A quick update on the last day of 2009. :)
As per now, I'm in my 32.5 weeks and our baby has grown to 1.95kg. It's nearly 200gm increase from the last 2.5 weeks. I thought the growth as a bit little but Dr Karen actually told us that the previous growth of 400gm was a bit too much. Oooppsss... think it's because of the durians. :P
Baby is getting more and more active everyday and she actually hurts me sometimes as she kicks too much. 3rd trimester might be one of the hardest trimester throughout my whole pregnancy as I'm
(1) always feeling hot - I sweat like I have just ran two rounds at the taman after cooking dinner
(2) always feeling tired - sleeping for 8-9 hours doesn't seem enough!
(3) getting harder to find a comfortable position to lie down or to sleep as my dear baby is doing her funny actions inside that makes me can't breathe at time!
(4) feeling tired very easily - walking in shopping mall is a tough job now and I always look out for benches or chairs
(5) getting hard to move around esp. to get up from bed to go toilet when urination gets more and more frequent now - even EG finds it funny to see me trying to hard to get up from bed
(6) having my swelling feet that I can't fit in almost all of my shoes! :P
But I thank God that I'm only facing this now and I only have another 1.5 months to go! Yay!
Lastly, Happy New Year to all of you from daddy, mummy and baby Eunice. :)
Oh yah, my last ultrasound shows that our baby has hair now... How cute... :) :) :)
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
Crossing into 3rd Trimester
Some asked me, how do you feel carrying extra weight in front of you? Well, in fact, it doesn't happen suddenly, it happens slowly and somehow the body just have the way to cope with the extra weight as the baby grows inside.
I have finally crossed into my 3rd trimester. In my 2nd trimester, I was living as usual, eating as usual, sleeping as usual and watching tv as usual. I can walk in shopping malls for the whole morning. And I even walked in Midvalley for almost 6 hours just with a bottle of mineral water, and continued my shopping in SS2, and went for dinner @ Klang all the way till mid night. Even my parents in law were shocked that I'm still able to have so much energy to go out and walk so much.
Some said classical music helps in baby's intellectual development but I think my baby doesn't like it. :P... I can feel her moving restlessly inside me when I on the music for her. But, when her daddy-to-be plays his guitar, Oh well, you can feel her dancing inside. So, EG always says baby likes his songs too, esp. John Mayer's. :P
How's baby doing?
We went for checkup on my 28th week. Baby has grown from previous 714gm to 1.3kg!... Dr Karen mentioned that it's of normal size - not too big, not too small, just nice. And very luckily, we are able to see quite a clear face profile of our little angel... from the ultrasound, she looks like she has square chubby face - like her dad, big eyes and very obviously - thick lips. Hehehe...! I was telling EG i think our little one looks like him as her face is not small... EG was so touched during the ultrasound that he couldn't help to hold my hands during the ultrasound. :).
And I have to start going seeing Dr Karen every 2 weeks. That means I can see baby every 2 weeks too... :). On the 30th week, our baby has again put on another 470gm and her weight now is 1.77kg! Again, Dr Karen said the weight is just nice, and by the time when I need to deliver, the baby should be 3kg+. This round, baby is actively moving during the ultrasound and she could put her feet right in front of her face... Gosh! That's really flexible but Dr Karen said that's baby's favorite position. And again, we saw her thick lips, and we can see her yawning inside by opening and closing her mouth. So cute! Now, baby's head has already turned down but she has yet locked in.
How's mummy doing?
As I crossed into 3rd trimester, I noticed the major changes in me. I did read in magazines & internet that in 3rd trimester, mummy will feel extra lethargic. But I didn't expect it to be THAT tired. On my 30th week onwards, I feel dizzy almost at all time, and I couldn't move after work. So I stopped cooking dinner for almost a week as all I could do is only lying on sofa and watch tv or sleep.
As engineers, as usual, we tried to find out the root cause of me feeling so tired suddenly. The changes are too drastic. After a while, I found out eating IKO biscuit during tea time is not enough for me anymore. I felt better if I feed myself (& baby) with bread or something heavier. :P.
My fingers and feet started swelling and I couldn't wear my wedding ring anymore. :(... And I have problems walking in the morning as the feet swell and I feel tinge of pain when I stand up from my bed. I couldn't hold my fists tightly, and when I press my finger joints, I can feel a tinge of soreness & pain. It's all due to water retention that cause the swelling and apparently, there's nothing that I can do about it.
