explained in details how Nicole had endured her 21hrs of pain and the birth of baby Chloe to this Family of the Loos.

It all started on 27th July, where she had her weekly checkup @ ACJ clinic. It was also the day we had planned to discuss with Dr Caroline Khi(our Gynae) to have our induced birth on 28th July. ~ Why Nicole dun wanna do it on the same day u would had asked ~ cos she wanna enjoy the whole of 27th so as to prepare herself for the BIG DAY the following day.

11Am 27th July:
During the checkup, Dr Khi suggested we induced birth immediately as she had found the umbilical cord on Chloe's neck area while doing the ultrasound test. Fear and safety overcome every other things in our minds and we proceed as told. Its was a mere 5 mins i'll say, and the pill was in Nicole's body and the effects came in soon after that. Although Dr Khi mentioned that that contraction will only occur the next day, Nicole is having a constant count of pain when she was put up for a contraction test. After tat we were told to go home and be back @ 3.30pm for another check.

3.30Pm 27th July:
Back at the clinic again, Nicole already having very strong contraction pains...1 contraction per min. And she is already 1 cm dilated before she was transferred to the Observation Rm while i did the admission for her.

5.45Pm 27th July:
Dr Khi came in to check on Nicole, 2.5cm dilated and membrane rupture(water bag burst). Everything going smoothly and based on the progress, baby Chloe might be out by 2am. Nothing can be sure....

11.30Pm 27th July:
Its time to be transferred to the Delivery Ward by now. Nurses came in to check and still remains at 2.5cm dilated, still no progress at all...

12Midnight 28th July:
After 8.5 hrs of enduring the contraction pain, Nicole have to get her 1st of many Epidural injections. Its really pain to see after her injection, she was shivering down her spine, could hardly move and a urinal bag attached to her. Really wanna cry seeing her in those pains.

12Am-6Am 28th July:
Super unbearable long wait...coffee after coffee, walking up and down the hospital floor is killing me!!

6Am 28th July:
Nurses came in to check once again for dilation... 2.5CM!!!!!!!!! Its still the same since last evenin!!!!!! Nothing had changed at all and Nicole preparing for her 2nd Epidural. We had already prepared for the worst, to go for caesarean if Dr Khi comes in to check and there is still no progress.

8.30Am 28th July:
Nurses checked and its 5CM dilated already!!! Nicole said she felt the nurses had a hand in helping her to dilate to the current size. Kudos to the nurses for helping....

9.30Am 28th July:
Dr Khi came in and its 6cm dilated by now....

10.30Am 28th July:
Nicole complaint bout pain and pressure down at the cervis, and its surprisingly 9cm dilated!!!
Its progressing really fast by now...but the 2nd Epidural is running out...

11.30Am 28th July:
Times up!!! Its 10cm dilated already. 3rd Epidural is injected and ready to start pushing but something below is blocking Chloe's head making it hard to come out. So gonna wait another 2 more hrs claimed by the nurses.

12Noon 28th July:
Nicole complaining pain again, this time round really wanna give birth already...so its PUSH!!...PUSH!!!...PUSH!!!! time....
Its easy said then done, its really hard to push as she had no more strength left after many counts of pushing to get the crowning(able to sight baby's head). Her stomach was empty with nothing else left inside. The small little portion of porridge from last evening dinner was well digested to nowhere already. 40mins had passed and she is already pushing for her life...and at a moment she, well...almost gave up. Frustrated, she put down both her legs from the leg support and start kicking it with agony until i sounded her that all efforts will be down to drain if she gave up. And so the PUSH action begins again. PUSH!!...PUSH!!!...PUSH!!!!

1240PM 28th July:
Here comes Dr Khi the saviour. All geared up, with the mid wife beside and emergancy bell sounded for all the nurses on duty to help. Baby Chloe's heart beat had dropped from averagely 154hbp to 70-80hbp. Dr Khi asked, "Girl u ready? u want me to help bring the baby out?"
"YES!!","OK!!!", DO IT!!!," at this moment, NO is always not an answer. So Dr Khi got ready her knife and vacumn(to suck out baby), nurses standing by ready to help push down the baby via the adominal. It was so tensed and it like we were in the scene of Antomy Grey. "OK!!!" was shouted and all get started.

The 1st cry of the Baby Chloe was sounded...she was so big when lifted out. Doc asked if i wanna cut the umbilical cord, "NO" was the answer given. Not because i was scared, its just tat Nicole had forbidded me to do tat as she tought tat i was "scared"... so anyhow i dint do it.

