Sigh! Another week of waiting and losing weight?

Those days (9 months ago) when I was dieting and eating bland tasteless healthy food, I had difficulty losing weight. Now that I am eating to my heart's content, especially at this stage of pregnancy, I lose weight from last week's weigh-in. Dr Nik was concerned but not too concerned since I have put on 14 kg in totality. What is in a few hundred grams, right?

I was not able to sleep well last night despite taking sleeping tablets. I slept close to 12pm and woke up at 4am. Moved to the wing chair but my backache was so bad that I couldn't sleep even if I wanted to.

The appointment today did not introduce anything new, I thought. Or perhaps I am taking things for granted. I know I am. Blood pressure was 90/60, urine is clear from proten, baby is head down, his back to my left, and I could see Baby A's chest heaving up and down and him opening his mouth like a yawn. Dr Nik said he was actually swallowing the amniotic fluid. Such is the wonder of life growing inside me. I am 36 weeks now but the baby's size is almost 38 weeks. Estimated weight at this point is 2.8kg. The placenta is at Stage 3 maturity and God knows how many stages there are since I didn't care to ask at this point, evident in the increase in calcium deposits within the placenta.

Since I complained of not being able to sleep, Dr Nik increased my dosage of sleeping tablets from 1 to 2. I have only been taking 1 tablet nightly since even with 1 I have difficulty waking up in the morning. These tablets does help me go to sleep because that is the real problem, I sleep very late at night because I have slept my day off in the afternoon.

At this point I really want the C-section to be next week, any day let's just do it Doctor! Dr Nik, however, said let's give the baby the benefit of being longer in the womb and target for delivery on 6 July 2009 unless my water broke, my blood pressure shoots up or I have pain at my previous C-section scars. That is another 9 days! I don't think I can hold out that much longer what with me heavy like this, the hot weather, nausea and act of vomiting especially after coffee and brushing my teeth.

The thing that gets to me at this point is I want to be actively moving about, spring cleaning cupboards, kitchen, book shelves since I hardly get to do this when I work. There is a limit to my activity and energy level and I would be retreating to the comfort of my bedroom by 12pm to rest and sleep. Even my maid is saying that I should rest rather than move about. I suspect I am getting to her nerves as well since I am asking her to do this and that. Why not tell the employer to rest therefore she can go about her usual routine, eh? I suspect that was not the reason since she has been with me for 8 long years and that was a genuine concern.

Now that MASfair is on until 5 July I am already making travel plans for the year-end school holidays. MrM has agreed to go to an international location, with the new baby, and I think this trip will be exciting for the older kids. Imagine water parks, desert safaris, beriani from Liyari, souks, shopping....you don't need to guess where we are heading. Yes, if ada rezeki, ke situlah we will be going for holiday this year.