Pregnancy update: Week 37

 

Weight: 64.7kg (+1.4kg since the past week, overall +17.7kg) haaa... let's see if i will reach 20kg weight gain by the time Atty is here.

Symptoms: Acne, backache, hot flashes, braxton hicks, pelvic girdle pain, shortness of breath, stretch marks (getting worse... has spread to above my belly button and to my hips)

Summary of the week: it's been a frenzy of preparations for Atty's arrival this week... seems to have endless things to do or more things to get that we had previously overlooked. And then making confinement meals in bulk and also washing Atty's clothes and organizing the house~ 

3/9: Oz fathers' day (see related post).

4/9: Mum and dad will be delaying their trip to Adelaide due to mum's health issues, so King will be my confinement hubby after the birth. Quite worried about mum's health and preoccupied with many thoughts so didn't sleep well and forgot to take iron tablets again. Backache and pelvic pain is worse today, likely due to walking more (went to run errands and grocery shopping in the day... went to Coles/Aldi for grocery, Cheap as Chips to pick up stuff needed for water birth and then JB-HiFi to pick up vlogging camera). King's friend Evita also came by our place in the afternoon to hang out and also gave us a bunch of baby clothes and baby stuff, thank you! 

 

Braxton hicks+ at night. King made 木须肉 (pork with ginger, black fungus, egg, carrot and snow peas) and we froze few portions as confinement meals. 

5/9: Interrupted sleep again... slept 1-6am, then 7:30-10am. More grocery shopping today... went to Chinatown's asian grocery stores to get confinement foodstuffs and then Costco.

6/9: Having braxton hicks randomly throughout the day... King took the whooping cough vaccine today, it was $34 at the WCH, not $15 like what the midwife told us.. vaccination nurse said midwife's information is outdated haha. 

 

Then we went to Ikea to get more organization stuff for Atty and laundry.

7/9: King fixed the car seat capsule for Atty today!

 

And made mapo tofu... more freezer confinement meals!

8/9: Went out to stock up on more food stuffs to make confinement meals in bulk. Decided to buy thermal cookers so that King can shorten the time he spends on making soups and porridge during my confinement.. visited a stockist but found that the price was much higher than buying online (even including shipping), so just decided to buy them online and wait for the shipment. Then we stopped by Kmart to get more baby clothes hangers for Atty.

Also bought pram for Atty online today. Just nice Baby Bunting was having a 20% storewide sale... the savings were much better than previous discounts we saw earlier in the week which we missed. The sister-in-law wanted to buy the pram for us, but there was some issue with her card and then later when she tried to make the purchase it couldn't go through, maybe because the billing address has to be a local address? So we missed the earlier discount due to these issues... and sis-in-law was just going to transfer the money to us for us to make the purchase ourselves. Then i was scrolling randomly on facebook at night and chanced upon Baby Bunting's sale announcement. Timing was just right and the sale started just as i went onto the website... saw the updated discounted prices which were much better than before and immediately placed the order. 

9/9: Confinement hubby is at work again making freezer meals. On today's menu is 栗子鸡 (Roxy's recipe) and 麻油鸡! King also made dumplings at night. 

 

Finally managed to get the laundry done and dry (had been raining for ~4 days consecutively.. sun has been out yesterday and today so it has been a frenzy of washing Atty's stuff), and organized Atty's side of the closet. 

 

That space used to hang King's and my clothes... but now all that has been moved away or packed away to make room for Atty's stuff hahaa. Slowly taking over our lives and all the space in the house. Very soon everywhere will be Atty land... with all her stuff and none of ours XD

These few days Honey has been behaving a bit differently... she keeps looking into the house by the living room sliding door and frequently jumps up onto the ledge and stays there for some time looking at me. Other times she usually just flops by the sliding door, or jumps up onto the ledge for a short while and jumps off. She has also been biting King's pants/leg... Makes me wonder if she knows something that i don't yet... like if i'm going to go into labour soon and she can smell some hormonal changes or what. I googled it and apparently dogs and cats do change their behavior and can sort of sense if their human is going to give birth soon. couldn't find any thing on rabbits though... but somehow it seems like Honey can sense something and is behaving differently...