25 WEEKS & 4 DAYS ( Wednesday 13th September 06 )

Well almost another week has past and i'm feeling bigger by the day!

I just weighed myself and already i've put on another 3kg's in just 2 weeks. Totalling now to 8kgs of weight gain! The maternity clothes i've bought and have been wearing is slowly getting tighter & tighter... now how depressing is that!

This past week, lil bubs has been kicking alot more frequently and also alot harder.
Nardy got to feel our babies kick for the 2nd time this week and also my brother Long. He was really amazed and has since been constantly asking me if the baby is kicking so he can feel it.

I also got to go on a shopping spree to find something to wear to Van's wedding. It was a nightmare!! Shop after shop i went in without much luck. Looked like a balloon in one dress i tried at Jeans West i think. Anyways ended up buying a Satin like floral dress in a baby blue colour. Looked alright at the time, well it was the first one that looked ok so yeah i got it.
After that we went into another store and was told i should try boob tubes!!
What??? BOOB TUBES?? nah your not serious i said to the girl.
What the heck, i try it on anyways and suprisingly it really does look good! Boob tubes shows off the pregnancy body alot nicer whilst other dresses make you look really big from the boobs down as it doesn't snuggle the tummy.
Unfortunatly i had to find one that had elastic at the back as most sizes goes to only a Large or 12 which i am now finding too hard to zip up. I ended up buying one which fit perfectly however i'm just realizing Van's wedding is still another 4 weeks away and at the rate i'm going, i'm not gonna fit this dress!!

Anyways, i'm started to lack sleep! waking up around 5-6am everyday so right now i'm feeling pretty sleepy. Will write more next time.

24 WEEKS & 5 DAYS ( Thursday 7th September 06 )

After months of typing my pregnancy thoughts on Microsoft Word, i'm finally making my blog! with the help of Jeanmay who fixed up my problem, otherwise i would have just given up!!
And yes , for all those who's been hasselling me to make this blog.... it's here!

Let's see what has been happening this week...
Our lil bubs ( still deciding on his name... Jacob Sairlao?? ), his still kicking inside and ofcourse his kicks and movements has become a lot stronger. Usually they don't hurt, however i got a kick two nights ago that really shocked the hell outta me.. it hurt!
Nardy still hasn't had much luck with feeling the kicks after his first experience... it's like our lil bubs knows when his daddy is trying to feel his kicks... he just stops!

I still have to go see my doctor for a checkup this week, however according to the books, our bubs is approximately 21-22cm and weighs between 540g-700g. Pretty amazing! his growing soo quick!! It was only afew months ago when he was only like 10cms!!

This week i've been feeling a little strange, maybe it's the weather... hot, cold now rain... does it ever make up its mind?? Or is it my hormones changing?? Whatever it is, i've been feeling strange, like out of nowhere i just sit there a lil annoyed with my surroundings.... yes including Nardy, who by the way hasn't been bothering me, and then tears just come flowing down my face. Nardy tries to comfort me, however i think he now realises to just leave me alone.
I recover alot faster without the attention! :)

Anyways, thank god this has only happened twice in 3 weeks... will it get worse?? I don't want a sad, grumpy baby!!

Not everything was bad this week. I also got a very good dose of Watermelon and Mango which i have been craving for!!
Everyone has been asking me, have i had any strange cravings... so far no, i'm eating just like i usually do, however cravings for Watermelon and Mango has been expensive!

18 WEEKS .....

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23 WEEKS....

Me & Longbo @ 23 weeks ... i think my tummy has stop expanding

After a whole week of being sick from the contagious flu and then dry cough.... i'm sooo over it!!! I guess that's the worst thing i've felt sooo far during pregnancy - being sick and unable to take any medication for it!! on 2nd thoughts i think the morning sickness was worst.

Being the 2nd sickness i've come across during this pregnancy, it worries me this week... could my lil bubs be feeling just as bad as i am?? I hope not!!

My bladder is getting worst this week, i just don't know where all that urine is coming from!!!
During the day i'll be doing the No1 atleast 5-6 times and then during the night i'll be woken up again for No1's at 2ish and then again at 5ish and again at 7ish.
It is just soooo ANNOYING!!!! I don't remember drinking that much water!

I'm coming to 6months mark now.... it's getting very exciting, although starting to feel like it is taking far too long for bubs to come out. Although i'm enjoying my pregnancy alot more now, i'ld just wish he could come out sooner.

12 WEEKS

Everyone says after 3 months i will be feeling better... i'm still not feeling any better though.
Still vomiting everyday, still have the headaches, still wake up craving for whatever i'd dreamt off the night before & ofcourse still wanting to sleep alot!

