Was thinking since Kevin and I are not going to any prenatal class, i'll use that money for pre-natal instead. In the end, i signed up with Colleen Simmons at Mother and Child at Tanglin Mall.
First time and I'm hooked. I found the stretching sessions really good for my aching back. The breathing techniques also helped me relax and tuned in to my baby inside. Very zen.
In the end, i signed up for 8 sessions. 4 at Mother and child and another 4 at Holland Village.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
30 Weeks 3 Days
I'm hit by a bout of tiredness today. And my back never feel stiffer. Although i tried to sleep early, somehow i cannot fall into those deep sleep. My company's policy is to take ML at least 1 week before EDD. so counting down, 42 more working days for me. Sigh, such a long time.
Braxton hicks, i get them fairly often too, esp after meals. The stomach will harden to a rock and the whole shape is weird. These contractions are like practice sessions prior to delivery
Braxton hicks, i get them fairly often too, esp after meals. The stomach will harden to a rock and the whole shape is weird. These contractions are like practice sessions prior to delivery
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
29 Weeks 3 Days: Hiccups
Andre hiccups at least once a day. Sometimes very soft, got once it was quite strong, that daddy was convince it's the heartbeat not the hiccups. Guys... sigh
Sunday, August 2, 2009
29 Weeks 2 days: Dietician Counselling at KKH
Spend a day at KKH for diet counselling. Comes with one day hospitalisation leave .. yay! (hehe). It was a full day event with 5 meals provided. I was taught how to use the glucose monitor and my sugar levels were taken before and 2 hours after every meal. The dietician also dropped by to teach us on our choice of food and quantity.
My case isn't that bad and does not require insulin injection.
Anyway, some tips i picked up regarding Gestational Diabetes.
1.The dietician gave me a 1800 calories/day formula. Try to go for low calories, but highly nutritious food. We still need to take carbo, cos it gives us energy. Stuff like brown rice, wholemeal bread is good. White rice is ok, but restrict to 1 medium bowl for lunch and dinner. 1 medium bowl is about 12 table spoons, or the spread of your palm size (not piled up like a mountain).
2. Can substitute the white rice for potatoes, yam, tampioca. About 3 egg-sized potatoes = 1 bowl of medium rice.
3. Try to have 3 main meals and 3 snacks everyday. The time difference between meals and snacks is about 2-4 hours apart. Reason for doing so is it will regulates your sugar. Say for instance, if you don't have a snack in between, and you gap 6 hours between meals, you will feel very hungry and eat more than what you should during your main meal. This causes a big sugar spike in your blood. So the purpose of the snack is to kinda control your body's craving for sugar. A snack is like 1 slice of wholemeal bread or 3 whole wheat crackers/0.5 of a small meat pau with a cup of low-fat milk. For the main meal, it's like the rice amt described above, with some meat and a large portion of vegetables.
4. In short, for GD diet, no sweet stuff and no fatty stuff. Apparently, fatty stuff will line our stomach preventing the body from absorbing the sugar, so the sugar will go into our blood stream. We can have unlimited portion of veges (not potato, yam that kind) and unlimited amt of soup w/o the meat (not those creamy kinds). But veges should not be soaking in oil that kind.
5. Fruits wise, Durian is a no-no Just one seed already hit our daily quota for fruit. Avoid dragon fruit too.
6. Milk is still strongly recommended as we need to have calcium for our babies to build healthy bones, but only go for the low-fat or skimmed ones. Can substitute with no-fat yogurt if you are not a milk person.
7. Avoid fruit juice cos to make that one glass, many fruits go into it. And fruits have natural sugar in it. It's better to take fresh fruits as we can take in the fibre at the same time which aids in the sugar absorption
8. Back to carbo, go for those kwey teow, bee hoon. Yellow mee, even mee sua have very high carbohydrates content. Spaghetti is fine. 1 medium bowl of these noodles = 1 medium bowl of rice.
9. And walk for at least 1/2 hour after meals. Exercise does help lower sugar levels. Walking also will improve contipation problem, cos as you move, you'll stimulate your intestines as well.
