I definitely am very pregnant now with 4 more weeks to go before the C-date i.e 1/11/11.
It sure is worrying though to have people (and a lot of them too), look at my tummy and go cluck their tongue, looks like its going to be earlier than 1 November, they said.
According to the doctor, my actual due date is 17/11/11. But because it is a planned C, he penciled me in two weeks earlier. According to the Ultrasound scans, the baby is at 32-33 weeks of age, in terms of size and weight. The thing is, I couldn’t remember the first day of last menstruation and so 17/11/11 is calculated based on a date that I just guessed. As far as ultrasounds go, I am actually just a small chick, at 4’10”. Below average really. My hubby isn’t that tall either. Between the two of us, we produce small babies. And so I wonder, the maths in ultrasound machines are based on the average size of what babies? The world’s? Or non-asians? What if it is the average of Caucasian babies? Then at 2kg weight, my baby is actually older than 33 weeks! Then my due date really is earlier than 17/11/11 and so the C should have been done earlier than 1/11/11! Eeeeeeeeps! As if I don’t already have enough worries on my mind.
I feel contractions now, short sporadic ones, but painful still, as less-than-a-minute as they may be. The baby’s movement is less jerky due to less space, but more painful. I love to feel his knees and feet and push them back in when they potrude out from my belly. I find the baby’s movement a great comfort, reassuring.
I have bought most things now. Mattress, clothes, etc – for baby and me.
And so now we count the days, and wait, and we pray that the estimation date is a good intelligent guess.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Week 30+
Smurfette is on my tummy, courtesy from Daughter No.1. I dont know how long it can stay there guarding the baby :)
Week 30
Some achievements thus far (am proud of myself:-
• I have bought some things for the baby. The basics - cloth diapers, rocker, blanket, towels, clothes, scratch mittens and socks. I avoid the colours blue and pink and as much as possible kept on the safe unisex or genderless colours like green and yellow and purple.
• I have also contacted a friend who has this business of treatment for after-birth. It is quite pricey!! Massage will cost me RM60 per treatment and I am supposed to take at least 3 days! If I want the lady to really do the whole show, binders and the hotstone and the pastes, the cost can be as high as RM100 per day. Super expensive! In my hometown, I could get the massage for a mere RM30 per day. Since I will be in confinement here and not in Kluang, I will have to swallow the bitter pill of paying minimum of RM60 per day.
• I have also confirmed which company I will engage for the cordblood banking – a public-listed company headed by scientists from UM i.e Stemlife. It’ll cost me RM4,650 but I am quite happy with the assurances that they made.
The baby is doing multiple-pirouette in my tummy now. While it does comfort me to feel it so active and ever-dancing, the jabs can be oh-so-painful too. Like right now, ouch.
The cough is back and that hurts the already weakening muscle below the navel.
The back pain is still there in the background, always demanding for a good back rub, not that the husband can always comply.
Happy, THAT i still am.
Excited, THAT i am getting more and more of with each passing day!
• I have bought some things for the baby. The basics - cloth diapers, rocker, blanket, towels, clothes, scratch mittens and socks. I avoid the colours blue and pink and as much as possible kept on the safe unisex or genderless colours like green and yellow and purple.
• I have also contacted a friend who has this business of treatment for after-birth. It is quite pricey!! Massage will cost me RM60 per treatment and I am supposed to take at least 3 days! If I want the lady to really do the whole show, binders and the hotstone and the pastes, the cost can be as high as RM100 per day. Super expensive! In my hometown, I could get the massage for a mere RM30 per day. Since I will be in confinement here and not in Kluang, I will have to swallow the bitter pill of paying minimum of RM60 per day.
• I have also confirmed which company I will engage for the cordblood banking – a public-listed company headed by scientists from UM i.e Stemlife. It’ll cost me RM4,650 but I am quite happy with the assurances that they made.
The baby is doing multiple-pirouette in my tummy now. While it does comfort me to feel it so active and ever-dancing, the jabs can be oh-so-painful too. Like right now, ouch.
The cough is back and that hurts the already weakening muscle below the navel.
The back pain is still there in the background, always demanding for a good back rub, not that the husband can always comply.
Happy, THAT i still am.
Excited, THAT i am getting more and more of with each passing day!
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Week 29+
We have arranged with the hospital for Delivery to be on 1/11/11.
Now, that feels like it's such a long way away since today is only 8th of Sept. And then when I really think about it and pay attention to the dates, I realized that D-Day is really 7 weeks away. Now, THAT makes me a bit jittery. I haven't made the preparations! There are so much shopping to do and other preps too - like I am planning to store the baby's cordblood and I have yet to sign up with any banks! And then, to think that after 7 weeks, never again will I have life growing in me in the form of human babies. The only thing growing in me after this will prolly be mere germs and worms!
There are also work at the office that needs closure and tidying up before the long maternity leave.
I need to also look for masseur and maybe gather some herbs for post-D.
Am getting rrrreal nervous now!!
As far as the pregnancy goes, I already feel like I have reached full term. Am utterly uncomfortable all the time, getting tired of looking at my puffed up full moon of a face, the loonatic-kind of frequency of gracing the loo, the nosebleeds, the fatigue, the leg cramps (oh, super painful), the back ache etc. But I know I will miss each of the discomfort after this...
Now, that feels like it's such a long way away since today is only 8th of Sept. And then when I really think about it and pay attention to the dates, I realized that D-Day is really 7 weeks away. Now, THAT makes me a bit jittery. I haven't made the preparations! There are so much shopping to do and other preps too - like I am planning to store the baby's cordblood and I have yet to sign up with any banks! And then, to think that after 7 weeks, never again will I have life growing in me in the form of human babies. The only thing growing in me after this will prolly be mere germs and worms!
There are also work at the office that needs closure and tidying up before the long maternity leave.
I need to also look for masseur and maybe gather some herbs for post-D.
Am getting rrrreal nervous now!!
As far as the pregnancy goes, I already feel like I have reached full term. Am utterly uncomfortable all the time, getting tired of looking at my puffed up full moon of a face, the loonatic-kind of frequency of gracing the loo, the nosebleeds, the fatigue, the leg cramps (oh, super painful), the back ache etc. But I know I will miss each of the discomfort after this...
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