Simply Precious

Baby AJ has been learning how to go on his knees now. Although i’m happy that he’s learning and progressing, I’m sad that he’s growing too fast. I believe he is going to be crawling soon. Steph and I went to buy a rug at Home Depot today for downstairs so that he can have an area to crawl around downstairs instead of the tile.

Right now AJ fell asleep on the bed. I’m currently in the process of making my nieces’ slideshow for her 1st birthday party so I’m laying next to him on the bed. I’m staring at him and it really amazes me that I have a baby. I still can’t believe that after all we went through and all that time thinking we couldn’t have a baby, it truly is a miracle that God has blessed us with him. He’s so precious and I love him so much! Everyday I am thankful to get for him.

I’m approaching the home stretch of this pregnancy. So I guess that is why I had to do a pap smear at yesterdays checkup. Nurse said they wanted to check if any bacteria started growing or what not and just to check that everything down there is fine. Usually pap smear’s don’t hurt but this one hurt really bad! It was pretty painful for him to stick that metal thingy in whatever its called n clamp down. Then even just using the swap to get some sample hurted =( When I looked at the swab after he was done, I did see some red so I guess I was bleeding too.

Today I’m still a little sore too. Next week Dr. said he’s going to start checking if I’m dilating or not. Oh boy! I’m getting super nervous. I am so not ready.

We started Lamaze Classes today. Our instructor is Janis Bush and we’re taking it at Castle Medical Hospital, although she does teach on her own and also at Queens but Castle is the one that had sundays and that worked with our schedule so we went with that. I read about Janis on hawaii momslikeme forums back when I got pregnant the first time and I knew I wanted to go see her. Little did I know that my co-worker Nicole and also Pia went to see her when they were pregnant and they gave birth naturally! They said they couldn’t do it without taking her class so I have hope! They say she’s crazy and she kind of is (haha) but it makes the class a little more interseting. If possible I really want to try to give naturally without any drugs.

Today’s class was a bit awkward. The daddies to be had to talk about a sunset or a sunrise for a complete minute and try to calm the mommies to be down and put them in a relaxing state but since it was our first time it was just a lot of laughter and I tried so hard not to laugh but it was weird. She asked us again to do it a second time for another minute and we were better the second time around. Really hope this class helps me!

Ever since I stopped morning sickness and started my 2nd trimester, I’ve been having heartburn. So currently TUMS is my best friend right now. No matter what I eat, I tend to get heartburn *sigh*

Baby so far is doing good. I feel him more and more now. His kicks are definitely getting stronger and it makes me happy to feel them. I borrowed a stethoscope from my aunty around 20 weeks. I couldn’t hear it at first, but around 21 weeks, I started able to hear him moving around. Then at 22 weeks I heard his heartbeat through there and its been getting stronger and stronger since. Such happy noises =) I love my baby so much. I hope he grows strong and healthy.

In the beginning of my pregnancy, I hated eggs and I used to eat a lot of mangoes and sour things. Lately I actually can handle eating eggs again but I hate the smell of mushy rice. After each meal I tend to have a sweet tooth and want something sweet to bite into. I think i’ve gained a lot of weight from this pregnancy and I look huge. I haven’t kept track of my weight from the beginning but I do remember when I had morning sickness, when I weigh in at the doctor was was about 163-165 at one point. So it makes me worry to think that I have gained about 20lbs so far. Today I weighed in at 185.5 though when I asked one of the nurses there to look at my chart to see how much I weighed in the beginning, she said 172.2 so supposedly I gained about 13 so far? I don’t know? Maybe I lost the weight to 163ish when I had morning sickness but still thats a lot to gain from that point?

I’ve been still been waking up in the middle of the nights. Many mornings I wake up at about 4ish in the morning and im starving but I go back to sleep since sleep > hunger to me in the morning. So i’m starving when I wake up. I seriously don’t know how I never used to eat breakfast. Only 2 meals a day. Now I really have the need to eat 3 meals a day and snacks in between but I do get full fast. I asked doctor what he thought about my weight but he told me not to worry.

