Wednesday, June 18, 2008

confinement lady byebye

one fine day, my mum told me that she wont be able to help me with my confinement as she has to bring my youngest bro (now pri 1) to school and there are times, that she goes to the market. It was really stressful for me when she broke the news as I always thought that she'll be the one whom do my confinement for me just like my granny doing confinement for her.

Suddenly, I have to source for confinement lady. I went searching through the Singapore Motherhood forum and even sent enquiries to the agency(in case, I couldnt engaged any). Forced my hubby to discuss with my mum and dad as dad would not want a stay-in CL. (He opposed to having a maid as we are staying at his place we cant force him. therefore, I have to temporary be a stay at home mom. this is another side story...) As for my mum, she thinks that if engaged day CL, she might as well, do everything herself and save the $$$! But she was the one whom said she cannot handle!!!! then she suggested getting my granny to help out, at least she can help to take care of my youngest bro.

I was so stressful and the confinement agency keep calling me to follow up. I cannot give them an answer as my hubby was taking long sweet time to talk to my parents. Moreover, mum kept going to granny house to stay over. Dad seems to be only interested in his game and occassionally speaks of tying baby's hair when her hair comes out.

when finally my mum comes back from my granny house yesterday... my hubby spoke to her. to our surprise, she asked what made us want to hire a CL. she can help us. OMG!!! i think she got some memory loss. she was one of the cause that adds on stress to me and now she says that.

btw, hubby is working 3 or 4days per wk(due to his shift work) therefore he will be home half the month to care for me.. so he has to be my part time CL.. so nice...

anyway it is a GOOD thing. i have to pray to my Buddha... hiaz... thanks for making my wish comes true... and less one issue to worry about. haha...

its a baby girl..

by the way, i m expecting a baby girl this end of oct... and we are still very headache of deciding an english name for her. it should not be complicated and hard to pronounce as her grandparents will be calling them in a weird tone.

we wanted to call her Carrie. and my dad made fun of it by saying, "so next time, you will get the maid to carry Carrie? Doesnt it sound confusing?" so we drop this name...

then Alvin likes the name 'Amelia' but in the end, he read up and realised this name means "work hard, labour, hardworking". he does not want baby to grow up like a workaholic, so we dropped this name.

Fiona seems good to me, but he says he don't want his girl to be the same name as Fiona Xie. I like Celeste... of he gave the similiar excuse... Amber seems cute... He says there is no feel for this name. Ariel sounds cute too. He says hard to pronounce and he wants a feminine name for our little darling. Emily is out, as it has the same meaning as Amelia. Kimberly, Kim. NONO.. he has a aunt with that name.. Florence.. he dont like.

Somehow i am going crazy about this name selection thingy... he gave baby a new name each day... haha.. i guess little princess must be pretty confused by now...

I think worst comes to worst.. baby's name will be Jade as this was the first name I thought of. I already give up. Hahaha....