My Grand Entrance

Today is a very important day. Why is it important?? It is important because I will be making my grand entrance today.

The day started off with Daddy & Mummy going to Gleneagles Hospital -GEH- at around 9+pm to do their hospital check-in. After checking in, Mummy is shown to her room. Then the staff nurse came in to prepare Mummy for her cesarean operation at 11.30am. As Mummy is allergic to both micropore & tagedem, both which are supposed to be very hypoallergen. So Dr Lim says that he has to give her a cloth tape which is not waterproof. That meant that after the operation, Mummy would not be able to bathe until the tape & stitches are removed. After all the preparation was done, Mummy rested and waited for the appointed time.

The time finally arrived and Mummy was wheeled to the operating theatre. After Mummy was given the anesthesia, she slept and only knew later that I made my grand entrance at 11.49am. I weigh 2.925kgs, am 49cm long and have a head circumference of 35cm. After I was born, Daddy saw me and took pictures of me, before I was whisked off to the 6West nursery for the nurses there to clean me up. I then had to wait for the pediatrician -Dr William Yip- to check me and ensure that I was fine.

In the meantime, Mummy was told to wake up after the operation and asked to state her name. After that she was dozing off and on, while waiting to be wheeled back to the ward. By the time she was wheeled back, it was already 1.30pm. Mummy was told that she would see me after the Dr Yip had checked and all was fine. So Mummy spent the time sending smses to everyone to announce my arrival.

After that I was wheeled into the ward and Mummy put me to her breast for me to suckle and drink the all important colestrum. Mummy kept me with her so that she could feed me the colestrum whenever I woke. Apart from drinking that, I spent the rest of the time sleeping. And this is how I spent my 1st day out of Mummy' tummy.

Here are the many pictures taken by Daddy!


Daddy & Mummy have agreed on my Christian name, which would be Nicole Yap. But they still have not decided on my chinese name yet. Daddy had decided on xiu4. But Mummy & Daddy do not have a concensus on it yet.