As my tummy grows bigger, I also have problem sleeping ad certain position makes me feel breathless. It took me a while to find a right position for me to have a good night sleep.
It's really not easy to be a mother. Even EG sympathizes me for having to go through all these and there's nothing that he can do to help me except helping me to do the house chores, cut my toe nails (I can't bend anymore), and massage my legs to prevent cramps at night. But thank God, I just have to bear for another 2 months! :)
How's daddy doing?
The daddy-to-be doesn't want his little one to be too big size which might cause complication during delivery later (since I'm not big size), nor he wants his wife, i.e. me, to put on too much weight. So, again, he watches my food, and instead of letting me eating bread or other carbo food, he bought granola bars for me to eat during tea time. How sweet! :)
Baby has been moving very very actively since I enter 3rd trimester. Daddy is very excited as she responded to his calls almost everytime. Even if he just puts his hand on my tummy, and call her "Baby..." a few times and waits for few minutes, baby will then give him a few kicks. It doesn't happen when others put their hands on my tummy!
Both of us couldn't wait for the arrival of our little angel. We are not afraid of taking care of baby, but we're more worried about what would happen during delivery as we can't possibly plan this as we'd never know what to expect on that day!
But I believe, that day will be a real exciting day! :)
I have finally crossed into my 3rd trimester. In my 2nd trimester, I was living as usual, eating as usual, sleeping as usual and watching tv as usual. I can walk in shopping malls for the whole morning. And I even walked in Midvalley for almost 6 hours just with a bottle of mineral water, and continued my shopping in SS2, and went for dinner @ Klang all the way till mid night. Even my parents in law were shocked that I'm still able to have so much energy to go out and walk so much.
Some said classical music helps in baby's intellectual development but I think my baby doesn't like it. :P... I can feel her moving restlessly inside me when I on the music for her. But, when her daddy-to-be plays his guitar, Oh well, you can feel her dancing inside. So, EG always says baby likes his songs too, esp. John Mayer's. :P
How's baby doing?
We went for checkup on my 28th week. Baby has grown from previous 714gm to 1.3kg!... Dr Karen mentioned that it's of normal size - not too big, not too small, just nice. And very luckily, we are able to see quite a clear face profile of our little angel... from the ultrasound, she looks like she has square chubby face - like her dad, big eyes and very obviously - thick lips. Hehehe...! I was telling EG i think our little one looks like him as her face is not small... EG was so touched during the ultrasound that he couldn't help to hold my hands during the ultrasound. :).
And I have to start going seeing Dr Karen every 2 weeks. That means I can see baby every 2 weeks too... :). On the 30th week, our baby has again put on another 470gm and her weight now is 1.77kg! Again, Dr Karen said the weight is just nice, and by the time when I need to deliver, the baby should be 3kg+. This round, baby is actively moving during the ultrasound and she could put her feet right in front of her face... Gosh! That's really flexible but Dr Karen said that's baby's favorite position. And again, we saw her thick lips, and we can see her yawning inside by opening and closing her mouth. So cute! Now, baby's head has already turned down but she has yet locked in.
How's mummy doing?
As I crossed into 3rd trimester, I noticed the major changes in me. I did read in magazines & internet that in 3rd trimester, mummy will feel extra lethargic. But I didn't expect it to be THAT tired. On my 30th week onwards, I feel dizzy almost at all time, and I couldn't move after work. So I stopped cooking dinner for almost a week as all I could do is only lying on sofa and watch tv or sleep.
As engineers, as usual, we tried to find out the root cause of me feeling so tired suddenly. The changes are too drastic. After a while, I found out eating IKO biscuit during tea time is not enough for me anymore. I felt better if I feed myself (& baby) with bread or something heavier. :P.
My fingers and feet started swelling and I couldn't wear my wedding ring anymore. :(... And I have problems walking in the morning as the feet swell and I feel tinge of pain when I stand up from my bed. I couldn't hold my fists tightly, and when I press my finger joints, I can feel a tinge of soreness & pain. It's all due to water retention that cause the swelling and apparently, there's nothing that I can do about it.
