Letter #7 to Baby Darling

Dearest Baby Darling,

It's been a long time since mummy wrote to you. So here are some of the events that daddy and mummy had gone through for the past few months in search of you.

Nov 2012

Daddy went for a second sperm check, MRI and ultrasound. Results came back and they still showed the same thing. There is no sperm. We stopped going to TCM. Prof Chia from TTSH referred daddy to go to KKH to see Dr Tan HH. Our appointment is in Dec.

Dec 2012

We finally got to see Dr Tan at KKH. He is a very patient doctor and we like him too. He is unlike other doctors who deem us as a hopeless case or who just want us out of the room fast. We explored the option of using your uncle's sperms. Dr Tan was very supportive, to our surprise. He told us to go back to see him again on 16 Jan as he needs to check it out first.

Today we went to see Dr Tan. He said it is feasible to use your uncle as a donor. This is indeed good news to us! As what Dr Tan had mentioned during our last visit, your uncle and daddy share almost the same set of DNA and genes as both of them come from the same source. We hope to have you to carry this same set of DNA and genes too and not some other people's genes from another source.

Mummy went for a lot of blood tests today. Lord and Baby, bless me to have good results for all the tests!

Baby, we hope to see you soon! Be with us all the time! May the Lord bless us too!

迟了。。。

我的那个迟了。迟了快要两个星期了。不知道是一件好事还是坏事。我不敢去检验，因为我害怕。他最后一次检验是否有没有精子是在十一月二号。检验结果还是没有精子。所以我觉得应该不可能是怀孕了。可是为什么我的那个会迟了那么久呢？感觉有点怪怪的。我记得我的老板曾经说过可能我会在十一月怀孕。他有时说的东西是蛮准的。应该去检验吗？还是我的身体出现问题了？还是上帝真的赐予我们奇迹？

不属于我的东西

当其他人都在兴高采烈地迎接他们的小生命的时候，又有谁会记得我们这些只能在一旁暗自伤心的人呢？如果他们没有亲身经历这样的事情，他们是永远都不会了解那是一种什么样的感受。我又有谁能倾诉呢？

每天在面书上看见朋友上载他们的小孩子的状况，我真的好羡慕哦！我也希望有一天我也能和他们一样在面书上载我可爱的小宝贝给大家看。可是我会有这一天吗？

我的小宝贝，我好想拥有你！你能不能来到妈妈身边呢？

Insensitivity

I think my boss is very insensitive towards my plight, despite him knowing my situation. I have a colleague who was pregnant and all he did was to talk to her about child-bearing stuff because his wife had recently given birth to a baby girl. They were always happily talking out loud in the office about all these stuff and totally disregard my feelings. Though I appeared normally, it doesn't mean I don't feel the hurt at all.

Worse still, now that the colleague had given birth, my boss wanted us to share to send a gift to her and he actually asked me to be in charge! I had to order the diaper cake gift and collect it from my friend. How insensitive can he be! 

Doesn't he know that every word that is pertaining to child-bearing is a torturous feeling for me? Doesn't he know that every gift that is pertaining to child-bearing just remind me of the brutal fact that I can't bear my own child?

I wish I could just leave this country and relocate elsewhere for the time being. To be as far away from people whom I'm familiar with because they only remind me of the painful thoughts of this child-bearing episode.

我只是想要个孩子！

我一直都很憧憬着有一天我会和我心爱的人组织属于我们自己的小家庭。我也一直很憧憬着有自己的小孩。我很想看一看小孩长得像不像我。忙了大半天，原来这些憧憬都是一场空。我很有可能永远都不会有自己的小孩。

我只是想要个自己怀胎十月生出来的孩子，为什么那么难？难道我会是一个不负责任的妈妈吗？接下来的日子，我不知道我要如何去面对这样的我？我只能停留在现阶段而继续生活。我失去了我人生的一大重心。我要如何推动我自己向前走而且活得比其他人更精彩呢？我这一生就真的无法体会做妈妈的感受吗？

我好累！我能不能就自私地只为自己着想，和他离婚然后再找另一个男生结婚生子呢？反正他对于有没有小孩都无所谓。

其他人根本没有办法体会我的感受。就算他们知道我的状况，平时也毫不忌讳地在我面前大谈他们的孩子经。每听一次，我就好难受！有时真的很不想去上班，为了就是不想听到他们老是讲一些有的没的。

我很想逃离这个城市。我快透不过气来了。

Letter #6 to Baby Darling

Dearest Baby Darling,

daddy and mummy had started seeing the TCM doctor and we have been following her instructions, brewed the Chinese medicine and drank it religiously. 

Daddy had also seen Prof Chia, an urologist at TTSH and he had ordered 3 tests (MRI, ultrasound and sperm test) for daddy. Daddy will be doing MRI and ultrasound next Tuesday and the sperm test in November. You must really bless daddy with flying colours results, okay? Be there for daddy! Lord, we also ask for your kind blessing on us that Prof Chia will be able to conclude excellent results for us! In your most precious name, we pray. Amen!

We had also seen Prof Wong in NUH. Prof Wong is a very nice doctor. He sat us down and provided some directions for us. In the event that we need to use donor sperm, we can choose to queue but we will have to wait for 10 years. To do the shortcut way, then we need to a sperm donor so that it's a 1 to 1 exchange. Lastly, we can source for donor sperm in foreign sperm banks but we need to import them ourselves. NUH will not be responsible for that.

We also explored the option of using your uncle's as a donor. But NUH said it's illegal and now we are confused as we all along thought that it is possible according to CARE.

Baby Darling, please come to us soon!

Letter #5 to Baby Darling

Dearest Baby Darling,

daddy and mummy went to Bangkok at the beginning of this month. 

There was this day when we wanted to go to the Erawan Shrine and there was this local who was very friendly and managed to get us to get on a tuk tuk for THB30 to go to Erawan Shrine and Lucky Temple. 

You know, Baby Darling, mummy is a Catholic but in hope to have you, I actually prayed to the four-faced buddha as I have heard that the Buddha is very good at answering people's prayers. I know I have sinned against God and I ask God for forgiveness.

Later on we went to Lucky Temple where we met 3 different people who kept talking to us about Feng Shui. A man who claimed that he is a master was able to pinpoint what our problem is. We were very shocked because we had not told anyone in Bangkok. He actually told us that we will have children and it won't take more than two years. Upon hearing that, mummy teared. Mummy really thought we had really met someone who understands our situation and is able to help us. Little did we expect that this whole thing was actually a conman act. Well another hope crashed!

We are going to see Prof Wong at NUH this coming Thursday. We hope to hear some positive things from him.