Good news August 20, 2007

Weeks 17-18 of pregnancy:

My husband got  2 job offers. The professions of arhitect,landscape architect, urban designer, planner are very much in demand in Asia especially in China at the moment.

I tried to convince my frinds to move over to this side of the world for better money, experience, better lifestyle but they seems to fear of the new world. I’m not too sure why. As they say the world is shrinking now, everywhere is a plane away only.

The baby decided to move for the first time to celebrate the occasion. At first I though it’s a gas in my stomuch. Very light movement, just like bubbles or butterfly flipping its wings. Hard to explain.

Bed rest continue August 17, 2007

It was great for the first few days. I got to watch Ellen DeGeneres andd all daytime tv. Hooray! I had my own ‘command centre’ so my husband call it. 2 remote controls, dvds, mobile phone, computer and cookies.

I’m loving it until my husband came home and told me he’s been asked to leave the company for no reason (chinese style). His boss has gone mad and fired the only 2 ‘white guy’ in the company.

He played his card of my wife is pregnant though. So he got paid off handsomely.

The funny thing is I’m not stress out at all. Very unlike me indeed.

Bed rest August 17, 2007

15 weeks pregnant:

5 days after my polyps operation I wen to the toilet for my number 2 (I thought) but sat there without success. I wiped myself (sorry too graphic but important) and felt something hard coming out fro my vagina.

This is it! I fear for the wost once again.

I decided to pull it out and it turned out to be some smelly green disc look alike. It stinked the flat badly. I can’t believe something can smell that bad coming out of me.

On the phone once again to the doctor. She asked me to go in first thing tomorrow.

I examined it and it looked like some gauze pad left in there. But the doctor said otherwise.

She’s been good so far so I leave it as that. she again reckon that I should stay bedrest and not go back to work and issued the certificate for me.

Well that’s one piece of good news so far…..

Bloody scary August 17, 2007

14 weeks pregnancy:

My holiday in Thailand was great although I only survived on fruits and vegetables.

Good news, in thai belief, they said if mother eats mainly fruits and vegetables it means the baby was an angel reborn. Again, I choose to believe that.

I didn’t want to come back to Hong Kong and certainly not wanting to continue my work notice of 3 weeks before I can leave my job.

Since we will arrive in Hong Kong late at night, I insisted and forced my husband not to load our bags and carried them on board with us so we can walk through the immigration and get on a taxi fast.

We arrived in Hong Kong airport about midnight. I needed to go to the toilet since the plane was about to land. I rushed to the first toilet I saw, with luck there was no queue.  I felt a bit sore but as mentioned I was in a hurry to go home and go to bed.  I turned around to flush the toilet, there was blood on the toilet seat and in the toilet itself.

God!I had to stay calm. We havn’t even gone through the immigration yet. More importantly how will I tell my husband. He will be destroyed if we lost the baby.

There wasn’t time to think but act. I went to my husband who was waiting for me in front of the toilet and said ‘please don’t panic, I’m bleeding’. He was as good as gold carried all the bags and let me find out the hospital to go to in Hong Kong.

We have never been to an hospital in Hong Kong but one name sprang to mind ‘Matilda hospital’. I heard of it as it is the best private hospital for mother and baby in Hong Kong.

My husband rushed to the front of the taxi queue and explained the situation to the traffic control staff who got us a taxi and tried to communicate the name of the hospital to the driver in chinese.  The driver didn’t know where the hospital is but we told him the general area and told him to start the jouney fast.

I called my mum to wake her up and asked her to go on the internet to find the telephone number and address of the hospital. She was clever enough to woke my sister up to help her with the ‘Google’ business. Then we called the hospital and asked the nurse to tell the driver the address in chinese.

There were so many bends and curves we had to get through before we reach the hospital. It turns out that the hospital is on top of the peak. On the way there we stayed silent. I prayed for my baby but deep down  feared for the worst.

I knew it. I’m not capable of being pregnant. It is all too good to be true.

The drama continued. We arrived at the hospital and three nurses were waiting for us. They were great, tried to calm me down and got a night doctor in to check on me.

The baby was alive and kicking THANK GOD! He ordered 2  injections and injection drops for me and for me to stay over night.

I am scarred of needles but had to be brave. The nurse was trying to insert the drop into me on the back of my hand for 10 minutes but failed.  I was shaking so much by that time because of the pain and aftershock. My husband told them to stoped and give me time to calm down.

During that time he called  my ob and asked her opinion.  She said I don’t need to have any injection but come to her first thing.

I didn’t sleep that well but my husband snored away like anything.  To cut the long story short (which is probably too late for that anyway), we went to see my ob and it turned out that it has nothing to do with the baby at all.  I had cervical polyps!! 3cm. long to be exact.

The doctor cut it out there and then. I rested there for 15 minutes and came home. Good news is I can be off work for a week.

In sickness and in hell August 17, 2007

Morning sickness is not something you recognise straight away.

No, no, no, it can’t be as straight forward as you hope. Mine started at 10am while I was happily working in the office. Mind my own business. Suddenly I was on a boat, well I felt like I was on a boat and had some mild sea sickness.  So I had some sweets to keep me going, drank water or tea or whatever I could get hold of and prayed.

Then the lunch hour approached, I don’t feel like eating but since I already knew I was pregnant, I forced myself to eat something. So I had some soup and smoothie. And I felt better.

Somehow my body told me that I need to prepare some snack and force it down me when I feel sick. Which helped a great deal. I then learnt from various sites on the internet that that was a symptom of morning sickness. You feel sick when you are  hungry.

It got worse and I became more and more tired during the first 3 months. But I never actually be sick. Some people said it’s better to be sick than not.

Again some people said women who have morning sickness have less chance of having breast cancer because our bodies produce something to prevent it. I therefore choose to believe that no doubt. I have my holiday in Thailand to look forward to when I am exactly 13 weeks pregnant which is the completion of my first trimaster in some book.

I am pregnant August 17, 2007

I can not believe I am capable of being pregnant. I’m not always a womanly type, look at my job for start!

Well, I found out in May 2007, mainly because my company requires a certificate from doctor when you are on sick leave even for half a day. I must say I notice that my period was late for a week which is unusual. But I was in denial. As mentioned I can’t be pregnant, it’s not my thing!

Anyway my husband suspected that I may be pregnant because my hair smells different. He said it was like hormonial smell!! So he came along with me to the doctor and demanded that I have a pregnancy test there and then. I did and that was when I found out that I was 1 month pregnant.

My feeling? I couldn’t descrobe it but it wasn’t sink in until I got this morning sickness a couple of weeks later…..