Week 30 - Cubbies Movement

Week 30

Babies' movements getting more intensed!!!

These 2 weeks, babies movement is getting more and more frequent and intensed. Babies are constantly moving here and there, changing positions or may be playing with each other.

I could actually sit and observe their movements for hours.  Watching the round smooth tummy becoming bumpy here and there. Sometimes the tummy shape may even change from round to sharp triangular.  It is really amazing to see the rise and fall of the bumps. Occasionally the movement will be like jumping and bouncing - fast rhythmic movement.  Sometimes it is like waves moving from one end to the other. Luckily so far,there's no strong kicks or punches which brings pain.

I can get extremely excited and fascinated with the movements and start playing hide and seek with them. It is hard to believe that there're 3 living babies moving inside this 'small' tummy.

Stretch Marks

1st sign of Stretch Marks - Week 29

The 1st sign of stretch mark was visible on week 29. It was witness by dear hubby when he helped me to apply lotion on the tummy.  The stretch mark appeared at the lower abdomen where it is not possible for me to see it.  My vision can only reach mid of my belly button,anything below it, is not visible.  No wonder recently I kept feeling itchy at the lower abdomen.

CubbyDaddy with cubbies

Cubbydaddy always have new game with the little cubbies....

Sometimes cubbydaddy just listen quietly to little cubbies.... trying to figure out which cubbies is making the most sound

sometimes... cubbydaddy falls asleep while listening... he says "the feeling is so peaceful"

then cubbydaddy will make lots of kissing sound to excite the cubbies...

when all of them are excited, especially cubbydaddy... he will start to have some rough game....

some tiger roaring and biting game!

and lastly some cubbies kicking and cubbydaddy head knocking game

hehehe.... thanks dear for running to and fro to set up the camera self-timer to catch all these interesting pictures  

Sniff.. sniff

Sniff.. sniff...Nasal Congestion is really getting worst.  Nasal are congested all the time...

Nowadays, I dare not blow my nose or clear it too often because at times it will start bleeding.  The blood that comes out from the nose is actually quite little, and it stops almost immediately.

This bleeding is caused by the expansion of blood vessels increase the pressure of blood in the body.  When the pressure of blood in the blood vessels inside the nose rises beyond a certain limit, nose bleeds occur.

The scarier part is when the blood does not appear from the nose.  It mix together with the mucus and flow into the throat to appear like phlegm.  When the phlegm is spit out, a piece of blood clog comes out.  It frighthen me the 1st time....but eventually i got used to it, thou it still looks scary.

Lesson learnt: Do not blow the nose too hard!

Week 27 - 4th July 2010

27th Week

Went for check up on last Fri.. Everything went on very well. Blood pressure is alright, no sugar or protein found in urine.

As usual Dr Roslan and nurse did the scanning, hubby and mother inlaw looking at the monitor and trying to figure out which limbs belongs to which baby, and this time we have a special guest - Dr Erwin (pediatric) was there too.

Did ultrasound and dropper scan... glad babies are healthy.

Babies are growing very well.... they are reaching almost 1kg each.  Hope they will continue to grow bigger.

And surprisingly, all three of them are located on the right side of my belly... they only occupied half of the belly, wonder what's inside the other half???

Took 2 shots of steroid (Dexamethasone), one on Fri afternoon, another on Sat morning (12 hrs apart).

These shots are to boost the babies lungs development just in case they are born premature.

Got the 1st shot on my left butt, Ouch... it hurts....

2nd shot on my right butt... OUCH!!! it hurts and numbs the butt.. can't really walk for the next 5-10minits.

Next Check up - in two weeks time...

Reminder from Dr Erwin: bed rest... no shopping, no walking, no cooking, no washing.... 

Photo taken 4 July 2010

Week 27

Weight 73.5kg

Waist 46"

Week 26 !!! 2nd Trimester Pregnany Discomfort

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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

I always thought this term only happen to those people who sits in front of computer all the time.  Didn't realise pregnancy will also have this problem.

It all started one month ago when I begin to feel numbness on my hands and fingers whenever I sleep.  At times I can feel very strong pulse jumping on the hand.  After consulting doctor, he says it is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.  Due to water retention and extra blood supply in the body, the blood vessel became wider and hence pressing on the veins.

These few days the numbness had turn into pain at the wrist.  The wrist begin to feel discomfort and pain.  Not so flexible to twist and turn.

Had tried few tips found from website to relieve the pain:

• Position which can reduce the pain, is to sleep with the hand place above the head level.  This does help to reduce the pain.slightly, but after awhile the pain will come back.