10. We are free to eat the confinement food after delivery. Dun have to control like these 6 meals regime as typically GD will subside within 6 weeks. However, as GD mums are more prone to developing diabetes later stage in our life, we still cannot go overboard with sugar. As confinement food tend to be sweet/oily, just gently remind our CL or mums to go easy on the oil and sugar
Sounds tough right, but just have to bear with it for 2 months and it's all for the good for ourselves and our baby. =) Jia you!
There is this little handbook given for referral.
I was talking about the cut with the nurse yesterday. She used to be a mid wife and from her experience of having 3 kids, she said apparently, the labor pains are worse than the cut, so most mums do not feel the cut at all. Typically, the gynae will choose to cut at the climax of the contractions. Seeing my terrified face, she quickly added that a local painkiller will be injected to numb the area.
My case isn't that bad and does not require insulin injection.
Anyway, some tips i picked up regarding Gestational Diabetes.
1.The dietician gave me a 1800 calories/day formula. Try to go for low calories, but highly nutritious food. We still need to take carbo, cos it gives us energy. Stuff like brown rice, wholemeal bread is good. White rice is ok, but restrict to 1 medium bowl for lunch and dinner. 1 medium bowl is about 12 table spoons, or the spread of your palm size (not piled up like a mountain).
2. Can substitute the white rice for potatoes, yam, tampioca. About 3 egg-sized potatoes = 1 bowl of medium rice.
3. Try to have 3 main meals and 3 snacks everyday. The time difference between meals and snacks is about 2-4 hours apart. Reason for doing so is it will regulates your sugar. Say for instance, if you don't have a snack in between, and you gap 6 hours between meals, you will feel very hungry and eat more than what you should during your main meal. This causes a big sugar spike in your blood. So the purpose of the snack is to kinda control your body's craving for sugar. A snack is like 1 slice of wholemeal bread or 3 whole wheat crackers/0.5 of a small meat pau with a cup of low-fat milk. For the main meal, it's like the rice amt described above, with some meat and a large portion of vegetables.
4. In short, for GD diet, no sweet stuff and no fatty stuff. Apparently, fatty stuff will line our stomach preventing the body from absorbing the sugar, so the sugar will go into our blood stream. We can have unlimited portion of veges (not potato, yam that kind) and unlimited amt of soup w/o the meat (not those creamy kinds). But veges should not be soaking in oil that kind.
5. Fruits wise, Durian is a no-no Just one seed already hit our daily quota for fruit. Avoid dragon fruit too.
6. Milk is still strongly recommended as we need to have calcium for our babies to build healthy bones, but only go for the low-fat or skimmed ones. Can substitute with no-fat yogurt if you are not a milk person.
7. Avoid fruit juice cos to make that one glass, many fruits go into it. And fruits have natural sugar in it. It's better to take fresh fruits as we can take in the fibre at the same time which aids in the sugar absorption
8. Back to carbo, go for those kwey teow, bee hoon. Yellow mee, even mee sua have very high carbohydrates content. Spaghetti is fine. 1 medium bowl of these noodles = 1 medium bowl of rice.
9. And walk for at least 1/2 hour after meals. Exercise does help lower sugar levels. Walking also will improve contipation problem, cos as you move, you'll stimulate your intestines as well.
10. We are free to eat the confinement food after delivery. Dun have to control like these 6 meals regime as typically GD will subside within 6 weeks. However, as GD mums are more prone to developing diabetes later stage in our life, we still cannot go overboard with sugar. As confinement food tend to be sweet/oily, just gently remind our CL or mums to go easy on the oil and sugar
Sounds tough right, but just have to bear with it for 2 months and it's all for the good for ourselves and our baby. =) Jia you!
There is this little handbook given for referral.
I was talking about the cut with the nurse yesterday. She used to be a mid wife and from her experience of having 3 kids, she said apparently, the labor pains are worse than the cut, so most mums do not feel the cut at all. Typically, the gynae will choose to cut at the climax of the contractions. Seeing my terrified face, she quickly added that a local painkiller will be injected to numb the area.
Friday, July 31, 2009
28 Weeks 5 Days: OGTT test failed!
KKH called me today... said i fail my OGTT test. Below 7.8 is ok, but my results is 9.9. Now ordered to go for a full day nutrition course. Abt $300, but claimable by medisave.
