37w+4d

I thought I heard Dr W said the internal check will be done at the 38w visit, but we had a check today after doing the Strep B swap.

When she was checking for dilation, I was somewhat hoping she might say "ok your cervix is opened, you are __ cm".

Alas, no.

She said, "not opened yet".

Major disappointment. I know it's better for C to stay in longer but I'm tired already. The backaches, the braxton hicks, the constant urge of wanna go LS.. making me very tired. Of course there's still my dear son to care for. Thankfully he hasn't been demanding me to carry him as much, so all good.

Anyway,  according to Dr W, most probably C will arrive around the same time as B so we shall just wait for labour to start naturally. She's about 3.1kg now which is big compared to B who was 3.2kg at birth. But at 39w B was estimated to be 3.6kg so I try not to let the numbers bother me too much.

I'm undecided if I want epidural this round. Although I did it without the previous time, I remembered the pain towards the end being very extreme. But I'm also afraid of the epi jab more than anything. Plus I was told recovery was faster for alot of people who opted without epi. I think that was true. I was up and about walking just 2 hours after delivery.

I don't know. We shall see.

37 Weeks and Counting

I had insomnia on Sunday morning, between 3-5am after my toilet break and changing diaper for a sleeping B. He drinks so much water in the middle of the night,  in his sleep that is, he asked for water. Anyway, since z-monster and I couldn't find each other, I went on to read my earlier blog posts, esp around the period where B was around 37w in my tummy.

Reading those posts really brought a smile on my face. I was still working back then,  I had all the time and luxury in the world to pamper myself and enjoy the pregnancy. But similarly it was Ard the last few weeks I had hoped for baby to come sooner rather than later becoz it was starting to take its toil on my body.

What makes things more confusing was being a first time mum, I didn't know what to expect. And it didn't helped that my labour actually started quite early and was a long process. I was 1.5cm for nearly 2 weeks then 3cm for 3 days before contraction actually started. I guess now I more or less knows what to expect so hopefully no more long waiting game. And since baby is already facing back, hopefully it also means labour will be faster and shorter, not having to wait for bb to turn.

37weeks bump!

Baby Clara's Update

Dr W is back and we had our check up today. Left B with my mum and I managed to return within 2 hours. He didn't ask for me and of course had fun with my nephew. Bless them both. Well I won't have the privilege when school reopens end of the month.

Our 小妹 is now 36w+ and weighs about 2.8kg. Initially the measurement showed she was about 3kg and Dr W said "hmm let's measure again, abit too fast to hit 3kg" after scrutinising my tummy. 2.8kg sounds about right. While the good news is her head remains down and facing back, the bad news is we can't quite see her features anymore coz all being blocked. She's also quite cramped up so can't see much of her hands and feet.

Dr says she thinks C will probably arrive around 39w so get plenty of rest now whenever I can. Not sure if it's possible having a toddler to look after but definitely not possible when baby arrives.

Next visit - strep b swap and following week, internal check for dilation.

See you soon my girl!

Another Updating Medium

I've been spending quite a bit of time on Dayre because there is a huge mummy community there sharing parenting tips and stuff. So I tend to do a bit of updates there as well. Nothing really of significance which I do it here. .over there its mainly my snippets of the day. If you're interested, I'm at Dayre.me/journeytothebump

Will be going for the 36w check up this Thursday. Looking forward to seeing how much Clara has grown. Any time now really!

Weekend Already?

It's the weekend already?? How fast this week has gone by! Maybe because there was a slew of activities. Let's see.

On Tuesday, we had our window blinds installed for the entire house. Something we had wanted to do for a long time but didn't get around to it. Maybe because of C's impending arrival, we finally stopped procrastinating. The blinds look awesome and we love it.

Oh and you might have noticed our new daybed in the TV room. We had wanted to replace the sofa in there forever since the old sofa bed gave way. We stumbled upon this while shopping for B's bed and thought it would be perfect for the TV room. It's also single bed sized, so can double up as a bed should there be a need.

Then Wednesday we celebrated my sister's 50th bday. My BIL planned a surprise dinner for her since February for all the siblings and while I was reluctant to go because of Bradley, I'm glad I made it.

I had to leave the house early so it wasn't any time near B's dinner or bed time. So I left at 4pm, told him mummy has to go out, he will stay home with daddy and daddy will feed him dinner, shower him and give him milk later. He said ok and I quickly took my leave without loitering too long. The plan was for hub to take him on the lrt to get dinner so that he get plenty distracted. It worked. The entire time I was away he only asked for me a few times, but nothing daddy cannot distract him with. I'm so proud of them both and I'm now less worried when the time comes for me to deliver C.

So what did I do when I left home at 4 and dinner was not till 7? I went to the hair salon at Ion for a nice wash and blow and gave myself a little pampering session. Boy was it good.

The next day we went down to support my nephew who was representing SG in the rowing competition at SEA Games.  Oh my I did not expect the atmosphere to be so amazing. While we did not win anything, it's really the experience that matters and I am really so proud of him. The next race is on Sunday! Looking forward. 

Tonight, a super impromptu kinda thing happened. Because of the school holidays, my nieces are camping overnight at my mum's just for fun. So in her house, there are my 2 grown up nieces and my 7yo nephew. When I took B there today, he was having a ball jumping and goofing around with them. Then I had an idea - why don't I ask them (and my mum) to babysit him tonight while hub and I go for dinner. My hub said ok immediately and mummy was so sweet to say "I thought you'd never ask". So seeing it was still early when that decision was made, I left him there, drove home to pick his pjs and milk, and also keep the food I've prepared for dinner in the fridge.

So that's us - FIRST date night in 2 years!

Truth be told, we were both very excited at first. Then after an hour we started missing B. Towards the 2nd hour, we were like "ok let's go and see our boy".

I certainly enjoyed having an uninterrupted meal and a nice conversation with hub and it's nice to have date nights. But it's also nice to have B around too. Glad we did this coz no idea when the next date night is coming.

Relaxing Sunday

35 weeks baby bump! Is it scary that we are creeping so near to the due date???

Then we took the not-so-little boy for his cable car fix. Today we upped him a level by getting off at Sentosa and took the new Sentosa line and also the Sentosa trains back out to Vivo. When we got to HBF, he saw the mrt station and recognised the sign and wanted to "take train" again. So we decided daddy and him will take the train home while mummy go ta bao lunch and drive home.

someone napping in his new big boy bed.