My 3rd Pregnancy

It feels weird to finally have some 'me time' once in a while. I am on MC today, Aniq is at his grandmother's and Adib is fast asleep.

I am now 35 weeks pregnant, and I do feel bad for not documenting anything on it in this blog. I suppose it's the 3rd pregnancy syndrome. I guess I'll just summarise my experience in this post..

1st trimester:

I have to say that this is wasn't a planned a pregnancy. (Even my second one wasn't either). I was just getting in the mood in doing my work at the hospital, and getting the hang of taking care of 2 kids. Being pregnant + exclusively BF + preparing for my exam was definitely too much for me  to handle. On top of that, my maid went back to Padang during that time-for 2 months, and we had to pack and shift to my dad' house. My pregnancy symptoms were also at its worst: daily vomiting, nausea, fatigue..and I had to breastfeed Adib at night. My milk supply quickly decreased and I had no time to EBM at work, coz I had to lie down and rest whenever I had the free time during office hours. It was very depressing and my stock of EBM quickly depleted to make up for my inadequate milk supply. It was just difficult to express how sad and guilty I felt at that time.

2nd trimester:

I think my early pregnancy symptoms improved at about 16 weeks. I was still feeling nauseous and tired most of the time after that but it was getting lesser as the day goes. We travelled to Padang to pick up my maid, and things became better after that. We settled down in our new home, and I even managed to do some studying during my free time-although it was only about 1/2 to one hour each time. The worse part about this trimester was that I suffered from chronic sinusitis, which caused me to have headaches and easily feeling tired. Went to see the ENT specialist, and the experience of having a scope shoved down your nose without any local anaesthesia was just horrible! Because of the sinusitis, I suffered from post nasal drip, occasional vomiting, and facial fullness even up to now..

3rd trimester:

I started feeling more tired and my weight was increasing rapidly, ie about 1 kg in a week! I had to get my glucose checked, and luckily it came back as normal. Now, I have heartburn every now and then, but still able to eat well, although my appetite was not as much compared to my second pregnancy. I have backache, especially at night, and my sleep gets disturbed every night it view of that, and getting up to pass urine at least once-twice every night. 

I've got an appointment with my O+G tomorrow, and hopefully everything will turn out fine. I have to say that by far this is my biggest baby-his estimated weight was 2.5kg at 34 weeks---even Aniq was only 1.8kg when I delivered him at 33 weeks..

I pray everyday that I will deliver my baby safely and he will turn out to be well..Insya-Allah..