• Applying ice packs on the wrist area - not much help for me...maybe I should try it more often

• Raising the hand high up above the head for few minits does help to reduce the pain slightly.  when the hand is raised up, the wrist could perform slightly more movement.

My Blemish Free Face......

Hormonal Changes!!!!! AAaarrrggghhh.... There goes my blemish free face...

I used to have no worry on having pimples on my face...
but these 2 months, lots and lots of pimples growing on my forehead and nose area...big and smalls.....
my t-zone is getting oily, everyday i have to wash my face several times and dare not apply any moisurizer cos it will make the condition worst.

Actually the pimples not only grow on the face.. it spread all over my back and chest as well..

The only thing that i'm applying now... "cooling powder a.k.a 水粉" and also calamine.

Lucky thing, all of these will get away once the babies are born... So, i just have to bear with the current condition for another half year....

This is how my forehead looks like...

Morning Sickness

Many ppl might face the morning sickness during the 1st trimester...
However, I'd only started my morning sickness on week 10 (it had just started for 2 weeks).  Hopefully it won't last till the end of pregnancy.

I don't understand why is it called morning sickness when I have it throughout the whole day and night....

I will try to control not to vomit immediately after food.  Giving the stomach some time to digest & absorb the food before it is all throw up.  I have many small meals and many small visits to the toilet bowl for throwing out...

One thing I'm glad is that the morning sickness only comes every alternate days...
meaning I can have a day rest in between, I can go out and eat all I want during the rest day...



and the other day will be staying indoor & visiting the nice toilet bowl...

9 Meals a Day

Although I might be vomitting very often, I still eat a lot.

I had 9 meals within a day... meaning every 1.5 - 2hours, I will be eating...
I get hungry easily even though the previous meal was a heavy meal.

All these eating are making me losing appetite and getting tired of eating & chewing the food.
Especially in terms of preparing the food.
My whole day is like prepare food, eat, clean up, sit down wanting to online/nap, then I could feel hunger is coming again....

Am I over eating??
Will I be over weight???
Will check it out during my next gynae visit...

Vomit...

What my dear worry very much is that I had started vomitting this week (week 10)...

What he felt is that vomitting is something very torturing... but to me... vomitting is a relieved, it helps me to be free from the torture of gassy feeling and butterflies flying in my stomach.

This gassy feeling usually starts in the afternoon... I will have the feeling like "wanted to burp", but then.. the burp just won't comes out.  So, the gas is trapped somewhere....which makes me feel very uneasy.  Usually I will try to control the feeling for some time... sometimes it goes away within an hour.. sometimes, it just stays on... That's the time when I will go to the toilet, look at the toilet bowl and try to vomit it out.. Yes, each and every time, it works... and I felt extremely relieved after the vomitting process...

Guess this is just part of the process for the 1st trimester ! ! ! !

Heat is Catching Up!!!

Body temperature is increasing day by day....

Last week I was still able to sleep without air-conditioned, but this week....No Way... I need the cool air to cool down my body, else I might ended up burning the mattress with my well heated body temperature!

Vomit as solution to poor digestive system???

No doubt pregnant ladies will increase in the "Rate of Consumption" throughout the 9 months (considering both intake of liquids and physical form of food), which caused increment of body mass by 10-20KG (depends on type of food and specific diet), bad news is, no matter what...at least a few kilos will be added,good news is...pregnant mummy are so lovely, chubby and so nice to hug...(I really mean it!)

...comes to the digestive part, it caused much confusion since we can't predict when helena is getting hungry and how much she should consume...end up we missed most of the meal time, and ate too much when her digestive system is not that active and shortly after the hunger session, this caused numerous amount of gas was trapped within her digestive system, which eagerly needed to be release from either side of the system, from the top (Burg...) or from the bottom (A..)...

whereby those trapped in between really create huge miscomfort for my lovely pregnant lady, end up she keep vomitting to release them (wind trapped), i feel so bad about it, i'm thinkin she can have some gassy drink to help the 'burg'...but it is still the same...then she keep eatin & vomit, eatin & vomit, eatin & vomit...and at the end...she feels comfortable by doing it...it's suppose to be a bad thing to vomit, but my dear she made it a solution to her non-schedule digestive system...how wonderful!...but i still wish that other solution will do to help her...mayb i'll try some 'eno' drink for her tonite after her food, to help release some wind...or mayb we shall take a really slow walk to help dear digest some food...

dear, it's really sad to see u vomit, i'll do my best to reduce that, i can't do it so frequent & i know it's not easy for u too...i love u.

