After 11 days, she's finally home. Yay!!
its a very lazy Sunday for me and Chloe.
So here we are just goofing off in front of the camera
After a very long hiatus i am back to blogging.
Why?
Because i am put on a mandatory complete bed rest for the next two weeks!!!
Its nice bligger has an app for the iphone. Makes it easier to publish, but very hard to type hahaha!
I am entering my 30th week by tomorrow. Yesterday, when i had my routine monthly checkup, i complained to my ob about some pain near my scar. I blamed the girdle for this hahaha! She was alarmed. She took out her doppler and it was taking forever to find dear baby's heartbeat. I wanted to cry. My mind was racing ad only a few minutes before she was moving. Ob asked to lower down my clothes more and we found it. Buy it was waaaay down. Which caused really loud alarms over my head.
To mitigate potential preterm labor, she had put me on complete bed rest with barhroom privileges.
I have been feeling lucky all along this second adventure as i was stationed in Binondo on a project since late November and not feeling anything funky. I was actually enjoying the food haha! But what i wasn't so thrilled about was the traffic i had to endure traveling and driving from my parents' house to work.
I guess it has taken its toll on me and baby. Its still a miracle we've come this far....
So i ask you my dear friends to include me in your prayers. I've tried making a deal with dear baby to stay for at least 8 more weeks. I hope she listens to mama like her big sister Chloe did before.
it's been more than a year since my last post here. needless to say, i have been kept busy by my dear Chloe. it has been a pretty exciting adventure for me and zayd.
to share...
we experienced the colic episode for one night. actually i don't think i can qualify this as colic? maybe more of hunger pangs? haha! she was only two weeks old then and was feeding her 1oz milk every 2-3 hours. she cried non-stop and would only stop when fed. i cried because i wanted to sleep and she cried because she was hungry. we still were not co-sleeping with her and she was on a crib next to me. luckily, zayd took over and i fell asleep. we all woke up at around noon the following day. my mom suggested that we co-sleep with her because she thinks Chloe needs my warmth (and smell haha!) beside her. so I did! and if I may say so, that was the best advice ever! :-) would you believe at that young age she would sleep at least 6 hours straight? my pedia also suggested feeding her an ounce or two more before sleep, since that will buy me more Zzzz's.
we also had a nice evening ritual that signals it's time to sleep. i read this at babycenter.com.ph -- establish a routine. i give her a sponge bath, sing to her, dim the lights (yellow light works best!), and then poof! i have a sleeping baby! that same routing carries on until now. maybe the only difference is that we play now! i'd hide behind the clothes hamper (as if I really can hide there!) and she'd smile once she finds me. zayd and i try to tire her down, but in the process, we too get tired :)
when she had her ears pierced, I was only with yaya. zayd had work and could not sneak out. dear pedia Empress did the honors. i think i was more afraid of the procedure than Chloe. she cried just for a short bit but i think i was stained for life! i swear, the next girl i have, zayd will need to be the one to take her!
she also loves the camera! for a time i shifted back to my trusty Sony Ericsson K810i (the Cybershot phone) from the Sony Ericsson X1 (first Xperia out in the market) -- that for some reason, the LCD stopped working and it was a dang touchscreen phone -- anyway, back to my story; she figured out a way to take a picture of herself. she'd open the shutter, click on the joystick button, then turn the phone/lens to her direction! viola! her first picture!
amazing how kids are more techie these days.
on her seventh month, i had to go to Singapore for a month-long project. i had the separation anxiety. i left Chloe and yaya at my mom's and zayd's mom alternately -- para walang tampuhan hehe! anyway, my mom asked me to leave an article of clothing. ewan ko if successful. so ako din i brought along her blankie haha i ended up crying every night. i could not catch her online kasi when i got home, she was already asleep. anyway, the one month was a breeze, i ended up shopping a lot for her haha!
i also had her passport taken a few months before her first birthday! it was a good time then! we were on a priority lane and it was a breeze if she did not fall asleep in the middle of the picture-taking. we should have been done in 30 minutes. nevertheless i am still thankful. this is my second good experience in dealing with a government agency. anyway, we were able to use her passport twice already since January. we went to visit Tita Beng and Tita Elaine in Singapore. fun times!
