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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Today's Hubby's Birthday!

Hubby is Sweet 32 today. Happy Birthday Sayang, Semoga Allah panjangkan umur, murahkan rezeki dan memberi keberkatan dalam hidup dunia dan akhirat. I prayed hard for our baby to arrive today so he can celebrate the same birthday with his Babah plus having 12 RabiulAkhir as his birthday which means a month later than our Prophet's birthday on the 12 RabiulAwal is quite an event too.

However up to now, 5.35pm, there is still no signs of labor. I feel as strong and as healthy as a black stallion. To be honest, besides the points mentioned above, it's quite frustrating to think that I'm gonna deliver quite a huge baby, can I? All I could do now is to just pray to Allah s.w.t. to give me much strength to push my baby out and may the labor process proceed smoothly without complications and both of us will be in healthy conditions, aminn..

This afternoon, I had my routine walk to KLCC, alone. I gallivanted around Parkson Grand and KLCC, windowshopping. Not to mention, I walked pretty fast, sengaje nk bagi cepat beranak. But as always, there were no signs of labour at all...which makes me wonder the whole way back to Wisma, why oh why this practice works on every pregnant mommy but me?? I always heard people telling, after a walk around a shopping complex, their waterbag broke, they felt strong contraction, they had bloody show. It sounded so easy. But it was not in my case. I thought I've walked more than any pregnant mommies. In fact hubby once told me, if there is an award for Ibu Mengandung Paling Banyak Berjalan, that would be me. But up to 38 weeks, no signs at all. Finally I've come to a conclusion that I've never thought off before. Maybe for other pregnant mommies, they don't normally walk that much (at least not as much as I do) until near labor when people asked them to walk a lot, they start walking so baby terkejut maka terberanak. As in my case, I've walked too much. So baby dah biase with me walking drpd mula2 pregnant, hari2 lunchtime walk from Tan & Tan to Ampang Park or PNB Darby Park, honeymooning to Bali berjalan dr 9am to 10pm hari2 sampai la skarang yg dh nk due ni hari2 lunchtime tawaf satu KLCC. So maybe, he's immune to my walking habit. So jalan la banyak mane pn, baby x terkejut, baby xkisah and maka x terberanak walaupun dh jalan round 4 shopping complexes in one day...make sense ain't it?

Monday, April 6, 2009

Ewok's feet and EDD


I'm now arriving at my 38 weeks officially today but still no signs of early labor. I've done all I can, walked to KLCC every lunchtime last week, in fact last Saturday, right after my appointment with Dr F, we headed to Pertama Complex to look for hubby's birthday gift that I've promised him (a Seiko watch for his second watch, that is) as well as SB900 speedlight for our D90. Later we headed to SOGO coz there was a sale and I wanted to survey baby car seats price. We plan to walk a long way to Jakel but the time shows it was already 12.30 when we finished window shopping at SOGO. So we headed to Shah Alam for Fazrul & Eda's newbie, Firhan Syahmi. Later that day, we pushed off from Fazrul's house to The Curve, walk around The Curve and end up walking around IKEA sampai hubby finally felt mengah of walking too much, but I on the other hand felt there's still a lot of energy reserved in me. I wonder where did I get all the stamina, despite all that, still there were no signs of labor.


This morning, while we were in the awful monday morning traffic jam, I realized that my right feet has become more swollen than yesterday. But only the right one, the left one looked as normal as yesterday (less swollen, that is). But later in the afternoon, the left one looked as 'Ewok'ed as the right one, which resulted to me not being able to slip into my exquisitely shiny black pregnant wedges lalu terpakse la eden menapak ke KLCC dengan selipar jamban yg dh koyak2...


So what's with the popular theory that swollen Ewok feet give signs of nearing labour? Well as of now, I shall say that was just a myth.

Anyway, showed hubby my 2 Ewok feet back from work. He said they look more like udang goreng tepung..tsk!



Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Nandos' for the fattening pregnant lady

Yeah screw me, it was Nando's..kononnye grilled la kan, very healthy but the side dishes..i dun think so.. TT

The petite lady with a watermelon attached to her front ;)

Anonymous: Ehh pregnant ek, anak second ke?Me: Err..xla, first... *senyum kelat sbb dh bosan dgn remark yg same evtime*
Everybody keeps on saying my belly was too huge for a first pregnancy. Bile dh ramai sgt yg ckp mcm tu ape x risau nye...harusla sgt risau sbb takut baby too big for me to push him out...dhla last check-up i.e. on the 14th March when i got the false alarm, Dr. Kamsiah lupe nk cek baby's weight haduu...dh bape la berat anak mama nih..
On a lighter note, some people says (including my mama) my belly is small but because of my petite being, my belly looks relatively super big on this cute figure hehehe...that's a good thing to hear. However lately, I keep on getting comments like "Ehhh perut you mcm you letak je bola or belon dlm perut...sbb bdn you x naik, nmpk normal je tp tetibe ade bende bulat kt depan yg mcm out of place", now that can put a big grin on my face ngeheheee...suke aje klu org puji kurus, but wait a sec! Do they actually mean my belly looks too huge?? tsk..
So last Saturday, I get the chance to meet my gynae, Dr. Fatimah. As usual, baring atas ultrascan bed, she will put her hands first on my belly. She instantly blurted out "Whoa.."
Me: Why doctor?
Doctor: Your belly feels very tight..
Me: Which means?
Doctor: I think your baby is quite big coz he's occupying the whole space inside here. Tp xpe, that's just my prediction, let's see what the scan says..
And the scan proved that our baby has reached 3.18kg at his 36 weeks! That's quite big for an Asian baby. Dr. F ask hubby to bring me a lot to shopping so as to encourage me doing a lot of walking. "Biar cepat skit beranak coz if ur baby is still inside in another 2 weeks time, he may reached 3.5kg" kate Dr. F.
I was supposed to diet as advised by Dr. F, "Kurangkan sugar intake, nasi etc. But you can still take obimin, neurogain and calcium as usual coz these 3 are just essential supplements that the baby and you need, they won't make the baby bigger"

So starting this week I take my gynae's advice. I walked everyday to KLCC during lunch time, xde purpose pn saje window shopping sbb nk workout. But I still can't abide to the other advice that is diet! I'm a food lover, always am. Unlike most women, being pregnant doesn't hold me back from being a true food lover that I always am. So chronologically,

Monday: I promised to have just salad but end up buying ayam goreng cold storage yg sgt oily and pasta salad yg sgt hi-carb as well. I failed.

Tuesday: This time I strongly am going to be strict to myself, however went to Isetan Supermarket only to be introduced to Isetan's wider range of salads that are almost 10 types in total and much fresher with good refrigeration system than Cold Storage salads yg selalu rs mcm dh nk basi! Jadi sawan tgk salad fresh yg byk, I end up mixing 5 types of salad namely Broccoli Salad+Fruit Salad+Pasta Salad+Coleslaw Salad+Potato Salad and semua sgt sedapp!! Byk pulak tu I amik, smpi tersandar lps makan. Promised again to myself, ok that's it for today, no more munching in the office, tapiii....tetibe plak nmpk Kak Min the tea lady dlm pantry tgh refill biscuit tins with biskut mayat bergula...my alltime favorite!! Nak jadi cerite hubby at last minute had to stay back to finish up some work..so I end up munching more than 20 biskut mayat bergula while waiting for him aduhh! Hubby was bewildered hearing my terrifying eating habit today so I promised to hubby in the car while on the back that the biskut mayats are gonna be my dinner for tonight, I'm not gonna eat wat mak cook regardless sesedap mane pn...tapiiii....tgk2 Mak masak udang bercili and udang masak lemak peria!! aduhhhh..mkn dgn byk nye siap bertambah smpi Kakngah Zila tegur, "Aishah pregnant selera makan x terbantut ek.."
Erk...dat was the second after Azlee Samad tegur mase kt Ekin's wedding "Aishah makan selera ek pregnant2 pun.." Obvious sgt ke kelahapan ku ini?? huhuhu..I failed again.

Today: I plan to buy the same mixture of salads but of smaller amount cewah...tp tetibe td dpt a call from Krun, my IIUM bosom, yg nk meet up kt KLCC..I think I can picture my lunch today. It's totally gonna be a hi-carb lunch either Polio Italiano at Signature foodcourt or Nasi Goreng Kerabu Petai at Rasa foodcourt...arghhh I'm so gonna fail again!