As my tummy grows bigger, I also have problem sleeping ad certain position makes me feel breathless. It took me a while to find a right position for me to have a good night sleep.
It's really not easy to be a mother. Even EG sympathizes me for having to go through all these and there's nothing that he can do to help me except helping me to do the house chores, cut my toe nails (I can't bend anymore), and massage my legs to prevent cramps at night. But thank God, I just have to bear for another 2 months! :)
How's daddy doing?
The daddy-to-be doesn't want his little one to be too big size which might cause complication during delivery later (since I'm not big size), nor he wants his wife, i.e. me, to put on too much weight. So, again, he watches my food, and instead of letting me eating bread or other carbo food, he bought granola bars for me to eat during tea time. How sweet! :)
Baby has been moving very very actively since I enter 3rd trimester. Daddy is very excited as she responded to his calls almost everytime. Even if he just puts his hand on my tummy, and call her "Baby..." a few times and waits for few minutes, baby will then give him a few kicks. It doesn't happen when others put their hands on my tummy!
Both of us couldn't wait for the arrival of our little angel. We are not afraid of taking care of baby, but we're more worried about what would happen during delivery as we can't possibly plan this as we'd never know what to expect on that day!
But I believe, that day will be a real exciting day! :)
Friday, December 11, 2009
How're we coping...
So, how's mummy doing? :)
My tummy started to grow bigger only in the 5th month. I was able to hide my tummy for the first 4 month - don't ask me why. I just didn't like it when ppl make a big deal out of me getting pregnant. But in my 5th month, I guess baby's growth has taken all the space in me and tummy started to bulge out. Not too big, but you can see that I'm pregnant.
Sometimes I do complain to EG that I feel both of us are very pity here in Penang. While all the other pregnant ladies have their mothers / mother in laws to boil nutritious soup for them everyday or every week, we have to do it all by ourselves. My mum is too far away, and we only go back EG's hometown once a month. But then again, everytime God has reassured me over and over again that His blessing will be over us and our baby, and we'll just be doing well like the rest!
To keep myself fit, I continue to do all the cooking and dishes everyday. But of course I stopped all the heavy ones like vacuum or mopping the floor. EG will be helping me doing it. I eat well and sleep well. And of course I watch out my food too as I still want to be hot mummy after having my little baby.
For my weight gain, I have gained 6.5kg for the past 6 months. I think I'm still doing well. I used to be worried that baby is not getting enough nutrient as everyone is commenting that my tummy is too small but Dr Karen has been reassuring me that baby's growth is normal, so as my tummy size!
How's daddy doing?
EG has been very excited for his baby. He'd insist to talk to baby every night, kiss baby through tummy and feel a few kicks before he goes sleep. And when he'll be extra excited when baby responded to his calls by giving him a few kicks. Seriously, sometimes I feel that EG is more excited than me! :).
And this daddy-to-be is getting more and more protective over his little angel. He'll warn me to stand further away from the stove while cooking so that baby doesn't feel too hot. He'll make sure I lay down on my left side when I sleep since I told him magazine mentioned that laying on left side improves the circulation and is better for baby - THOUGH laying on right side / flat does no harm either. And he watches my food. All the nutritious or yummy food like beancurd, he'll give me two and tell me one for you, one for baby. Once a while he'll bring me for fast food and will ask me - does baby like fast food? Or he'll say let's bring baby eat something different by bringing me to some other food like indian / thai / italian food or some food that we have not tried for long.
How cute. :)
My tummy started to grow bigger only in the 5th month. I was able to hide my tummy for the first 4 month - don't ask me why. I just didn't like it when ppl make a big deal out of me getting pregnant. But in my 5th month, I guess baby's growth has taken all the space in me and tummy started to bulge out. Not too big, but you can see that I'm pregnant.
Sometimes I do complain to EG that I feel both of us are very pity here in Penang. While all the other pregnant ladies have their mothers / mother in laws to boil nutritious soup for them everyday or every week, we have to do it all by ourselves. My mum is too far away, and we only go back EG's hometown once a month. But then again, everytime God has reassured me over and over again that His blessing will be over us and our baby, and we'll just be doing well like the rest!
To keep myself fit, I continue to do all the cooking and dishes everyday. But of course I stopped all the heavy ones like vacuum or mopping the floor. EG will be helping me doing it. I eat well and sleep well. And of course I watch out my food too as I still want to be hot mummy after having my little baby.
