New Baby in the Family!! : May-13

En'en came about because Xuanxuan had wanted to be a big sister..  Of late, En'en has also began to rant about how she wants to be a  big sister, again..

The last round she did that, we 'adopted' a sister for her in Cookie, her Yeeyee and QQ's toy poodle.  En really treated Cookie as her sister as I recalled her SK nursery classmate's mum related to me how her son told her that En'en was very strange because she has a doggie sister!!

So this time, En'en is also smarter to say that she wants to be a real sister.  Most fortunately for her, she has really turned into a real big sister this time with the arrival of her QQ and Qmama's baby Ally!! *\(^_^)/*  *\(^_^)/*  *\(^_^)/*

Baby Ally's EDD (estimated delivery date) was 20+May, so we were rather surprised when Dor announced at the start of May that her gynae said her baby would be due the following week!!!

Dor's waterbag was slowly leaking and Ally would be induced if she still did not want to come out by herself the next week.. Within the next couple of days, Dor announced that she would deliver her baby on May 9th, Thursday!  To be exact, she would check into the hospital in the wee hours of Thursday morning, like 4am, and get ready to be induced for the baby to be delivered at about 4pm.  Reason for this exact timing was so that Hong could be by her side to witness the delivery of their newborn before having to set off for work; Hong was in the midst of a musical run 搭错车 at the Esplanade.

Having known this well in advance, I planned with the excited girls how they would come home after their lessons that day, bath and get ready to go to the hospital to receive their new cousin!!

We planned to be at the hospital to witness the first moments of the newborn Ally.  Juz like the girls, I had never seen a newborn in the rawest state, uncleaned and fresh from the mother's womb!

Alas, as we were selecting flowers from a florist opposite the hospital, Hong's message came in that Dor had delivered and even showed the lovely newborn's pictures!!  A lil' disappointed, we rushed over to the ward immediately all the same.

Don't know how Hong did it, but Dor was upgraded to a premium room and the entire room was almost like a hotel except for the bed.  We waited for almost an hour before Dor was wheeled into the ward with an uncleaned Ally!!  Oh, so this was how a freshly-delivered baby looked like!!!!!!!  Cute little Ally was alternating between sleeping soundly and crying disturbedly in that short duration we saw her waiting out the room and being pushed into the room.. so adorable!!

We did not manage to see her after she was wheeled into the nursery for washing up and warming up.. despite waited for... seemingly forever!!  The girls, especially En, was very disappointed because all had expected to carry their lil' cousin for the first time that day...

Well, thereafter I brought the girls to visit Ally and Dor daily even until the day they were discharged!  All had a chance to hold the new one.. with evidence!!