a-shopping for the blub

i went a-retailing last week & got the following:

• baby's come-home attire includes 2 rompers, blanket & cap (rm106)
• hooded bath towels (rm104)
• sling diaper bag (rm119)
• disposable diapers, baby bath essentials, moisturizer, baby oil, nappikleen detergent (rm100)
• bath stool, clothes organizers (rm82)
• cot + mattress + fitted sheets + comforter + cotbumpers + pillow + bolsters (altogether rm859)
• car seat (rm480)
  

so what do you think of the cot & car seat? i love the cot --it will blend in with my existing bedroom set. & the car seat was the husband's choice. i thought it was a little pricey but i didnt pay for it so never mind.

the lovely cot for blub which has yet to be delivered

& this here is blub's very first car seat

i'm so very relieved that we've started buying the essentials. now i'm less of a worry-wart. i wish things came cheaper though. that's why some people worry about having kids i guess. initially we were planning on taking on hand-me-downs for the cot & car seat but we were feeling a little cheapskate with our first-born so decided that we'll get him SOMETHING new at least.

as for clothes, that's all i'll be buying for the little tyke for now, just the coming-home attire. i wonder though, if i need to bring clothes for blub during my stay in the hospital or will the hospital provide it?

i've entered week 28 now. which means jengjengjeng... i am now in my final trimester. yippee!! wish me luck.

this is for you blub

i am claiming a liberal amount of artistic license for any distortion in my plagiarism below. please dont sue me jamelia. luv ya woman!!

my son the supahstah

i will always talk about (ey oh ey oh ey oh)
all the things you're all about (ey oh ey oh ey oh)
write about it as a blogger,
got a feeling i’ll see you later.

there's something bout this,
so blub keep swimming,
cos if you dont then i'll wonder if you're breathing,
coz i really wanna rock with you,
i'm feeling some connection to the things you do.
(you do, you do).

[chorus:]
i don’t know what it is,
that makes me feel like this,
are you kicking or punching or farting,
doesnt matter lah cos you are my supahstah,
and i've got all eyes on you no matter where you are,
(you just make me wanna play)

baby take a look around (ey oh ey oh ey oh)
can you see what's in my bowels (ey oh ey oh ey oh)
deal with all your problems later,
son you'll be on your best behaviour.

[chorus:]
i don’t know what it is,
that makes me feel like this,
are you kicking or punching or farting,
doesnt matter cos you are my supahstah,
and i've got all eyes on you no matter where you are,
(you just make me wanna play)

i like the way you're movin' (ey oh ey oh ey oh)
i just get into the groove and then (you just make me wanna play),
write about it as a blogger (ey oh ey oh ey oh)
got that feeling i'll see you later.

make your move,
can you be a little gentler,
you rock it just like you're supposed to,
hey boy i ain't got nothing more to say,
coz you just make me wanna play,
i don't know what it is,
that makes me feel like this,
i don't know,
gotta be, gotta be my supahstah,
my eyes on you.

[chorus x2]

random ramblings

confession
i've been drinking coffee. not much though, just like one mug a week. hope it doesnt come back to bite me in the ass when blub comes though.

grills
we're gonna get our grills installed soon --i will feel caged but safe.

my dad: who's gonna climb up 16 floors to break into your home?
me: i'm not worried about people coming in. i'm worried about people jumping out.

water
ok, ok... i'm drinking ok. so swim around blub, go ahead.

weight
at the last check-up i was 53.5kg. blub was 780grams. so actually i was only 52.72kg lah hehe... from this theres the boobs, uterus, placenta, blood, fluid, amniotic fluid & maternal fat stores & nutrients. just trying to make myself feel better here. so far i've put on 8.5kg from my pre-pregnancy weight. although i'm not fat, it still takes a lot of getting used to.

