Knowing more about Good Names

I can still remember about 5 - 6 yrs ago, me & my wife had consulted a FengShui sifu to calculate & analyse both our Chinese character names whether they are in good FengShui or not. We realise by then that each of our Chinese character & its arrangement can affect a person's destiny, characteristics & lucks. E.g Surname represents our ancestors & their inheritances, and the link between the surname & middle name represents the relationship between us & our ancestors or parents, etc.

In the market, there are a lot of books available that talks about importance of having a good names, and also how to find a good name according to your birth date. My wife's brother had shared the book shown here with us, which is quite simple and easy to understand. It has illustrated the explanation with simple guidelines and examples on finding a good name. However, since it is written in Mandarin, I had no chance to learn more from this book. We hope that this will help us in getting a good name our baby boy. :)

Reference Books for my wife

Here is just a small portion of reference books read by my wife during her pregnancy. Most of them are magazines, like Parenting, Today's parents, Mother & Baby, Mama, etc.

The Chinese book shown on the picture beside (Pregnancy during 30's), was bought by us during our honeymoon trip to Taiwan. We would recommended to our friends to have similar reference book, especially pregnant ladies.

It provides quite a detail explanations from pre-prenancy, to 10 months pregnancy period for both the mother & baby, possible symptoms that may occur during pregnancy, what are the dos & don'ts, diet & recommended exercise programs, confinement procedures & diet, the know-how on handling new born babies like breast feeding, & many more.

Supplements for both my Wife & Baby

Here are the supplements taken by my wife during her pregnancy period. It is to ensure a superb healthy condition for both mother & baby.

Supplements prescribed by Dr Jason Lim are folic acid & calcium pills (was taken during the 1st trimester) & also multivitamins, Pramilet (to consume until delivery)


From me, I'm providing my wife and my baby additional 6 supplements products from Elken. These supplements are:-
(from right)

1. Elken Spirulina
= ensuring a balance 46 essential nutrients (especially Vitamin B12) were supply to both mother & baby.

2. Win EPA (start consuming it during the 2nd trimester of pregnancy period)
= supplying Omega-3, Omega-6 & DHA to the baby for better development of the brain.

3. Win Ester-C
= supplying more Vitamin C to the mother, as it will depletes faster during the pregnancy
period.

4. Win Calrich (Ionised Calcium)
= supplying sufficient calcium to both mother (preventing osteoporosis) & baby (for bone development)

5. Win IG6 (Bovine Colostrum)
= providing immune factor & growth factor to both mother & baby.

6. Dr Xeniji
= to further enhance all nutrients taken are fully supplied to the baby through placenta & it also helps to control the growth of the baby's size

Is it too much?! Not at all!
What is the reason we work so hard if is it not to provide the best we could for our family memeber?
For me, the No 1 priority is to provide the best I could to ensure my lovely wife & baby's health condition is always at the optimum level.

p/s: for more information on the above Elken's products, pls log on to http://www.elken.com.my/

Baby's 7th Scanning

Today our baby will be 31 weeks & 5 days old. His weight is slightly heavier compared to previous scanning, at approximately 1.86kg. As usual, Dr Jason Lim scanned my wife tummy to check on our baby's condition. Besides knowing the baby is healthy, the baby also looks much bigger.

Our baby's movement has become more aggressive recently, especially late in the night (~10pm til 12pm). His hearing seems to be more sensitive as well. Everytime when I try to talk to him, or sing for him, he will react to my voice by punching or kicking his mother belly. Sometimes, he even will stop moving around when I ask him to do so. Haha!

That's really Amazing!!
Go! Go! My Baby Power!

p/s: Pictures were taken on 17th November 2007

Signing up StemLife

On 18th August 2007, me & my wife has visited a parenting exhibition held at Mid Valley exhibition hall. We had come across & get to know more about 3 companies that provide cord blood stem cells storage service. We thought it is a great idea to give our baby, his 1st gift by storing his cord blood stem cells. It will be a very special gift for him. :)



It takes us about 1 1/2 month of research to understand and decide on the company chosen to store our baby's stem cells.

On 24 Oct 2007, we finally sign-up at StemLife.
For more detail on the available package & its facilities, pls feel free to visit this link: http://www.stemlife.com/malaysia/stem_cell/index.html

Baby's 1st Story Book

On 3rd Nov, a very find Saturday morning, after sending my wife's car to service center, we have decided to go to Alamanda, located at Putrajaya. It was our 2nd visit to the mall. The 1st visit was dated about 2-3 yrs back when 3 of us (my wife, sis & I) went to the mall to celebrate Chrismas & my sis's birthday (My sis is a christmas girl :p).

We bought some clothes for my wife's new born nephew. Then we have also taught of buying a story book so that apart from singing songs, I can start to do some story-telling to our baby boy. It is something I'm looking forward to, as now I can alternate between singing nursery songs and telling stories to him at night.

This book contains 4 different stories, which are "Pinocchio", "The frog Prince", "The 3 Wishes" & "The Wizard of Oz". These are common fairy tales that we used to listen to or read when we were young.

More on Nursery Songs

One day, my wife has bought back some children songs VCDs to show me.
Wow! I was very relieve when I saw it because these VCDs were my saviour. Although the video & sound quality are very "Pasar malam" stuff, but to me, the lyrics of those dozens of songs have been very helpful to me. Now, whenever I want to sing new songs to my baby at night, i don't have to crack my head any more. Oh Yes, Baby!

Here are 2 so-called oldies nursery songs which I wanted to add into the list.

Baa, Baa, Black sheep,
Have you any wool,
Yes sir, Yes sir,
3 bags full,
1 for my master,
And 1 for the dame,
And 1 for the little boy who lives down the lane.

Mary had a little lamb,
Little lamb, little lamb,
And Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece is white as snow.

Baby's 6th Scanning

There are 2 good news during our 6th visit to Dr Jason Lim's clinic.

First, was my mother-in-law. She was with us during the scanning. She is very happy to witness the scanning and find out about my wife & baby's condition. Even though we all have to wait for more than 2 hrs for our turn, but it was a pleasure to have her accompany us this time. The 1st scanned picture only shows a portion of the baby's image, but this time we can see a much clearer picture of our baby's face features.

The second good news is... finally we are able to confirm the gender of our baby!! What can you notice in the red circle?! This picture was taken from the bottom of our baby's buttock. Try clicking on the image to enlarge it for better viewing.

And Yes, you are right!
It's the little tiny "Birdie" & Dr Jason Lim has confirmed that he is 100%, a baby BOY!

Our baby is now 27 weeks and 5 days old, weighing approximately 1.1 kg. Gambatte Boy! My Boy!
p/s: Pictures were taken on 20th October 2007