Breaking the Baby news to Pa & Ma

Yesterday night Spencer and I sat down to Skype with Pa & Ma. I asked for the chat meet on the pretext of 'I miss you la'.

But of course, the REAL reason was because we wanted to tell them about Peanut. You see, many years ago, Pa & Ma promised that the only reason they would make that arduous 25+ hour journey from Malaysia to the US would be if we could manufacture a Baby for them. Time to make good on that promise!

Unfortunately, our planned strategy of breaking the news to them didn't work. (Spencer had predicted it wouldn't but I didn't believe him!)

The Strategy

We started by giving them a visual tour of our home and the current state of renovations. Then we told them that we would also be renovating the upstairs room for them to stay.

Me:  So, can you come visit us ah?

Pa:   Cannnn. When is a good time to come?

Me:  Middle of May (that's when Peanut is expected).

Pa:   Okay. 

Me:  (Wow this is going better than I thought!)

Pa:   Wait... Faith cannot miss school wor.

Me:  You and Mama come la. 

Pa:    Nobody to take care of Faith wor. 

Me:  Faith so big girl already. (ok, this is not going well after all hehe)

Pa:    We come later la. End of the year?

Me:   Noooo! Must come in May! And bring those herbal mixes!

Ma:   Hah? What herbal mixes? Why must be in May?

Me:   ....

Pa:   No la, end of the year better.

Me:   .... (aaaaargh!)

Ma:  So..... when you going to make a baby hah? We will visit you when you got baby la. We bring herbs and all that.

Me:   ...

Ma:   When ah?

Me:  In May la. You come in May. 

Spencer:   We got baby la. (So there, we told them. Not in the smoothest way. But yeah, we told them).

Ma:  You faster make baby la.

Me:  ?????   ... Got already la! 

Pa & Ma:  ....

Me:  Wait, I show you my belly. (I showed them my belly)

Pa:  Got nothing also. 

Spencer & I:  ....  (don't know what to say already).

Ma:  I don't believe!

Sigh!!! At that point, our carefully thought out and genius strategy of breaking the baby news to my parents had totally disintegrated, and Spencer and I were scrambling to find proof that Peanut wasn't made up. So we showed them this:

After that, Ma & Pa got it hehe.

Now, how should we break the news to the rest of the family? 

Genetic test results - Out of the Woods!

Three weeks since my last post! I blame all-day sickness for my lack of motivation to do anything but sit around all day.

The test for Downs and Trisomy 13 came out NEGATIVE. I was told that the ratio was 1:935 for Downs, which is excellent. What a load off my chest! Now to figure out how to break the news to the family...

Below is the ultrasound at 11 weeks, taken last week. I was told that peanut was cooperative. The technician managed to get the nuchal measurements within five minutes. Apparently sometimes it could take an hour to persuade the baby into the right position. All the tech had to do was push (kinda hard) on the right side of my belly - I was told that that shifted the amniotic fluid and annoyed peanut just enough to turn its head away.

My feelings when I saw peanut emerge on that screen were indescribable. For most part I felt incredulous, like, is that for real, that is growing inside me, like, right now? Peanut's arms were flailing about in a very passable butterfly swim stroke, and legs were doing frenetic air-cycling motions. The fella is going to be a Triathlete for sure.

I couldn't stop grinning. I wish Spencer coulda been there though.