Most of my friends has been asking me if I know the sex of baby. After so many months of doctor's visit, our little baby still refuse to disclose the sex to me and hb. Meaby because I have told most of my friends that I would like to keep it a surprise and only find out the sex on the day of delivery. I think its more surprising to do that, to keep it a secret. :)
The only thing that is still bugging me along with this is that we have not selected 2 names yet, one for a baby girl and another for a baby boy. If you can tell, trying to select a name for your new born baby is not easy. There are a lot of aspects to consider and ensuring that the name for your child will not be a laughter or joke to their friends in future.
For my first pregnancy, we had the selection of name around 6 months. For the first timer, I remember what me and hb went through a long process and it actually took a few weeks to complete. Not like what "Friends" where Rachel and Ross did in the Central Perk coffee shop by selecting 5 names and both of them had a vote of Yes or No and finally did not come up with a decision. Well, we did it in a more conventional manner.
Basically we sat down, and started writing a list of names that we prefer for a baby girl. I had to go search for some of the baby names online and in some of the baby book that a friend borrowed me. after writing down around 15 names, we sat down again comparing notes and then cancelling off the names that we thought was too long, too fancy, too funny and that we don't quite like. the name list that we came up was quite interesting and I would never thought of calling our daughter by that name. Finally, we did have a few overlap names in the list and went on a voting session and selected Emily.
As for the Chinese name, it was a little bit more challenging for me as I can't read and write Chinese so I had to get help from my parents and parents-in-law to come up with a few suggestions. Of course, we did come up with the 'ping ying' of those names first.
A few days after Emily was born, then only we finalize on her Chinese name and went on to the department to register her birth certificate. At least we are given 2 weeks from the date of birth to do so :). Suggestion is to go to the Sg Ara branch to do this as the queue is the shortest and the birth certificate registration was completed within a few minutes. Below are some of the items that that will need to br brought to the Bitrh Certificat Registration
- The original document at registration.
- Application form duly completed and endorsed by the hospital
- Letter of proof of birth from the hospital
- Mother's and father's identity card
- Marriage certificate
- Identity card of informant (if applicable)
For Penang, you may contact the Bitrh Registration Department Tel at 04-226 5161 for more information
For this time round, I think we will complete the name selection in a few weeks time. But it may require a longer time since we have to come up with 2 list of names :)
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