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I’ve never figured out how to download shows from the net. That bit-torrent download thingy just spins my head.

So I watch the shows that I want to watch online, after letting the video stream and finish loading.

I used to watch Grey’s through links available on Sidereel….but recently, all the links there seem to take ages to load.

Now, I watch it on Truveo which links to YouTube. The show is usually split up to 6 parts, ranging about 6 minutes per part. True, the quality isn’t great, but at least I don’t have to wait….I’ll just open 6 tabs on my browser, go take a bath, and by the time I’m done, everything is loaded! Yay!

Hubby and I attended our first antenatal class at DSH last Tuesday night - the first out of a series of four.

The topics that were covered during the first class were diet and nutrition during and post pregnancy, a baby bath demonstration (this was scheduled to be in the fourth session, but they brought it forward) and admission and preparation of childbirth.

The first topic was rather boring…most of the information are available in books anyways (ie. what you should eat, should not eat, what vitamins are important, etc.). What shocked me was that at the end, someone asked if eating ginger can cause jaundice in babies, and the dietitian was not only unsure, she mumbled “I’m not sure about ginger, but papaya and …[couldn't catch the second part] maybe….”

What the…?!?

Hello…jaundice is caused by bilirubin, and it happens because baby’s liver is not developed enough to get rid of the excess bilirubin which then goes into the blood stream. The orange/yellow tinge that a person gets from eating too much papayas and carrots are due to beta-carotene!

Talk about giving misleading information…and she’s a qualified dietitian!

The baby bath demo that followed was pretty interesting though…and honestly, quite worrying! I actually felt quite confident about being able to bathe baby during the first few weeks, but after watching the demo, I don’t think it’s as easy as I initially thought. The nurse who did the demonstration is really motherly and she made it look so easy! She also advised all the daddies to be the ones bathing the baby (because mommies have other things to do, she said… )…LOL…I honestly can’t imagine hubby bathing baby lor!

The final topic was the most interesting out of the three as the nurse that spoke to us told us many stories about patients who went into labour early or didn’t listen to the doctor’s advice and didn’t come in for checkups, etc. Moral of the story is that as you approach the finishing line, if you feel that something doesn’t feel right with baby, listen to your instincts and go to the hospital’s maternity ward for a checkup instead of leaving it too late. Some of the cases she quoted had me almost in tears…a baby dying because the mother put off a checkup even though the doctor had advised her to come back in X days time, and another case where the mother let a non-qualified person turn her breech baby which ended up with baby’s umbilical cord getting wrapped around her neck! She also told us that there’s a mother up at the ward at that very night who’s in labour and her baby is only 26 weeks old! Gasp! Gotta really get a move on buying all the rest of the baby stuff and packing my hospital bag just in case baby gets impatient and decides to make an early appearance (which I really really hope she won’t!)…

She also focused on identifying signs of false vs. true labour, such as how to tell the difference between Braxton Hicks and a real contraction. To be honest, I still don’t understand what a contraction feels like! All the books and articles I read says that it’s a tightening of the uterine muscles, but I just can’t imagine the feeling. I asked the doctor the other day…but hmmmm…I honestly doubt a male doctor will be able to accurately describe the feeling either…

Anyways, let me end this post by showing you guys how baby treats my belly as her own personal Play-Doh…surely when this happens, it’s not contractions, right??

Looks a little bit like a volcano doesn’t it?