Catching up with old classmates

We have been away from Singapore for the last 4 years and have not kept in touch with many of our old classmates. I sent an email to my secondary school batch of friends to inform them of our good news yesterday and received a flurry of congratulations as well as updates on their family-building efforts... Here are some comments:

"Congrats! When is Mrs due? BTW, my second son is due end Oct 2007"
"Congratulations! Nothing is impossible, we are all walking examples" says mother of 3 (!!)
"... on the local front, XL's SECOND son is due sometime soon and EY's THIRD son is due November..."

For the record, we are NOT that old! With wifey just barely 30, we should be one of the younger couples no? In seems like all the baby-making incentives by the Singapore government is bearing fruit. I never expected that monetary incentives will ever be effective in improving our country's birth rate but I guess I was wrong. Over here in Bangkok, wifey is the youngest mother to be among her group of expatriate friends...

Anyway, all this makes me think that if they can do it, I'm sure we won't fare too badly... I am a medically-trained doctor! Wifey has been hit by the occasional "I think we are not ready dear". In my opinion, we can never be totally ready; there's never an optimal time to be preggers! We are fortunate to have some savings such that we can live on a single income for awhile. Seeing wifey go through a rather torrid first trimester, I wonder how women out there drag themselves to work every day after hugging the toilet bowl the whole night before? A new level of respect I now give to all mothers and mothers-to-be out there... Us hubbies can never understand fully what you are going through and will not pretend to. If we sometimes absentmindedly offer a "I know how you are feeling dear" rubbish, and get an earful from you, we deserve it!

Wifey finally enjoying the pregnancy

After a rather depressing first trimester of the usual toilet bowl hugging, bloatedness and poor appetite, it seems like the Mrs is finally getting to enjoy herself! Her schedule today after tucking in to the breakfast I made her included a nice morning outing with a friend, lunch at the shopping center, short meeting with some interview candidates followed by high tea with 2 other pregnant friends and Italian for dinner. When she finally came home (after me), she declared that she was hungry and wanted instant noodles!

"Are you trying to starve your baby?" arms akimbo.

"Of course not dear..." as I looked longingly at the noodles. I managed only 2 small mouthfuls before she wolfed it all down.

Seriously, I am happy that she is starting to eat better now... The last few weeks have been the usual "Order many dishes but eat only a bite of each and she's full" routine. Guess who's the food vacuum... at times, our friends wonder if it's me who's preggers.

Me a father?

My mother tells me that I never finish anything I start, and this time is no different. This blog is dedicated to my lovely wife currently carrying our little bundle of joy. This blog shall be a chronicle of the next stage in our life and shall never be finished but continually updated... at least that is my promise today.

A quick intro: I am a Singapore-trained medical doctor doing goodness-knows-what in Bangkok working as anything-but-a-doctor. Wifey has just taken no-pay leave to commence her short tenure here as a Tai-Tai (without the associated $$ she notes) while embarking on this new journey.

Some credit should be given here. http://ahusband.blogspot.com/ was my initial inspiration to start this blog. After a few weeks of procrastination, I have finally started. Oh boy! There is so much to write about!