Nardy's parents along with many other adults have all told me to not sleep too much....
"you're baby will get very big"
"you will have a very hard birth"
"you will get very big"
etc etc etc

It's not that i want to sleep!! I just get very tired!! and i don't sleep all the time, i do go for my walks etc but i can't help having a big belly!!!
Yes my belly is feeling very big, and everyone is saying that it is too big for 3 months.
I hope the stretch marks don't come!!
Palmers and bio oil everyday should keep stretch marks away.... i think!

Anyways, to the big news....
12 weeks translucual ultrasound!!!
This is where they check for down syndrome, usually only for ladies over 35, however better safe than sorry i say.

On the way to the ultrasound, Nardy's van breaks down...why??? because he forgot to fuel up again!!! We still make it on time, as he drops me off and goes to find parking.
As soon as i arrived, i was taken into the room right away....

This was going to be the day i see my baby... and there it was... a beautiful baby with two arms, two feet waving around and a very strong heartbeat!!
I just couldn't stop smiling!!!
There really is a baby inside me! Although still very tiny but absolutly amazing!
It wasn't a round sac of cells anymore!!!
It hadn't disappeared !!!

All this excitement made me very teary but i try to hold on.... where was Nardy though??
As i finished off and walked out, he decided he would finally come in!!!
Yes, he missed out!!

I felt like i couldn't share how exciting it was to see our lil baby, or atleast make him feel as excited as i was, cause he wasn't there.
Showing him the still picture of the ultrasound, was just not the same!!

6 WEEKS and on...

The morning sickness has started to kick in, well it started as soon as i found out i was pregnant!
Though do i really call it morning sickness?? I don't really get sick in the morning, i've only been vomiting after i eat, more towards the afternoon.

I get another scare this week. The sign of spotting really scares me!!!
Please !! Please!! i prey, Please don't let me loose this baby again!!!

After having a miscarriage at the end of last year, i've been sooo desperate to fall pregnant again.... but why did the spotting have to come back???
I took the weekend of work and rested in bed. Went for a checkup at the doctors and also at the chinese herbalist and found out everything is ok, although the chinese herbalist believes the babies heartbeat is a little weak.
He gave me a list of herbal stuff to drink, it's suppose to be very good for the baby and supposedly taken for the 1st 3-4 months of pregnancy.

How long did i take it for?? I lost count!!! :| not that i took alot, i lost count because i started to pour some down the drain!!! It just tasted soooo foul!! mum insisted i had to keep taking it until i pass 3 months, but trust me... it is sooo black, and sooo disgusting!!!
After only a couple of weeks on this thing, i started chucking up everytime i smelt it!!!
It was my excuse to stop taking it, and plus i'm feeling alot better and the spotting had stopped after two days already!

Mum would sooo kill me if she found out i poured alot down the drain!!!

So what was the spotting??? Implantation bleeding ! Well this time round it was, last time when i had the spotting followed by the miscarriage, i don't know what the cause of that was.

Anyways, I'm still pregnant!!!

4 WEEKS ( Saturday 15th April 06 )

1st Test .... 2 red lines...
Oh my god!!! i better test again..
2nd Test .... 2 red lines.....
YES!!! YES!!!

A total of 7 home testers i've used up in the last few weeks, but finally the last two is positive!!! i'm sooo happy.... no i'm not just happy.. i'm overly happy... what is the word for it???

It was Nardy's birthday yesterday and we're having a bbq for it today. It will be the best present i've ever given him..... i hope.

After sneaking away for a few minutes to do the test while i was suppose to be preparing for the bbq, i got the results i've been waiting for.... dying for to be exact. I called Nardy into the house and told him to close his eyes, places the testers on his hands and woahlah!!
"Are you serious?"
I think his excitement, nowhere matched mine, though i still couldn't wipe the smile of my face.

Our lil bubs was concieved on 18th March 06.

It is sooo amazing, how could it have been???
I had been reading up on how to conceive and followed the rules... yes i was very desperate to be a mummy!!!

3-4 open days only it says!! What??? i've always thought sex every day would increase my chances of falling pregnant. Still sceptical about the 3-4 days before ovulation to fall pregnant, i followed it anyways.
Test 1... 1 red line only :(
Test 2... 1 red line only :(
Test 3... 1 red line only :(
Nardy finds out i've been using up the testers and demands to hide the rest away... oops too late...
Test 4 & 5... still the same results!!
It's all a lie!!! We should be having sex more i think!!!
Test 6 .... 2 red lines...
Oh my god!!! i better test again..
Test 7.... 2 red lines.....
YES!!! YES!!!

It's real!! it really does work!!! how amazing!!! i feel like i have to spread the word to all the mummy wannabe's!! but noo for now, i've decided to keep the news until we pass the 3months mark!