Happy 2 Weeks Old

10 days old

Ted is more preserved than his big brothers. His milk intake is not as much as his two other brothers and even at night he can sleep through without milk.
But since he's still less than 3 months and need to build up lots of fats for his brain development, mommy's a little bit worry.

So yesterday, we brought him to Dr Ratna for check up if his weight has increased
Thanks God, within 6 days, his weight increased around 300g and his current weight is 3.4 kg

Hopefully he can catch up his weight soon

The Origin of Thaddeo Richard's name

Thaddeo is derived from St Jude Thaddeus.
Exactly October last year, our family has been experiencing financial turmoil especially for daddy who's the sole breadwinner. We ask St Jude Thaddeus who's the patron of desperate case to intercede our prayer to God especially during that time so we can have peace at heart and go through one day at a time.
And within a year, our prayer has been answered not only our financial has been solved, God has added more with new member of our family which is Ted.
In order to dedicate this moment as remembrance how St Jude Thaddeus helped our family, we give the name Thaddeo and the short nickname is Ted

Richard is the middle name meaning Strong or Brave Ruler.
We name it Richard because in May, daddy has been chosen by our parish priest Fr. Richards Ambrose to serve the Lord as Communion Minister.
It's such a privilege to serve the Body of Christ therefore it's another remembrance so he may grow up well not only physically but also spiritual

The story of St Jude Thaddeus

Feast day : October 28
Patron of desperate causes and situations

St. Jude, known as Thaddaeus, was a brother of St. James the Less, and a relative of Our Saviour. He was one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus and his attribute is a club. Images of St. Jude often include a flame around his head, which represent his presence at Pentecost, when he accepted the Holy Spirit alongside the other apostles. Another attribute is St. Jude holding an image of Christ, in the Image of Edessa.

Sometimes he can also be seen holding a carpenter's ruler or is depicted with a scroll or book, the Epistle of Jude.

Biblical scholars agree St. Jude was a son of Clopas and his mother Mary was the Virgin Mary's cousin. Ancient writers tell us that he preached the Gospel in Judea, Samaria, Idumaea, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Lybia. According to Eusebius, he returned to Jerusalem in the year 62, and assisted at the election of his brother, St. Simeon, as Bishop of Jerusalem.

Saint Jude is not the same person as Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Our Lord and despaired because of his great sin and lack of trust in God's mercy.

Jude was the one who asked Jesus at the Last Supper why He would not manifest Himself to the whole world after His resurrection. Little else is known of his life. Legend claims that he visited Beirut and Edessa and could have been martyred with St. Simon in Persia.

He is an author of an epistle (letter) to the Churches of the East, particularly the Jewish converts, directed against the heresies of the Simonians, Nicolaites, and Gnostics. Though Saint Gregory the Illuminator has been credited as the "Apostle to the Armenians," the Apostles Jude and Bartholomew are believed to have brought Christianity to Armenia, where Jude was rumored to have later been martyred.

There is some debate about where Jude died, though most Biblical scholars agree he was martyred. He is believed to have been martyred either in Armenia or Beirut.

Following his death, St. Jude's body was brought to Rome and left in a crypt in St. Peter's Basilica. Today his bones can be found in the left transept of St. Peter's Basilica under the main altar of St. Joseph in a tomb he shares with the remains of the apostle Simon the Zealot.

Pilgrims came to St. Jude's grave to pray and many reported a powerful intercession, leading to the title, "The Saint for the Hopeless and the Despaired." Two Saints, St. Bridget of Sweden and St. Bernard, had visions from God asking them to accept St. Jude as "The Patron Saint of the Impossible."

Roman Catholics invoke St. Jude when in desperate situations because his New Testament letter stresses that the faithful should persevere in the environment of harsh, difficult circumstances -just as their forefathers had done before them; therefore, he is the patron saint of desperate cases.

The cord is off - 18 Oct 2015

Finally after 8 days, his cord stump has been off from his tummy

First Baby's Day Out - 1 week old

We have a quick dinner yesterday at Jurong Point.
He behaves so well during our dinner and dessert time...
Good job Ted !

Sunbathing

Since he has jaundice, mommy sunbathes him every morning around 8.30am.
But with haze on and off, mommy can't sunbath him regularly.
So far his jaundice only appear in his face hopefully it's gone soon

Happy 1 Week Old

It's been exactly a week after his birth, but his weight is still the same around 3.15 kg which makes mommy a bit worry.

Hopefully there's nothing wrong with his digestion and metabolism.

He spends most of the time sleeping though even at night, mommy needs to wake him up to feed the milk otherwise he can sleep through the night.

He's such a good boy because he can self soothe and seldom fussing which mommy feels happy.

But seeing his weight gain chart is not moving yet, it makes mommy worry too.

5 days old

We went to have jaundice check up when Ted was 5 days old.
His weight is still the same and his jaundice was going up, but Dr Ratna just asked us to sunbath and drink milk more

SG50 Jubilee Baby

Oma Happy's birthday

This is first "party" he attended, Oma Happy's 59th Birthday.
Since Ted is still small, we don't bring him out yet so we have small celebration at home

We're going home...

After staying for 3Nights, we are going home on Tuesday.
Ted had mild jaundice and had phototheraphy at hospital before discharge.

Our family of FIVE

The visitors of Ted

We were so grateful with our family and friends who visited baby Ted
Thanks so much for the best wishes and gifts and hong baos
Ted will be so delighted

Welcome to the world

The Big Day 10 October 2015

This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it

Yeay...this is the chronology of Thaddeo's birth

5.00am 
The ward nurse came to wake mommy up and insert medicine to clear the bowel and mommy had an hour to wash up or take shower

6.45am
Operating Theatre nurse came and ready to send mommy to operating theatre while daddy went to operating theatre to other door to change the gown

7.05am
Mommy arrived at Operating Theatre and met the anesthetic, Dr Lim.
Mommy told him my unpleasant encounter during first c-sect and reminded him to make sure that the lower body must be fully numb before doing any procedures. He was very kind, he made sure that he would do his best to mommy's fully satisfaction. He inserted the needle for IV drip before injecting epidural at lower back spinal

7.25am
CONGRATULATIONS
Welcome to the world, Thaddeo Richard Kusuma

7.25am - 8.00am
Ted was cleaned and brought to mommy's for a while before brought outside accompanied with daddy for further check up.
Meanwhile, Dr Wong and team did other procedures to sew the wound

8.00am - 8.15am
Mommy was put in the recovery room for observation

8.30am
Mommy was brought back to Ward room and met daddy there

One hour before....

As mommy and daddy have planned Thaddeo's birth delivery by c-sect, we can choose the date and October 10th was chosen.
It was on Saturday morning...

7 hours before, mommy and daddy have arrived at Thomson Medical Hospital and stayed over there for operation preparation.
We checked in at room 319 and can't wait to see baby Ted