26/07/2025
2025 is a special year
我不在的時候是去懷孕妹妹了
Pregnancy Record
03 July 2025
[Update]
Today Mei mei is 38 weeks and 3 days and it’s 11 days to her due date - 14 July - which is also Eker’s birthday. Lol. I always wanted to have a June baby just like me, somehow the Lord gave us a July baby instead. Eker didn’t even ask for this. We thank the Lord for having a chance to be pregnant again and do pray for this baby girl coming heathly and the whole process going smoothly.
[Background]
We’ve been waiting and wanting a second child for a while after Jeremy became more stable on his sleep, development and school (Nursery). In this pregnancy, some of my personal wishes finally came true:
I very much would like to share the joy of life while I am still working at my current company. As well as enjoy my SML & SMP rights. And since Jeremy was a covid baby, it will be great if we can have pregnany experience without covid and stuff. For example, we can be out and about, meet the saints, live normal life. However, I did find the nausea and fatigue isolating me from evening meetings quite a bit. I was literally half-quarantine to some extent.
[Attempts]
Before having Mei mie, we were actually getting the ball rolling with NHS infertility consultancy. As I said it’s been a while that we tried to be pregnant. There were some many reasonable factors that we couldn’t get it done: I was tired looking after a toddler, Eker was busy at work all the time, I’ve tried goji berry and longan tea (Have no clue why I jotted this down), I even quit my favourite crisps and chips. Ended up the GP did help us by suggesting increase the frequency of trying out and there we were. Mei Mei came into being.
[Enjoyment & Comfort]
"But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you." (Matthew 6:33)
This is the first verse that I was touched when we were getting ready to have anohter child. I was thinking I wasn’t doing/serve the Lord enough. However, the Lord showed me that we just need to serve according to our capacity. Do what I can do, and leave it to His blessings. I happened to see 8 people (2 adults, 6 young people) baptised into the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit. Praise the Lord!
"And God blessed them and God said to them, be fruitful and multiplied.”
(Genesis 1:28)
And God Blessed Them - Genesis, Volume One (The Bible Tells Me So)
From this children song played on my car, I felt God was saying to us. He would like to bless us by giving us more than one child. He is blessing by making us fruitful and multiplied.
..無論得勝或失敗你都在, 喜樂時你同在, 憂傷時你也同在, 因你是我的主耶穌
(詩歌：享主同在)
I was feeling nauseous and vomitting till week 18 and I had to take gastro resistant tablets every day otherwise I was not able to go to work or live as a normal human. During those weeks I was doubtful about my pregnancy decision quite often, was struggling to maintain normal family life and church life. Then I heard this adorable new hymn with lovely gestures. It did comforted my heart and soothed my sorrow. Yes I was sad and uncomfortable, the Lord is still with me. As you are my Lord Jesus.
In addition, I saw two amazing animations by CasiCreativo English on Youtube about Your Organs During Pregnancy and Baby and Placenta. Vividly described how mama organs and placenta work during pregnancy.
[Overall symptoms & Cravings]
So from December 2024 till January 2025 I was miserable and feeling sick. Meanwhile, I kept working (Used up my paid sick off days) and prepping my UK settlement application. Thankfully, I paid for super priority and got my Indefinite leave to remain mid January. It means there’s no limit on how long I can stay in the UK. Soon after I reached 5 years of living in the UK on 7 February, I applied for naturalisation in order to become a British citizen. The application was appoved in April, Eker and Jeremy attended my citizenship ceremony in May, my British passport landed in my postbox on the last day of May. And my immigration journey was ended here. (Hooray!)
Overall, this pragnancy triggered my piles three/four times which was totally unbearable and I made it through by sitting on the basin with warm water day and night. Nose bleed (Left nostril) was a normal symptom from first month to the end. I felt early baby movement around week 15. My huge, round tummy was like a watermelon indeed. Was loving watermelon in the heat wave too.
This time I was craving for Yorkshire tea with milk (White tea), T4 peach royal tea with white perals and green tea jelly, loved Tsujiri Matcha pudding, Basque cheese cake, and couldn’t resist Vita lemon tea and Bolo Bao. Don’t know why I need tea so much.
