34 days and counting
I have another 34 days to go before my ‘predicted’ due date of delivery (that is 4/3/2010).
If you ask about my feeling right now, my answer is, I wish I can deliver sooner than that. I mean, since 37 weeks is considered as matured weeks for delivery, so why not. As long as the baby has fully grown and matured enough, I shall welcome any sign for delivery with wide open arm in the 37 weeks onwards. I can’t wait to finally be able to meet my dearest Izz, and I bet my husband feel the same way too.
Today, I shall talk about everything or anything that related to pregnancy. I mean, I am pregnant at the moment. I am half way through my third trimester and counting days to deliver super-duper Baby Izz to the world. So relatively, I can consider myself an experienced in this area of pregnancy, according to what that I have been through this 8 months of being a pregnant soon-to-be mummy.
So, I shall start now.
First Trimester
I always manage my own ovulation calendar and my period is regular, so when I finally got married last year on the 6/6/09, I have somehow knew that pregnancy is possible since the date 6/6 mark the 10th days of my cycle.
And I was proved to be right. About 2 weeks after getting married, I bought my first ever pregnancy kit and wallllaaaaaa!!!, though the line is barely visible, the result led me to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and another and another test until the Doctor finally confirmed on me that I am actually PREGNANT.
So, I cried the first moment when I actually accepted the result. I called my mother and her response was, “cepatnyerrrr”. I called my husband, my MIL, my sister, but I can’t recall their first reaction because my reaction alone surprised me.
On my 2nd month of pregnancy, there is still no sign of nauseas. I was happy because I thought that I was free from all the bad symptoms that came together in the package of being pregnant. But I was proved to be wrong because from the 3rd month of my pregnancy, the reality hit me hard.
Second Trimester
Immediately after entering my 2nd trimester, I finally had gotten my ‘part’ in these common-famous-symptoms most pregnant women have to face. I manage to fast 7 days only during the fasting month. I can’t take rice in my diet for almost 1 month or else I will vomit my stomach out, my weight decrease instead of increase. And this prolong until the 5th month. I got tired easily; I can hardly walk every time afternoon approached me so I slept during the lunch hour. Throughout those 2 months, my lunch was religiously bought by my dearest colleagues. My diet consists of bread, and bread, and more bread. I was not myself AT ALL during those times. I was totally DOWN. I didn’t go out at all during weekend. My hormones certainly went haywires and my MOOD SWING was even worst. Luckily, it last only for 2 months (nearly) because at the end of 5 months, I am getting back my appetite and my old self started to recover to NORMAL mood.
By the 6th months, I started craving for guava. Yes you read it right. GUAVA!! I had to have at least 1 GUAVA per day. Seriously!! Because that particular fruit is like a snack to me. It felt different to me if I didn’t get my daily dose of GUAVA for a day. Other than that, I ate less veggie but replaced it somehow with fruits. I favour only GUAVA and grapes. This prolong until mid of 7 month.
Third Trimester
By mid of months 7 into my pregnancy, the craving for guava became lesser and was replaced by craving for, hmmmm, whatever that I feel like eating. But nowadays, I like to eat ‘JAMBU AIR’ and cakes@cupcakes and the like. Anything sweet will do fine for me.
I started buying baby item by the end of 7 months. Hmmmmm, what else? The third trimester is more like a ‘relax and enjoy’ time for me. The most enjoyable time throughout my pregnancy, I shall say that. Everything is sweeter, life is more manageable, I am happier, and thanks Allah S.W.T for that. Aminn. Despite the normal leg cramps, worst Braxton hicks, bad back pain, minus all that, the third trimester is a blessing to me.
Supplement I take throughout my pregnancy
1) Folic Acid – from the time that the doctor confirmed on my being pregnant, I was given folic acid to take one a day. This prolong until the 5 months and the doctor ask me to stop taking it. But when I reached 8 months into my pregnancy and my Hb level is a bit low, the doctor asks me to start taking it back.
2) Obimin – I can only consumed obimin for 1 weeks and have to stop when I found out that I tend to vomit my stomach out when I was on Obimin. Guess Obimin is just not meant for me.
