11: Pregnancy Journey Warded Day 1

          Last Tuesday, my husband & I went to Sandakan to renew car insurance and road tax. We decided to stay a night there.
          On Wednesday, on the way back home, we stopped at Servey Hypermarket 'coz I want to survey baby stuffs. *My all-time favorite yeah!*. Suddenly I felt like wana pee..pee.. Oh shit, there was 2 blood spots! Instantly, I had no heart to continue shopping. I just wana go back home. I told husband, he advised to go to the hospital. Better safe than sorry.
          After reached Hospital Kota Kinabatangan, nurse asked me to change into hospital dress. I was brought to Dewan Bersalin to check baby's heart rate (CTG) & scan the baby.

I was lying next to this bed

dunno this for what..

                                                
          Doctor checked uterus to ensure placenta placed above or down. (If down, there was possibility that caused the blood spots). She checked the opening of the uterus (if any) and also if any cut down there. Luckily, everything were ok. The doctor suggested me to admit a night for monitoring. If tomorrow no blood I discharged.

mommy looking happy

1st class room. Thanks to husband

          Actually husband can stay with me (1st class room, remember? ehehe). Sadly, he need to work tomorrow so I was alone at night.

activity at night-watching Supernatural

10: Pregnancy Journey Daddy's Excitement

9. Pregnancy Journey Mommy Excitement

          Mommy is so excited (yet nervous) to welcome baby into our small family. Two days ago I washed baby gears (clothes, towels, blanket).

          I separated colored & white clothes, gather them into washing bag. And put the washing bag into washing machine. 

           

          All dry under the hot sun.

          Tadaaaaa... all done. 

8: Pregnancy Journey Counting Baby's Kicks

          Starts from 28th weeks, I need to count my baby's kicks everyday. I must feel baby's movement minimum 10 times for 12 hrs; from 9am-9pm. This is how to do the counting. Let say baby kicks at 9am, it counts as one. But it doesn't count if he kicks again after 3 minutes. The gap must be between 15-20minutes. So after 15mins when he kicks again, it counts as two.

 

7: Pregnancy Journey GDM

          On my 20th week of pregnancy, I needed to check my sugar content in blood. The procedure is named as MOGTT (Modified Oral Glucose Tolerance Test). So, what should I do? Firstly, of course to control sugar intake (to get the good result) and also, I need to fast start from 12 midnight before the procedure.
          The appointment was at 8am at Hospital Kota Kinabatangan. We arrived there around 8.40am. Nurse pricked my finger to get small blood sample before I required to drink a glass of 75ml of glucose (yucks!) until finished. 2 hrs later, I came back to the hospital to get my blood tested again (still fasting). Oh yes! Sugar readings were normal. Then we drove to KKIA to meet a doctor. The doctor informed that my sugar content was normal, baby inside also normal & active, his growth was ok. That's all for the day.
          On the 28th week of pregnancy, I needed to do the second MOGTT. Same procedure as before, went to hospital, drank glucose (still yucks!) and yada yada yada... (same as the above paragraph). However, yes, there was "however". Nurse at KKIA told me that my result showed high sugar content (the reading was 7.2mmol/L). She said I had higher chances to get GDM (gestational diabetes mellitus), or easier word to understand is diabetes during pregnancy.

          So, nurse advised me to come again after a week to re-check; it is called BSP (blood sugar profile). BSP means to check sugar (prick my finger again) 3 times; 1st at 8am, then 11.30am & last at 4pm. 

          On the next week, I did BSP & the results were normal. After the last blood test, I met the doctor. Surprisingly, he said my 2nd MOGTT was actually NORMAL. As he explained the reading shouldn't exceed 7.8 (remember mine was 7.2). So meaning here, the nurse gave me wrong info & I actually no need to do BSP. Hmm... I had wasted my whole day for the BSP. :-(. 

          The doctor scanned baby & he showed me baby doing ok inside. His weight has increased to 1.3kg. 

          Baby.. Mommy really can't wait to welcome u into our world.

glucose

mommy on 30th week of pregnancy

6: Pregnancy Journey Baby Not Active!

          I am 30 weeks pregnant. Yay!! I want to share things happenned on a few weeks back. 

          On 23.04.14 baby's movement wasn't active since last night. His movement very light and that really made me worried. I had talked to baby and rubbing my belly gently but his response still the same. He did moved but not like as usual. So, I wanted to go to KKIA to check if baby doing ok or not. 

          In the afternoon we went to KKIA. On the way, I could feel baby kicking me hard. Hmm... It seems he already active yet I wanted to be checked. Nurse examined baby's heartbeat using fetal dophtone & Alhamdulillah his heart rate normal. Baby even kicked the dophtone. Hehehe. 

          Nevertheless, nurse still want to further checked but there was no doctor available that day (doctor attending meeting in KK) so I was referred to Hospital Kota Kinabatangan to perform CTG monitoring. 

          Me, husband & escorted by a nurse went to the hospital. There, I was told that they will monitor baby heart rate via CTG & if everythings ok I could go home. Otherwise, I may need to stay a night (or more). 

          So, I was brought to Dewan Bersalin & nurse switched on the CTG machine. Baby's heart rate was monitored for 10minutes. I was glad that I could feel his kicking & movement while been monitored. After done, doctor said the graph showed normal result. Then doctor scanned to see him inside. Oh, baby started to move & turn around. 👍. Doctor told me that he could arrange if I wanted to stay a night for monitoring but since I saw baby doing ok, I said 'No need'. 

5: Pregnancy Journey Baby Boy or Girl?

          My scheduled scan in KKIA will be on 12.05.14. However, husband seems impatient to wait the date. So he proposed to go to private clinic to scan our baby.

          On Tuesday (8.04.14) we went to Klinik Dr Siti & Surgeri located at Bandar Sri Perdana. 

          So, baby boy or baby girl??? 

          Yes, he is a boy!!!!! He's very active swimming & rolling inside! Even the doctor also could feel him moving. I am very grateful that baby doing great. 

          Oh ya, it also means now we can call him his name :-). BabyN.. like daddy always says to u "baby be kuai kuai"... 

         Mommy & daddy love u, sayang..