Full baby scan

Praise the Lord!

We went for full baby scan last Saturday and we received good report, of course..

Johanan is now about 17 cm long and weighs about 300 plus grams. Abit underweight according to doctor and we are not going to let that bog us down. Doctor have verified that its a baby boy with no abnormalities detected.

Its fun to see our precious one entertaining himself by moving his limbs.. And his heart beating at 143 beats per minute and can see his 4 heart chambers bringing blood to the main artery. Can see his beautifully formed head, arms , legs and spine created by Christ..

Doctor did a thorough check on his organs to ensure that they are developing normally.

20 more weeks to go to Johanan's arrival!

God's Word

Extracted this from Nerida Walker's hot selling book- God's plan for pregnancy, chapter 6:

God's Word is His perfect will for us so we need to transform our thinking so that it lines up with what His Word says and not with how our circumstances, symptoms, thoughts, perceptions or even our expectations try to dictate us.

We need to renew our minds so that we can believe and expect to receive what God has said about us or what He said we can have.

Do not worry!Fight fear with the Word!

Now into chapter 5 of Nerida Walker's book-God's plan for pregnancy.

DO NOT WORRY!
Everyone experiences fear in different degrees. Some may have niggling concerns about certain issues whereas for others fear can be deep rooted and a controlling force in their lives.

The Bible exhorts us, however, not to worry or be anxious about anything (see phil 4:6). Worry will always grow like a weed and choke the life of the Word of God from our lives and cause us to become double minded.To be double minded means we are trying to believe for one thing while we believe or are focused on another.

To avoid being overcome by fear, we need to make the decision not to worry or entertain any thoughts of fear in the first place.

FIGHT WITH THE WORD!
To have lasting victory over fear we will need to learn to fight fear with God's Word. We need to trust what God says in His Word because if we believe God, the devil has no more ammunition.

We therefore, need the power of the Word behind us. But don't simply quote scripture-the power of the Word is released when you believe it, act on it and bring yourself under its authority!

Just came back from care group and we were watching Pastor Prince's Israel dvd series on 'how to live a care free life'.

And when i opened Nerida's book, one of the sub topics in the chapter are do not worry!

My precious afternoon nap

Yesterday was Miss Chan's birthday, the initial plan Miss Kwek and i was to take half day leave together, but due to timing problems in getting our boss approval, i went ahead with my leave and went home instead.

My greatest pleasure is to call Miss Chan that i am celebrating her birthday by taking half day leave to go home and rest, while she is working on her birthday!

Had a quality nap for about 2 hours.Got interrupted by 7 text messages though, but it still does not deter me from my rest.

Anyway, Miss Chan, Miss Kwek and myself went to Terminal 3 to enjoy our sumptous international buffet dinner at night and they have tortured me by making me look how they savoured pieces of sashimi in their mouth!

Their eyes were fixed on their sashimi as they were afraid that i will take from them while they not looking.

Reason very simple, they do not want to be held accountable to caleb if i ate the wrong food.

They will make upright declaration that i cannot eat for certain food that they take and would feast on their 'huntings' while i admire the food.

Anyway, the food at Azuru at Crowne Plaza , terminal 3 is good..and i will bring caleb to eat there when Johanan is out..hehe..

Curiosity kills the diaper

Out of curiosity, i decided to open up one of the free samples of new born diapers that i got from the ante natal class.The diaper got cute colourful prints!And there goes the diaper..haha

My first ante natal class

Went for the class last saturday morning. Have grown through an overview of the class and subsequent going to be more detailed like exercises and so on. There was even an informative booklet printed for my reading.

At least now i know what is 'quickening' hehe.

Recently can feel baby movements especially when i lean forward to read email, creating pressure on my tummy. And can feel some fluttering. Still finding it a challenge to swallow large vitamin pills though.

I am a blessedly blessed mother to be. Thinking back, i only discovered i am pregnant 3 nights before i depart to HCM,Vietnam in July. Have bought 2 home test kit of different brands, to ensure consistent results and have one to stand by just in case the other falls into the toilet bowl haha!

Had not had good nights of sleep before going vietnam as Caleb have been doing research on baby names.2 names for each gender.

And my boss was very stressed when travelling with me. I was walking very fast and she warned me to walk behind her, not in front of her as i kept over taking her at the travellator. And she was trying to help me to take my luggage and i refused. Then she grabbed my luggage from me. To our horror, discovered that our big boss have been behind us all these while, puzzled by whats going on must be very comical sight from the back. So i explained to him that i am 5 weeks pregnant.

Anyway, i can walk 30min in the sun to go to nike sale and 30min back in vietnam..without putting on sun block and wearing hats.. Very impressed..

Anyway, get to see gynae the following week i came back from vietnam. As I have forgotten when was my last period, i msn one of my ex colleagues to ask when was hers last month and figured out mine is around same time as our period is about the same time months ago.

Have been telling close friends and gynae that i am 5 weeks pregnant. And after doing a scan, gynae said i told him wrong date! Baby is 10 plus 1 week.Oh my! Have approached the end of my 1st trimester without knowing it!

As i was not aware of my pregnancy, have played badminton for about a month or so every week, had big serving of sashimi, drank wine at cousin's wedding.

And of course all these ceased when i learnt that i am pregnant la!

Must admit that i have stressed my Newcastle frens alot as i will as and when text them, asking questions like 'can i eat fish roe? Can i drink green tea and coke? ' hehe

Now that i am 19 weeks pregnant, was amazed by how time flies! Have reached half way mark!

Have been greatly blessed by those around me, blessing me with reading materials, maternity clothings, baby clothes, advice on eating cooked food when i in vietnam, tellin me to walk slowly and watch where i am walking (cos i almost tripped a baby sitting on high chair as well as kicking the leg of a chair the man was sitting on on another occasion). What a blessing to have people always there to bless us.

Believe and do not doubt

Came across this section in Nerida Walker's -God's plan for pregnancy.

In order to receive the answer to our prayer we have to believe our prayer is being answered without any doubt in our heart and without any room for uncertainty or compromise.

There can often be a period of time from the Amen to the answer to prayer. When something does not happen straight away, we can fall into reasoning. Reasoning is a mental reaction, and will rob us of God's provision every time. This is why many don't receive answers to their prayer because they become discouraged. But faith goes beyond what we see or hope. Hebrews says that faith is the 'substance' of things hoped for and the 'evidence' of things not seen. So, we must not be moved by what we see or feel; but rather be determined in what we believe.