Pregnancy Journey

Ah, finally, I get to have some quiet me time while my little Bub is snoring and farting away in his rocker heehee. Staring at him and looking back on the journey that we have been through (pregnancy and birth) makes me think differently about life. It was definitely a live changing experience. I have always wanted to write/document the journey but whenever I'm in front of the computer my mind went blank, but this time I will try my best to write it here.

The day when I discovered that I was pregnant. It was Saturday, 6th May 2017. I took the pregnancy test unintentionally because I was suppose to have my period on that day and still believe that I will get it later on during the day, but however I don't know why when I woke up that day I just felt like taking the test without expecting anything. This is because we have been trying for 2 years and have been sad and frustrated every time seeing the test result. I was shocked when the test came out positive and ended up using all the pregnancy test that I have. I remember sitting on the staircase crying because I just couldn't believe what I just saw. I texted the picture of the pregnancy test to my husband who was at his parents house at that time. I could tell that he was in disbelief as well and later on came home with a bunch of flowers for me. I showed him the test, we hugged and cried.                   

 

It was pretty much a smooth pregnancy for me. During the first few weeks of my pregnancy, I experienced fatigue and pretty much lost appetite to eat. At one time, all I wanted to eat was just a plate full of chips hahah. About 11 weeks into my pregnancy, instead of morning sickness, I experienced 'evening sickness' and this happened every time after I had my evening meals. Magically it stopped when I was about 16 weeks pregnant hahah. When I reached the third trimester, I started to feel uncomfortable. I've been getting a pain on the upper right of my abdoment. I couldn't walk for very long especially after I had a meal and couldn't sleep very well at night too as little Bub were so busy kicking inside me. When we went for our, hmm I think it was 30-31 weeks scan, I told the sonographer about the pain I've been getting. She had a look and found that there were some gallstones in my gallbladder and that potentially what caused the pain. We went for a further checkup at the hospital and the consultant said that they can't do anything about it until the baby is born. Unless if the pain is very unbearable, they will have to get the baby out early, which is not good for the baby.

Towards the end of my pregnancy, I was getting very anxious and more and more uncomfortable. I could remember chanting 'When is the baby coming out', 'I'm tired', 'So uncomfortable', everyday to my husband. My last checkup was at 40 weeks. I was kind of annoyed with the midwife for not giving me a good reassuring answer to when and what should I do next since the baby is still not out yet, at least give me a date for an induction. She was only suggesting that I should try eat spicy food, pineapple and drink raspberry leave tea to help start the delivery. Then, after the checkup, we went to have some food at The Brewers Fayre. I was addicted to their passion fruit mocktails and little did I know that our Bub is coming out less than 24 hour later.

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