7th March 2010

It's uneasy and really sad to see helena feels not well sometimes, especially with her digestive system which doesn't sound any alarm when she is hungry, it's so unpredictable...therefore, the strategy is gonna be eating & eating & eating anytime when she is free, so that will not get gastric (for not eating on time) & get 'heartburn' (for eating too much after too hungry)...so since i'm free on sunday, i'll make more types of food in order to feed her together with the '3 little cubs'...which she carries...:"Dear...it's meal time"...her smiles worth every single hardwork...

Pain...

Was unable to update the blog for the last few days as I was having some difficulties to sit...

Last week I sprained my right ankle, after several application of 正骨水 daily... it recovers in less than a week.

However, 2 days ago, when i woke up from nap, my left buttock muscle was in pain.  So, did the same procedure.. applied 正骨水 on the buttock.... what a cooling sensation on the buttock

The next day when i work up, the pain on the buttock is gone...but there's a new pain in the front of the left thigh, between the hip joint and thigh.  The pain started with just slight uncomfortable feeling to severe pain.
The pain does not allow me to sit up on a chair, neither could I lift up my leg an inch.  I could only walk in small steps, trying to minimize the knees movement.  Sleeping time is a torturing moment, I need to carry my leg with both arms and without bending my body.

As the pain continues... I tried to google the cause of the pain... found "Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction" which means pelvic pain caused by the cartilage of the joints becomes softer and allows the bones to move during pregnancy due to the amount of hormones produced.  The pain most probably occur during mid-pregnancy, but some says it can occur anytime during the pregnancy.

Symptoms of pelvic pain:

Pain in the pubic area and groin are the most common symptoms. It is common to feel a grinding or clicking in your pubic area and the pain may travel down the inside of the thighs or between your legs. The pain is usually made worse by separating your legs, walking, going up or down stairs or moving around in bed.

After checking the symptoms... I was quite confident that I did not fall into this category.  Partly, it is still too early for my cartilage to be soft (I'm only in 11-12weeks), and I felt less pain when i walk as compared to sleeping and sitting.

So, my dear decided to help me to apply lotions on the area and give it slight massage to help the blood circulation and to release some tension in the tendons and nerves.  And thanks to my dear, who did constant massaging for both legs, the pain is gone within 2 days.  THANK YOU VERY MUCH MY DEAR!!! 

So, now i'm back to normal, sitting in front of my laptop continuing with this blog

H e A r T b E a T ^--v--^--v--^--v--^--v

Since last nite, helena was uneasy, cos still not used to the increased frequency of heartbeat, which caused her can't really fall asleep, at the same time those impacts of the heartbeats are causing her to be more tired and make her need to lie down and rest most of the time, i feel that it's still too early (since it's only about 10weeks, but the gynae told us that it was 12weeks & more) to experience those increase rate of heartbeats,i wondering what is the schedule of activity for those little cubs, we need to find out, in order to reschedule helena's rest time, to suit them, dear little cubs, let ur daddy knows...KISS!!!

Those heartbeat doesn't make me worry, since helena is such a healthy angel, she used to dance a lot, this will not make her weak, and those 3 little cubs certainly will take good care of their 'mum-angel'...dear, here comes the new phrase created especially for u...we shall improve it from here...

24th Feb 2010

24/2, not a very special day, it is just the day where i'll be taking coach back to Sg.

1. As usual, I'm quite worried about my 'bus sickness'.    I used to take anti-nausea pills, but now I have to start accomodating without-pills bus ride.
2. Thanks to my mother-in-law who had prepared a simple & nice lunch which helps to minimize the chances of bus-sickness when stomach is not empty.
3. While driving to 1U for bus, father-in-law opened his small booklet and start telling me which area to massage on the feet & hands for nausea... I feel so touched!
4. Lucky thing, the cubs were well-behaved, they had helped me to overcome my bus-sickness
5. During the break @ Pagoh, when alighting bus, the bus assistance told me "berhati-hati, ya..."  wa, so kind of them...
6. However, after the break, while walking back to the bus, i accidentally sprained my ankle... OUCH!!.. was quite a bad sprained...but still manage to slowly drag my feet back to the bus...
7. Thank you dear, for coming all the way to Novena to fetch me back to BBatok.  Else I'll have to drag my feet & my luggages with me.

what a day!!!... many things happened

I'm still very glad of this day though my ankle was terribly swollen because at least I sprained my ankle instead of falling down... Something which I feel extremely thankful