“Even small things like driving made me anxious, I was so scared I was going to hurt my baby inside me,” she said.
When she got pregnant with her second son, Conor, the family had returned to Singapore. Her youngest son, Cionnaith, was born two years after that.
Even in Singapore, the anxiety lingered. Yong, a stay-at-home mum who runs an essential oils business, found herself avoiding certain activities out of fear that they might harm the baby or herself.
“For whatever reason, maybe it was the things I grew up hearing in my family, I was super conservative when they were inside me. So once they were out and a little older, I made it a point to have a real blast with them,” she said.
That “blast” took the form of all kinds of sports and outdoor fun from a young age. She took them swimming, got them into skateboarding, tennis, surfing, wakeboarding, even go-karting, all when they were three, five and seven years old, respectively.