3) Pramilet – My daily dose of Obimin was then replaced by Pramilet. Another similar supplement as to Obimin. I letter learnt that, pregnant women have to either take Obimin or Pramilet as their MUST-HAVE supplement because those contents all the vitamin, minerals and all the good stuff that the mother and the baby needed.
4) CALCIUM – Fearing that osteoporosis come knocking at my door at 28 years of age, I started taking calcium from the months 5 of my pregnancy. Plus, I didn’t drink any milk so I MUST TAKE another alternative to replace all the calcium that MILK have. I bought my supply of CALCIUM from USANA. Theirs, from what I read and all the testimonials gathered, is among the BEST Supplement to consider taking.
5) BIOMEGA – Wanting my Baby Izz to become one genius child, and to cure the short term memory loss that seems to hit me lately (hehehehe…alasan je), I started to take regular dose of Fish Oil (DHA HPA bla bla bla if I am not mistaken) as part of my daily supplement. Go read THIS, then you will realise the benefit that USANA BIOMEGA carry in each of their capsules.
6) ESSENTIAL – Also one of the supplements that I religiously taken the moment I register myself as member of USANA due to the benefits offered by it. Also read THIS to understand better why I willing to spend my hard earned money to buy this entire supplement by USANA when everyone else thinks that, OBIMIN or PRAMILET together with ACID FOLIC is enough for a pregnant lady to take throughout their pregnancy.
So, I think enough with this long boring rambling entry about pregnancy. Or else I’ll be chasing whoever that willing to read my blog away in any minutes. Huhuhu.
Just something to ponder by any going-to-be-mummy soon out there.
P.S: My husband tummy/waist line is getting smaller and smaller by day. Hehhehehehhe. Ask me why? Or email me at anor81@gmail.com to know how this is possible. I shall take his latest photos and compare it with his previous photos so you can see the different. NUTRIMEAL from USANA really work. My husband has tried it, and I witness the positive effect of it. There is no harm trying you see, because we’ll never know until we try it. *wink*. Plus, USANA product is guaranteed to be safe.
-ANOR-
Dear baby,
You must be wondering why out of sudden I call you baby instead of your usual Encik Izz@Encik Dalam Perut@Minimo. This is because this one otai bidan from you daddy hometown (please bear in mind darling baby that to get to your daddy hometown, we have to travel for almost 7 hours….pergh!!! and by the time you arrive, your bum bum will sure get sengal lenguh and everything in between), has somehow predicted, solely based on the shape of my stomach that my baby is going to be a GIRL.
Now I am confused. Way back when your were just 4 months in my stomach, during my routine checkups, without having to ask the gender, Dr Syahirah willingly announced to me, that my baby is going to be a BOY. She even showed me your little birdie. And this continue in the 5 months, 6, 7 and the last checkups which was like last week, your birdie were still very visible. I got his news that you are a BOY from 3 different doctors. Three I repeat.
And with all these three quite convincing ‘announcement’, your daddy and me, we bought your stuff 80% in blue colour. I repeat, BLUE. With no hint whatsoever of little daisies, little flowers, pink colour, or anything that can immediately tell people that you are a GIRL.
And the name that we pick up for you is also a BOY name.
Now, let me confess. It is not that I am not happy of knowing your gender from that bidan otai, because frankly speaking, I do not mind whether you are a GIRL or a BOY (if you decided to come out as a girl, temporarily you have to bear wearing all BLUE outfit ok), but it really surprised me that, all these time when you play your cute little game of changing your mummy stomach shape (you sometimes moves so hard and so fast that my stomach looks pointed, square, tilted to the right, tilted to the left and etc) suddenly when I have to meet the bidan otai to get my Air Selusuh and Minyak Selusuh, you decided to lay flat. And that resulted in my stomach looking rather flat and wide to the side instead of the usual pointed to the front shape. And to these 5 minutes little fact, the bidan predicted that you are going to be a baby GIRL.
Ini baby dalam perut memang manyak pandai and manyak cerdik oooooo. Masa urut dia dok diam tak bergerak. Elok je lepas urut, letak je punggung dalam keta, tanpa berlengah masa dia terus buat tarian shuffle dia. Cessss!!! Mau kena rotan ini baby. Tunggu laaa nanti. (gelak ugut jahat!! Ngehngehngeh)
So now, your daddy and me, we have decided to play it cool. I shall buy white baby outfits for you after this and we have started looking out for cute baby GIRL name in case it turn out true that you are indeed a GIRL.
