Week -5

This was our first glimpse of baby, in January. Baby was just over a month old and measured 12.2mm.

And baby is at 35 weeks now and weighing 2.4kg, and roughly the size of a canary melon (as adorably described by the app). Baby is pretty active, moving much and at times causing discomfort to mommy when she presses on her bladder. Since last week, mommy finally succumbed to drinking coffee after like 8 months (claps claps) and the caffeine explicably results in more activity from baby, haha.

We learnt from Wong Boh Boi’s classes to speak in proper words and sentences to babies as they are able to understand. On the other hand, baby language e.g. goo-goo and gaa-gaa does not communicate. Research confirms that babies are very sensitive to sounds and are even able to recognise voices and clanging of keys, Dr. Wong advised parents should talk to baby about our day on top of wishing good morning and good night.

So in order to guide baby to full-term of 40 weeks, we have been rather diligently feeding mommy with young coconut juice every 3 days. Heard from other moms yesterday that coconut juice also helps to cleanse the placenta so baby will come out ‘cleaner’. Mommy and baby gets the benefits while daddy gets to eat the sweet meat, so why not heheh. But we need to prepare ourselves for delivery at 38 weeks as it is a very common timeline. Just need to spruce up the nursery a lil’ bit and we’re good J

Hmm as new parents we certainly will miss our peaceful times in our cosy home and spontaneous outings, but we are also looking forward to welcoming a cutie baby to take care of. We pray that our baby will have a manageable temperament, like not waking up so often at night, able to sleep with light environmental sounds and have a chirpy nature. We'll take good care of baby and please allow daddy and mommy some social and rewinding time as well kk…

We’ll see you in a few weeks, Ying Xi. J Grow well and be healthy!

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Here's sharing some massage techniques:

Arm and hand massage:
1) Indian massage up, indian massage down
2) Swedish massage up, Swedish massage down
3) Rolling pin
4) Y-shape palm press

5) Grab finger, wriggle and pull
6) Flat press on nail
7) Side press on nail
8) Fingers interlocked, wriggle and pull
9) Rotate shoulders

Back massage:
1) Neck hairline press
2) Move down 8 to 2 inches below shoulder blade, 2 inches apart. Press. Knead.
3) Upper arm press
4) Thumb down the spine to pelvic line. Press to relieve backache

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