karma

its 20 to eleven on a satuarday nite..... THE WIFE is having her shower, junior is staggering around like a drunken sailor, i am multi tasking with on eye on the telly and the other on the computer.... junior has been pretty cranky today... short attenion span... going around asking to be carried... opening cupboards and pulling stuff out....bursting into tears when he dosent get things his way... hours of fun... makes me wonder if this is karma... i have been getting a lot of "you were like that when you were his age" from me mum.... karma... bites you in the behind when you least expect..... hmmmm

we were at the docs this morning... no appointments, just first come first serve... we were suppose to come for an appointment last week, but two friday nights back, THE WIFE was bleeding.... for a pregnant lady to be bleeding, its not a very healthy sign... she was rushed to mount Alvernia, Dr thio was informed and arrived about an hour later... he did a once over of THE WIFE and decided that everything is all right... he explained something about the fetus and the womb and how they are not sicking too well together.... he gave THE WIFE a hormone injection and prescribed her some more hormone pills..... that visit set us back by about $300... with Dr thios fee coming up to $120.... but i guess to hear the good doctor say that everyhing is all right, $300 is a small price to pay... i am just glad that THE WIFE and number two is alright....


right... back to this morning... we were at Dr thios clinic for our second appointment with him... junior was going around the waiting room pointing at everything, i was trying to read the papers that i brought, THE WIFE was feeling pukey..... its great that everyone has their own thing to do... hmmmmm... it wasnt long before we were in the docs room.....

doc: so how are we today?
THE WIFE: still the same, theres still some bleeding, i still feel like vomiting...
doc:a little bleeding is all right as long as theres no severe stomach cramps.... feeling like vomiting is a good sign for pregnancy, it means that your body is reacting to the hormones produced.... lets do a little scan and see hows everything....

as soon as the nurse turns off the lights, junior starts to scream at the top of his little lungs.... it got so bad that i have to leave the docs office and wait outside.... karma?... by the time he settled down and we got back into the docs office, THE WIFE was back at the docs table....
doc: the heart beat of the fetus is strong, so thats a good sign..... but most miscarriges occurs in the first trimester.... i will give you some more hormones pills.... take them regularly and i will see you in a months time......

this visit with the doc set us back by $110.... well, nobody said having a kid would be cheap... but to hear the good doctor say that everything is all right, thats priceless....

here we go again....

its 30 to midnight on a sunday night, THE WIFE and junior are sound asleep and i am just having a little me time... in the past two weeks, junior walks more than he crawls, i reckon in another two weeks, he would give up crawling all together.... today is a day when i had a rather rude awakening.... a few weeks back, we taught junior "bird bird".... its what he pees with... everytime when THE WIFE baths him, he would look down at his family jewels and touch them whenever THE WIFE asks "wheres your bird bird?" and today, after i came out from the loo after peeing, junior points to me and says.... bird bird..... NUTS.... i gotta close the door when i pee from now on..... hmmmm

we were at the docs yesterday.... its been a while since we last saw Dr Theo.... yup, the nice doctor who helped bring junior into our lives.... why were we in his office? well.... it was last monday when i was happily watching tv, and junior was staggering around like a drunken sailor when THE WIFE walked up behind me and ask " do you want to see something?"... yup, its the pee stick again... and this pee stick have a cross on it... ive always wondered why they place pregnancy kits next to condoms at the pharmacy, i guess its their way of telling us, if you dont want to use this, you will need this.... hmmmmmm... actually, we were aiming for number two, its just that like junior, i didnt expect that we would be so effective... we havent really made up our mind until edbert (me new nephew)came along, we decided that junior should be bullying his younger sibling and not his cousins....

we were at the docs at 10.30 for an 11 am appointment, and as we are not newbies anymore, THE WIFE drank plenty of water before coming to the docs.... junior was staggering around the waiting room and pointing at everything, i was trying to read the papers, THE WIFE was feeling the effects of a full bladder..... it wasnt long before her name was called and we were in the docs office....

doc: hello... you look familiar..
THE WIFE: yah, you helped delivered him 14 months ago...
doc: wow, so big already, can he walk already?
THE WIFE: yah a bit, who does he looks like now?
doc: hmmm..... he looks like the father, but only the nose and mouth part.... so are you pregnant again?
THE WIFE: yah... we did a test at home last monday, another one the next day and the gp confirmed it yesterday.... i have been having morning sickness
doc:okay, we will take your blood pressure and then a scan....
me:wow, you still keep our records?
doc: yah, we keep all records for at least 21 years, just in case someone wants to sue us when he turns 21 and cant be the prime minster or something......
me:hmmm....
doc: lets look at the scan now... it looks pretty small... cant really see anything... you will have to come back next week to be sure if theres really anything there..... but the fact that you are having morning sickness, thats a good sign...

doc: you come back next week and we see again.... are you breast feeding?
THE WIFE: yah...
doc: wow... its time to stop then... have plenty of fruits, remember no pineapple, no raw stuffs, i will give you some pills, take them regularly, have plenty of rest and we will see you next week....
THE WIFE:okay...

the whole doc and pills stuffs set me back by $135... not too bad considering that the last time we were here for the same thing, it was $120 and that was two years ago...