37weeks 3 days

The persistent menstrual cramps since last friday sent me to my gynae today. I thought there were actually timing in between each cramp episode. I was strapped on CTG.. but only had one true contractions. -_- Baby heartbeat went up real high when i feel my cramps. But my gynae didn't said anything abt it. Was pretty disappointed when she say cervix still not dilated.

She said wun be delivering in these few days. Luckily, my cervix is soft liao.. Anyway, i put on 800g over 2 weeks and 400g went to my son. Apparently, his head grew another cm today thus she suggested that i induced next monday. He's weighing 3.4kg today and he's still engaged and low.

Started my ML today since all e aches n pains really put me off to go work. Anyway, work has been sucky too. Might as well!

Seven days to seeing Ryker!

Discomforts

When you have a woody hubby, you feel like doing this:

What happened yesterday surprised me even though i didnt feel very well the whole day. I was literally plagued with aches and pain. The pelvic pain was so intense till i couldn't get up without help. The woody hub i have usually would sit down there and watch me struggle my way up, but yesterday, he came to help. He carried me under my armpit to support my weight so that i could stand up. He did this many times yday. At certain attempts when the pain almost activated my tear gland, he would hug me and tell me things like ' Thanks for giving me a son' or ' If pregnancy is so tough, let's just settle with one kid.' Although at that moment, i find it really funny to hear such things from him but it did crave a certain impression in me. I finally felt that i was given special attention. =) With the aches i'm having, he also volunteered to massage. Even though his ethusiasm was short term, it still better than nothing.

I ended my day by sleeping at 9 plus, hoping to sleep the pain and aches away. Who knows i woke up in the middle of the night like this:

I had such kind of headache last night. It woke me up right from my sleep. The pain extended down my neck and even cause aching on my right shoulder. I woke up and told hubs about my agony. He woke up and watched tears rolling down my cheeks, me holding tight to my head. He was helpless. The pain was worse than the cramps i had. I seriously dunno what's going on but tried my best not to take medication. He managed to make me relax and pat me to sleep. It took me really a long time to learn to let loose and embraced sleep. It was really an awful night but i know without Mr Woody around it will be much worse than what i had experience.

@36weeks

At 36 weeks, my size of bump looked like this:

At 36 weeks, my son looked like this:

At 36weeks, the way of my son saying 'I love you' is:

Tsk tsk! Today I realised that I have misunderstood my gynae for the C sec thingy. She said she never wanted me to go straight to that. The most is induce me earlier if Ryker gets too big and comfy in me. The best news today was he is engaged. Not the really low kind of engagement but enough to assure me that he can pass through my pelvic in the natural way. Dr Wong asked me to walk more, have intercourse more so that labour can proceed naturally. She even taught me how to do squats! I've been doing the hip rotation that i've learnt from the antenatal classes. Some readup on website also said that doing such exercises will help engaging your baby in the correct occiput anterior position at birth. No harm trying. I'm trying to do it everytime i go visit the toilet bowl. Hope to find him even lower at the next visit.

Oh, we finally done with the procedure to donate Ryker's cord blood to help others.

This is a small little gift from SCBB for Baby Ryker to measure his length as he grows up. Really hope that his cord blood is bankable =)

Last move!

We finally decided to clear our cupboard for Baby Ryker's clothes. People tell me that's nesting instinct meaning i will pop soon. I really hope i will pop soon BUT if given a choice i rather nua my Sunday away!

As usual, my MuFFin would be loitering around looking for things she could find and run away with it! So we actually teased her by putting her into the cupboard. Tsk tsk.. yea evil me! The packing took 2 hrs plus. After which, the damn menstrual cramp like feeling came and i lie on the bed till it went away.

Once i'm free of the uncomfort, we proceeded on to my auntie's house to get freebies! Haha! The cot, playpen and car seat! Thanks to my auntie and uncle, we saved big time!

The pros of having a Honda FiT! Easily converted into a mini van. The cot was all the way below the stuffs. The blue thingy in the middle is the folded playpen... can you see the rocker frame? Oh, the car seat was wrapped in plastic at the extreme left. There is a foldable stool in the middle beside the white cushion. We bought it so that i could pump my bm in office's bathroom with comfort. Haha!

Oh, we even had the Snugli Evenflo baby carrier, Avent bottle warmer too! Phew phew! After collecting the hand-me-downs, we went back to my mum's place and continued packing the room to accomodate the playpen. My mum had some crappy excuse on not letting us set up the pen... say later affect my pregnancy... -_- I did so many things liao lo! My guess is she didn't want the pen to obstruct her cleaning weekly routine. If hubs never agree with her, i will still insist on setting it up! Sigh.. then again, we will set up latest after 19 Oct appt.

