Posts Tagged "Hong Kong"

Week 12 : Green Lights

Posted by on Sep 10, 2012 in Bump Blog, FLOW Queens | 0 comments

Week 12 : Green Lights

Last week I mentioned that baby still doesn’t feel fully real, and an ingredient in this is OSCAR.  Who?! Better known as the Down Syndrome’s test.  I guess I didn’t want to get too attached to baby, in case … I have been chatting to baby, saying that if baby would like to stay, mummy would love to have baby in her life, and that baby would grow and develop strongly, normally and healthily. So, I had the test.  Nothing to be concerned about!  Baby looks like a model of development :).  The Obstetrician did ask if I would like to know the sex.  Wow, so early?!  We said ‘no’. We now have the green light for us to make public baby’s existence :).  I...

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Week 7 : Deliver Me?

Posted by on Aug 23, 2012 in Bump Blog, FLOW Queens | 0 comments

Week 7 : Deliver Me?

I visited a couple of Obstetricians. The first visit provided me with a deflated sense again.  He appeared to be a capable Obstetrician, though I thought he was a bit ‘old fashioned’. ‘No sex’, he said with a boyish smirk, ‘in the first trimester … in case you bleed, then you would feel guilty!’; I can only walk on a treadmill, and only on any other equipment / exercise I won’t fall of! I could fall walking down the street, particularly the shape of the pathways in Hong Kong!  Also, he kept stressing several times in my 10 minute visit that I had to select my hospital ASAP … but did he help to explain what my choices were...

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