Beginning of Felin's 2nd Trimester

Felin had just entered into her 2nd Trimester this week. She had not been waking up in the middle of the night for 3 straight nights. Her nausea is not as bad as what happened to her over the past few weeks. She is eating better and we even went to the pool for some exercise today. She is still worried about swimming because she is afraid of using her abdominal muscles. I kept reassuring her that its safe to swim but she always prefer to play safe.

We had a fantastic weekend. We went out for Lunch at Tampines Mall and watched the Disney movie "Maleficent" on Saturday. I told Felin that our "2-of-us" days are numbered. We should spend more time together like this and value it now. Whenever I told this to Felin, she will tell me that she prefers that the babies come out soon so that she don't need to suffer alone in this pregnancy journey. I just kept quiet because we are certainly not ready and I know she will be enjoying the honeymoon period of the pregnancy before the 3rd Trimester comes.

We then went for a baby shower at my Army Friend cum clients place. During the baby shower, we get to meet his confinement lady who was also highly recommended by his friend at the party. They said that this confinement lady not only take care of the kid, she also did the housework, cooked different set of dishes for the family. She was so good that they hardly even hear the baby cry throughout one confinement month.
Wow!!! Thats seems contrary to what I heard from PK, Felin's ex-colleague who complained that they hardly is able to sleep at night despite having the confinement lady.

We are in a predicament whether to engage a confinement lady or to just engage Felin's Mum to help out. The cost of confinement lady can be very high because ours is a twin and strictly speaking if we follow our EDD, it will be 24th Jan 15, which will coincide with Chinese New Year which falls on 19th Feb 15. Price will be double + double. I still believe that the baby will be due by 38th week which will be about 10th Jan 15 but let God plan the date and lets not speculate first.

I did not make any appointment over the weekend and I really enjoyed the time with Felin. Our sunday was just as good. Church Service, have lunch with Evy and Lilian at DTE before lazing at home and swimming in the evening. She went out dinner with her friend while I had instant noodle at home. May God continue to protect Felin and the babies in the week ahead.

Parenthood is a very long journey and I seems to be looking things week by week and been praying for them almost everyday. Is this how parents being always worried about their children? Never felt like that in the past before...