This week's update is a few days late, but I've had good reason to postpone. There isn't anything new or exciting on the pregnancy front aside from my severe round ligament pain. I still feel some aching, but it seems like the pain is gradually getting better. Praise God! I'm happy that I can now move about, especially considering that we're leaving for our babymoon in just two days (!!!) and we had purchased non-refundable tickets and hotel rooms in order to get the best possible rates. I am however, feeling extra sluggish and Jabba-esque due to my being in bed for the past few days. I stepped on the scale this morning to find that I had gained two pounds from...
Continue readingSunday night. (Or Monday morning, if you prefer.) I woke up at around 2 a.m. with some pain in my lower right abdomen. I got up to pee — which is not unusual these days — and went back to bed. "The pain will subside," I told myself. "You've been having tons of pregnancy-related twinges, pangs, and aches over the past few months. It'll go away." It didn't. By 2:45 a.m. the pain had gotten so bad that I was thrashing around on the bed. And no, J didn't wake up because he's the world's deepest sleeper which has me convinced that I'll be doing all the 3 a.m. feedings by myself when the baby comes. I finally couldn't take it anymore and poked...
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It's a GIRL! After the NT scan, I thought that we had a bold and outgoing child on our hands. But this ultrasound certainly made me change my mind — she was a shy one, constantly covering her face with her hands and keeping her legs tightly crossed. It took quite some pokes from the tech, in addition to my downing an entire bottle of fruit juice and coughing repeatedly, until she uncrossed her legs and let us have a peek at the goods. The ultrasound place we had chosen offers a complimentary follow-up exam if the baby's gender can not be revealed at the first visit. Our tech felt so bad that she couldn't get any clear images of the face...
Continue readingSometimes, when Comang is lying on his back, I like to grab him and hold him in my arms like he's a baby. When Comang is tired he lets us do whatever we want to him, so he can lie in this position quite comfortably for a while. Just before J snapped this photo, he was snoring away in my arms! People often ask me if I'm scared to have a baby; after all, I still act like a kid myself. My looks seem to betray me too, as I'm consistently mistaken for being about 5 years younger (and I can see how when I am sans makeup, hair messy and just chillaxin' at home like in the photo above). The truth is,...
Continue readingI spent last week at my parents' house where my mother proceeded to spoil me rotten with homecooked Korean food and whatever else I was craving. "Don't ever ignore your cravings or your baby will come out with crooked eyes!" she repeatedly told me. (Now that's one old wives' tale I can get behind!) I was sure that I would return at least 5 lbs heavier, but I was dumbfounded to find that I had lost a few pounds. Huh. Take a look at last week's and today's belly shots side-by-side: As you can see I certainly don't look any thinner; if anything, I look bigger! Nonetheless, I'm happy to report that what I had been predicting seems to be coming true: I'm...
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