[Company challenges]
Last November our office was moved to the new premises, where the production and warehouse were already settled down earlier in September 2024. Further down the line, in February and March, we had three senior colleages decide to move on and left the company. This was a massive to us, especially the general manager’s leaving. And I was going to start my maternity leave in the beginning of June. It was fairly challenging and crazy to our boss I believe.
As the time approached, from March to May the boss was interviewing many candidates to fill out my positon and others. I was busy handling daily admin and graphic design and prepping office admin instructions to pass on. Had a shallow experience of being an office manager/supervisor for about three months. It was not easy at all. I raher take care of myself, not bothered to look after others’ stuff.
[Jeremy my love]
Jeremy’s been going to Nursery since last July and was attending everyday since September. The nursery he is going to is the Primary school we applied for reception for him as the first choice. And joyfully in April we were notified that he was allocated to this school. This is the nearest school to our house. And I am glad that he is settling in the nursery and the school very well, catching up his English quickly.
He was admitted to A&E due to wheezes back in January and February, so he was givin preventor inhaler and blue inhaler for urgent treatment at home. On and off his tiny airway suffered from viral infection, coughing and wheezing. I can only pray that he won’t get asthma in the future.
In regards to his little sister coming, he’s been having good reaction all the time. Talking to my tummy sometimes, praying for Mei Mei and greeting her. I only want to let him know he is still and always our baby boy and he doesn’t need to bear any responsibility of being Mei Mei’s big brother.
[Meimei]
Compared to my first pregnancy, I was way more chilled, relaxed, and quite lazy. I seized the time to read lots of information of baby sleep guiding so we can cope with it better this time. As well as sleep as much as I can. I was able to sleep deeply at night for a couple of hours. Ama arrived early so I was able to lay in bed longer, had good time to rest. All things are ready, now we only need to wait for Mei Mei to come out.
懷孕記錄
二零二五年七月三日
[最新狀況]
