My Little Acrobat Wonder (27th week)
I’m nearing the end of my second trimester as I’m in my 27th week gestation and I’m pretty excited. Furthermore, my best friend, PeiChing back in KL has just delivered a baby girl and I’ve got another best friend of mine, SooWei (@ Canberra) who is on her way! Hopefully on the 3rd of Dec yah. Even Keen has just delivered early this year, so that makes 4 of us expecting around the same time and that allows us to exchange experiences and information quite comfortably. Hopefully the 4 kids will grow up to be best of friends like their mothers 
Cameron has been kicking quite regularly now. I need to ensure that he kicks at least 10 times a day. The feeling is just indescribable and I can never get enough of his kicks. It makes me giggle and blissful each time he moves. So apart from the common pregnancy sicknesses that I’ve been educated with, the process of pregnancy can be a wonderful experience. In fact, it’s really worth the journey. I hope this will give some sort of encouragement to those who are thinking twice to start a family.
I’m expecting to deliver on 1st February 2007 and that means I have to wrap up my work by end of this month as project winds down in December and I should be off on maternity leave from mid Jan onwards. Hopefully, I will feel alright and is able to cope till then as I realized I was gasping for breath during my telecon at work yesterday. Another point that I’m looking forward to is my 6 months maternity leave, so I should be off till July next year and intend to plan a visit back to KL during that period. The HR welfare in UK is pretty good to me but apparently it’s still one of the poorest in Europe. Germany and Sweden are still tops in terms of employment benefits.
ya! i think is very good when your best friend around you sharing the same experience as you!
haha… i always also have that thought one day my kid will be good friend with my friends’ kid. that should be a good time to share then.
Glad to hear that you have an enjoyable pregnant time being though. calculating… wah! seems like time reallly fly, you going to deliver soon also! 9 months project seems like not that long.
I heard Canada is 1 year maternity leave!!!?? ok. i think i should move there and work while i plan to pregnant.
but, some asian people told me they will get bored when they have 2 months materinity leave?! maybe asian ppl scare to loose the job while they back to company?
Comment by muimui — November 4, 2006 @ 10:50 am
2 months is way too short coz you need at least 2 weeks to recuperate from the delivery and that leaves u to only 6 weeks to cope with the baby. Well unless you have lots of help at home, then u’ll be bored. For me, I dun think i will be bored as Eng and myself need to take care of the kid ourselves :p 2 hands full!!!
Comment by mel — November 4, 2006 @ 3:34 pm
6 months maternity!! That’s is a LOT!
But I also it’s great, given ample time for the mother to really nurture the new born during the crucial beginning and also to recuperate.
As long as ‘rice bowl’ is not affected and montly income continues to come during the 6 months… this is wonderful!
Comment by laymank — November 5, 2006 @ 5:20 am
Yeah pay and position are not affected. Some European countries even give up to a year. In general, first 6 months is crucial for the child upbringing, so that’s the reason.
Comment by mel — November 5, 2006 @ 10:56 am