First visit to the gynae - 30 JANUARY 2007

I first emailed our doctor on 22 Jan 2007 which he replied that same day too:

"DEar Steve, congratulations! can you give me a calltmr at my clinic tel 64796112 or shall I give you acall to arrange for the first visit?"

Perhaps he is a very busy man and perhaps he was halfway administering a patient whilst responding, hence the typos? Nah, just kidding. He has no computer in his office. Hey, doctors are well known for their inlegible handwriting, perhaps also inlegible typing?? Haha just kidding, don't be mad at me.

Okay, his name is Dr Peter Chew of "Peter Chew Clinic for Women", Gleneagles Medical Centre. In fact he is both an MBBS (Meaning "Doctor") and also has a PhD (also "Doctor"). A long list of credentials which you can read from his site http://www.peterchewgynae.com/. Apart from his contribution to the society (like a columnist and lecturing at National University of Singapore), most importantly he is a very spiritual person too. He is the Chairman of a charitable organisation called "Alife" (http://www.alife.org.sg/) which promotes fertility and pregnancy. In short he is a super guy. He is a also a good Catholic.

How I get to know Dr Chew is because he is a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM) and I also happen to be involved with. The SMOM is a thousand year of Catholic order dedicated to serving the church, poor and society. There are few doctors within the Order but there is only only one gynae. Although there are numerous gynaes in Singapore, my wife and I prayed about it and decided that we are going to Dr Chew.

The first meeting was 30 Jan 2007. 8.45am appointment. Dr Chew asked a couple of standard questions then off to the bed for scanning. Okay, we saw the errr... embryo.. It's really tiny though because it is a cell. How the remarkable thing is the Dr told us he should be able to detect some heartbeat but he couldn't. It's quite common though (something like 70% couldn't detect at this early stage) but perhaps we might have given him the wrong date about the Last Menstruation date. As such, we have to come back for the second time in 10 days' time.

Well what do you think, of course the Missus was very anxious but that's good at least she is a concerned mother. But this baby really like to make us do things twice, remember about the test kit also?