I think I can say bye bye to durians. And also my favourite mooncakes which is coming up soon. I adore those ice-skin, lotus paste with chocolate crusted champagne centers. My husband is secretly pleased. Cos he saw me walloped one big plate of hokkien mee the other night and was horrified. Now i'm forced to take note of what i eat.
I think I can say bye bye to durians. And also my favourite mooncakes which is coming up soon. I adore those ice-skin, lotus paste with chocolate crusted champagne centers. My husband is secretly pleased. Cos he saw me walloped one big plate of hokkien mee the other night and was horrified. Now i'm forced to take note of what i eat.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
28 Weeks 4 days: 7th month check up
Check up after London trip. Did OGTT (Oral Glucose Tolerance Test), actually the syrup i had wasn't that bad, and i manage to glup it all down. Baby is well, 1.3 kg for 28 weeks. Dr said ok. Dr grinned at me and said i put on some weight, then i went to compare last month's results. Kaoz, put on 4 KG!... now in major depression. I thought i only put on 2 kg.Nowadays when i climb the flight of stairs to my office, i'll pant pant for a while at the top. And getting out of the sofa, or when i'm getting up sitting on the floor is starting to be a chore
Monday, July 27, 2009
28 Weeks 1 Day
I am suddenly craving for tom yum soup soo much... and my hubby simply wouldn't move his butt. There is this myth, if the pregnant mummy does not fulfill her cravings, her baby will drool like mad in future.
Last night, i had this episode that was so surreal. I didn't think whether i was asleep or awake, but i was reaching out to rub my belly and there was this hard spot. Almost as i placed my hand, i thought i felt a limb, but it nudged away almost immediately so i was unsure.
Last night, i had this episode that was so surreal. I didn't think whether i was asleep or awake, but i was reaching out to rub my belly and there was this hard spot. Almost as i placed my hand, i thought i felt a limb, but it nudged away almost immediately so i was unsure.
Friday, July 24, 2009
27 Weeks 5 Days: Civic Conscience
Talking about being civic conscious, if Singapore is bad, London is even worse. When i take the train, no one bothers to give up their seat; their eyes just stare blankly back at you. And i was wearing a mask throughout my trip even when i go out, and the people will deliberately cough very loudly and clear their throats and make very snide remarks on the swine flu. No wonder the flu spread is so wide there, cos everyone is in denial and nobody cares.
27 Weeks 5 Days: Updates on baby
Nowadays, i can feel baby tumbling sometimes left side, sometimes right side, and that area will tighten. When i sleep on my left side, i can feel him kicking, like protesting not to sleep on him.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
25 Weeks 6 Days: Baby's been so quiet
My baby is super quiet today since morning; can hardly feel any movement, if not nothing. No matter how i probe my tummy, he also boh chup me... i am getting worried, should i? are they supposed to be so quiet sometimes? i tell my hubby, but he keep telling me not to disturb our son...
Update:
Last night, i got super gan chiong after i played babyplus and the little fellow didn't respond! Drove down to KKH, delivery suite for a check up at 10 plus(this was what the nurse advise after i called the KKH hotline). They listened for the bb's heartbeat and strapped me to the CTG machine to monitor. Barely after i lie there for 10 minutes, my boy start to bounce and tumble happily *^$#@^$!! dunno whether to be angry or happy also. After 2 hours of monitoring, $55 (which i thought was pretty reasonable, was expecting them to charge me at least $200) and a grumpy hubby... i made it home pretty relief la (and of cos embarressed, cos the recep nurse grin at me, "1st time baby rite?")
On hindsight, i would have spend the money. Who wouldn't want a peace of mind. Better be cautious than regret.
Update:
Last night, i got super gan chiong after i played babyplus and the little fellow didn't respond! Drove down to KKH, delivery suite for a check up at 10 plus(this was what the nurse advise after i called the KKH hotline). They listened for the bb's heartbeat and strapped me to the CTG machine to monitor. Barely after i lie there for 10 minutes, my boy start to bounce and tumble happily *^$#@^$!! dunno whether to be angry or happy also. After 2 hours of monitoring, $55 (which i thought was pretty reasonable, was expecting them to charge me at least $200) and a grumpy hubby... i made it home pretty relief la (and of cos embarressed, cos the recep nurse grin at me, "1st time baby rite?")
On hindsight, i would have spend the money. Who wouldn't want a peace of mind. Better be cautious than regret.
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