Shizuki recovered from Bronchiolitis

Now Shizuki is fully recovered from her sickness. She suffered coughing for a few weeks. Terrible. Now she talks a lot, and started eating solid food. Check more photos at Flikr.

Shizuki is one month old

It's February, and our baby girl is one month old. We are supposed to celebrate 'One Month Old', but Mommy is not still well. She looks getting better, and pain at her lower tummy is getting weaker. At least no sharp pain now. So until she gets recovered completely, we can't do celebration. What we can do is to video her first smile. She sometimes smiles, and her smile dimples her cheek - very cute (笑うとえくぼができる）.

Next time I will upload her first smiling video clip.

Tetsushi's toilet training is still not complete. He can make poo at toilet after breakfast, but other time unless we remind him, he often makes poo in his pants. Still he needs training,

From Papa

Tetsushi and Shizuki 4

Shizuki and Tetsushi 3

More Shizuki Photos

Shizuki and Tetsushi 2

Shizuki and Tetsushi 1

詩月誕生

ニュージーランド時間の１月７日午前２時１１分、女の子が生まれました。帝王切開を予約していたのだけれど、それさえするまもなく、あっという間の出来事で、１時に破水して病院に行き、そして１時間もしないで生まれました。とにかく待望の女の子です。お兄ちゃんと同じく、大きな手と大きな足の赤ちゃんだけど、お兄ちゃんよりもずっと高い鼻は全く父親のそれと同じですね。さて、どんな子のなるのでしょう。

帝王切開 １月８日（金）

お腹の子供（詩月）の誕生日が決まりました。産婦人科医の勧めに従い、帝王切開の手術を１月８日（金曜日）に媛媛は受けます。痔を悪くしないことを最優先したゆえの決断です。当日は中国人の友達に、中国語しか離せないおばあちゃんと徹至の送り迎えをしてもらうことになったので大丈夫。徹至は一日保育所にいれば大丈夫。ただ忙しくなるので食事の準備を前もってしておかないと。

Shizuki's photo

Our baby girl's Name is 詩月(しづき）. Hasn't she got a high nose like Papa?

Baby girl is coming soon

My husband and I went to scanning (ultrasound) the baby together yesterday. The baby is growing very well. We did checking for the baby's brain, the spine, and the heart. The baby was very active and moved a lot at that time. At the end, we found out the gender of the baby----"GIRL". We are so happy to hear that, becasue we have had a boy already and Tetsushi will have a little sisiter to play with later. She is a very active and powerful baby girl so far.

Magic Word!

Still Tetsushi doesn't listen to us well so we decided to use a 'classic' timeout trick. Every time we's naughty, we say we are going to take dark place - a corner of lounge - which I did once - and he suddenly chnages his attitude. His face becomes stern, and serious. Then he changes his close and nappy without shouting and yelling! It's like a miracle. It's not very good to scare him all the time, but it is necessary for him to learn discipline. He is scared to hear "部屋の隅、真っ暗くら".

His cold is almost gone, although he's got runny nose, and generally his condition is fine. he eats well, with our spoon feeding, and he plays well. He's happy to go to toilet for pee. He sits on Poo-san. He loves singing now. He can sing songs together if we sing a song. He likes Sparrow song 小燕子(chinese), Anpanman Marchアンパンマンマーチ, Omocha no chachacha おもちゃのチャチャチャ(Japanese) etc. Next time we will show you a video in which he's singing.





Now the second baby is coming soon, and he often says 'もうすぐお兄ちゃんなる' (soon I'll be a big brother'. He likes touching mummy's swollen tommy. Surely he understands a new baby is there. he's a big boy now.

Midwife checking

We went to see midwife last week. We heared the baby's heart beating for the first time. It was 148 times per minute. It is slower than Tetsushi's, which was 160 times per minute. My condition and the baby are normal so far. We will meet the midwife again at the end of the month. She will send me to do other scan and we will know the sex of the baby.

Baby Countdown Counter

Our second baby is due 16 January 2010. I set the counter on the right hand pane. It shows 181 days to go as today.

Also we found a very good midwife, who's got over 30 years experience of child delivery in many countries. Hopefully this time we will have a better child birth.

From PAPA

Scanned!

We went to Ultrasound Scanning on Monday, and we saw our second baby. The baby is only 6.67 cm tall. Here is the photo. Can you guess which is the head? To date the baby is perfectly normal. I hope the baby grows bigger and bigger, and we can meet in January 2010.
From Papa

Pregnancy problem

This second pregnancy has lots of troubles so far. I had blocked ears when I was pregnant first time and I have suffered for nearly 10 month. It was a horrible feeling. This sympton comes back to me recently. I can feel my both ears are not normal. It is a very rare pregnancy problem that I am having. Am I still very unlucky this time?

I have made an appointment for my scan. I will see if the baby grows well or not next monday.