At their last OBGYN visit they learnt that they could be due ANYTIME despite being only a lil over 36 weeks. They blitz as much as they could- meetings, assignments, made work and personal arrangements for this-that-the other and basically maxed out the days. Most days, they would crash out a lil over midnight, each [...]
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Baby Q: Its a boy!
Posted in About Life, adventure, chapters, emo-ments, GOoD things, just me, life learnings, new things, pregnancy, Q, socks & blessings, tagged baby, birth story, parenthood, pregnancy on March 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Pregnancy issue: Everyone has something to say
Posted in 3rd Trimester, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, pregnancy lessons, stuff for baby, tagged baby, baby whisperer, gina ford, on demand, pregnancy, pregnant, raising baby on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Since they fell pregnant some nine over months ago, people around decided it was their right to weigh in on how she should manage her pregnancy, her delivery, her confinement and how they’d raise their child. “Get a maid.” “Do it yourself.” “Move into a bigger house.” “Move back with parents.” “Eat this, drink that.” [...]
Pregnancy week 36: Entering the last leg
Posted in 3rd Trimester, pregnancy, pregnancy weekly, tagged 3rd trimester, pregnancy, third trimester on March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Few days back This Girl had her 36 week OBGYN consult a few days back and was grateful that baby looks good if a little cramp in there. Entering this last leg, This Girl also had to endure a swab and exam to see how “far along” she was and OBGYN was pleased to report [...]
Pregnancy week 35: crossing the 100cm mark
Posted in 3rd Trimester, Life in the Town House, pregnancy, pregnancy weekly, stuff for baby on March 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This girl crossed the 35 week mark yesterday and are into our 36th week. Their next OBGYN visit will coincide with their entering the 37th week and full term benchmark and they are keeping their fingers crossed that baby waits till then to make an appearance seeing as their OBGYN is out of town on [...]
Back to the crafting board
Posted in 3rd Trimester, Craft & Projects, Life in the Town House, pregnancy, tagged bags, craft, crafting, creative escape, homemade, kisslock purse, laine's papeterie, made with love, projects, scrapbooking on February 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Being pregnant means This Girl has been forced to slow down. She has pretty much stopped training completely with Brunei Princess and The Pud taking over all the training duties, meetings and everything else in between. She manages everything by proxy, via email and pretty much has been relegated to paperwork duty. The company’s schedule [...]
pregnancy issues: when things around fall apart
Posted in 3rd Trimester, About Life, emo-ments, just me, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, pregnancy lessons, socks & blessings on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This girl likes to think that she’s got some capacity for empathy, for feeling for other people and for being able to feel at least some modicum of an emotional impact for the people about her. Death, birth, success, failure… they should all mean something even if one is simply standing at the sidelines watching [...]
pregnancy week 33: weight for me!
Posted in 3rd Trimester, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, pregnancy weekly, tagged pregnancy, pregnancy weight, pregnant, third trimester on February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This girl has been having weighty concerns this past month or so; think the sheer number of people telling her how compact/tiny/neat she is has finally gotten to her. Anyway, they visited the OBGYN yesterday and this girl is pleased that the doctor allayed her weight issues: Firstly, baby is at a great weight/size. At [...]
pregnancy week 31: weight concerns
Posted in 3rd Trimester, friends, just me, people she loves, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, pregnancy weekly, socks & blessings, the boy, tagged fetal growth chart, fetal weigh, maternal weight, pregnancy, pregnancy weight on February 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes this girl finds it hard to believe that the weeks have just flown by and its February already. Where did January go?! With their initiation into the last trimester, this girl now sees her OBGYN more frequently and as a result, they get to see baby more often too. Which is always nice; if [...]
Pregnancy week 30: adjusted
Posted in 3rd Trimester, Life in the Town House, people she loves, pregnancy, pregnancy weekly, the boy, tagged 3rd tirmester, pregnancy on January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today they cross the 30 week mark. At their routine visit to the OBGYN today they got to see Baby again and the doctor, as usual, had to answer all sorts of “is my baby really ok” questions from The Boy who seems mildly obsessed with the health of the baby. Its not surprising, really, [...]
Pregnancy issues: Day 4 of monitoring
Posted in 3rd Trimester, gestational diabetes, kitchen adventures, Life in the Town House, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, tagged 3rd trimester, diet, food, gestational diabetes, meal planning, pregnancy, pregnancy diet on January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
About two weeks back her OBGYN found out that This Girl was glucose tolerant and she was sent home to monitor her blood levels twice weekly for two weeks. As blogged before, Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 passed with little fanfare, if with a lil confusion over her generally low glucose levels. Today was the [...]
pregnancy issues: Day 3 of monitoring
Posted in 3rd Trimester, gestational diabetes, kitchen adventures, Life in the Town House, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, tagged diabetes, diet, food, gestational diabetes, pregnancy, pregnancy food on January 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This girl has been told to monitor her glucose level twice weekly these two weeks. The first two days passed with little incident. Day 1 was a little confusing with her levels generally being way lower than the normal boundaries. She didn’t know if it meant she was eating badly or needed more sugar in [...]
pregnancy issues: Day 2 of monitoring
Posted in 3rd Trimester, gestational diabetes, kitchen adventures, Life in the Town House, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, tagged 3rd trimester, diet, food, gestational diabetes, pregnancy on January 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
For the first time in This Girl’s life she’s eating three square healthy meals. No real choice seeing how she’s got to find a system, no less to monitor and manage her gestational diabetes. All through the pregnancy she’s been eating, sometimes more often than others, relatively healthy and more regular than her non-pregnant days. [...]
contemplating food
Posted in 3rd Trimester, gestational diabetes, kitchen adventures, Life in the Town House, people she loves, pregnancy, pregnancy lessons, the boy, tagged calories, diet, fat, food, GI, glycemic index on January 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Since they discovered this girl had gestational diabetes The Boy and This Girl has spent a fair bit of time scrutinizing their eating habits and grocery lists. They’ve also done a fair bit of research on food, their glycemic index and learnt to design a glucose healthy diet- that still allows her to eat chocolate. [...]
Pregnancy Issues: Day 1 of monitoring
Posted in gestational diabetes, pregnancy, tagged 3rd trimester, gestational diabetes, glucose monitoring, pregnancy, pregnancy meal plan on January 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today was This Girl’s first day of glucose monitoring and The Boy and her decided to make minimal changes to her daily meal routine to get a rough sense of where they are at and then adjust accordingly. Off the bat, however, they made a few changes: 1. Ease up on the Oreos (and other [...]
pregnancy issues: gestational diabetes
Posted in gestational diabetes, pregnancy, tagged 3rd trimester, gestational diabetes, GI, Glycemix index, meal planning, pregnancy, pregnancy meal planning on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Father is diabetic (his parents and two siblings are too) and that places this girl at risk for gestational diabetes. And true to her doctor’s fears, she didn’t do as great on the glucose test all pregnant women are made to take as they enter the third trimester. So, last monday they trooped off [...]
