New Born Baby: Pregnancy 3rd Trimester

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Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Guide in Getting Baby Names

Searching for English Name
Nowadays there are tons of website that can help to suggest baby names for parents. Here are the site that contains all the list of website that can help to suggest baby names for parents:
http://www.dmoz.org/Home/Family/Pregnancy/Baby_Names

However there are still a lot of website in the dmoz directory. To shortlist, there is a good review on the baby name websites:
http://www.babynameclusters.com/d/review_of_baby_name_websites

After going through many websites, below is the best website because it contains many variety of names and country's top list names too.
http://www.behindthename.com/

Searching for Chinese Name
In the internet, there are tons of website that suggest some pin-yin names and there is a possibility that the kids may find his/her "twin" names in the class when the kids goes to school. The reason is because some parents look for the best suggestion from the website and if two or more parent uses the same name for the kids, then we'll going to have lots of "twin" name in the classes.

Here are the steps which my wife and I went through to find our baby names as both of us cannot read and write Mandarin.
Requirement:
- To find Chinese baby name that comprise of the format: Surname + 1st Character + 2nd Character
- Comply to a Chinese believe on the strokes rules
Step 1: Ask ourself what meaning we want to associate to baby and derive the English words out.
Tools - http://dictionary.reference.com
We can refer to Synonyms section in the dictionary website as to get more variety words that associates to the words we want to associate with our baby.
Example:

Retrieved from http://dictionary.reference.com using word "Strong"

Step 2: Use Google Translator to Get 1 or 2 Chinese Character
If parent select one Chinese Character from the list, then have to go to Step 1 again to choose the 2nd Chinese Character.
Tools - http://translate.google.com
Example:

Translation of the word Brilliant to Chinese Wordings

Step 3: Listen to the Chinese Character
Once we had gathered 2 Chinese Characters, then we'll combine the surname to listen to the pronunciation tone whether name sounds like a boy's name or girl's name.
Tool - http://translate.google.com
Example:

Copy the Chinese Character, Paste to Google Translate and Listen to the Pronunciation

Once we are OK with the baby name, then next task is to align the baby name with the Chinese Character Strokes Rules. In this example, we will use the name 李连杰 (Li Lian Jie).
Step 4a: Get the Number of Strokes in a Chinese Character
Tool - http://www.nciku.com
Example:
李 - 7 Strokes
连 - 10 Strokes
杰 - 8 Strokes

Search the Chinese Character, then click "Stroke Order" to find the total strokes

Step 4b: Check with Stroke Rules #1
The total strokes for the baby name should equal to: 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 23, 25, 29, 31, 32, 33, 37, 39, 45, 47, 48, 52, 63, 65, 67, 68, 73 or 81.
Example:
The total strokes for 李连杰 is 25 strokes (7 + 10 + 8) and matched to the good number of total strokes.

Step 4c: Check with Stroke Rule #2
If the Chinese Character stroke is in even number, then it's call Yin.
If the Chinese Character stroke is in odd number, then it's call Yang.
The Chinese Name for the baby must be balanced in terms of the following pattern:
- Yang Yang Yin
- Yin Yin Yang
- Yang Yin Yin
- Yin Yang Yang
Example:
李 - 7 Strokes => Yang (Odd Number)
连 - 10 Strokes => Yin (Even Number)
杰 - 8 Strokes => Yin (Even Number)
The name pattern are Yang Yin Yin and comply to the Stroke Pattern rules.

Step 5: Ask feedback from friends and relative especially those that knows Mandarin as to check out whether there is any weird/odd meaning associate to the baby name. It's best to gather 3-5 names so that there are contingency name in case some names are not suitable due to some reasons.

Warning:
This steps takes a lot of time but the process of going through the name are fun. However there are sifu in Klang Valley that provides services in helping parent to choose baby name.

