Another baby girl is here!

I just received a text message from my friend, she just delivered her baby girl at 36 weeks! So fast! Good for her, seems like she has everything ready, including the name of the baby... heheh... :p

I'm so not ready....

More preggies and migrants

I just discovered 2 more pregnant people around me but their due date is kinda far from me, they are still in first trimester but seems like whatever the government is doing to make people pro-create is working! I'm seeing people getting pregnant everywhere nowadays! :D

And I just received a news that another friend is going to migrate to Australia. Somehow I had a mixed feeling when I heard the news, happy for her but kinda sad for me because it will be hard to see her next time. But then again, we also don't meet up with each other that often, usually we just visit each other's blog or comment on each other's FB messages, which we can still do even when we are in different countries. So I'm not very sure why I'm sad about! Maybe stupid hormones are making me sappy!

Singapore oh Singapore... why is your weather so hot and why is there so little things to do here? You make my friends migrate.... Well, perhaps it'll actually be a good excuse to go overseas and visit them next time.

Using image as your blog post signature

Recently I've been looking at some craft blogs for inspiration for decorating my baby's room and I noticed that a lot of those blogs have nice signatures below their blog posts, instead of just normal text.

There are 2 ways you can achieve this in Blogger, but first of all you need to choose or create an image file to be used as your signature. The image will preferably has a small file size so that it will load faster, and has transparent background so that it will match whatever your blog background is.

I used Adobe Photoshop to create mine but I'm sure you can use any image editor to create it or use some readily available online software to create your signature. Next you can upload it to Picasa or other image hosting service, and get the URL of that image. The easiest way to get the URL is to right click on the image once you have uploaded it, and then select "Copy Image URL" - note that the exact wording will vary based on the browser you are using.



Once you have your image ready, you have 2 options:

1. Edit your blog template - this will affect all your previous and future blog posts
2. Edit your post template - this will only take effect on your subsequent blog posts

Let's do the first option first..

1. Go to your Dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML
2. Save your current blog template, in case you mess up!
3. Click on "Expand Widget Template"
4. Search for the section that says <data:post.body/>
5. Add your image URL by typing this just right after that line <div align="left"><img src="YOUR IMAGE URL HERE" style="border:none;" /></div>
6. Click "Preview" and make sure that everything is ok.
7. Click "Save Template" when you are done.

Now the 2nd option is less complicated..

1. Go to your blog Dashboard > Settings > Formatting page
2. Scroll down and find the "Post template" section
3. Add your image URL by typing this just right after that line <img src="YOUR IMAGE URL HERE" style="border:none;" />
   
4. Click "Save Settings" when you are done
5. You can test whether you have done this correctly by attempting to create a new blog post, the image signature will be pre-populated there for you.

Happy trying!

Ah Girl is 32 weeks old plus a few days

This morning we went to do another pre-natal check. The doctor said "WAHH you gained a lot this month!" oops... I knew it already, I was trying to drink more water since yesterday to reduce my water retention, but seems like it doesn't really help!

Anyway, the baby is about 2 kg right now and since she's so big already, she's kinda squashed inside and quite hard to take a good picture of her since she's folded :D

The doctor said that her position is already head down, ready to be born, but she hasn't really come down yet. She said "kiasu baby" hahahahaa... :D

And just before we left her clinic, she told me "Next time remember to share the cake ok.. If the father is fat, it's ok.." *faint*

Next appointment in 2 weeks time! Getting more and more frequent means it's really near the date to give birth, but I still can't believe that I'm going to be responsible for another person's life...

Gaining Weight Uncontrollably!

I thought my first 2 trimesters were pretty good, as I only gained about 2 kg the first 6 months, but somehow the third trimester is so bad!! The 7th month alone, I gained 5 kg!!! :(

So tomorrow is my next check-up and I think I gained 1 kg per week since my last check-up 4 weeks ago... my doctor is going to scold me! I don't know why but it's really hard to control the weight gain, what's with water retention and random food cravings. Just like today I suddenly feel like eating Gloria Jeans chocolate sponge cake... and I finished the whole thing by myself!! Actually my hubby said I didn't eat the whole thing, because he took a bite. And I had that cake after eating Burger King.... I'm such a glutten...

Everyday I tell myself not to eat so much.. so that I don't gain too much and risk getting stretch mark! But somehow when the food is in front of my face, it's really hard to resist. Even if the food is not in front of my face, sometimes it's just floating around in my brain.......

8 more weeks to go.... 8 kilos? :(

Thomson Hospital Tour

We finally managed to join Thomson hospital tour after our 4th attempt! Well, the first 2 attempts, we just didn't manage to wake up early and for the 3rd one, we turned up during Deepavali holiday :p

So finally off we went... first stop was observation room, this is the room where they observe your contraction... I thought that this will be a private room where only 1 person is in the room. Turned out there are 3-4 beds inside each room... imagine 3 other people screaming besides you... very relaxing! :(

The next stop is birth room or delivery room, this is the room where you push your baby out. The one that they showed us has a bath tub for pain relief, but there's only one such room in the whole hospital. The rest doesn't come with bath tub. And the only thing I notice about the room is IT LOOKS DEPRESSING! I don't know why I feel that way, maybe because I imagine all the pains that are going to happen in that room or maybe simply just because the room is tiny and dark...

Ok enough of the scary part....

Next few rooms are the wards, this is where you stay for a few days after you give birth to recuperate and also so that the doctor can visit and monitor you. The first that we went is an executive suite. I think the executive suite is kinda small for a suite, maybe that's the lower level of suite because I remember when I visited my friend about half a year ago, her normal single room was much bigger! She said probably that's because her room just got renovated. Lucky girl! :)

The next suite that we went was a premier suite, one class higher than the executive suite.. Quite nice but not as nice as the picture that they put up in the website.

Oh, we also saw 2 nurseries or baby rooms - soooooo many babies in there! And all of them look so tiny and cute. There was one that was really active, already turning his head left and right :)

Anyway, I hope I get a nice room next time... and a less stressful delivery / birth room!

At That Age Now

I met up with a bunch of university friends for dinner today and the topic of the conversations revolved around babies. I think we are really at that age where everyone getting married and started having kids. In fact, one of them brought their baby to the dinner. So chubby! :)

I wonder if next time we'll start talking about our kids' school result.. and complaining to each other that MOE set too hard questions for our kids' exams! LOL... becoming those ppl that we don't like..

And I'm not looking forward to that age where we start attending each other's funeral!!