So my darling baby, can you please behave a bit because lately, you have been moving so fast and so hard that my stomach hurt. Baby tak sayang mak ke? Huhuhuhuhu. The things that I’ve done for you and just for you my little darling were all the things that I never thought I’ll do for anyone else other than your daddy, your grandparents and all your aunties and uncles. So much so, I have loved you and still am and will always will even before I meet you.
I think, by this point, with 45 more days to go, I am ready to give birth to you. We shall meet baby, when the time has arrive for you to come out and see the world. Till then, please do behave and jangan nakal2.
Pregnancy note:
1) At 8 months of being pregnant I have officially gained 10kg (from 45kg to 55 kg) and my baby weight at about 2kg.
2) I find it rather hard to sleep at night lately and it is even harder to find the right position to sleep on because all the usual positions are no more comfortable for me. It left me with no other option but to either sleep menonggeng, tido duduk atau tak tido langsung. Waaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
3) Alhamdulillah, from the urine test and blood test, I am free from high blood sugar, high blood pressure and everything else except that my haemoglobin is a little bit low. So this 26th January I have to carry out another blood test.
4) At the moment, I consume 6 supplements everyday, every morning. USANA Essentials (Ao Pro and Chilated Mineral) 2 capsules, USANA Calcium 1 capsul, USANA Biomega 1 capsule, Acid Folic (recently started due to low haemoglobin level) 1 capsule and Pramilet 1 capsule. I shall blog about supplements during pregnancy later.
5) Thanks to your aunty, Shidah for selling her Maclaren stroller to me for amazing unbeatable low price (Nat, ko bersalin lambat lagi, ko gi arr cari stroller lg best nanti k…tenkiu), partly the discount is consider as my belated so late already birthday present.
-Mak Baby-
How to start yek?…How how how? Tetiba datang seru nak citer macam-macam. Haishhh!!
Ok, lets begin. Manyak menda saya hutang ni (tp bukan utang duit laa). Mula2;
1) Saya utang Pn Nani (Mak Hanis) untuk update pasal kucing-kucing remaja 3 ekor yang kami barter trade dulu. Aunty, mintak postpone dulu k. Gambau lom berambik. Tapi kucing-kucing tuh sihat walafiat. Makin gebu, makin sihat, makin hari macam nak berubah jadi dinasour je ganasnya mereka-mereka itu. Umah pun dah direnovate (umah kucin)…hehehehehh
2) Terasa nak citer pasal pregnancy la. Pasal pengalaman sepanjang 6 bulan membawa encik dalam perut ni. The up and down of being a pregnant woman. And everything else related to it. Cerita pasal betapa saya kemaruk makan jambu batu hampir setiap hari. Cerita pasal ketidakbolehan saya mendengar apa-apa story mory pon pasal makanan yang semestinya akan membuatkan saya gi hunting makanan-makanan itu sampai dpt. (Budak2 opis dah pandai mengelak2 cerita pasal food related topics depan saya, heheheheeh, oh so very understanding. Tapi silap besau laa kalau citer bisik2 setakat belakang partition ni. Semenjak mengandung ni bukan saja deria bau meningkat 10x ganda, deria pendengaran pon sama. Korang kentut laaa kaver2 line pun, ibu ngandung ni musti leh tangkap punya bunyik tu..hahahahahahahahh)
3) Nak gak update gambau-gambau diri sendiri yang terbaru. Yela, bukan selalu saya nampak bulat (walaupun tang perut je yang sebenar2nya bulat and tang yang lain tuh masih average. Tapi paling memusykilkan, encik abe pon ikut bulat sama. Hmmmmmm. How laa jadi gitu abe nya? Ada baby gak ke dalam tu? Hehehehehehhe. I lebiu.). Ohh!! On the other side, saya skrg berada pada berat paling ideal, 52kg. Yeay yeay!!!! Tenkiu encik dalam perut tenkiu.
4) And paling tak sabau nak cerita (tapi kena tunggu hasilnya lagi 2 minggu), saya skrg sedang bereksperimentasi dengan sesuatu. Walaupun bahan ujikaji nya bukan diri sendiri, tapi sudah ada 4-5 orang mangsa yang serah diri untuk menjadi specimen ujikaji saya. Hahahahahhaha. Wait and see yer semua semua. It’s worth it. InsyaAllah.