On contradiction, the cot was set up fully while i'm in the room! Mil did make some noise.. but i ignore haha! Fil and hubs completed the fixing. It took quite awhile to figure out though. Fil do have a talent in fixing up such stuff though!

In order to place the cot in the room, i have to move my dogter's crate to a place which i dun really like. It's really near the plugs. I really hate it.. but no choice.. it's really sad when you dun have a house of yr own. The only solution is to switch off the plugs while we sleep so that my poor dogter wun be at risk! In order to let my dogter get used to the cot, i played 'Find it' with her around the cot. To let her get used to the new crate position, i hid many treats in it for her to find. Things were going well! I still find her sniffing for possible treats around the cot. Hee!

Caught her sniffing the cot! Really glad that she didn't have adverse fear towards the cot =) She is a scaredy cat you know?

35weeks

Yesterday night i had the usual menstrual cramp again. On top of that, i also felt the pain that deemed to be like gastric but i'm really not sure if it was the top of uterus or gastric. It was pretty painful till i can't move in bed. The next thing i knew was i felt like vomiting but nothing came out. The call for LS was immediate and i ended up sitting on the toilet bowl for 20mins, literally urinating through my anus. I'm not sure if it's labour coz i managed to sleep through. Right now, i still have slight menstrual like cramp at my bottom of uterus. What should i do sia?

I don't want to go to my clinic and waste time....
I don't want to go there and be paranoid....

So i read books and websites. It said i could be in early labour which could last one to two weeks before the real thing. Hope he can wait till 36 weeks. I know my son wana be to give birth naturally to him and the only way he could do is to come early so that he's smaller.

34weeks

I had been feeling this weird menstrual cramp at my lower uterus once everyday last week. The cramp got more intense after each day. Today, the cramp lasted the longest. I wouldn't say it was painful but it was just not a normal thingy. I called up the clinic and asked again. The assistant asked me to go down and have a check. I thought i would be strapped on CTG but non was given. During the wait, i could feel some intense cramp that comes and goes at my lower uterus. It was also accompanied by the 'sng sng' feeling that one would usually feel during pms. I waited for almost an hour to see the doctor. Was pretty surprised when i was called into the consultation room instead of the 'strapping' room.

Dr Wong said if i was in labour, i wun be talking to her so easily. Shrugs.. she asked me to describe the cramps but i was really clueless to put them in words. 'Sng' and menstrual cramp like were all i can used. She even asked if there is a pattern. But no, it didn't have... once the menstrual cramp like feeling comes...it comes in a stretch last for a while and then go away. The consultation was then proceeded with the ultrascan. First thing was to check if his head was engaged. No, he didn't. Then go on with weight and height. She could see that i wasn't quite interested with the scan today. Asked me why i looked so miserable. Haha.. was indeed not feeling very comfortable. My uterus happened to contract during the scan for her to show me what's Braxton hicks. As usual, my baby is 2.6kg with 32.9cm as head circumference. Think i need to prepare for C section already. =( She also did the Strept B swap plus VE to ensure that there's no dilation. The VE check wasn't pain like what most ppl on forum described. Heng!! Think Dr Wong was really gentle.

Anyway, she concluded that i could be having muscle cramp/ache. l also put on 2kg in a week's time. Amazing! I think i should just drink water for every meal. I used to eat much more than what i eat before pregnant! =( Very depressing. Oh, my pelvic pain not getting any better. I couldn't sleep well last night coz i was awaken at every turn i made. My hands were numbed very frequently and obviously water was the culprit. On top of that, i dreamt that my hubby was being unfaithful to me! So imagine how groggy i looked in the clinic. She suggested me to go on maternity leave earlier. Nope, i dun wan..

I really don't wan to have an incision of 10cm long. I wanna to experience the real true way of labour. She suggested that i can try natural if cannot then C section. It's a risk. Coz you either get pain at one side or both side. =( Oh, Dr Wong was very nice to include this unscheduled visit in the package. It's like moving my next sat appt forward. So we only need to pay for the Strept B test and the extra charges on sat. Was really glad!!

Aiya... very depressing Saturday la... next visit will be two weeks later. I'm so not looking forward to it. Coz i will find myself putting on weight incessantly, my baby's head circumference getting bigger every visit.. telling me he wana come out from another artificial hole...and him getting heavier.