Gynae appt ... 33 weeks ..

Went to see my gynae yesterday ... short appt .. had an ultrasound ... doesn't fail to fascinate me no matter how many times I've been pregnant ... I love seeing my baby on the monitor ... I saw her little feet .. so cute!

Doc claims my baby is still within the average weight ... 2.4 kg at 33 weeks ...

Not that I don't believe her ... but the last time she estimated Emily's weight the day before I gave birth, she said Emily would be about 3.2 to 3.4 kg ...

She was 3.9 kg at birth.

Friends later told me to switch gynaes ... lol.

I know it's just an estimate .. my friend who recently had her boy was also told by her gynae that her baby would be about 3 kg ... he was 3.4 kg at birth ... so I think that doctors are just basically making educated guesses .. based on what they see on the ultrasound monitors.

Why am I so concerned you ask? .. Guess I've read too many magazine articles where the baby was too big for the birth canal and well, needless to say .. it was a very painful experience for the mom.

My doc told me that if I wanted to ensure I won't have a big baby .. to control what I eat from now on ..

HUH. People always assume that just cos I'm BIG ... it must be cos I'm stuffing my face with food ALL THE TIME.

Eh, hallo ...

Right now, my appetite is just right ... I usually can't even finish my meal at the food court .. I haven't gained that much weight ... so I don't get it ... what I am supposed to do? Starve? ... Run 30 mins on the threadmill everyday till I deliver?

I was at a friend's place this morning .. her 6 year old son asked me whether I wanted to jump on his trampoline ... lol .. I politely declined and then he told me that I had a huge tummy ... lol :) Told him that I had a baby in there .. that's why aunty can't jump on his trampoline .. that and I'd probably wreck the thing with my weight ... pregnant or not ... hahaha :)

Obviously I'm getting senile ...

when I said I weighed myself everyday .. I must have conveniently forgotten that the last time I weighed myself WASN'T yesterday .. more like sometime early last week .. and in that time, I visited my 2 aunts for Hari Raya and was fed like there was no tomorrow on cookies and cakes and other food ...

So yes, I have gained weight .. YAY!!! .. I gained about 1.5 kg plus since my last weigh in .. awesome!! My total weight gain is now about 4kg .. at this rate, I am probably going to hit my usual 7-8 kg overall weight gain for pregnancy ...

I was kinda worried that I wasn't gaining weight .. how could that be when my tops seemed to be getting tighter .. it just didn't add up ..

Now I know .. forgetful ol me just FORGOT to weigh herself recently ... hahahahah :)

Pregnancy makes me forgetful it's so annoying .. :p

XXL in Singapore

We were at Vivocity on Sunday having lunch with my friend and her family ... after lunch, we strolled around for a bit .. I wanted to buy a maternity top or 2 to wear with my pants as the current ones I have .. well, they've gotten a bit tight ..

Everyday, I stand on my weighing scale .. my weight is still the same .. I've only gained 2kg from my prepregnancy weight .. BUT .. my tummy is expanding so alas .. there we were at Marton-Bell .. with me frantically rifling thru their racks of clothes TRYING to find something nice ..

The maternity stuff here sucks .. ok, that's not fair .. I just can't shop at the other shops here .. Thyme Maternity etc. The clothes are all way too small for big ol' me. DAMMIT.

Anyway, I managed to find 2 decent looking tops from Marton Bell (I only went there cos I KNEW they had bigger sizes) .. and went to put them on .. they were ok ..

They were labelled "XXL"

SIGH.

All my maternity stuff thus far .. I've bought online from Motherhood.com .. the stuff there is very nice .. and I wear an XL .. well, it is a US website .. AND the stuff is so reasonably priced too !! Here, I find the maternity stuff quite hideous at times and way overpriced. I had no choice but to buy here cos it's already way too late for me to order online at this point. I only have 8 weeks or so to go.

XXL ... sigh.