Here are some additional tools:
1) To find Chinese Character based on pronunciation sound / Pin Yin
http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/sinograms.html?p=
Note: After click the Pin Yin, we need to identify which characters that we're looking for

2) The book title "Best Chinese Name" (ISBN : 981-3068-30-2) was very helpful.
Here are the preview of the book content:
http://books.google.com.my/books?id=4g-P9R0Kg0cC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Resources:
http://mandarin.about.com/od/chinesenames/a/number_strokes.htm

Monday, 10 December 2012

Drinks to Avoid During Pregnancy

After going through much research, below are the overview of drinks to avoid while going through pregnancy:
Avoid Unpasteurized Drink
Risk: Unpasteurized drink contain Listeria bacteria that may cause miscarriage or harm the fetus

Unpasteurized Milk

Avoid Alcohol Drink
Risk: Once start drinking, a person may continue drinking and it's very dangerous to the fetus. Alcohol have a risk to cause fetus with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) meaning difficulty in learning and many other problems.

No More than 150 mg per Day for Caffeine Beverage
Risk: To avoid miscarriage.
To find out more drinks on caffeine content, feel free to visit http://www.energyfiend.com/the-caffeine-database
A rough guide: 6 oz = 200 ml

Starbucks Grande
Coffee (16oz)
400 mg

Dr Pepper (12 oz)
37 mg

7-11 Big Gulp
Diet Coke (32 oz)
124 mg

Green Tea (6oz)
40 mg

Oolong Tea (6oz)
55 mg

Black Tea (6oz)
110 mg

In some culture, here are the list of "cooling" drink to avoid especially during 1st trimester pregnancy:
- Coconut Juice
- Pineapple Juice
- Watermelon Juice

Resources:
http://www.webmd.com/baby/features/drinking-alcohol-during-pregnancy
http://www.americanpregnancy.org/pregnancyhealth/caffeine.html
http://www.thefragrantleaf.com/caffeine.html

Friday, 7 December 2012

Foods to Avoid During Pregnancy

After going through much research, below are the overview of foods to avoid while going through pregnancy:
Avoid Unpasteurized Food
Risk: Unpasteurized food that contain Listeria bacteria may cause miscarriage or harm the fetus

Unpasteurized Cheese

Avoid Uncooked Food
Risk: Uncooked food contains bacteria or parasites (e.g. Toxoplasmosis) that can cause harm to fetus
- Ensure meat are fully cook (e.g. well done steak)
- Ensure egg are fully cook
- Avoid sushi food as to avoid eating raw fish
- Avoid food that contains raw ingredient such as raw egg

Fully Cook Meat

Fully Cook Egg

Avoid Sushi food

Avoid Food with High Vitamin A
Risk: Too much Vitamin A can cause problem to fetus development
A pregnant women is recommended by Institute of Medicine to get 2,565 IU of Vitamin A daily.
3 ounces of cooked beef liver contains 27,185 IU of Vitamin A.
3 ounces of cooked chicken liver contains 12,325 IU of Vitamin A.
A rough guide: 3 ounces = 85 grams

Liver

Avoid Chilled Ready-to-Eat Foods
Risk: To avoid harmful bacteria like listeria that can harm the fetus

Pate

Pre-packed Sandwich

Ensure Fruits and Vegetables are Wash Before Eaten
Risk: To avoid harmful bacteria in the fruits and vegetables that may had contact with soil, damaged leaves, etc

Avoid Certain Type of Fruits and Vegetables
- Avoid eating raw bean sprouts because the growing procedure could contain harmful bacteria to fetus
- Pineapple contains a small amount of bromelain enzyme that may cause diarrhea or induce labor. For safe side purpose, it's best to avoid during 1st and 2nd trimester.

Bean Sprout

Pineapple

Avoid Seafood with High Mercury or Shellfish
Risk:
- Mercury are harmful to fetus
- Do avoid shellfish as part of precaution as shellfish contains virus, bacteria or toxin which are harmful to the fetus. Example of shellfish are: oysters, mussels, scallops, clams, prawns, shrimps, crabs, crayfish.
Highest Mercury Seafood (Avoid Eating)