aches & pains
the back aches are now joined by the leg aches & feet aches. the husband's massage skills are not all that. he says its cos i'm not supposed to be massaged anyways. elehh... just foot rubs ma... i betcha hes just lazy. last week i got leg cramps for 2 nights. my immediate reaction is to start hitting the husband & shouting "i got cramps!! i got cramps!!" & his reaction is usually to jump out of bed & start flexing my legs while telling me not to tense my muscles. lucky for me, they dont last for very long. painful lah.

emotions
generally ok. but the other day, when the husband said i needed to add more spice to my cooking, i cried. by myself. while hiding in a corner in the kitchen. bodos tak? hehehe... & i wasnt even offended or anything. i dont even know why i cried. sobbed into a kitchen towel. so he got extra salt in his food at least hahaha... he felt so bad that he put two fingers at the side of my mouth to push them up into a smile. then, he stretched out on the floor in the kitchen with his head on my feet. while i was cooking. ni panggil "wife worship". muahahaha...

food
i gorged on mangoes last week. i seem to have a general craving for fruits (maybe cos the body temperature is up), iced milo, longans in a can, tosai & roti canai. wouldnt mind some japanese but gotta stay away from the sashimis.

fetal movements
the husband constantly asks me if i'm monitoring the blub's movements (as in writing it down in charts with the timing & all). i'm not really. been a bit busy at work so blub must be feeling a bit neglected. dont even have time to be doing what most pregnant moms do --rubbing the tummy. teruks lah i ni. sometimes though, when i'm just staring at this mound which is my tummy, the tummy jumps!! i mean it looks like it's jumping. kinda funny. other times, usually when i'm lying in bed, he'll be "scratching" on my side. well, it feels like scratching lah. reminds me of hamsters scrambling about in their home. then i'll just burst out laughing & the husband wonders if i've gone bonkers. suddenly laughing in the dark. muahaha...

clothes
honestly, my ONLY maternity wear are the maternity jeans i got last week. my idea of pregnany attire are XL-sized normal clothes. this is called, denial. since i'm now in my last trimester (time really flies hor), i'm thinking whether i should bother buying anymore. maybe just some tops lah. & some shoes. oh yes & the coming-home dress.

baby preparations
nuh-uh... i havent done any shopping. although i made a date with the husband to go shopping 2 saturdays from now. dont even know what to buy lah. plus i'm physically lazy to go walking about too much. i shall come up with a list. does anyone know where i can get a good rocking chair? oh yes, & we've got out babysitter matter sorted out. blub will be at home for his first 3 months with the maternal grandma. for his next 7-8 months he'll be at the paternal grandma's. we're paying the MIL's maid a little extra to take care of blub till he's old enough to go to a babysitter. in between the 7-8 months, he'll stay home if my parents come over for a visit.

ok lah thats all the ramblings i've got in my for now.

wanna to see 26-week old blub?

well, maybe this isnt blub (that isnt my body), but it gives you an idea. i'm looking at this & thinking: iyerrrr... lookit all that limb in my tummy!!

hihihi

:-)

muahaha...

i gots me my jeans... yippee...

THREE pairs...

ok well, 2 pairs of long jeans and 1 pair of denim shorts.

& they are priced rather reasonably --rm139 for the long ones i got at mother club, rm129 for the long ones i got at miki mom & rm119 for the short ones also purchased from miki mom. miki mom is a brand under the padini group & when you shop at padini with an hsbc credit card you get a 10% discount on your purchases. so i paid rm25 less.

i meant only to buy a pair of jeans but im a shopaholic who hasnt been shopping much, so, sue me for over-compensating.

the lovelier news is that i convinced the husband to foot the bill. muahahaha... of course i had to make him feel guilty about my expanding figure & having to buy new clothes every few months. didnt take too long to convince him. i dont think he was feeling guilty at all actually --i think he was just smart enough to know that the only way for me to not nag him to death about it is to just agree without giving me any grief.

so anyhoo, i'm gonna need some new tops now. but for the tops i dont mind going to our local pasar malam where they sell t-shirts for rm10 each. i only have another 2.5 months to go. so i question the need for me to buy new expensive tops. but who knows i might give in to the voices in my head & decide to shop anyways. oh well.

