Saturday, 21st February 2009 (Week 38) Ah! So torn! Feeling rather uncomfortable, I started to pray that the Lord will bring forth the baby QUICKLY, like now! But then I realised that if that happened, someone’ s birthday celebration will be a muted one. Child #5 is to celebrate her 4th birthday next Thursday – […] Read more…

Ok. I am now 38.5 weeks along and I am convinced I am not going to be getting any nesting instinct kicking in anytime soon 🙁 I am still moving at a snail’s pace. My plan was to relay on it to help me clear out and clean out all the last minute things I wanted to […] Read more…

For those who are totally clueless about the various birth positions one can adopt for labour and birthing, you may wish to check out Transition to Parenthood and click on Pregnancy, Birth and Newborn Care. It is a fairly basic website that describes the various stages of labour with graphics on the various labour and birth positions. Direct […] Read more…

If you have been reading my blog, you would know that this time round, I was to have no help in the food department after I birth. 🙁 And so I had my grand plan all laid out. We bought a stand alone freezer and I had planned out all my meals and pre-prepared them […] Read more…

I started this early this month but didn’t want to post it then as I didn’t want to bore you with the little one liners or two that I was writing. This is more for me to remember my own feelings as I head down the road to the birth of the baby. Sunday, 8th February 2009 […] Read more…

I often wonder why I get so grumpy towards the end of each pregnancy. Hormones? Physical exhaustion? What?! Well, except the 1st 2. Perhaps the excitement of having a child outweighed all the physical discomfort back then? Or perhaps it was youth? Like I mentioned before there is a whole lot of difference between being […] Read more…

I surrender. I absolutely have no mood to do anything work-related. I did manage to force myself to clear 2-days’ worth of schoolwork yesterday. But that seemed to have wiped me out. Lol! 2 days ago I managed to take the baby’s clothes and my post partum clothes out of the storage bags and threw them into the […] Read more…

For those who have been wondering why one would need a birth plan, my answer is simple – so that both your doctor and you are in agreement about how you, the paying client, wants things done. Never assume that your doctor knows what you would like or not like during labour and delivery. You […] Read more…

Since I have absolutely no mood to go and mark the work these lovely children of mine have left on my table, I decided to distract myself by thinking on the births I have had. This was triggered by the friend who’s been induced. Coz she was told that it was harder for an anaesthetist to […] Read more…

Sigh. Three more weeks to go and instead of getting that rush of energy to get everything ready like I always tend to do, thanks to the nesting instinct, I have gone the other way – I don’t feel like doing anything! Everything that is being done now requires a huge amount of discipline to get started […] Read more…