For my weight gain, I have gained 6.5kg for the past 6 months. I think I'm still doing well. I used to be worried that baby is not getting enough nutrient as everyone is commenting that my tummy is too small but Dr Karen has been reassuring me that baby's growth is normal, so as my tummy size!
How's daddy doing?
EG has been very excited for his baby. He'd insist to talk to baby every night, kiss baby through tummy and feel a few kicks before he goes sleep. And when he'll be extra excited when baby responded to his calls by giving him a few kicks. Seriously, sometimes I feel that EG is more excited than me! :).
And this daddy-to-be is getting more and more protective over his little angel. He'll warn me to stand further away from the stove while cooking so that baby doesn't feel too hot. He'll make sure I lay down on my left side when I sleep since I told him magazine mentioned that laying on left side improves the circulation and is better for baby - THOUGH laying on right side / flat does no harm either. And he watches my food. All the nutritious or yummy food like beancurd, he'll give me two and tell me one for you, one for baby. Once a while he'll bring me for fast food and will ask me - does baby like fast food? Or he'll say let's bring baby eat something different by bringing me to some other food like indian / thai / italian food or some food that we have not tried for long.
How cute. :)
Little one's growth
While first trimester is crucial for the development of all the organs for baby, 2nd trimester is the time for all organs to grow mature.
During 2nd trimester, all the checkup are just amazing. It never failed to WOW us everytime when we go for our routine monthly checkup. Ahem, excuse us for first time parent. :). I used to think that being pregnant for 9 months feel very long, but wait till I saw the growth of the baby. Baby grows at an incredible rate inside the womb.
In my 2nd checkup, my baby was 10.2mm, and after 4 weeks, when we went for our 3rd checkup, baby has grown to 60.2mm! That's 6x growth in 4 weeks. And later on, they don't use length to measure the baby's size anymore, it got upgraded to 161gm on the 16th week! By then, we saw our baby's little limbs and little body happily growing inside mummy's womb. The feeling was just indescribale.
On my 20th week, my baby has grown from 161gm to 366gm. That's more than double. And baby continues to grow to 714gm after 4 weeks! Imagine the growth rate. We could see a bigger baby inside the womb now. And baby is taking up all the space inside me!
Dr Karen is a very kind doctor. She'll spend time to explain and show us all the organs - from the kidney, to the lungs, to the fingers. She'd also count the fingers and said see - 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 fingers.... I think she's cute sometimes. :)
Having EG as a typical engineer who asks a lot of questions, my ultrasound session always takes longer as the daddy-to-be always has many questions to ask - like what's the baby's position now? what's the baby doing now? how's the baby sleeping now? etc etc... Sometimes I think he'd just take over the ultrasound machine and do the scanning as long as he likes.
Every checkup is such a relief when we know that baby is growing fine inside me. And every checkup makes us more and more excited for the arrival for our little angel.
During 2nd trimester, all the checkup are just amazing. It never failed to WOW us everytime when we go for our routine monthly checkup. Ahem, excuse us for first time parent. :). I used to think that being pregnant for 9 months feel very long, but wait till I saw the growth of the baby. Baby grows at an incredible rate inside the womb.
In my 2nd checkup, my baby was 10.2mm, and after 4 weeks, when we went for our 3rd checkup, baby has grown to 60.2mm! That's 6x growth in 4 weeks. And later on, they don't use length to measure the baby's size anymore, it got upgraded to 161gm on the 16th week! By then, we saw our baby's little limbs and little body happily growing inside mummy's womb. The feeling was just indescribale.
On my 20th week, my baby has grown from 161gm to 366gm. That's more than double. And baby continues to grow to 714gm after 4 weeks! Imagine the growth rate. We could see a bigger baby inside the womb now. And baby is taking up all the space inside me!
Dr Karen is a very kind doctor. She'll spend time to explain and show us all the organs - from the kidney, to the lungs, to the fingers. She'd also count the fingers and said see - 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 fingers.... I think she's cute sometimes. :)
Having EG as a typical engineer who asks a lot of questions, my ultrasound session always takes longer as the daddy-to-be always has many questions to ask - like what's the baby's position now? what's the baby doing now? how's the baby sleeping now? etc etc... Sometimes I think he'd just take over the ultrasound machine and do the scanning as long as he likes.
