Anaya Norma Patrice Medina - My Little Princess

You might be wondering where in the world I got the name "Anaya Norma Patrice"? I know it's a long name and I hope my daughter forgive me when she grow up.... Lols! Ok, "Anaya" is a Hebrew Name which means "God's Will". My wife research it when a client in our internet shop asking for baby's name when she was pregnant. At first we intend to use "Anaiah" but worrying she might have trouble writing it down. So we stick to the original "Anaya" name.

Norma is my mother's name. I remembered my mother when the day I was thinking for a girls' name. I used Norma as her second part of her name to honor my late mother who died when I was at 7 years old. Although I can't remember her face because I lost her at my young age, I want to remember her name by passing it to my youngest daughter.

Well the last part was "Patrice", it came from my mother-in-law Patricia. We changed it to "Patrice" to make it sounds modern. "Anaya Norma Patricia" sounds a lil' retro that's why we came up with "Anaya Norma Patrice I. Medina" for the National Statistic Office records.


Anaya was born last January 6, 2010 at around 8:02pm at Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila. I was very thankful that she was delivered (CS) healthy at 9.4lbs.
We spent 5 days in the hospital because she was observed in Nursery Intensive Care Unit (NICU). I was worried at first but our doctor, Dr. Ilim explained that it is the standard procedure of the hospital to observed babies over 9lbs for 2 days in the intensive care unit. We went home in the evening of January 10, 2010 exhausted but happy & excited because we have a new member in the family. Thank you Lord for giving me "Anaya"...

Question: "Who's Anaya's more look a like... Her Dad? or Her Mom?" ( I want an honest answer!)

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I missed the blogosphere for almost a month now and there's a lot of things that didn't turned out what I expected. One is ... the construction or renovation was short of funds, until now the house has no roof slab. That's why the Qlick Internet Cafe is still close. And two is... I was surprised (I guess it's proper to say surprised, rather than unexpected) when my wife told that she was pregnant. When I've heard what she told me, I felt mixture of fear and happiness. I'm very happy because I'll be a Dad again and fear because she's been taking contraceptive pills for almost a month. That's why I'm very worried about the baby.

The following day we went to see her OB Doctor for consultation. Her Doctor told us that although there were no recorded proof for complication or side effects about contraceptive pills, she's not giving her 100% that the baby will be all right. There are some cases of complication for ectopic pregnancy that's why she refer us for a trans-vaginal ultrasound to see if the egg is in proper place. So we went for a TV ultrasound that same day and it was a relief when the Ultrasound Doctor told us "Congratulations, your wife is 7 weeks pregnant!" and ironically he said, "Your pills work splendid!" and we all laugh out laud.

After the TV ultrasound session, we went back to our OB Doctor and gave her the result of the ultrasound and confirmed to us that the yolk is full and in it's proper place but she can only confirmed that the baby is OK as of that day.

Lastly before we left, she gave us vitamins for the baby's development and for my wife's health. We were advice to visit the OB again later this month.

Please pray for my baby and hope everything turn out fine.