Its Bashing Time....

Pa Pa mui was telling me how tired he is feeling lately, partly because he is doing his class on a thrice weekly basis and when he reached home he has to revise his work. I looked at him and rolled my eyes, telling him that the baby hasnt even arrive and we are both already in such a pathetic stage. He commented that his colleague told him the same thing....Yoo...Hoo...!! Welcome to parenthood.

Nevertheless, we still insist on our daily bonding time and last night, pa pa mui was lying in bed with his face pressed against my belly and talking to Phieng Phieng when suddenly he looked at me with a startled face. I looked at him and raised my brow....and proudly declared to him that Phieng Phieng has just bashed him on his chin.

Its bashing time.....hahaha.

Toes Toes gone....

Every morning I will stand on the weighing scale to check on my weight gain. It’s quite an obsession as I would do doing it once in the morning and once at night.

But this morning when I stood on the scale, I realized I couldn’t see the figures!! Gosh. That means how much my tummy has grown overnight.....Gee. I stepped down, couldn’t believe my eyes and went up the scale again. It’s true...I cannot see my own toes now, so I will be having a tough time reading the scale.

105 days to go

Another 105 days and we will be able to see Phieng Phieng soon...happy and sad at the same time.

Happy cos i will be able to physically hold Phieng Phieng in my arms as i utter sweeting nothings to him, singing him songs and watching him grow into a fine man.

Sad cos i will have share him with everyone else - Grandparents, Uncles, Aunties and even the occassional strangers who would walk pass and pinch his cheeks.

Last Sunday, i had a taste of the confinment food. It wasnt too bad but i am thinking if i can have french fries with every meal, that would really make my day.

Ouchie....

Last night was the HOT ma ma night out....with Mio and another lady whose name i shall not disclose until at a later stage, went Takashiyama to pig out and to look at bags. But the first stop we ended up for shopping was at the baby's dept where i looked at breastpump and stuff. Our priority in life has changed and it is amazing how we have moved from single ladies to wives and then now to the roles of mothers.

At 4am....i experienced my FIRST leg cramp on my left calf. Feeling...extremely lousy cos it happened at 4am and i couldnt bear to wake pa pa mui up as he has been exhausted from the past few days from the new course that he is taking. So i slowly massaged myself to loosen the tension and stood up to went to the bathroom.....came back and fell asleep again. What is a cramp going to stop me from my sleep huh?

Unusually tired today....

Its raining heavily and i am sitting in the office, with baby mui kicking away. My eyes are shutting down automatically and how i wish i can just jump onto my bed and sleep....

We have decided to nickname baby mui so that he will be given a sense of identity even before he is born. I mean instead of calling him BABY BABY all the time, we knew very well that we can come up with the most affectionate name.

So...baby mui will be now known as Phieng Phieng, the name is inspired by a vietnam noodle dish with plenty of bean sprouts and spring onion.

Just kidding....Phieng is a cantonese word ie swing. And since Phieng Phieng likes to swing so much in my stomach, we decided to name him that.

So please...call him Phieng Phieng the next time u see my tummy. He will no longer acknowledge the name BABY...then again, baby is not even a name.

24 Weeks...

I am now at my 24 weeks. Last Thu i went for my routine check up plus a special GTT (glucose tolerance test). It is not a requirement unless there has been family history of diabetes.

I had to fast the night before the test, easy easy for me...just slept through it but the hardest part was when i woke up in the morning dying for my usual glass of milk. Pa Pa mui teased me and kept asking me what i want for breakfast. That too..not a problem, as i told myself i better dont sabotage this test else i have to do it all over again.

First test was done at 8.45am, blood sample was drawn. Then i was given a cup of glucose to drink....it was SUPERB sweet, in fact it was unbearable to swallow. Pa Pa mui was telling me that my appetite for the day should be gone now since i have to finish a good 150ml of that glucose solution. YUCKY!! And was told that i have to go back at 11am to have the 2nd blood test and NO food still....(yeah...like i need food after all that glucose).

While waiting, we went for our ultrasound scan. It has been a month since we last saw baby mui. He has grown bigger now, approximately 774gm and the water bag seems to be getting smaller for him.

He is also kicking MORE now, in fact now he is starting to response to pa pa mui now as he has started reading to baby mui.

Year 2008

Hee hee.....i really should be updating my blog more often. But as you all know, with my tummy getting bigger, the fatigue starts to kick in...so now instead of updating my blog more often, i am often caught in bed reading one of those Mothers and Babies magazines.

Reality slowly becomes clearer and clearer as we have already counted down to year 2008 and our baby will be due on 25th April 08, a day short of my birthday.

We have bought quite some stuff for baby and my sister has been most kind to pass down the old clothes from my first nephew....and one of which was a tied dye shorts that i bought for him on my backpack Hatyai trip somewhere back in 2001 or 2002...and the short is still in excellent condition and it brought back so much memory. Those carefree days when pa pa mui and i will just planned a trip and executed it without much hassle.

But with the new additional coming, things might be slightly different but we promise each other to spend couple quality time when things start to get insane with the baby.

Darn....must be the hormones...i am writing such emotional stuf.