Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Different every pregnancy

Had my fortnightly checkup with my gynae last monday (16th March) and was eager to see the growth of my baby...
when suddenly Delaila said "Hmmm...I see a slightly bigger kidney on ur baby!"
That really sent us pressing the panic button.....
"Can u explain further, doc?"
Apparently Precious#2 has a slightly larger kidney than the other and Delaila told us that it's quite normal at this stage of my pregnancy and the baby tends to pass urine in my womb now. So at times he might not urinate it all and save some in his kidney, hence, having extra water in his kidney. Well, even if doc told us not to worry first..naturally as a mother, esp, i got all stressed up and came up with 1001 questions......
my subsequent question was "what's the worst tht could happen if the water didnt reduce as we hope it would?"

doc: " well..the water usually reduces after a while but in the worst case scenario......ur baby might hav damaged kidneys! but i shall not make u panic...we shall see again 2 weeks from now......the consoling part here is that if ur baby were to have some kinda kidney disease, we can usually see both kidneys' size being enlarged...but in ur case, it's only one kidney which is larger than the other....so lets hope it's only extra urine tht he will pass it out soon"

so....i've been praying real hard that it's not gonna give us any worry and i just cant wait to see the doc next week for more confirmation!

see.....it's always a risk in every pregnancy and it's different cases in every pregnancy.....first it was Zach's case in his 4th month of life inside me....now Precious #2 just doesnt wanna lose out on his share of giving mommy and daddy the scare of their lives!......

Monday, March 24, 2008

Drama after drama....

it's been sooooooooooooooooo long since i last made a post here.....
well.......loads and loads of events took palce for the past 2 months tht coming online here and posting new blogs was somehow not in the list of my things-to-do list.......

it was madness after the CNY celebration and our fabulous Bali trip.... just when i thought i could finally settle down and enjoy the final stage of my pregnancy with much anticipation for the baby's arrival................the show begun.........

FIRST, it was the sudden bleeding tht i had tht i had to be hospitalised and be on total bed rest......and given some injections....mind u....they were excruciatingly painful jabs! i'm not kidding cos i know i hav kinda high pain endurance but those jabs were simply much more painful than normal jabs...even the doc and nurses warned me tht before the injected me........hmmm.....pain and suffering a mother needs to go thru......
it was indeed a roller coaster ride for me n hubby.....not to mention the baby inside me which gave us all the biggest scare in my pregnancy.........to cut a long story short...everything went back to normal after abt a week but i was warned by the doc to never...NEVER carry anything heavier than 1kg!!!!

SECOND, Zach was down with high fever, bad cough and flu....argh..................... it was one drama after another..... i was totally drained out....emotionally and physically......couldnt sleep peacefully for many nights cos i needed to monitor his temperature and all........then his vomitting and all.......a total of 3 freaking weeks!!! he just got better last week

THIRD, i caught the flu bug myself after tht! needed a week to recover......

so tht's abt it.......the roller coaster of my life for the past one month!