The countdown BEGINS...

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.

It's a GIRL

So we finally know Sponge Bob's sex... a sweet little girl. Bound to be an angel though my boss said it's frightening to think of another mini-Kristine roaming the earth! Hubby and me now searching high and low for a name for this mini-Kristine, and nothing ever seems to sound right. Meanwhile she is growing up fast resulting in me putting on a kg every week. I sure hope it will be as easy to lose those kgs as compared to gaining them else I'll need the help of a certain Marie France ~gulp~



Can't believe it's gonna be another 8 weeks or so when I finally get to see mini-Kristine in real form. Geesh, that is a bit of a scary thought suddenly when I start to imagine the crying, the poos and horror of all horror, the sleepless nights!!! Just hope she's as well behaved in the outside world as she is in my tummy.



Frankly I'm really gonna miss having her inside me coz nothing can really describe the wonderful bond u feel with your baby inside you. Only I can tell when she's having a hiccup, or she's doing her stretching exercise or just being cranky and giving a hard kick into mummy's ribs. What's amazing is that she's really connected to the outside surroundings. For example she loves listening to ang moh's talking coz she moves quite actively whenever she hears that. And she knows when I tune in to my daily Spanish drama by giving a jump (probably she can imagine the well-built Latino guys..hehe). Best of all, she even knows when daddy comes home by hearing his "Hello", and she knows to get angry at daddy when he is not behaving. There was one time when daddy came home a bit too intoxicated with alcohol, and while I was busy lecturing him, guess what? Mini-Kristine was busy kicking at him ...except she forgot it is me who feels the pain and not him *doink* And her most super active time? When I went to the cinema to catch a horror movies - she was kicking and turning from start to even after the show ended in protest of the loud noises. Yes, I'm sure gonna miss our special relationship for this past months, but I'm sure it'll be just as great when she's out in this world :)



So once again for those who are still deliberating on whether or not to start a family, don't think anymore. Life is too short to miss out on one of the greatest feeling/gift. You might end up round and fat, walking like a duck and constantly hammered with insensitive statements BUT at the end of the day it's all worth it coz you'll have something WARM and loving inside you. Something you can really call you own :)




P/S : that's not my tummy...could never capture THE moment like this. Especially when she does mini waves in my tummy.