preggo – Page 4

Being new to this pregnancy bit, I am learning a lot of things day by day. Though I learned and heard tidbits of these during med school but it is different when you yourself are experiencing all the many, incredible, scary and amazing ways your body can do when you are pregnant. I see being pregnant is like learning you have some hidden superpowers all along. You are a superhero, pregnant lady!

Here, met the 5 pregnant superheroes and take note all their powers can be interchangeable or combined.

1. MRS. NOSE-IT-ALL

Sculpture at Stockholm Harbour by Lotta Hannerz

Mrs. Nose-It-All can smell anything even from a thousand distance away. A rotten left-over overstaying in the trash bin, a person who forgot to take a shower this morning, a hidden cinnamon bun in your backpack or that faint cigarette breath you have — can never be missed by Mrs. Nose-It-All. So beware, no secrets can hidden because Mrs. Nose-It-All can smell EVERYTHING!

2. MRS. FLEXIBLE (TUMMY)

from pinterest

Mrs. Flexible (Tummy) is a chameleon. You might think she is already 6 months pregnant but she will surprised you the next day when you see her that stomach has deflated into a flat tummy or a small hint of protrusion. You see, Mrs. Flexible (Tummy) has this powerful ability to store a lot of bodily gases and by-product of bodily processes. Believe me, her stomach stretch up to 34 inches and miraculously return back to 25 inches in just 1 day. Well, soon though she will wake up and see that she will lose her magically power of returning back to original size but will see her tummy increasing inches day by day (much to her delight). Well, until 9 months….

3. CRYING MONSTER

The Crying Monster has this ability to cry at anything at anytime. She had been injected by this powerful drug that started with a letter H (Hormones!). She will cry by any little hurtful words you say or cry when yo do any touching gesture or when she see an adorable teddy bear or when she see puppies been mistreated. Never mistook this crying power as weakness. She can manipulate with her rain of tears or else she will flood your road with her bottomless supply of tears in her ducts.

4. MRS. EXPLOSIVE-VARAMA

Here is the cousin of Mrs. Flexible (Tummy). Everyone near Mrs. Explosive-Varama should be cautious. Mrs. Explosive-Varama is holding dangerous explosive gases inside so beware. It can all go out in any open outlets of her body. So stay a safe distance and don’t dare put her finger.

5. MIRACLE WORKER

This is by far my favourite super hero from the bunch of First Trimester Super Heroes League. Along with blessing from God, she was given the power to hold the ability of having a miracle growing in her belly. Her body transforms and adjusted to accommodate a wonderful creature, a miracle so precious within her.

With first trimester ending soon, I can’t wait for the second trimester super heroes I will be meeting soon…. To the other buntits, enjoy your pregnancy!

I haven’t been blogging for quite some time but all for all a good reason. I am pregnant! Since my hubby moved here in Singapore to be with me, we have decided, this is it, we want start a family. After one month of trying and the unwelcome visitor Auntie Flow (translation: my menses) arrived, we both help but feel disappointed.

The very next month, I watch the expected day when my menses with much anticipation. While at work, I keep running to the toilet checking if Auntie Flow arrived and no sign of her! I was very hopeful. After work, I bought two pregnancy kits in the pharmacy. When I got home, I secretly tried one of the pregnancy kit. Much to my hast and impatience to read instructions, I dropped the urine sample in the place where lines appear instead of the small adjacent depression on the side of the kit. Arggh! I threw it out because it is palpak. After another hour, I tried the other one. I saw a very dark blue vertical line on the kit but the horizontal line was a bit light. Am I or am I not pregnant? I want to surprised my hubby the next day by showing him him the test and leaving a message on your room blackboard. But I was not really sure.

My hubby was cooking his signature dish, Makansutra Crabs in the kitchen that night. I prepared the table and placed the test kit inside a cute pink angpao envelope. At dinner, after saying our prayers, I told him to open the envelope. My husband’s expression was priceless. It took him a minute to arrange his thoughts and he has this look of gratefulness & sheer happiness. The only thing he could muster to say is, “Really baby?“. I told him I am showing it to you because I am not sure if it is really positive. So after dinner at 8PM, he went to the nearest mall and bought another kit. I tested it and two distinct lines came out. I am really really pregnant! I stared at the two positive pregnancy test for hours with total amazement and happiness. I can believe a wonderful human being is starting to grow inside my womb!

Days after I learned I was pregnant, I caught a reflection of myself on the bus window and I felt like I was glowing. I feels great to be pregnant! I feels surreal that God has blessed us with this miracle of life growing in my womb. I didn’t feel the nausea, vomiting and the fatigue. I was on a high!

Well, I spoke to soon because when 6 weeks (age of gestation) came, I was helpless and confused. I wasn’t vomiting but most of the food I tasted makes me feel nauseous. Problem with that is I have to eat so I force myself to eat inspite of the food aversions. I suddenly have this hatred towards food. I am not very choosy when it comes to food before. I proud of the fact that I can eat anything from sidewalk fish balls, tuyo, sushi and high-end hotel foods. But now I think my taste buds is the most high maintenance chick I ever know. If I am a guy and I will take my taste buds to dinner, I would slap her silly. My sense of smell was 100% strong too. I can smell anything miles away. Any disgusting smell made me want to puke. And my body longs for the bed like nobody’s business. I wanted to sleep sleep and sleep. It feels like my whole body went for a marathon and cleaned the whole house from top to bottom. I don’t know how any of the working moms do it. There is also the bloatedness and constipation that will make you think you are already 6 months pregnant. Your body are doing really strange stuff that you have never experience before.

But luckily when 8 weeks arrived, the symptoms magically disappeared and I was a happy bouncing (not too much bouncing) preggy again. I had my first prenatal at 9 weeks and 5 days. When I saw our baby in the screen during ultrasound scanning, I was in totally amazed. The ultrasonographer have me a copy of the scan. I can’t help but stare at my cute baby. I usually have a hard time reading ultrasound scans. I can’t really identify what-is-what but this time, I really see our baby. I saw the head, the fingers and the lower limbs. I have to stop myself from crying in the clinic. I think my melodramatics may be due to my hormones or just my indescribable happiness. Dad & Mom can’t wait to see you, baby. I am entering into the joyful 2nd trimester. I am excited!

To all moms-to-be like me, congrats to all of us! This is truly a happy Christmas for all of us! Let’s enjoy having our little kangaroo in our mommy pouches!

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