Morning sickness? What morning sickness?

I have been wondering who on earth actually invented the term "pregnancy glow" - because I don't think I have been glowing at all! To be very honest, my first trimester has been quite hard so far - I feel tired all the time, I have constant back ache, I feel nauseous and always end up throwing up around 7pm (yes! in the evening!).

So weird but true - and if I can describe my "day during this first trimester" - it will be like this :

Wake up at 3:00 AM because I desperately want to pee and then cannot sleep anymore. When I can finally catch some sleep, it's time to wake up and prepare myself to work. In the morning - I am like famished!I can eat one portion of fried beehoon and another set of kaya toast! After that the day just pass by as usual, except that I am actually feeling extra sleepy and tired (and the worst is I can't even have coffee!). When it's about 4:00 pm I will start feeling hungry again and I will start snacking. But then at around 5:00 pm, I will feel bloated. By the time I am sitting in a car to go home, I'd feel like puking already. And tada... I would hug the toilet bowl for about 15 minutes at 7:00pm.  

like that... every single freaking day!
So dinner is definitely something I am not so looking forward to - because I feel nauseous and I always have to think of what kind of food that I can actually digest without making me want to hug the toilet bowl again.

So bottom line is - I actually don't have cravings, it's mostly because I don't want to eat stuff that can potentially make me throw up. So far those would be yong tau fu, white bee hoon, deep fried stuff and chilli! Amazingly if I put chilli on my food, it tastes less "offensive" and my stomach can happily take it.

On the other hands - food that can potentially definitely make me want to puke includes ramen, all Japanese stuff (like sushi - not that I can eat them, but just by looking at them on screen already makes me want to puke! So I guess, lucky me!), pho and prawns.

So freaking unfair - because I used to like all of the above!
Just so you know - I still hate durian though. 

I told my husband that our baby is probably sleeping in US time, hence no morning sickness, instead it's always evening sickness for me.

Anyway, let's just see - hopefully second trimester is easier and smoother.
OK Baby P? High five!

Ciao.

Week 8 - Check up

It's been 2 weeks since our last check-up; so last Saturday (16 Dec), we paid another visit at our Gynae.

Good news is - Baby Peanut is healthy (baby Peanut has grown a little and now it's about 1.5 cm) and for the very first time, we heard baby Peanut's heart beat - My gynae said it was stable at 170 per minute (which Rey thought it's super fast and I agree!).

Anyway, we couldn't be happier! The above is baby Peanut's ultrasound photo (it's the small thing inside the black bubble in the middle).

The next visit is in another 2 weeks from now - it's going to be the down-syndromme test then, so we're praying not only for a smooth pregnancy, but also for good results.

We are planning to take the Harmony test (the one with 99% accuracy) just to be 100% sure - with the test, we can also determine the gender of the baby (even though it's relatively early).

So stay tune! :)

Hello World - version 2.0 (Sh*t Just Got Real!)

Hello All,

LONG TIME NO SEE!

It's me again - as you can see the blog is now renamed and no longer about the tai-tai (wannabe)! Tai-tai life has been long gone (well, obviously - since the last post was on 1st nov 2016!) and surprise, surprise... it is now changed to a pregnancy diary - which is a serious topic in my book (I know, right?!).

So, I guess since this blog is now called a pregnancy journal, I should probably start with a story about how we both got to know that sh* just got real in our lives we're pregnant - before my pregnancy brain fails me.

The story began when we decided to finally try to have a baby around July 2017 (around 3 months after my fibroid surgery). In August, being a naive lady that I am, I confidently thought that I would have gotten pregnant immediately (just like all those teenage girls! LOL), but nope! Period came on time and so did the cramp and the usual back-ache, etc.

Guess what - the same thing happened again the next month and I remembered I was feeling a little bit upset about it. So I decided to just wing it and stop thinking about it. On a positive note, I thought to myself, maybe it doesn't come easy to us, so it means we can enjoy the moment and do what DINK (Dual Income with No Kids) should do - like splurging on shoes (for me!) or upgrading our car to  a two-seater sports car (for him!).

So when Rey told me that he wanted to upgrade our car before the emission surcharge kicked in the next year - I replied,"Up to you! Anyway we won't get pregnant so soon!" He then sent his order in like almost immediately (pretty sure, before I change my mind) and put down whatever deposit crap necessary - And tada... the car should have come in February. He was so looking forward to it.

Two weeks have passed (no day has passed without him showing me how the car would later look like, how beautiful the sound of engine was going to be, what rim colour he would choose, etc.!), my period was late for quite sometime already. However, I didn't actually thought of peeing on a stick yet, because I felt like my back hurt and honestly it felt like I could have gotten my period any day then.

However, on Sunday evening of 25th November 2017, I decided to just peed on a Watsons house brand stick (I am cheapo that way, after wasting 2 Clearblue pee sticks, I thought I wasn't going to pay more for just a pee stick!) - mainly because I wanted to book air tickets to go back to my hometown as well as to Scotland for Spring Holiday. So, if I were to spend that much of money, I thought I needed to be sure that I am not pregnant.

To my surprise - I got two lines on the stick!
Now, we really got caught off guard! I immediately showed it to the husband and he was like, "orh..."
I am not entirely sure what was going on in his mind that time.

I wasn't very convinced actually, so the next day I decided to buy a pack of two pee sticks from the brand Clearblue (Yes, I thought I need two, just in case!), and I still remembered so well I peed immediately in ION Orchard, right after I bought it and it still gives me the same result! So it finally hits me that things will get more serious from now on...

I made an appointment with my gynae, dr. Kelly Loi over the weekend and on Saturday, 2nd December 2017 - she confirmed that we're 6-week pregnant! Yiay!

So that's basically the start of the journey. I guess there will be more to come and more to record here, but we will do it one step at a time.

Though now we're trying to cancel/defer the car order (yes, husband is still not giving up on his dream car!); I guess we have come to term with the fact that life will be different from now on.

We are very excited to see how this journey will pan out.

PS: Before I go - since this little baby peanut is going to be born as Generation Z - again, it's only appropriate if I record anything digitally, so other than this blog, I took the liberty to set-up an instagram account called @ps.iloveu_baby - for any day-to-day updates when mummy is lazy to update the blog.

Ciao.