34 weeks, 2 days - No knees

My knees are gone. I dont know whether it's cos i've gotten super fat or whether im that bloated. Realized that when i was praying cos i could hardly bend my legs under me. I felt like a balloon, and when i squeeze myself i feel plasticy...not soft with fat...

According to a website it said that if my stomach has dropped, i have another 2-4 weeks before going into labour...2 weeks?? Im not ready!!!! My baby has no name!!

Don't know how im going to handle the AGM...im practically dragging my feet when i walk around, and then there's the issue of shoes...i wear Birkenstocks to work now. Cant stuff my feet into my Clarks anymore.

I hope the baby decides to come on a weekend when hubs is home...

Organ football - Week 34

I guess week by week, im in more pain. This time around, the baby seems to enjoy kicking a particular part of me ( i suspect that it's an organ cos it hurts like crazy), and i believe that my pelvis must be expanding or something cos that area's so sore! There's also more pressure on my bladder and when it's full, i can hardly walk to the bathroom!

I still have a thing for roti canai which i find absolutely delicious, and ice cream. 6-8 weeks more to go and the baby still doesnt have a name. I seriously need to be inspired!!! All the names i dreamed about using as a child for my kids cant be used at all. I cant imagine an Ashley or a Lindsey binti xxxxxxxxxx running around a sekolah kebangsaan, can you?

Horse Riding - week 33

I dont know what's going on with my body right now, but the insides of my thighs hurt as if i've been horse riding all weekend long! I havent been on a horse since my Hill House days, and believe you me, that was ages ago!

This latest development all happened yesterday - sore inner thighs, and me walking around like a pregnant woman. Yes, Irzah's finally said that i do have the gait of a mother to be! Went to a shopping mall yesterday hoping to get myself a pair of Crocs to wear to work. Was horrified to find out just how swollen my feet are! Was only planning to spend RM129 on a pair, but the only thing that was kinda ok was this pair of wedges which was going for RM169. Definitely not a cool pair for when i go back to normal, so wasnt very keen on spending that much on a temporary pair of shoes. Also went a maternity clothing store...forgot what it's called, but it's the pricey local brand...Tried on a dress which i thought would be cool to wear at the AGM. Turns out that i look like an elephant!!! No dresses for me...i guess i'll have to buy tableclothes and 3 holes into them - 1 for the head and 2 for my arms.

Yesterday, i accomplished a diet that my doctor would have been proud of! I only had bfast, lunch and dinner with absolutely no snacks in between!! I guzzled down a lot of water though and was peeing like a fountain all day. Had a chat session with 2 colleagues who told me lots of scary giving-birth stories. I hope it'll go by smoothly, and i hope that i'll be a tough cookie enough to withstand labour without an epidural, and may my eyeballs not pop out of their sockets due to the intense pressure of the pain and the pushing! AMIN!!

Names

My mind can't seem to disassociate the pretty name from that person that MIL was talking about!! She's poisoned my mind! Please let it pass, cos if we're not using that name, hubs n i will definitely be at a loss.

I've been wanting to check out the Topshop/DP sale at Mid Valley for weeks now. It's really hard getting to such places from the little corner of the world where i work, so imagine my utter disappointment when i did show up at MV, only to find that the stores were closed for a members only sale!!! I wanted to scream n cry and kill someone! So here i am, feeling the 32 weeks around my belly, knowing for sure that venturing out on my own is not going to be as easy as it sounds. Ergh!!!! The circumstances surrounding my marriage is that i have to be pretty independent cos hubs is hardly around. It's sucking big time right now cos my wings are being clipped a little at a time. What am i to do??

Baby's fine i hope, cos last night when we were out celebrating my mum's bday i had a sundae, which i believe had some liquor in it. It tasted funny...a little like Kirsch. How would i know? From all those years of accidentally gobbling up adult pralines, of course! We were at an accident hotel in KL which made pretty good spaghetti cabonara. I thought nothing could surpass Pizza Italia (im using the old name cos thats when they were excellent and charged decent prices), but this cabonara was superb.

32 weeks

At this point in time im feeling huge! i have swollen feet and waddle around :( my trousers are getting rather tight too, but im pleased to say that i've been able to keep to my diet, and consciously saying NO!!! to temptation like ice cream and other desserts. For the past 8 months i've been enjoying my work snacks which would include anything from bread, prunes, snicker bars to fruits (and everything else in between), but i've been able to stick to portions of fruit to stave off hunger pangs which is great!

Yesterday spoke to MIL and mentioned a name hubs n i both are ok with. She associated that name with a promiscuous young lady who's been in the papers the past few months! I didnt really appreciate that association and she's kinda spoiled it for me, but i refuse to be influenced by such a shallow point of view. There are all kindsa ppl with all kindsa names!!!

There's nothing really all that new with regards to the baby except for the fact that i love having her presence felt. I hope she's in good health. Amin.

31 weeks & 5 days along

Oook, so much for wanting to record every minor detail. Im almost 8 months pregnant now with another 2 months to go.

Dr. Liew's been very unhappy with my weight gain for the past 3 months, so i've been trying to go on a diet which involves cutting down on all the snacking i do at work. On Wednesday i began the diet in earnest, eating 2 slices of whole wheat bread & milo for breakie at around 7.50am, and then at around 10.30am i had a whole mango, then a malay lunch at 1pm. I was starving by the time it came to lunch time and wiped up one whole plate of rice & lauk. In the afternoon, around 4pm i had an orange inspite of my stomach which seemed to have created a lot of angin. That night i had a pretty big dinner with my brother.

The good news is that the next day (yesterday), i was totally fine with a big breakie, no snack, lunch and still wasnt inclined to snack, though i gave in to some M&Ms. Im going to watch n see how today goes. Have a pear to snack on should hunger strike, but today have an appreciation lunch to attend, and i'll be well fed then.

The baby's been moving a lot, and due to her size, the movements are more violent in nature, with my whole tummy contorting in waves. It's amazing to watch and sometimes it literally takes my breath away. She's most active in the morning, the evening and around 12 midnight. At night when she's not happy bout me sleeping on my side she'll kick n kick until i change positions. I wonder what goes on in there, and how does she feel?

There's 8 weeks to go and my poor little one is still without a name! Hubs & i have only agreed on names that are culturally not suitable for the baby...goes to show that we both didnt grow up in Malaysia long enough to feel at ease with most local names.

Dear baby, i hope your mum & dad will come up with a fab name that would suit you to a tee.