Mother's Day Gift

Looking out for mother's day gift? Here is some other great ideas you may consider:-
1) Buy a foot massager if she walks a lot & regularly has tired feet.
2) A spa treat.
3) Order a bouquet of flowers to be delivered to her office/home.
(However, do make sure your mom loves flowers before you do so.)
4) A lunch / dinner treat.
5) Bake /buy for her, her favorate cake / cookies.
6) Bring her out for a movie / concert.
7) A short trip to somewhere she has been longing to go.
8) Sign her up for a siminar she has been longing to attend.

I suppose most importantly is to know what she needs and what she desires to have but somehow has not purchased it / do it etc.
It is not necessary to buy expensive things to mothers. Pay her a visit, give her a loving hug and tell her that you love her and appreciate her, etc....
It might be little things that you do, but the end result is great. Little effort and maximum result.

My First Mother's Day Gift

My first mother's day gift was the birth of my baby boy, Zachary. He was scheduled to be born on mother's day last year but has chosen to come out earlier. Zachary was born on 25-04-2005, exactly two weeks before mother's day.

My whole family were joyful over the birth of Zachary. He was weighted 2.98kg and I thank God for the smooth delivery and for protecting him inside my womb as the umbilical cord was around his neck when he was born. Thank God that Zachary was born earlier on my 38th weeks of pregnancy as the umbilical cord was loosely around his neck.

Unfortunately, Zachary had jaundice. Apart from the photo-light therapy, the nurses were taking blood sample everyday to ascertain his jaundice level. It was painful to see the little baby crying each time when they took his blood sample.

On the 8th day of birth, my husband and I decided to consult another Paediatrician to ensure that our child is fine because we were not comfortable with the first Paediatrician that we consulted who was arranged by the hospital on the day he was born.

Everything looks fine according to the 2nd Paediatrician and no worries over the jaundice level. However, the breaking news came when our baby was diagnosed by Dr. Lim, the second Paediatrician we consulted who is also a Paediatric Cardiologist, for having a single large perimembranous inlet Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD) and a small secundum Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) (commonly known as holes in the heart). In fact, the Paediatric Cardiologist was surprise to find 2 holes in the heart as my baby does not show any symptoms. The holes were detected only via ultrasound scan.

Both my husband and I were very shocked over the news. We couldn't believe that this is happening to us. We have consulted other specialists but the end result was the same.

Under Dr. Lim's treatment, Zachary was given 6 months as monitoring period. Should the two holes in his heart shows no sign of closing up by itself, he would have to undergo an operation to patch up the two holes. Meanwhile, Zachary was given 2 types of medicine to be taken twice a day i.e. Lasix and KCL to reduce the heart's burden as he grows.

My husband and I were praying very hard everyday for miracles so that our baby would not have to undergo a surgical operation.

It was not a pleasant experience to feed a baby with medicine especially Lasix and KCL. Both medicine were not tasty but it's necessary according to the doctor. As a result, my baby had developed nausea. He was seen having nausea a few times a day.

Unfortunately on his 3rd month of birth, Zachary was suffering from fever for more than 2 weeks. The weird thing was that he only had fever from about 2 am to 7 am everyday. He would cry and cry for no reasons during these hours and non of us can explain what is going on.

Zachary was admitted to the hospital twice over this matter in July 2005. He seems ok in the hospital but when he came home, the same thing happens again.

Thorough check on Zachary had been done. The Paediatric Cardiologist had ruled out every possibilities of the reasons for such fever. Finally, he informed that the only explanation was due to the symptom of having heart failure.

We were really sad, scared and worried when we heard such news. Given no choice, my 3 months old baby was scheduled to undergo a surgical operation on 08-08-2005 to close up both the VSD and ASD.

The hardest moment I ever recalled was to hand over my baby to the hands of the Anaesthetist who would then send him into the operation theater. Tears were running down our face automatically and our hearts were beating very fast....We were just afraid....Deep in our hearts we were praying for our baby, the Anaesthetist (Dr. Tang) and the Surgeon (Dr. Lee). We prayed for the Lord's protection and control over the smooth running of the operation.

The operation was 2 hours long. Thank God that it runs well. He was then placed in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) for 3 days, and thereafter in the HDU (Highly Dependent Unit) for a day and 3 days in the normal ward. The total cost we have spent amounted to RM26,000 of our currency for this operation and the stay in the hospital. This, however, is excluding the follow-up costs and other costs we have spent earlier.

During the first day in ICU, it was indeed sad to see so many tubes surrounding his little body. Zachary's condition was unstable then as he was having fever. The surgeon had ordered to bring down his temperature. Hence, Zachary was not on clothes. He was only wearing a diaper. The air-conditioning was right above him and a fan was blowing directly towards him. He was on wet cloth as well in order to bring down his temperature.

Time has passed. Zachary has just turned one on 25-04-2006. He is such an adorable baby. He sleeps well at night, he smiles when he sees us, he is now able to call us "papa" "mama". We are joyful and thankful towards those who had been praying for us and have extended their helping hands in any way (i.e. our pastors, friends and family members). I thank God for them and may God bless them many fold.

For those who have read this message, may God bless you as well. Treasure your family and show your love and care for them when they are still around.

For those who are going through similar situation, do not be discouraged. Be strong. Have faith. Though it was a dark valley that we were going through, please remember that there are always mountains.

As mother's day is near, I wish all mothers a happy mother's day.

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My First Mother's Day Gift

Mother's Day

Welcome to my mother day blog. Here you will learn about my first mother day experience and my journey of being a mother. It will always be a memorable mother day in my whole life.