34 Weeks 5 Days. That's supposingly how long mini-Kristine has been hiding in my tummy. And anyday now she could be making her surprise visit into this world. Geesh, that's kinda scary yet exciting. The doctor is hoping she'll stay there till past 37 weeks, but I can feel she's complaining about the lack of space inside for her to move. Feel my tummy having a lot of practice contractions lately and thankfully practices are not painful ones! My mum told me it's time to get ready and clean the baby's stuffs, and my hubby tells me to start packing my hospital bag. Guess everyone is more excited than me, but maybe coz I am mummy and I know best when the time is due...aleh..like real.
So hospital bag is packed, and then realised after talking to other experienced mums that I missed out a lot of stuff. Socks, jacket, and hidden snacks??!! Interesting. Then they start with all the scary stories about the pain before and after delivery. The pain of breastfeeding. The pain of confinement period when there's 101 rules to follow else 'wind' gets into u and u'll end up having 'head wind' in your old age. Well do you know some things after hearing them, even if there seems no logic to it AT ALL, yet u can't not listen to it else u might regret it...well these are the sort of things - don't wash your hair, don't let the fan wind blow onto u, don't bath if u can (I wouldn't want to be the baby who has to stick to some sticky smelly mum!), don't walk up and down the stairs too much else your uterus will drop out (horrors of all horrors!) and my all time favourite, don't watch tv or read books. Geesh, 1 month of totally not being able to do anything ..sounds so fun, ya?
Started to wash up all my baby stuffs like the cloth napkins and clothes, and now I know I think we over-bought them. First time parents just got too overzealous with the shopping I guess..hehe. Was commenting to my hubby that eventhough we have a lot of neutral colors, but there were also a few blues ones. But somehow pink never seems to make an appearance. That kinda shows we were really expecting a boy. Why o why were we so sexually biased :( By the way, for those who think cloth napkins are cheap, they are NOT. Before getting them, I thought they probably cost a few dollars but turns out that was probably the cost during my childhood time :-p In fact everything is so overpriced when it comes to baby and maternity. You better have at least an extra 15K in your bank before you decide to embark on making a baby..and that is praying hard there is no complications involved!
So I leave with the question - why is the price of everything around us increasing, and yet the salary of most everyone doesn't increase at the same rate? Btw, I support the salary increment for our police force - they might be corrupted and grumpy and unhelpful at times but do you blame them? I would be too if I was getting such peanut salary for risking my life for society.
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