zayd gave me an ipad for my birthday last year. guess who owns it now? yesssireee! Chloe does. my ipad now has tons of Nick Jr. cartoons. she just loves Team Umizoomi.
parang lahat masaya ano? haha! i don't want to dwell on the bad stuff, i am just so thankful she is healthy and smart. sometimes i wake up in the middle of the night and i just kiss her. (oh by the way, she knows how to kiss now!) i think i have never loved anyone as much as i do her :)
sigh. dati cheesy lang ako kay zayd, now kay Chloe na bwahaha!
i have been out of commission for GKW (God knows when). well, the reason for that was i already gave birth to Chloe, last Oct. 17, 2009. i was on my 39th week and 3 days.
on my 37th week, my blood pressure shot up. i immediately contacted my OB. i was told that i should prepare myself for delivery and was asked to see her the following day. called up my mom and told her i might be giving birth soon. (side story of my mom and ninang conspiracy to follow in the next post)
following day -- i was asked to take aldomet again to control the blood pressure, urinalysis, and a Biophysical Profile Score (BPS) just to check if baby is okay. if the urinalysis showed high content of protein, i am in danger of pre-enclampsia. a BPS result of less than 7 means that baby is under stress. both Zayd and I were nervous. fortunately, i had low protein levels and I got an 8/8 score on the BPS. we decided we can wait another week. i was also experiencing minor contractions. this went on until my 38th week. my cervix still was not dilating, or if it did dilate at 1cm it would not progress and would even close!
on my 39th week, i was again asked to do a BPS. the point of concern was now the baby's estimated weight. on the first BPS, she was already measuring big. if she reached the 3.4kg marker, this would mean i might have a difficult labor -- plus the fact that my cervix seems "hesitant" to dilate. Zayd no longer wanted to wait till my 40th week so we decided to go into trial labor that same night; if it does not push through, i would undergo c-section.
that same night, October 16, i was admitted to the hospital. i was induced, but to no avail. i was already at 1cm but when the nurses IE'd me, my cervix closed! since my BP was posing a risk, I was scheduled for CS at 8am the following morning.
at precisely 8am of October 17, 2009, they prepped me up for the caesarian operation. i was already shot with something that made me so sleepy - thank God, coz I was not able to sleep the night before. i was too nervous, preoccupied, and praying that Chloe was alright.
flashes of memory now follows.
i remember them wheeling me in to the operating room. i remember the anesthesiologist asking me to curl up so she can inject the anesthesia on my spine. after that everything was a blur. i remember hearing music -- it was Sailing by Christopher Cross.
i remember dra. david (anesthesiologist) asking me if i can feel anything, i tell her no. then i suddenly remembered my friends' horror story! she told me that when the doctor asks if you can feel her pinch you, they were already actually cutting you up! OMG! i said a prayer to my guardian angel that he watch over me and Chloe starting now. i prayed and i prayed hard.
my next memory was seeing a nice, long, and very white baby. well pinkish. i heard tita baby saying, "Weng, ang puti ng baby mo!" i looked at her and all i could muster was a murmur and a smile. and i was out. i could not remember if they let me hold her or what.
my weirdest memory now follows. i am being wheeled out of the operating room, i saw some big guy waving at me and a small person behind him crying. it turns out that it was Zayd and my mom.
i woke up about three times in the recovery room. the nurses were asking me to wiggle my toe and raise one leg. all i could think of was that i wanted to be back in my room with Zayd and my mom and most of all see Chloe!
i woke up on Saturday afternoon, Zayd was beside me. i heard voices of my family and friends who visited me but i was still knocked out. when i woke up Zayd, showed me pictures of Chloe and she was soooo cute! he was telling me i did a good job in keeping her inside me and that all was well. APGAR was perfect. i was not allowed to talk yet, so Zayd and I communicated through SMS (but not actually sending them hahaha)
the next day i was already out and about. considering i am a CS patient, this was a breakthrough. i went to the nursery to try and breastfeed Chloe. i cried when i saw her. she was so beautiful.
Thank you Lord for helping me make it through 39 weeks and 3 days!
here is Chloe's first picture ever!
and here i am, walang kamuwang muwang that i was gonna experience all these in the next 12 hours or so... at nag pose pa talaga sa kama hahaha!
