I have Moved!

I have finally moved… my subsequent posts would be at: http://a-blog-away.blogspot.com/

Pink or Blue?

Well, I finally know the gender of my second baby. Before I announce it here, let me pen down a comparison of my first and second pregnancy symptoms.   

Cravings

My taste buds took a major switch this time from preferring salty and sweet food during my first pregnancy to the sour ones this round. I hardly ate any hokkien mee or curry mee, what’s more laksa during the first one, but this time, I took a lot. And this baby doesn’t seem to like ice-cream that much, compared to the first one. Also, I felt that I’m more of a meat eater this round compared to the first time where I would prefer vegetables.   

Belly shape 

Despite me starting to wear my maternity clothes a few weeks later this time, my belly shape is quite the same as last time, where I’m carrying high out front. 

Morning sickness 

Last time, I hardly vomited. The most, I would feel nauseous and felt like vomiting, but it did not come out. This time, however, I have vomited out more than I could keep track of. I even vomited in my working place’s car park. But most of the time, it normally happened when I was in the toilet. During both of my preggy times, I could not tolerate the toilet smell, but this time it was more serious. Even the sight of rubbish or a slight toilet stench nauseated me. But another common thing was that during both times, my morning sickness timeframes were about the same – they started when I was about to go into the 2^nd trimester (Week 12) and diminished when I was entering Week 20.       

Others 

I hardly have any constipation this round compared to the last. And I’m much more tired this time too (maybe due to aging?). Imagine, I could doze off while halfway in a discussion with a colleague! I was thinking hard that time, and without me knowing it, I was already in dreamland  Complexion wise, I did have breakouts during my first 3 months for both pregnancies, but towards the 4^th or 5^th month, I would say that I hardly need to worry about it, in fact I could skip my facials too and still feeling great. As for my itchy skin, I started to feel itchiness around my back during my 3^rd month (for my first pregnancy). Where as, during my second pregnancy, it only came about my 5^th month, and I felt it most at the sides of my expanding belly.   

So, after reading this comparison, do you think I’m going to have a boy or a girl? My maternal instinct told me that I was going to have a boy last time but this round, I felt that I’m carrying a girl. Wanna know the answer? Drum roll please….. Well, the ultrasound scan showed 3 lines – and my ob told me that normally girls will have 3 lines while boys would have 2 lines. So, you know the answer already – yes. I’m going to have another princess J, whom I hope would be a great companion for little Sze Yi.

Blog Lag?

I have been lagging way behind in my blogging activities lately. And while I’m supposed to blog about new things, I find myself still cracking my head to put in the details for old events. I take extra pains to blog about important events that happen in Sze Yi’s  life even though they were outdated posts because I wanted to keep a record of it. And so I’ve neglected my own blog.   

I was supposed to blog about this at least a month back, but judging from the pace of things, I’m still trying to keep up with backdated posts. I guess I’ll just break the news here – I’m gonna have a 2nd baby soon!

Yes, we both knew it’s time because Sze Yi would need a companion soon. Initially, I’m very happy when I found out about it and wanted to tell the whole world. But I was advised to wait until at least 3 months for it to be considered stable. Indeed, many things happened – this time I wouldn’t want to be bogged down by any pantang larangs,  so I told myself I won’t follow them strictly like what I did during my first one. Well, not too long later, I bleed. So I started to wonder if that’s the consequences of not following the “dont’s”.  Or maybe I have not been putting as much attention on this 2nd one compared to my 1st pregnancy. I still put Sze Yi as my topmost priority. The bleeding experience reminded me that it’s time to switch focus.

Then workload started to pile high, with everyone busily occupied by the tapeout schedule. I even have to work until 2.30am in the morning! My, that was exhausting. Especially when you’re pregnant and need a lot of sleep. We finally taped out, but there’s another project that I have to work on immediately, which means less blogging time. I normally blog at night, after Sze Yi went to sleep. But nowadays, I find that I would rather lie down in bed or read some magazines instead of switching on my laptop.

And recently I fell sick. It was a 2nd one during this pregnancy, the first was when I was only 7 weeks preggy. During the first time, I didn’t take any medications. But for this time, it was so bad that even the medications couldn’t make my fever subside. I was on MC for 4 days last week, and was still coughing and sniffling away now. The flu caused my nose to be blocked, and my throat was so sore that I could feel the pain when swallowing my own saliva. And worst still, every time I coughed, I felt like vomitting (in fact, I’ve vomitted several times) and it’s really a great sufferering. And all these came when I was just planning to have a birthday celebration for Sze Yi. In the end, we cancelled everything, poor girl. I could only hope that when the real day comes, I would at least be well enough to accompany her and won’t spread the virus to her.

So, please bear with me for awhile, you might not see me blogging that often now (not that I did before anyway).