30 weeks pregnant with Lauren

See, it makes a difference ! .. This was me at 30 weeks pregnant with Lauren in 2004 (sob I was younger too then ... about 31)
I can't wear that top now. My stomach at 30 weeks with Emily and now with my 4th, is way bigger ..
Lauren was only 2.9 kg at birth though .. quite petite I thought .. lol

Emily was 3.9 kg and well, I don't know about his last baby ... praying she'll be less than 3.9kg .. hubby says my stomach is huge and he doesn't think I'll last another 8 weeks ... lol.

This photo was taken at one of my favourite places .. Colorado .. ok, I really like Colorado Springs .. but this was in Canon City .. the Royal Gorge Bridge and Park .. can u see the bridge behind me and the drop below? Awesome isn't it??



We stayed in the AFB there .. Petersen AFB to be exact .. they were having some Family Day the weekend we were there .. and they always have some kind of petting zoo type thing for kiddies .. Claudia loved those ... :) The weather was fantastic btw .. it was spring :)



Ok, I couldn't resist putting this pic up .. it's my beloved Dodge Grand Caraven .. 3.3 litres, huge, and well, a bit underpowered if you ask me since it was quite heavy ... but I loved it to bits .. it was so roomy !! You could just clamber into the 3rd row .. not like the MPVs here where you have to push forward the 2nd row to get into the last row seating.

Arghhhhh !

So we were at United Square yesterday walking around ... hubby decided that he was bored and wanted to take the girls out and so there we were.

When we got home, and we didn't get back late btw .. just a little past 2pm I think, and I opened our front door, I found 2 slips of paper on the floor telling me that the postman had been there to deliver my stuff but too bad I wasn't in so now I have to either arrange for a redelivery date or pick up the stuff myself from the PO.

Blardy hell. I was home all day this last week .. but noooooo, the postman didn't come.

I had been waiting and waiting for my stuff from Gap and Ralph Lauren to arrive and the ONE day we choose to go out ... they try to deliver my packages.

I cursed and swore. Hubby said if I had mentioned it, we would've stayed home to wait for them .. told him that was what I had been doing this last week and they didn't come to deliver it ... no way was I going to sit around on a Saturday waiting for Mr Postman ...

HUH.

Running out of time .. and names ..

ok .. so it's not that we're getting sick and tired of naming girls ... but hubby and I agree on so little names ... it's becoming IMPOSSIBLE to think of even ONE name for our new girl ...

SIGH

Do u know why my Golden Retriever is named "Isabel"? I so desperately wanted Claudia to be named that ... he disagreed ... so when we got a puppy, I insisted it be named "Isabel" .. lol. He agreed cos, well, it's a dog, what does he care what it's named? My Maltese is named "Kimmy" after Kimi Raikonen .. lol ... I thought it was a cutesy name that suited a small toy dog like Kimmy .. hubby was ok with it since to him, it was an F1 driver's name .. and it wasn't too cutesy like "Fifi" or something ...

As we had more kids, it became harder to think up of names that we could agree on.

I have 9 weeks to go and we have NOTHING.

I have this sinking feeling that we'll be at the hospital staring at our newborn's face .. desperately flipping through the pages of the book of baby names trying to come up with a name at the last minute .. or rather, trying to AGREE on a name ...

SIGH

I really like the name "Summer" .. but he doesn't like it at all. He likes the name "Eden" .. I think it's awful.

Celebrating Emily's birthday!

Emily turned 2 on the 28th of Sept ... I decided to forgo the party and just do a simple lunch with another friend whose girl also shares the same birthday (but different year) ... Everytime I throw a party ... it costs me between 1.2 - 1.4 k ... (SIGH) ... eg. Claudia's Jan party and Lauren's party last year each came up to about 1.4k ... how come, you ask? .. Well, there's the catering, the bouncy castle and the magician and the cake ... I love the cakes from The Patissier even though it's so darn expensive .. Claudia's cake cost me $250 .. hubby nearly had a heart attack .. lol!

So for Emily I decided we'd be cheap and have a nice decent lunch at Hog's Breath Cafe, eat cake and bring the birthday girl to Toys R Us to pick out anything she wants ... ok, so it was me that picked out the toys .. total damage for the afternoon was far less than 1.2k let me assure you .. lol !

It was a very enjoyable afternoon with the girls and hubby and our dear friends ... :)