@ week 11

How was I feeling then?
This week has to be the week I felt the heaviest so far in my pregnancy. As usual I went for Gov Clinic check up and excitedly waiting for a yummy breakfast after that. Manatau, the nurse gave me a devastating news, that I gained 1.5kg in ONE month. OMG! I mean, ya my tummy is getting slightly bulky, and so is my butt. But how on earth can I start to grow at this rate? Averagely, a preggie will put on 0.5kg a month for the first 5 months and subsequently 0.5kg a week after that. Thanks to the nurse, my appetite for a hearty bowl of curry mee is gone. The worst, I'm suppose to go back twice a week to monitor my weight. Such a hassle.

When I went home and told Mum, she asked me not to be silly. Gov Clinic is monitoring the weight because that's the only way the can monitor the growth of baby. They won't do any ultrascan. Apparently, Sis's SIL had the same problem and she resorted to eating too lil. Ended up her baby is too small a size when was born.

Baby @ Week 10

This is the first printout, showing baby is just a clump at the top, measuring 24.7mm

@ week 10

How was I feeling then?

It has to be the best week in my life. We get to see the baby again, but this time I don't see it as a dot anymore. I saw a life, with a heart beat DupDupDupDup in my tummy. Previously I was constantly worried since it was still at early stage where you couldn't feel any movement inside yet. Thus don't know if baby is OK or not, still there or gone....all those negative thought of what if. It doesn't help that when I do research, those miscarriage articles kept popping up and so were the blogs. Whenever I had mild cramp, my mind would immediately switch to negative thought. But at that very day, sure the scan, not only can I see the heart beating so fast, I could also see the arms and legs moving. The feeling is incredible. I was on cloud9 the whole day.

Went to visit our godson, Ben and it suddenly brought back what a medium once said to me. He told us that our Chinese DOB shows that we'll have 3 children in our life but a look on Hubs palm, he said the child line on his palm shows that Hubs only have the fate of godson but not own kids. My heart almost shattered. Luckily the medium helped us and now I'm growing this precious thing in my tummy.

Ben's mom was very nice to offer us the stuff Ben used to use when he was small, playpen, napkins, stroller, mattress. They were saying,"We got this, and this and this....u can use, no need to buy...if u don't mind la." Of course we won't mind, all those were still in good condition. With most of the things being sponsored, we can actually save a lot.

@ week 9

How was I feeling then?

My appetite started to make it's way home. Which means I was starting to be able to consume my usual lunch at home. With that my waistline is growing ever since.

W and M came the other day to enjoy laksa, one of the forbidden food for me. Surprisingly after listening to their quite logical explanation on why pregnant should be allowed to succumb to her craving, Hubs allowed me my very first bowl of LAKSA! It was said that if I were to suppress my craving, it's the beginning of saying NO to baby, which is not good for their emotional. Thanks to them also, I might be able to get my long craved Sunshine market TOMYAM *big grin*

This week, MIL cooked herbs chicken thigh for dinner. One for me and one for SIL. She asked me to take the bigger one, and leave the smaller one for SIL cause now I'm eating for two...haha..I almost chuckled. I didn't really thought of eating for two..not yet.

This week, Hubs made a surprise visit home one afternoon, packed with lotsa bread from Continential. He drove all the way home from office, just to deliver the bread. That was very sweet of him and a very sweet surprise for me to see him at that hour.

This week, suddenly I tasted ikan bilis bun in my mouth (a thought, a usual thing even when I'm not pregnant) at 11.30PM. Before I told him he can get it from High-5 bun, he creatively thought of getting a plain bun and some nasi lemak gravy to stuff inside. I must admit I didn't thought of that also. After giving him the idea that he can get from High-5 bun, Hubs drove around Air Itam, went to at least 5 places before he's able to get ONE miserable ikan bilis bun for me. Most of the places he went has all the High-5 bun, all except the ikan bilis type. He completed his ordeal in almost 1hour and I only managed to finish half the bun.

@ week 8

How was I feeling then?

My gassy problem was getting worse at this stage. I could not even eat 10 spoons of rice without feeling bloated and suffered. It was making me phobia to eat. By this time also I get to know my baby is going to be a 'westerner'...loves to eat only bread, western food, extremely love cheese...and started to loathe oriental food. I can wallop two homemade burgers but I can't get a plate of rice clean. An oversea colleague of Hubs suddenly asked if I was expecting when she came to visit the other day. Was it my blouse, or was it because of my growing chubby face? She said it was the glow on my face. Well, it was quite late at night and I wasn't sure if the glow was really a pregnancy glow or just oily face..hmm..

@ week 7

How was I feeling then?

I suddenly realised that my boobs are not slightly bigger. They have outgrown my home bras. Gosh! Wearing them were like two pieces of clothes sewn together just to cover my nipples. Even my normal day bras are getting tighter and seems 'overflow' when wore them with my usual Baby-T. Most of the shirts that I bought looks like what they called, "Balut cempedak". From my side profile, you can see that my boobs are as long as my whole palm, which measured up a normal ruler long. That does not include the body frame yet.

@ week 6

How was I feeling then?

I was constantly hungry but couldn't take much. My appetite seems to have disappear. And I'm very selective on my food. Those MIL's cooking, it's turning me off. I used to heart steam fish and will have mostly a whole fish to share with Hubs for either lunch or dinner but the sight of fish just kill my appetite. I know fish is not only good, it's important for baby but for this moment, I just craved for the forbidden foods....spicy and sour stuff. It's just killing me.

Hubs and I went to shop for baby posters but after searching thru MPH and Popular Bookstore, I didn't get one that I like. Where are all those cute babies??? We diverted our attention towards pregnancy books and found one that was considered the best among our choice. It has been our baby bible ever since.

MIL has been bugging me to get a pair of good sandals. The ones I had were cheap, flimsy sandals from either Vincci or Nose. So out we went shopping again for the comfy one. My choice was either Scholl, Hush Puppies or Crocs. After surveying and trying out numerous pair, I came to a conclusion that:

Scholl: quite 'aunty' fashion
Hush Puppies: Narrow sole (I have fat sole that will spill out when press downward)
Crocs: OK but it's quite expensive for a sandal of that kind.

At last I settled for a pair of capri

A casual conversation between me and Hubs, leaded MIL to sacrifice her weekend outing and busied herself in the kitchen the whole morning. The food I craved was Nasi Lemak but then after Hubs reminded her that I can't take spicy food, I ended up only can have soy meat and rice. Argh...that's totally not so nice.