Every checkup is such a relief when we know that baby is growing fine inside me. And every checkup makes us more and more excited for the arrival for our little angel.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Movements
On my 17th week, I felt like there were a lot of gas in my tummy. And I thought there were some movements in the tummy. At first I thought it was due to some indigestion since being pregnant, it's common that the hormone slows down the digestion and cause constipation and I thought it caused this indigestion as well.
However, later I realised, there couldn't be so much gas in my tummy! I can feel it like almost 2-3 times a day. The movement got more and more vigorous and I realised after 2 days that it's the little one doing her somersault inside me..! =)
At first, EG wasn't convinced that it's our little one's movement, but later on I can feel it more and more. I tend to stroke my tummy everytime when she moves, I told EG - that is a sign for me to show that I sayang her... After a few weeks, her kicks got stronger and EG can feel it occasionally. There was once where we woke up later in the morning on a Saturday, and I put my bulging tummy against EG's back and our dear baby actually gave her daddy a few strong kicks!
When I told my gynae this during my checkup, she commented that it's rather early for me to feel the baby's movement in the 17th week as normally others will feel it only on the 20th weeks onwards. Guess my little one is definitely an active & mischievous one!
There was a time when EG was talking and touching my tummy to feel his baby's movement, he asked me why is my tummy senget with a hard bulge on my right side. When I touched it, I felt some real hard thing on the right side of my tummy. I seriously didn't know what was that initially but after a few strokes on the tummy, the bulge went off! How cute! We thought it was either the head or the bum that was bulging out. EG actually commented that maybe the little one thought there wasn't enough space inside me and hence she's moving a lot to get more space...!
As time goes, our baby's movement slowly changed from kicking & quickening to rolling. As I enter my 3rd trimester now, she has been rolling a lot and we can see either her elbow or knee bulge out on my tummy and rolled across from left to right, or from up to down. I like to lift up my shirt at night and let both me and EG watch the "show" my baby is showing at night. EG likes to kiss my tummy and talk to her every night before he sleeps and amazingly, everytime when he calls her, she'll response by having a few kicks - like she knows that her daddy is around..!
Many said that baby would recognise parents' voices if you talk to them often. And parents' voices will soothe them every time they cry. If that's true, I guess my little one will definitely be a daddy's girl next time! =)
However, later I realised, there couldn't be so much gas in my tummy! I can feel it like almost 2-3 times a day. The movement got more and more vigorous and I realised after 2 days that it's the little one doing her somersault inside me..! =)
At first, EG wasn't convinced that it's our little one's movement, but later on I can feel it more and more. I tend to stroke my tummy everytime when she moves, I told EG - that is a sign for me to show that I sayang her... After a few weeks, her kicks got stronger and EG can feel it occasionally. There was once where we woke up later in the morning on a Saturday, and I put my bulging tummy against EG's back and our dear baby actually gave her daddy a few strong kicks!
When I told my gynae this during my checkup, she commented that it's rather early for me to feel the baby's movement in the 17th week as normally others will feel it only on the 20th weeks onwards. Guess my little one is definitely an active & mischievous one!
There was a time when EG was talking and touching my tummy to feel his baby's movement, he asked me why is my tummy senget with a hard bulge on my right side. When I touched it, I felt some real hard thing on the right side of my tummy. I seriously didn't know what was that initially but after a few strokes on the tummy, the bulge went off! How cute! We thought it was either the head or the bum that was bulging out. EG actually commented that maybe the little one thought there wasn't enough space inside me and hence she's moving a lot to get more space...!
As time goes, our baby's movement slowly changed from kicking & quickening to rolling. As I enter my 3rd trimester now, she has been rolling a lot and we can see either her elbow or knee bulge out on my tummy and rolled across from left to right, or from up to down. I like to lift up my shirt at night and let both me and EG watch the "show" my baby is showing at night. EG likes to kiss my tummy and talk to her every night before he sleeps and amazingly, everytime when he calls her, she'll response by having a few kicks - like she knows that her daddy is around..!
Many said that baby would recognise parents' voices if you talk to them often. And parents' voices will soothe them every time they cry. If that's true, I guess my little one will definitely be a daddy's girl next time! =)
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