Today is Good Friday and it really IS a good friday =) I was so excited to go to our ultrasound today. I woke up at 3:30 this morning! Took a while to go back to sleep then woke up again at 5:30am but it was still too early… then finally got up about 6:30 to start getting ready. We left about 7ish since our appointment was at Ala Moana at 8:20am. We got there early so Steph visited his coworkers that he hasn’t seen long time who he used to pick up from. Then went up for the ultrasound. The first 4d pic they took looks like my dad a lot. Baby was moving around a lot and kept having his hands cover his face. The lady said she couldn’t get it more clear than it is since he’s close to the placenta. This ultrasound was such an exciting moment for us. It’s so cool to kind of see a better picture of what baby looks like. I was worried about baby not being a good size since they started off as twins first but she said baby’s size is normal and looks good =)

My favorite part of the ultrasound was seeing baby sucking his thumb. I couldn’t help but laugh. We got a 2d shot of it and she was going to try to get a 4d shot but by the time she switched probes, baby stopped already. Another favorite part of the experience was finding out the sex. There on the screen we saw a his weiner just sticking out there and she was like its a boy! I asked her whats the %rate on accuracy and she looked again and since its sticking out so much she said ‘i’m pretty sure its a boy” horray! I was getting all teary eyed. Actually i did tear. Knowing the sex and seeing pics of him makes me feel just that much more attached to him and makes me love him even more. I really thought baby was going to be a girl, actually everyone thought baby was going to be a girl so it was such a happy surprise baby is a boy =)! I got my wish and I couldn’t be any happier! Steph is super excited too. He wanted a boy as well. Either way would have been good but we both preferred a boy! Thank god! I already feel like he looks like my dad. My due date is august 30th and my dads birthday and his moms bday is august 28th. It would be so cool if I give birth on that day too. Amazing! I’m gonna have a son =)

In the beginning I remember craving for vinegary stuff….. the past few weeks ive been craving sweets. Lots of ice cream!! But right now I really want something salty. I’m at work trying to walk around to see if anyone has snacks… chips in particular but all I see around the office is sweets! Boo!! I haven’t been updating lately. Slacking…. I could find out the sex of the baby this week but I’m waiting for Steph to have a day off so we can go together. We’re gonna go to an ultra sound place that our doctor referred us to which is close by ala moana. We’re gonna go next week friday. Good friday. April 6th. We both have that day off so we picked that day. I can’t wait! I’m excited to find out. I have a feeling it’s going to be a girl…… We’ll see….

It’s so hard to brush my teeth lately. The brushing part I can handle but the rinsing part mostly makes me gag. Tonight I just had it the worst. It’s the first time I gagged and threw up.

Usually when I ‘throw up’ nothing comes out. Or it’s just like clear liquid or something but this time it felt like my entire lunch, snacks and dinner came out. It was pretty pinkish. I’m assuming it’s from the strawberry shortcake Popsicle I ate and I also had strawberry yan yans as well. I had oyster sauCe chicken and roast duck for lunch and for dinner I had pork hash and manapua and also brownie with vanilla ice cream. Brownie had macadamia nuts and that came out too. Oh man this really sucks. Feels like its going to be another long ass night. The icing on the cake was me peeing in my panty/shorts at the same time. I had no control over it. What the hell?!?! That’s messed up if you ask me.

I wish Steph would be a little sympathetic as me. He doesn’t even come to check up on me. Ask if I’m okay. This morning was the same story when I was throwing up clear stuff. So I called him on it that geeze no sympathy huh? He just said he’s not gonna baby me about it.

Ugh! Im so sad right now. 3 something in the morning and I feel hungry/nauseous and anxious all at the same time. Checked my phone to see what was going on on Facebook then I see Allen’s post of saimin. I tried hard to stay in bed but I couldn’t sleep.

I went downstairs to look for something to eat but after seeing Allen’s pix, saimin was all I could think about. We had miso saimin, kimchee saimin, some noodle something that’s like pancit canton and chicken saimin (but expired aug 2011). I really wanted shrimp flavor but never have cuz we really stocked up on miso since that’s what we liked at one point. I opted for the chicken one. I know so bad but at least it wasnt 2010? lol anyway it was so good. Allen’s pix had 2 ice cubes in it just like how grandma used to make it for me when I was younger so you can eat it faster. That’s exactly what I did too haha. Babies is happy. Still a little hungry but I didn’t want to cook 2.

Note to self: buy shrimp saimin to stock up pantry

Morning sickness has really been getting worse lately. I would get hungry but don’t want to eat anything cuz I feel so gross or scared I’m gonna throw it all up.

I asked Steph if he could stop by motherhood maternity before he goes to work and….

He got it for me!! I’m willing to try all kinds of things to help me at this point. I’m not a big fan of ginger so I’m hoping this works. Tomorrow we have our ultrasound. We’re going to find out If it’s a singleton or if it’s twins. I’m really hoping its twins. I’m keeping my fingers crossed. I want twins so bad that idk how I’m gonna take it if I find out its not. I think I would be devastated.