Starting Life the BIG way..

Dear Mini-N,

Many people tell us that our lives will be drastically changed after you migrate from Womb world to Earth world. Although we're still laughing it off living in denial with those snickering remarks, "Hahaha!...How can? Baby only need to eat, sleep and bath what! No need so much work one lar!" Deep down inside, we fear that these couple of months will be our last days spent with our beloved Wii game console and the One Utama GSC cinema. So we decided to play Zelda one last time before we put it away for good.

Mommy's butt has officially grown from skateboard size to surfboard size. My tummy has also grown to the size of a large watermelon, not just any large watermelon but those that have been fed crazy with all sorts of fertilizer to make it look like a mutated LARGE watermelon. And you're only 22 weeks. No kidding, man. When i tell my friends or colleagues that i am only 22 weeks, they stare at my tummy for a while before they suddenly break eye contact and then with a slightly embarrassed look, they go.. "Hehehe.. I think is because of the mat salleh genes lar..hehehe.."..

Looking at my huge middle sometimes, mommy and daddy wonder if it is actually used to store extra food more than storing you. We suspect it's the former. In the last visit, Dr Tang helped us confirm this. She came into the room when I was already lying comfortably on the check-up bed.. Her first reaction when she saw me was an exclaim, "Wah.., very big ah"... Then she laughed a bit and walked over to me... (What's so funny?!)

So she decided to put things right.. "Only THIS part is the baby, you know." She used her hand to draw a small circle underneath my belly button.

"THIS part is not the baby." Her hand gestured at the area around the rest of my tummy. Gee.. thanks for the precise information. Narrrling gave me this wide-eyed woman-what-have-you-been-eating look..

You were highly active during the ultrasound session. We have it on video, you were moving your hands and legs about a lot. Dr. Tang was just a bit short of calling you a naughty boy. Then you know what? She told us that you are oversized too. Like mother, like son, huh.... At 20 weeks, you are the size of a 22 weeks baby. It's not that you're fat or anything but your growth, size of your skull, femur and all were the length and size of a 22 week baby. You are about 130 grams heavier than you should be! Dr Tang said, "This is going to be potentially a very big baby. Babies grow exponentially. Now he is already 130 grams bigger. This probably equals to about 1kg bigger than normal babies during birth"

My gawd.. 1kg bigger! You are going to be the giant nation representative in the infant care unit during birth.. There are the cutesy little infants next to you and there's you the O-Big/Great-One.... I must prep daddy ready with all his equipments to come film you together with the rest of your tiny friends in the ward.... but seriously, no joke man.. although I'm kinda big in size myself but it doesn't mean my special passage of pleasure/birth is roomy too, you know. I definitely NEED epidural, the life saviour of mankind.