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Hi, I did conceive on my 3rd IVF whereby I had 7 eggs retrieved and transferred two day 3 embryos with nothing left to freeze. One embryo stuck and he is now almost three years old. Now I have gone for a 4th IVF. Surprisingly I had 29 eggs retrieved and froze 5 blastocysts. But all 4...

She is old enough to ditch the diapers for sure. Set a date together with her, state what will happen and just do it. Prep her properly for it. Have nice pretty underwear ready for her :)

I’m not sure if what I did will help with your 7 year old. Mine was 2.5 years old when I potty trained him. Your daughter should be old enough to understand and follow instructions well. Inform her well in advance what the plan for toilet training is. Explain why she should give up the diapers...

My LO is at 10 weeks now and we have implemented bedtime at 7.30 for a couple of weeks now. But these days, he seem to want to sleep at 7pm. The reason why we implemented bedtime at 7.30 is because sometimes it takes a long time to get him to sleep (might be due to colic). We would start his...

Yes. In short, if you needed any service from any doctor, there’s a charge for that service.

I think my gynae charged about $300 per visit. And he visited daily. His fees for natural delivery (including prenatal consultation) is about $2k. Oh, and forceps were used in my delivery, so there’s additional costs for that.

Single ward. 8k plus would include the amount paid via medisave. Taking medisave out, we paid about $6k in cash. And my ward charges are based on 2017 pricing as we had locked in the pricing before the price increment which was implemented end of last year

My bill for natural birth with epidural came up to about $8k plus. This includes 2 night stay, daily visits by my gynae, PD and charges for circumcision.

Hi, I delivered naturally a few weeks ago. My gynae was supportive of natural delivery, especially in view that we want to have more kids. He said there’s no reason why IVF pregnancy cannot be delivered naturally..

Thanks! I have started my confinement a week plus ago as baby decided to come earlier than expected :)

AXA offers plan for IVF pregnancy, but at a premium. Think it’s called MumCare. Actually, since it’s mandatory to get the insurance from GE for IVF, that policy is sufficient. Because most maternity plans cover like 20 types of issues, and is useful only if infant is admitted to the higher NICU...

Hi, would like to check, in terms of ingredients for cooking, what do we need to prepare for confinement lady? I have the Dom wine ready. I read something about wine vinegar or something like that. Anyone knows what’s that?

Be careful about massaging the nipples though. Massaging nipples can cause contractions.

Yes I had 3 episodes of spotting: first 2 were brown discharge and third time was fresh blood. I think the first 2 spotting were caused by slight yeast infection. The 3rd spotting was likely due to me having difficulty in inserting the pessary for the infection after a few days of treatment. Was...

Once BFP, you can stop the crinone anytime. At KKH, the crinone is good to last until the day of blood test. Duphaston will be good enough thereafter. You probably don’t want to keep using crinone in case it causes spotting. Essentially my doctor didn’t want me to insert anything into the...