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…baby has grown as big as a banana. (Length: about 6 1/2 inches from head to bottom, and 10 inches from head to heel.)

Photo and info from: Baby Center.

Despite just having gone back to work for two days after my 1.5 weeks of (medical) rest, I already feel exhausted and am so happy that the weekend’s here! I’m off on Monday and Tuesday, so with the Hari Raya hols on Wednesday and Thursday, next week is just a one-day work week for me, how absolutely perfect!

Hubby booked a 3D/2N package at Cameron Highlands Resort and we’ll be there from Saturday till Monday. We’re calling this our ‘last’ vacation for the next 1.5 years…

We plan to take a leisurely drive to Ipoh tomorrow, and probably stop by at ISC for lunch (mmm…yummy chicken sandwiches!) before continuing our drive up to Camerons. I do hope the roads will still be clear as I don’t fancy getting stuck in a jam with a bursting bladder like last time!

Since this is supposed to be a relaxing holiday as I’ve just recovered from being ill, I’m planning to bring season 3 & 4 of Grey’s Anatomy along (note to self…bring the laptop and cables in case the room doesn’t have a DVD player!) to keep me company. The package also includes meals (yes, breakfast, lunch AND dinner), so looks like we’ll be doing alot of vegetating at the hotel…

I do hope the weather is good and the skies are nice and clear as I also plan to bring along my camera to take photos. I’m really hoping that I get the chance to take some nice photos with hubby since my belly is now showing (yay!), plus the picturesque hotel grounds will make a lovely backdrop…so the tripod and remote trigger are definitely coming along with us too!

Can’t wait, can’t wait!

Have a great weekend, people!

Carpal tunnel syndrome
Anyone experienced it before?

The first time I got it was when we just moved to our new place early this year. For one week or so, I was busy packing, carrying boxes, wiping, dusting, mopping, vacuuming. And then it started. A weird tingling feeling in my right wrist that would start in the middle of the night, and by morning, my hand would be numb. And anyone who’ve experience blood rushing back to your limbs after getting pins and needles know it’s not much fun at all! No amount of flexing would help with the numbness…I just had to wait for it to slowly subside. My suspicions that it was carpal tunnel syndrome was right when I went to see the GP. I was advised to stop doing any housework for some time, and to even avoid any activities that would rotate my wrist…yes, even opening doorknobs was a no-no!

What does this have to do with pregnancy? Ah…it apparently affects some pregnant women as well! Due to swelling and fluid retention which is another side-effect of pregnancy, the nerve that runs through the carpal tunnel gets compressed, which in turn, causes the numbness and tingling sensation. You can read more about it here.

As with my previous experience, the tingling usually starts at night, so what I do now is to try to prop my wrist on a pillow and avoid bending it when I sleep (which is quite hard to do because I tend to ‘hug’ my tummy protectively nowadays!). It does help somewhat…at least I haven’t gotten to the same stage as last time when I would wake up with my whole hand feeling numb!

Sleeping positions…
I bought a body pillow from Aussino over the weekend. A nice comfy one that’s almost as long as me (or short, depending on how you look at it… )! The reason I bought it is because pregnant women are advised to start sleeping on their sides when the pregnancy advances and I needed a pillow that’s long enough for me to hug and soft enough to stuff beneath my expanding tummy to prop it up.

For those who might not be aware, as your baby gets bigger, sleeping on your back would mean that the baby’s weight is applying pressure to the large vein that carries blood back to the heart from your feet and legs…not a good thing! This website as well as my pregnancy books recommend that pregnant women sleep on their left side as it “helps improve circulation to the heart and allows for the best blood flow to the fetus, uterus and kidneys“. Works for me as I’ve recently switched places in bed with hubby. I used to sleep on his right, now I’m sleeping on his left because it’s nearer to the bathroom… …so sleeping on my left side means that all I have to do is to swing my legs down to the floor and I can get out of bed easily. Trust me, time is of an essence when you wake up in the middle of the night with baby tap-dancing on your bladder!

And the kicking continues…
Baby seemed rather displeased that I’m back at work today (or at least that’s what I told myself…haha!). From about 11am till late evening, I felt lots and lots of kicks all over my tummy…and I mean out-of-the-norm-alot! Baby’s usually more active at night than in the afternoon, and I’ve very rarely felt so many almost-continuous kicks for such a long span of time. Kick-kick…pause…kick-kick-kick. And on it goes. It was amusing to feel, albeit distracting!

Bedtime stories
Yes, I’ve started reading bedtime stories to baby! I started off with popular bedtime fairytales like The Three Little Pigs, The Goose Girl, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, etc. from a lovely illustrated book I found in Borders. I’ve been reading one story per night so far and we’re more than halfway through the book already.

Today, I found myself browsing the children’s section at Borders again and guess what I bought?

A lovely box set containing 10 of Dr. Seuss’s best loved tales like The Cat In The Hat and One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish! I myself have not read most of it, so I’m really looking forward to starting this series once I’ve finished the bedtime fairytale book. Talk about pandering to your inner child…

For those wondering, no…I’m not doing this to ‘advance’ my baby’s brain ala Mozart music, etc. I just enjoy reading to baby while patting my tummy…it’s what I consider bonding time, even though baby’s still in my tummy!

I do hope that baby will pick up both my, and hubby’s, love for reading. I’m more of a strictly-fiction type of girl (although I’ve actually managed to finish a couple of non-fiction books - a fact that I never hesitate to bring up whenever hubby says all I read are storybooks), while hubby enjoys reading business and self-improvement books - so I hope baby develops a love for both fiction and non-fiction as we have a huge collection of books to pass down to baby when he or she grows up!

“Hi, do you do delivery?”

“Yes”

“Any minimum order?”

“……RM3″

“You mean a RM3 delivery charge?”

“……Yes”

“So no minimum order?”

“……No”

“Ok. Then I’ll like to order one mushroom porridge, large. That’s all.”

“……Just one?……We don’t deliver just one.”

Extremely un-amusing when you wake up feeling hungry after nursing a stuffy head cold that has blocked your sinuses so badly that it gives you the feeling of walking with a fish bowl around your head with evil goblins having a jackhammer demonstration all along your nasal passages right up to your ear.

If I didn’t like the porridge at that place so much, I would’ve just put it on my blacklist straightaway given the mood I was in…plus the fact that someone working there once double parked and blocked my car for a good 15-20 minutes despite me honking incessantly and to rub it in further, I’d just come from having dinner there!

To end the conversation, I told the person that someone will come pick it up.

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“So you want to takeaway?”

…baby equals a large heirloom tomato in size and weighs 8 1/2 ounces. (length: 6 inches, head to bottom)

Photo and info from: Baby Center.