What a heartbeat!

Today's visit to Dr F was exhilarating! What a wonderful joy to hear baby's first heartbeat. Baby is now 2.6cm and the heart is beating at 170bpm. That is FAST, more than twice my heartbeat! Dr F explained that when the baby is ready to come out, the heartbeat will gradually slows down to a normal pace. And the most incredible fact is that baby grows at a pace of 700% over 3 weeks! Isn't that amazing!?

Obviously it's too early to tell where is the head, or the hand or the toes. I can't wait for next visit in another 3 weeks.

We had quite a good discussion with Dr F today. He spoken about those prenatal extensive screening - we can choose to do it in Singapore or KL, but that will probably happen sometime in early June. It's too soon to do the scan now. The screening is to determine all sorts of risk of I-have-no-idea-screen. The term is too foreign to me at the moment.

Oh oh... and my due date is 29 November 2011 and the baby is expected to grow to full term by early November. I've made up my mind, it will have to be c-section but the date is still TBC. And Dr F will do delivery in Kempas Specialist Hospital here. He told us that we can pay a visit to the hospital and they will bring us around for a tour of the facility.

Another interesting fact that Dr F told us is that pregnant ladies are not required to drink specially formulated milk powder to assist pregnancy. The supplements that doctors give are normally sufficient enough. Those milk powder sold are basically the greatest marketing effort by the parent company! And in fact, drinking these so-called supplements will only assist in: WEIGHT GAIN. OMG, can you imagine the horror of the two most dreadful work a female can ever hear! Can you imagine, as it is a pregnant woman will gain weight naturally through out the pregnancy term and all these milk powders are NOT helping by making you FAT! So Dr F suggested that instead of the 4-spoonful of powder, I can have 2-spoons to cut down the calories intake. This is totally gonna be my midnight snack from now on and at half the recommended dosage! These supplements are especially good only if one is suffering from morning sickness where you will vomit out whatever consumed. This is definitely something interesting.