I was shown how the umbilical cord had tied 2 rounds on Chloe's neck, it was really life-threatening. Once Dr Khi placed baby Chloe on mummy's adominal, i hugged Nicole and we almost teared. A new life was borned...with the name of CHLOE, child of Ben and Nicole.

Sorry guys, for the pics i will upload soon.....

Nic's Birthday on 18th July

I noe its already August and the birthday was in July.... its just that we had been too busy to blog.

Alrite just some pics of that day. No pic of myself cos i was so messy after buying the Swensen Ice Cream cake from Holland Village, although daddy did manage one for us, it turned out super ugly.

Ok Nicole is so looking forward for the Swensen Ice Cream cake cos its like once a year thingy and also she wanted it before her baby Chloe is due. But wat turns out, is a over-rated Strawberry Ice Cream cake. Its really not much match our taste bud or standard i'll say. I give it only 2/10, tat 2 marks is for the resturant name. Its SUCKZ!!! BIG TIME!!!! PERIOD!!!!! No more Swensen Ice Cream cake for us from this moment onwards, never to buy again even if Baby Chloe request for it in the future.

After Nic's birthday...mine will be 4 days later... but not gonna blog bout it, cos it will be nothing near interesting, its just another "Birthday" for me...

@ Fish & Co on 18/07...

Here we are again, having fun in Fish & Co on 18/07....
ITS NICOLE's BIRTHDAY!!!!!

"Transformer" in the clinc

Sorry ppl, it took me so long to post up these entries. My working hrs are always the reasons for not posting, yeah i know it sounds like an excuse, cos i always have time for my games instead.

Alrite, we took these pics when we were @ our family clinic tat day...both of us were made to wear these mask in order not to spread our virus. I think its rite to wear them when you are sick, cos we must be a responisble patient during the H1N1 season. Dont you guys think we looks like Transformer??? hee hee

2 Great days

We had such great times in these 2 days when I m off and wifey starting her 4mths of maternity leave.

Yday we went to our fav shopping hunt, IKEA @ alexander. Dint buy anything, we juz went there for our lunch. It's really weird not to do shopping there man!! Really hard to control the temptation of getting the red wooden rocking horse for baby Chloe, Nicole hav to drag me away from the children display area.

Next stop to another hunting place of ours, Holland Village. She did her pedicure and me looking out of the wind screen from e car after a u-turn from Maju Camp. Why???? Cos I was a blur sotong, to hav actually booked the wrong date for my ippt test. There we bought our sumptuous dinner home for the family.






Today we spend the whole afternoon cosy up at home before we went Tiong Bahru for our movie. Yeah!!! Finally we gonna watch Ice Age together again. Watching it really brought back the memories of us when we were having our 1st date 3 yrs back. We were watching the part 1 of Ice Age back then. Time really flies lo, wonder if they gonna film Ice Age 4. Anyhow it's really a cute and hilarious movie and we had lots of laugh inside.

Lastly we had our dinner @ Ajisen. Not really tat nice, maybe cos we had went there so many times le, and they had nv change their menu for yrs. We even had the same thing in HK during our last visit. Hmmmm.... Think gonna stop patronizing there for awhile.

Tml is back to work time. Nicole wifey alone at home rejevenating herself. How I wish I can stay home too. ;(

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A dream

We are juz looking forward for tml to come, cos it mark the start of a 4 mths maternity leave for wifey. And also a count down to the arrival of the baby princess of our family, Chloe.

Maybe we are both really too eager, cos last nite, we both dreamt of Baby Chloe coming out le. So coincident lo. And Nicole dreamt her labour is on 14/07, gosh!! It's juz next week. Hail the princess!! Hail the princess!!

Looking at her inflated tummy each and every day, I feel so heart-warmed. And it's really hard and tired to carry a baby for like 9mths to date. Feeling the baby kicking and punching and turning around inside is such entertainment, listening to us talking at times and kicking to catch our attention. She is such a playful girl.

Seeing my Nicole going thru so much, I will definately treasure her and happy family forever yeah!!! ;D


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Fun and loving day

Having fun and great desserts @ MOF and Coffee Club.

It's been a long time since we last enjoyed our dessert hunting. So today we welcome July in spectacular way by indulging ourselves in all these fabulous and nice to look at food. I know i m kinda over a bit, but yes it's nice to eat.

We had a great time today not only bcos of the food, but also knowing baby Chloe is eager to come out to e world already. She is already 2.6kg in mummy's tummy @ 34 weeks 3 days. Doc recommend us to induce labor if baby gets even bigger before actual due date. So tat means we can start choosing the date we want Chloe to come out!!! Ahhhh can't wait for her to pop out.... We r such eager parents. ;)
















































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