今天妹妹 38 週 3 天，距離預產期 7 月 14 日還有 11 天，那天也是 Eker 的生日。哈哈。我一直想要一個像我一樣六月出生的寶寶，但不知何故，神給了我們一個七月出生的寶寶。Eker本人甚至沒有想要這樣。我們感謝神給我們再次懷孕的機會，並祈禱這個小寶寶健康出生，整個過程能順利。
[背景]
在Jeremy的睡眠、發展和學校{托兒所}變得更加穩定後，我們一直在等待第二個孩子。這次懷孕，我的一些個人願望終於實現了：
我非常希望在目前的公司工作期間分享生命的喜悅。以及享受我的 SML 和 SMP 權利。並且因為Jeremy是疫情期間出生的寶寶，如果我們能夠在沒有新冠病毒和其他的情況下擁有懷孕經歷，那就太好了。例如，我們可以出去走走，見見聖徒，過正常的生活。然而，我確實發現孕吐和疲勞使我無法參加晚上七點以後的聚會。在某種程度上，我確實處於半隔離狀態。
[嘗試]
在有妹妹之前，我們其實已經開始NHS 不孕諮詢。畢竟我們嘗試懷孕已經有一段時間了。有很多合理的因素導致我們無法順利懷孕：照顧孩子讓我很累，Eker工作總是忙碌，我已經喝了枸杞和龍眼茶(我不知道為什麼我記下了這點}，我還暫時戒掉了我最喜歡的洋芋片和薯條。最後，全科醫生確實幫助了我們，建議我們增加嘗試的頻率，然後我們就這麼做了。妹妹因此出現。
[享受與安慰]
「但你們要先尋求祂的國和祂的義，這一切就都要加給你們了。」(馬太福音 6:33)
當我們準備要有另一個孩子時，這是第一句感動我的經節。我當時在想我對主所做的/事奉的還不夠。然而，主告訴我，我們只需要按照自己的能力去服事。盡我所能，並聽從祂的祝福。最近所在地召會我碰巧也見證到 8 個人(2 個成年人、6 個青少年)受浸歸入主名。讚美主！
“神就賜福給他們;又對他們說，要繁衍增多”
（創 1:28）
神賜福給他們──《創世記》第一卷（聖經告訴我詩歌）
從我車上播放的這首兒歌中，我感覺到神在對我們說話。祂想賜給我們多個孩子來祝福我們。祂要賜給我們祝福就是使我們繁衍增多。
……無論得勝或失敗你都在，喜樂時你同在，憂傷時你也同在，因你是我的主耶穌
( 詩歌：享主同在)
直到第 18 週我才停止孕吐，之前我必須每天服用止吐藥，否則我就無法像正常人一樣去上班或生活。在那幾周里，我經常對自己懷孕的決定產生懷疑，並要非常努力維持家庭生活和召會生活。然後我聽到了這首帶有可愛動作的新詩歌。它確實安慰了我的心並撫慰了我的悲傷。是的，我很憂鬱，很不舒服，但神仍然與我同在。因你是我的主耶穌。
此外，我在 Youtube 上看到了 CasiCreativo English 製作的兩個精美動畫，分別是關於「懷孕期間的器官」和「嬰兒和胎盤」。生動地描述了媽媽身體各個器官和胎盤在懷孕期間如何運作。
[整體症狀與愛好]
所以從 2024 年 12 月到 2025 年 1 月，我一直感覺不舒服很不適。與此同時，我繼續工作(用完了我的帶薪病假)並同時間準備我的英國永居申請。值得慶幸的是，我加錢付了急件並在一月中旬拿到永久居留。這意味著我在英國停留的時間沒有限制。 2 月 7 日，我在英國居住滿 5 年後不久，就申請入籍成為英國公民。申請在四月獲得批准，Eker 和 Jeremy 在五月參加了我的公民入籍儀式，我的英國護照在五月的最後一天寄到了我的郵箱裡。我漫長的移民之旅總算就此結束。(萬歲！)
總的來說，這次懷孕引發了我的急性阿痔瘡三/四次，完全無法忍受，我靠著日夜坐在溫水盆上才熬過來的。牙齦出血，流鼻血(左鼻孔)是第一個月到最後一個月的正常症狀。大約在第 15 週時，我感覺到了胎動。我圓圓的大肚子就像個西瓜。在夏天熱浪來襲時也確實很愛吃西瓜。
這次我特別想喝茶(英國茶加牛奶)、T4水蜜桃清茶加白珍珠和綠茶果凍，也很喜歡辻利茶舖抹茶布丁和巴斯克起司蛋糕，而且無法抗拒維他凍檸茶和波羅包。不知道為什麼這次懷孕我這麼需要茶。
[公司面臨的挑戰]
去年11月，我們的辦公室搬遷到了新址，產線和倉庫也早在2024年9月就已落腳。再後來，在2月和3月，我們有三位資深同事決定要離開公司。這對我們來說是很重大的變動，尤其是總經理的離職。我原本打算在六月初開始休產假。我相信這狀況對我們的老闆來說也是相當瘋狂並具有挑戰性。
隨著時間的臨近，從三月到五月，老闆面試許多候選人來填補我的職位和其他職位。我忙於處理日常行政和平面設計以及準備交接辦公室行政事務。也有機會體會擔任辦公室經理/主管約三個月的淺薄經驗。這一點都不容易。老實說我寧願照顧好自己，也不想管理別人的事物。
[兒子]
Jeremy從去年七月開始上幼兒園，並且九月開始每天都去。他去的幼兒園是我們為他申請的小學的的附屬幼兒園。四月份，我們很高興地得知他的學前班也被分配到這所學校。這是離我們家最近的學校。很高興看到他在幼兒園和學校適應得很好，英語能力也進步很快。
他於一月和二月因為病毒感染呼吸道而入院急診，因此在家中使用了預防氣管擴張劑和藍色支氣管擴張劑進行緊急治療。他細小的呼吸道時不時地受到病毒感染、咳嗽和喘息的困擾。我只能祈禱他以後不要得氣喘。
對於妹妹的到來，他一直都有很好的反應。有時還會和肚子說話，為妹妹禱告，和她打招呼。我只想讓他知道，他永遠都是我們的寶貝兒子，他不需要承擔身為哥哥的任何責任。
[妹妹]
與第一次懷孕相比，這次我更冷靜、放鬆，而且相當懶惰。我抓緊時間看了很多寶寶睡眠指導的資料，以便更好應對。並儘可能多睡覺。晚上我可以睡上好幾個小時。 阿嬤來得早，所以我可以在床上躺久一點，好好休息一下。一切準備就緒，現在就等妹妹出來了。
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