I’m still around!
I have been very very tired lately though. And there are 1001 things to do! Housework is never ending and the house seems to be in continual state of mess, to my dismay. Especially after Tornado Sunshine goes through a particular room, that room will be messy. – I’ve been finding oranges hiding in corners lately. Some behind the dining room curtains. Some in the study! Urgh. And her toys are strewn all around! I even slept on her building blocks without knowing. >:-(
Nothing new so far except that I’ve been trying my hand at a completely new craft; not knitting and not sewing. Tee hee hee. I may post some pictures of it tomorrow. Woot!
It’s also getting cooler now, thank God.
Oh. I have been experiencing stronger and more persistent Braxton Hicks Contractions. 2 or 3 nights ago, they were 5 minutes apart and lasted for more than 2 minutes at a time. They weren’t very painful. More like a dull menstrual cramp pain. It was rather irritating since I was trying to sleep. It started at around midnight and I was talking to a fellow pregnant friend of mine on MSN. She was admitted recently into hospital for threatened premature labour as she was having strong contractions and the baby’s due date is in June! Poor girl had to stay in hospital for 2 days on drip to stop the contractions and to be monitored.
I didn’t think my contractions were as strong as hers though, so I went to bed.
At 6.30am when Nad woke up to go to work, I was STILL having contractions. I told him to keep his mobile phone handy. I tried to ring the hospital’s Fetal Assessment Unit but no one picked up the call. I just went back to sleep after that.
The contractions stopped around 8am I think.
Now I still feel them occasionally and they are not as persistent as that night. We went for a check up today and everything seems okay (although it felt like Chubbs was pushing against my anus/tata this time round – I felt like pooping and also something ‘hard’ pushing at my groin from the inside when I walk).
I thought he had engaged but the midwife felt around and he was nowhere near there! In fact, he was lying slightly sideways now with his head on the right of my tummy. Sigh.
Sunshine was a happy baby, walking around the ward, greeting strangers and midwives with a casual, “Hi!” and smiling her megawatt smile. They always say she’s such an angel and they cannot believe that she throws tantrums. Hah! She just threw one big screamy fit before she was shooed off to bed. If only these people can hear her scream (think Dakota Fanning in War Of The Worlds – same thing, prolonged).
Since our car was sent for servicing (and they checked the car late and couldn’t fix the stupid auto windows in time so we have to send it in on Wednesday AGAIN!!!), we took the public transport today and went to town after the appointment. Town was the usual. Boring. The only interesting thing that happened in town was that I took a dump in Borders’ toilet. Maybe THAT was causing my discomfort. Duh.
When you are pregnant you no longer know if you want to poop or if you’re having contractions. Then you want to pee 98% of the time. We might as well just wear diapers.
It’s only 11pm now and I’m exhausted. Will go to bed now.
Bye-bye, shee yew! (This is how Sunshine says her goodbyes!)