5) Keje makin buhsan. Seriesly, sampai setiap hari rasa nak berenti. Dok kat site lagi best. HAishhhhh!!! It is just so not me to work 8-9 hours a day in a office in front of computer. Seriesly not me at all. Not challenging enough. Arghhh!!! Please send me somewhere, anywhere, as long as saya leh gi keje pakai jeans and kemeja sambil pakai safety vest ngan safety boots. OHhhhh!! How i miss climbing up those so called stairs to inspect the concrete works etc. Huhuhuhuhu. Got to find way to make my work life more interesting. Must Must MUST!!!!
6) Saya sekarang, selain dari kemaruk makan jambu batu (encik dalam perut yang nak sbnrnya), saya juga kemaruk nak berjalan2. Bukan jalan2 kat shopping mall ok. More like berjalan2 bersama encik abe sambil cuci2 mata and cari cari makan. LAst weekend, 2 nights in a row saya heret encik abe pergi uptown Setapak ngan downtown Cheras. This weekend mana laks yer saya nak pergi. Up up and away ker?..hhmmmmmmm.
7) Saya sekarang sangatla senang semput. Duduk depan pc pon leh semput walaupun bukannya buat apa2 kerja berat pun. I came to a conclusion that, perut saya yang semulajadinya kecik tanpa lemak2lemak lebihan ini tengah melakukan senaman stretching yang agak over to accommodate encik dalam perut yang sedang dalam proses pembesaran yang pesat. The downside of being underweight is that, bila pregnant, bila perut start nak membesau, takda kulit2 lebihan yang boleh ‘ditarik-tarik’. Resulting to limited space yang membuatkan encik dalam perut tanpa sengaja terpaksa menekan pundi kencing 24/7 (masuk akal ke kena ulang2 gi toilet 4-5 kali dalam sejam untuk mengencing 2-3 titik air kencing. Mari kita pindah dalam toilet encik baby. Mari mari) and menolak paru-paru saya sehingga saya sering tercungap2 tak tentu pasal. Kadang2 rasa macam nak pensan pun ada. Rasa sangatlaa disable. Mcm org obess kepenatan dan kesemputan. Huhuhuhu. Oh, tolong la jangan sampai saya pensan dalam komuter. Please please.
8 ) Baru saya tau kenapa orang cakap perempuan mengandung sangat laa sensetif sebabnya…sebabnya….SAYA SANGAT LAAA EMO SKRG. Anytime tak kira apa sebab walaupun sebab paling sengal sekali pun boleh membuatkan saya nangis. Kalo tak nangis, saya marah. Kalo tak marah, saya merajuk. AND saya sangatlaaaaa rindu rinduan pada suami saya. Sampai saya rasa nak amik cuti unpaid sebab nak ngekor dia gi BEntong keje. Ohhhhhh. Mood swing yang maha dasat. Sekarang ni saya emo dan rasa takda sapa amik berat pasal saya kecuali suami saya sorang. Saya rasa semua org yang terdekat ngan saya tak amik kisah pasal saya. Huhuhuhu. Rasa macam nak bawa diri je merajuk jauh-jauh. Biaulaa kami sendiri, anor, abe ngan encik dalam perut sahaja. Huhuhuhuhu.
Cop cop. Rasanya yang paling relevan ngan topik utang ni adalah perkara no 1 – 4 sahaja. Perkara no 5-8 adalah elaboration dari No. 2. Kan dah merapu. HAishhhhhhh!!! Mintak eskus yer. Nanti saya update lagi.
P.S: Pernah dengar pasal USANA tak? Saya akhirnya jatuh minat terhadap sesuatu dan ia adalah USANA. So sekarang bagi saya peluang belajau dulu perihal2 USANA ni, lagi 2 minggu lepas ujikaji saya berjaya, saya akan cerita lebey lanjut. Hmmmmmm. Please bear with my blog, laling laling sekalian. For InsyaAllah with Allah will, I’ll share something that worth every cents and every seconds of your time here, in this blog of mine. Tunggu lagi 2 minggu k. I lebiu you and you.
-ANOR-