so, back to my jeans, i got them in S sizes. a bit snug but the M sizes were too loose on me. look so clumsy & foolish. so hopefully the pouch on my S-sized jeans will stretch enough to accomodate the growing bump which is prince blub. my motivation for buying S (although some people will call me a fool for not buying bigger) is that i ONLY have 2.5 months to go & once i deliver, i'll not have such a big bump anymore. if i were to have bought M size, then i wouldnt be able to wear it after the delivery. but with the S size, i still can. the pouch will accomodate whatever leftover bulges till such time when i can fit into my regular jeans again. see... arent i smart...

i wonder now why i left the maternity-wear shopping till now. i guess because i didnt know how big i was gonna be. so had i shopped for maternity-wear in the 2nd trimester, would i need to get a size S or M or L or XL? so now i know lah.

next up on the shopping list for mama-to-be (other than the tops), is a pair of satin ballet pumps or leather thongs (to go with the coming-home dress) & of course the coming-home dress.

we also have to start shopping for baby now. whoppee!! shopping spree!!

i'm 6.25 months now

i wear the husband's undies now --yes, boxers as well as briefs. he often whines about not having enough for himself. i keep telling him, he can use mine instead since i cant fit into mine.

we still havent decided on a name for blub. in actual fact, im the only one who calls him blub.

we've got about 2.75 months to go --takuts. at the last check-up the doctor says my water level in the sac is JUST enough for blub. lerss... so kena minum lebih air. but i admit, i'm SO bad at drinking water. now ah, my colleague times me. every few hours she will say: ok, its so & so time now, come lets drink water. i used to be SO good at drinking water. now so lazy. anyways, doc says that blub needs more water. to swim in i guess. we couldnt see his face at the last check. tsk tsk... doc said: your baby kissing your womb. in other words, his face was penyet-ed on my tummy. see, blub loves me already hihihi... he sayang me dah, already start kissing me. hihihihi...

we havent bought anything yet. dunno what to buy also lah. but i'm gonna get blub his coming-home attire too. maybe i can make the husband get with the program --HE (the husband) should also have a coming-home attire. or at the very least, new undies. i think i'm stretching his current ones.

generally, i'm feeling more preggers now due to the expanding tummy of course. my back aches all the time --i even have that pregnant-woman-with-hands-supporting-back walk. my soles hurt too. oh ya, and sleeping is really awkward. last night i slept on my left-side facing the husband & blub was just kicking up a fuss. so i had to sleep on my right-side facing away from the husband. only THEN was blub calm. told the husband: you must've done something wrong cos he doesnt want me to face you. the husband's reply was: dont drama lah. oh, the cheek of him. the baby is fussing and i pulak the drama. tsk tsk...

i feel more tired these days but i can still do lah some housework. well, theres no choice really cos theres construction all around our apartment & it gets so dusty. AND i dont trust the husband with the sweeping & wiping but its ok --he does the laundry & dishes, bless his soul. AND no, i dont want to get those cleaners cos the last time they came i was so not satisfied with their cleaning. i do a better job.

today i want to go do my groceries.

wardrobe wishes

for my coming home attire (i.e. from the hospital) i want a kaftan-like dress like this:

can or not? i mean it looks comfortable enough doesnt it? roomy enough to accomodate any stitches that i might have. doesnt look like it can accomodate breast feeding though. hmm...

so if anyone out there knows where i can get something like this in KL, please do let me know.

EXPECTANT MOTHER'S PRAYER

Dear Lord,

You have blessed me with the gift of life,

& now a tiny baby is growing inside of me.

Help me do the right things

so that my baby will develop properly.

Help me to eat the right foods

so that my baby will have the best nourishment possible.

Help me to relax & stay calm

even when my baby is kicking & turning.

This pregnancy is a miracle

that I never want to take for granted, Lord.

I promise You that I will always cherish this little soul

that is today, tomorrow & forever

a part of me.

Amen.