Two Weeks!

Bruce is two weeks old now!
Two days ago at his doctor's, he weighs 9 lbs.
He lost about 10 oz. on the first week.
I was so worried. But then he drinks a lot, poops a lot, now he's 1 lb more than his birth weight alreadyyy ... yay!
Doctor said usually babies lost weight at the beginning and back to his birth weight within two weeks. Bruce dah lewat ... heheheh...

Bruce got a present from US Government.
His Social Security Card arrived in the mail today!
and it doesnt have the notes "not valid for employment" hahahah
*mommy jealous.

Here's a pict of him today after my mom washed his hair. hihihi...

Happy two weeks, Bruce!!

Circumcised!

Bruce is 12 days old today.
We went to his pediatrician to have him circumcised.
I really wanted to do this in the hospital, when he was still one or two days old.
But Bruce was born on the weekend, something with the insurance not covering it on the weekend (idk, weird). And apparently the hospital was crowded that weekend.
So they scheduled him today, May 20th.
Dr said its the same within the first 3 weeks anyway.
Ya wes...

We got there at 11:15am.
Me, Hendra, my mom and Steph went there together. hehehe
It took a while for the nurse to prep everything ...
Bruce was crying when we had to take off his clothes.
Good thing we brought a thick blanket.
Susternya lama banget seh!! *ugh
Then she brought in a board called Circumstraint. It has Velcro straps to restrain the baby's arms and legs so that he cannot move.
I lost it ... I cried ... I couldnt bear the thought of him being restrained and in pain.

The Doctor came in and asked only one person to be present there.
She felt uncomfortable performing the procedure with too many people watching.
I obviously couldn't stay.
So only Hendra stayed during the whole thing.
Brave Papa :)

After about 20min or so ...
Hendra came to the waiting room and called us back in.
He said Bruce was very strong.
He cried at the beginning but was very quiet afterwards.
Even the Doctor was amazed and called him "Superstar" !!

Here's a picture of him while waiting on the exam table ...
thanks for the 'empeng', Auntie Inez! :D

Bruce Alexander Christianus Hutagaol

Finally, our baby BACH was born :)
....and after several days I can return to Internet world again. haha..

Bruce is 6 day-old today ... and he's such a good baby.
I love him so muchhhh ... !! I can stare at him for hours gk bosen2 ... cant believe he's here.

Ohh lots of stories alreadyy ... there's at least 3 blogs-worth per day I can write about our last 5 days! I wish I could be like Destri who can feed the baby and update blog at the same time. haha..
but I'll try to catch up soon.
In the mean time, I try to take as many picts as possible !! hehehe

this is how my album looks like in my phone ..
hehehe.....

Today's conversations with strangers....

"How many months are you?" .... nine.
"How many weeks are you now?" .... forty.
"When are you due?" .... yesterday

responses : "wowwwww"

Hehehe ... yeaa, Bruce still staying comfortably in my belly. No signs what so ever. Not even a single braxton. haha ...

Cinco de Mayo!!

Happy Cinco de Mayo for those who celebrates it!
Looks like Bruce is celebrating in my tummy still!! hahahah .. .no new signs of labor so far.
I've been having some cramps lately, but comes and goes irregularly. So I guess that's still the 'practice' ones ... haizzz...


Althoooo ... my feet are finally catching up with my hands ...
they're swollen now!!
They're so plumped up, the skin stretches when I walk.
Looks like the Nutty Professor's plump feet.

The Muljadis are here!!

Yayyy ... my Mom , Dad, and Steph finally arrived last night at SFO.
We're all so excited to see them =D.
Everybody's responses were the same when they saw me, "wow ... u so big!"
...........

Anyway, they brought a lot of stuff for Bruce! hihi ...
plenty of clothes, small pillow & guling (so cuteee), bedding accessories, boppy, minyak telon (english ...?), macem2 dah! banyakk! And he got some gifts too, from my mom's friends (toys and baby foot chain), from Martha (thanks Marrr!!) and from Eric Tan's family (thanksss a lottt!!!!)
I think no shopping for Bruce for the next couple of months. Hihi .....

Went to the doctor this morning.
My appointment was moved from Wednesday to today because Wed is already 5/5.
We talked about inducing the labor because we're so close already.
We don't want the baby to stay in too long because if he gets too big, there's more chance of me needing a c-section.
So they scheduled the induction for me this Saturday, May 8th.
We're still hoping he's gonna be born on Cinco de Mayo (haha), but if he's not, he should be out this Saturday. hehe ... its gonna be an interesting week.