![]() ![]() She said: "I had durians about twice or thrice a week since the start of my pregnancy. Another big-baby mother, Madam Liu Yue, 28, succumbed to her craving for durians. I drank a lot of milk in various flavours and ate a lot of vegetables." She also ate plenty of sirloin steak during her last trimester "so that baby would be strong". Madam Chen and other mums we interviewed did admit eating more during pregnancy.įor instance, Madam Chen had a bottle of birds' nest and two bottles of chicken essence every week during her second trimester. SGH's head and senior consultant in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Associate Professor Tan Hak Koon, said: "Once mothers eat better, their babies get better nutrition. Mostly, better - and in many cases, too much - nutrition. There was a lot of "pushing, pulling and yanking" by a team of four doctors and three nurses, before the baby was finally delivered with the help of forceps, she recalls. Any infant above 4kg at birth is considered large.ĭoctors are not keen for mother and child to get too big, as delivery will be fraught with risks and the child has a higher likelihood of developing health issues.ĭr Irene Chua of Irene Chua Clinic for Women at Gleneagles Medical Centre, remembers delivering a 5.2kg baby. Most babies delivered here weigh between 2.8kg and 3.5kg. ![]() Indeed, the biggest babies born at the Singapore General Hospital, KKH and Thomson Medical Centre weighed 5.1kg, 5.6kg and 5.8kg respectively. While the average weight of babies born here has not changed drastically - KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH), which gets the lion's share of births here, says the figure hovers around 3.1kg - obstetricians and gynaecologists The New Paper on Sunday spoke to gave anecdotal examples of more cases like Madam Chen's. "When I saw my baby, I was crying with joy, while everyone else was smiling," exclaimed Madam Chen. His head and shoulders were also swollen."įor the safe arrival of her big bundle of joy, Madam Chen finally went for a Caesarean section with an epidural, which meant she was awake but numbed from chest down when Josiah was born. So I pushed and pushed, but the doctor said his heartbeat had dropped. She told The New Paper on Sunday: "I wanted a natural birth. Madam Allie Chen, 27, was expecting a 3.3kg baby but her son turned out to be 4.4kg instead.īecause of his size, the freelance baby-sitter went through 13 hours of gruelling labour, and ended up on the operating table because the baby would not descend into the birthing canal. Wow, I must have had a flair for the dramatics.WHEN baby Josiah Shalom Mok arrived in July, his mother was surprised. And so then finally, I remember this moment, the teacher looked at me, they were like “Anna, do you need to go home?” And I just remember nodding, I couldn’t even speak. I was literally crying maybe I think it was an hour or two later, and I was just still crying about this little fish. I just remember being so sad about this fish. Anyway, they kept shifting my warning, they were like “okay, I’m going to give you a yellow card”, but I honestly didn’t even care. And at my school in kindergarten they had this point system where you had a green card, meaning you were behaving well and then you had a yellow card if you were being warned, and then you had a red card if you misbehaved and then you didn’t get a sticker, and then if you didn’t get a sticker you didn’t get a prize at the end of the month, or week, or something like that, something like that. And so, I started crying really, really hard, and so they walked me to class, and I sat there in class, and I wouldn’t stop crying. It was my favorite fish.” And just trying to explain what this fish looked like to them, and they said it died. I was like “where’s my favorite fish?” And they were like “what fish?” And I was like “my– my angel fish. And one day I walked in and I looked into the fish tank, and my favorite fish was not there, and I was peering in, I was looking in, looking super, duper hard. But I remember distinctly, I’d walk in every day, say hello to my favorite fish. I don’t even know how old kindergarteners are, like five or six. ![]() When I was in kindergarten, I got sent home from kindergarten because every day I used to walk into the doors and there was a little fish tank in the lobby and I was really really young. “I’d walk in every day, say hello to my favorite fish.” ![]()
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