Janice's collage

Our lovely princess, Janice in her yunnan costume she got from china. Below she is seen giving a peck to nai nai during Mother's Day. She created a heart for her mummy during Valentine Day.:)

Jenson is 1 month old

Jenson is borned premature on 18 Apr 2010 (Sun) when mummy is in her 34th week of pregnancy. While mummy was discharged on 21 Apr 2010 (Wed), Jenson remained in the ICU for 2 weeks before we brought him home on 30 Apr 2010 (Fri). He weighs only 2.0kg when he was discharged. We celebrated Jenson's first month at home on 15 May 2010 (Sat). He has grown a little bigger and now weighs about 2.6kg already. We are happy to see him grow a little each day.

Janice's 6th birthday

We celebrated Janice's 6th birthday at home on 26 Sep (Sat) last year. I just got the chance to view some of Janice's 6th birthday photographs posted by her mummy in her facebook and thought it might be good for me to link it into my blog as well. I particularly like the photographs which were taken in her kindergarten class when she had her birthday celebration with her K2 classmates. From her smile, I can tell that she was really happy when her classmates sang her a birthday song. Papa & Mummy love you, Janice.:)

Jenson, one special Js in my family

While the reigning F1 world champion, Jenson Button raced his way to win the 2010 Chinese Grand Pix in Shanghai on 18 Apr 2010, our baby Jenson raced his way into this world 6 weeks before his term to be with us at 5.41am that sunday morning.

For the last few months, we have been cracking our heads as to what to name our baby boy. Both Jenny and myself decided that we would have our baby name starts with our initials, i.e T or J (for Thomas or Jenny). Thus, names like Thaddeus, Thomasson, Thompson, Thomson, Titus, Tommy, Tony, and Jansen, Janson, Jenson... came into our list.

All this while, Jenny has been very instrumental and courageous in bringing our baby boy into this world and I felt that our baby boy should have her mummy's initial of 'J' more than mine. When I saw the news article of Jenson Button winning the China F1 race on 18 Apr 2010, it convinced me to take the name, Jenson for our baby boy. I related my choice to both Jenny and Janice and they agreed. We named our boy, Jenson Chee Wei Le.

Jenson, which means the son of Jenny, is one special Js in my family. We love you very much, Janice and Jenson.:)

The Story of Jenson's Birth

On 13 Apr 2010 (Tue), on her usual round (33rd week of pregnancy) to visit her obsterician & gynaecologist, Dr Tan Yew Ghee at Raffles Hospital, Jenny is diagnosed to have pre-eclampsia (pregnancy-induced hypertension) with BP reading of around 190/110. She is immediately warded for close follow-up and monitoring.

For the next few days, her BP remained high and Dr Tan Yew Ghee has planned to go for caesarean section delivery the following monday on 19 Apr 2010. He explained that the baby is in a breech position and a natural vaginal delivery would put the baby's or mother's life or health at risk.

However, in the early morning of 18 Apr 2010 at about 3.30am, I received a call from Jenny that she was experiencing some pain and there was some discharge from her vaginal. Over the phone, she told me that they had wheeled her to the delivery ward and had activated her obsterician. I rushed down to Raffles Hospital and on the way up, I bumped into Dr Tan Yew Ghee in the lift at about 4.30am who appeared to have been woken up from his sleep as well. His hair was a little messy and he was in his sandals. He greeted me and I apologised for having to trouble him at this early hour. He told me that the baby heartbeat went down momentarily earlier on but was back to normal again. After assessing Jenny's condition in the ward, he advised us to go for an emergency C-section to deliver the baby as soon as possible. We signed the paper to go ahead.

Jenny was wheeled down into the operating theatre at about 5.15am on level 7. I waited outside at the waiting lounge. At about 5.50am, I was greeted by Dr Tan Mein Chuen, a pediatrician who congratulated me that both mummy and baby were well. I accompanied him and the nurse who wheeled the baby to the neonatal centre on level 8. Dr Tan M.C. told me that as the baby is premature, at 34th week he is still very small and need close monitoring. On the way up, the nurse told me that the baby was delivered at 5.41am. Inside the neonatal intensive care unit, the measurement of the baby was done before he was put into the incubator. Baby Jenson weighs only 1.75kg at birth, 39cm in length and head circumference of 30cm.

I went back down to level 7 to wait for Jenny. At about 6.15am, Dr Tan Yew Ghee came out and greeted me. He told me everything went well and the moment the baby was out, Jenny's blood pressure dropped to normal range. I was relieved and he shook my hands before we parted. Dr Tan told me that he would be back later in the day to see us again. A while later, Jenny was wheeled out and I showed her our baby first photo (left) which I took earlier on in the ICU. She was still weak from the anaesthetic but was happy to learn that our baby is well as we wheeled her back to ward 825 on level 8. She slept well that morning on 18 Apr 2010.

I am glad God has once again given me this opportunity to experience the anxiety in bringing my little baby boy, Jenson into this world. Thank you all, who have in one way or another, helped us bring this joy to our family again.:)

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