Gynae visit @ 37th week

Monday 18th May - told mum about the pain i suddenly had the nite before. her advice was to call gynae and ask him for opinion. so i did and his advice was to go down to see him to find out exactly whats happening inside. mum's worried as she said that last trimester is very crucial and unpredictable. thru the morning, baby didnt move much... worrying! so i called gx hoping that his voice will make baby move but he didnt pick up. when he called back, after his first sentence, the thunder sounded and either his voice or the thunder woke her up! i saw the lightning but i didnt warn her as i wanted her to move! mean right but i needed to know she's fine and she gota move to let me know!!! she is pretty afraid of the thunder esp during the thunderstorm 2weeks ago! she squirmed in me non-stop till i woke up to comfort her!

mil rushed home from her prayers for gx's grandma to go down to the gynae with me. she was worried as it was raining very heavily. so we went down, had our temperture taken and filled up a form before allowed to go into the hospital. not many patients at gynae and as i made my appointment earlier i only had to wait awhile. little one was excited as she kept moving before we were called into the room! 1st thing my gynae said to my mil when i introduced her - wah! your mil so young! yes indeed! she is very young!

according to my gynae, where i had the pain was caused by my stomach. i was either too hungry, too full or ate too fast and maybe with the baby pushing up on my stomach, thats what caused the pain! YES... i ate too full and had a hard time sitting and lying down! and prob baby did pushed cos gx did say baby had no space after i ate so full!!! so mystery solved.

did a scan and it was mil's first time looking at scans and of cos looking at her grandchild. she was trying to figure as much what was shown on the screen! she said my doctor was too fast! little one has been nudging me with her left thigh and knee! cos i asked the doc to scan the part she always pops out! she is about 3.1kg and i lost 500g. but the gynae still warns me about my weight and food intake! he said the lost of 500g is from my feet! cos they are less swollen now! ermmm.... i still like this gynae of mine cos he is pretty humourous and my mil find him very friendly and smiley! mil say that he looks more like a friendly biz man than a gynae!

so baby is well and gynae answered some of my enquiry about pain and baby is choosing to move down slowly... so dun think i will get a taurus baby... cos she only got today and tomolo to come out! then went down to parentcraft centre to enquire the bottlecaps for a friend. saw Mrs Wong and i introduced mil to her. Love her voice! always so calming and she touched my tummy and talked to baby!

she told baby to choose a good time to come out! and funny thing she asked baby "you are not waiting to eat dumplings before coming out right?" mil say that would be in 2 weeks time on the 28th may! mil told me later that she had seen Mrs W on tv programme before and is amazed how she handles baby with one hand and able to do so much with the other hand to either shower, change or feed the baby! we head home after showing mil briefly where i need to register myself on labour day and where they can wait and have a quick bite in the hospital.

mil say that tmc didnt looked and feel like a hospital, more like a shopping mall. told her she haven seen the corridor of the rooms (they prohibited access to non-visitors to protect the patients due to the flu outbreak) i told her the corridor looks like hotel's. i was thankful that she came along with me as its always nice to have company.

Gx still emphasis to baby that she should wait till after Saturday! cos we have a party to go too! i told gx what Mrs W said and i even told him maybe i should just go get dumplings and tell our little one - here's the dumpling! maybe she will be out tomolo?

after having our dinner at lor 8 (kueychap), which we didnt have eatouts on many mondays already, we head home and little one got everyone busy! busy thinking of a chinese name for her! i endured the heat and sat thru to object to most of the characters chosen! and gosh how some characters sound terrible when translated in teochew!!! then i lie down while sil and gx was busy looking for alternative characters for certain sound. baby moved and we told her to let aunt feel her. as usual she was cheeky and didnt do as told! then we bribed her with mangoes! she still didnt do it and all 3 of us teased her cheeky and she freeze and didnt move for quite some time. after talking to her she started moving and even gx got to feel her quite a bit for awhile and i asked her to nudge aunt and this time she did so! sil was thrilled! and of cos we praised her for being a good gal!

i was pretty tired after ther whole day even thou i lie down so long before gog to the gynae and i even had a short nap after gynae! doc told my mil that i only need to eat 3 meals a day, just mostly meat, veg and fruits. Also i need to at least lie down 2-3hours in the afternoon! he also predicts that it won't be this week that baby is gog to be out... most likely after this week...