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I am so melodramatic these days. Call it natural for a 7-month pregnant woman like me. One moment I’m happy, then sad on the next, a few hours later you’d see me being cuddled by my husband because I am crying hysterically. This has been going on for days and I think it’s making the people at home crazy.

Sorry. tao lang. but is this even normal?

I couldn’t even bring myself to blog! See my last entry? It was posted 10 days ago. sheeesh. I don’t know what’s happening with me but perhaps I’m just too busy with my new business Posh Baby Philippines and playing games on Facebook. Sometimes, I do thing simultaneously to keep me from thinking too hard. My friends are keeping me company online to keep me sane. Thanks to my ever reliable connection that doesn’t even need a wireless cell booster.

To all preggy moms, how do you keep yourself busy to avoid being too melodramatic?

until yesterday.

For years I’ve used the Chinese Gender Calendar to help friends determine the gender of their babies and it never went wrong until I used it.

Since we already have a pretty baby girl, we planned for a boy. So we followed the calendar for I was so confident that we’d be given a bouncing baby boy come September 2011.

…so we hopped, we puffed and we got a positive result last January 2011 — we were having another baby!

5 months and two bleedings later…

We were having another BABY GIRL!

My friends were teasing me about it — “whatever happened to your Chinese Gender Calendar?” even my OB said that it’s called a Chenes Calendar because it isn’t reliable haha

Late last night, I checked the calendar again and found out that I did something wrong on my counting. I used my actual age which shouldn’t be the case, one has to use her LUNAR CALENDAR AGE and LUNAR MONTH.

click the image to compute your lunar calendar age

After clicking submit, you will receive a chart like this:

the highlighted one is my lunar age.

So if we will gather all the results and match it to the data here on this chart:

Mother’s Lunar Age: 31 + Date of conception: 11th month (highlighted) = we’re really getting a GIRL!

My fault was I used my actual age and actual month when we made the baby, which is 30 and December (12th month) so we really thought it was a boy.

Hmmm…I want to believe that the Chinese Gender Calendar is still accurate and reliable.

What do you think?

Being stuck on bed means that I cannot move around. I have very limited bathroom privileges and I cannot sit that long. But the people around me are making it all so easy.

My sister, knowing that I’ll be in bed for days or weeks bought me a Hello Kitty lap desk – making working while lying down makes it all so easy!

Yona learned how to take a bath by herself and fix her own milk. I’ve also discovered the magic of ‘working’ remote controls

Marcelle, on the other hand, wakes up very early (yes, at 4am) to fix our meals for the whole day. He would cook rice, and two varieties of viands for our breakfast and dinner, fill our tubs of water, gather the utensils that Yona and I will use the whole day, fix the clothes that we’ll be using (one in the morning and for night time), plug the TV, speakers and DVD player so it’s easy for Yona to just pop her DVDs na lang. He would also leave us enough bills and coins in case we might need it while he’s not around.

Such amazing people and I can’t thank them enough for making my situation a breeze.

After being on bed rest for 12 days, I still experienced profuse bleeding

On April 13, around 4am I went to the bathroom to pee. After a few minutes I noticed a gush of pinkish substance on my undies so I woke my husband up and told him about it. A few minutes more, it was no longer pink but red! The flow was uncontrollable so I had to wear pads.

Around 8am, my sister said that she SHOULD bring me to the hospital per my OB’s advice. I’ve changed pads twice already that time so my OB was really firm in her decision to have me brought to the hospital ASAP.

9am, my sister and I were already in the Emergency Room of Medical Center Imus. Underwent a lot of tests, blood test, urine test, ultrasound among others.
By the end of the day, my OB visited me with her diagnosis: PLACENTAL INFARCTION.

Placental infarction is localized area of ischemic villous necrosis, resulting from interruption in maternal blood supply, more common at periphery of placenta

Here is a placental infarct. A small infarct may be of no consequence to the fetus, but if more than a third or half of the placental parenchyma is infarcted or lost in some fashion, then the blood supply to the fetus can become severely compromised and fetal demise may occur.

That time, I felt that I was ready to give up everything. I never cared less about of my work, though I sent them an email telling my immediate superiors about my situation.

During my 4 day stay in the hospital, I was able to rest and for a while I disregarded my tasks, orders from PH Bakehouse clients and all the dramas in the FB world though I was still in connection – thanks to Facebook and Twitter for Blackberry!

My family, especially my daughter were all with me every day, making my hospital stay a not-so-tiring one.

Everyone in Medical Center Imus were nice as well, no hassle whatsoever (kaya talagang mahal, LOL) From the doctors, nurses, maintenance staff, et al. All of them were so nice to me and my fam. Thank you!

Last Saturday, I was discharged from the hospital but is still required to be on bed 24/7. And this time, I am really in bed and religiously following my OB’s advice. I’ll never be makulit again LOL.

I’ve been staying home since April 1st and I can’t believe that I haven’t been out for almost 2 weeks. I am experiencing spotting on my 4th month of pregnancy. The sight of dark brown stains on my undies is quite scary So my OB gave me meds (Duvaprine to be exact) and required me to move less and rest — in bed, good thing she didn’t require me to be admitted to the hospital because I am so scared of syringes brought by people in nursing scrubs!

I guess this is way, way better than staying in the hospital though I must admit that there are pros and cons in this aspect. Here goes…

Pros:

• I’ll be fully rested in the hospital.
• I’ll get full attention from nurses in uniform, yay! (though it scares me to death)
• Less stress – - – yes, no work when I’m in the hospital! (but it means no $$$, too!)

Cons:

• No earnings while I’m in the hospital (no work, no orders, no tasks — bad!)
• It is very expensive in hospitals.
• I’ll miss my little kid.

Given these cons, I think I’d better stay home and be in bed for the whole duration of my bed rest. It will save me money and stress from my odd fear of nurses in uniforms, LOL!

Despite my being a workaholic, I still get overwhelmed with everything I do these days. School’s over but not my mommy duties.

I still wake up at 5, start working on my Bling Duck assignments (my new full time – freelance work!) and bake if needed. On Mondays and Fridays I bring my daughter to Kumon and deliver cakes or shop for supplies if needed – that’s on top of my mommy duties.

So at the end of the day I am fully exhausted with aches here and there. I guess I’ll be needing a back brace and a knee brace in the coming days

Buy beyond all the stress, the sleepless nights, the bad moods, I am still thankful – very thankful that the Man above is still blessing me, guiding my family and protecting us from hard.

God is good. Life is good.

As you all know, I’m having a mid-life battle on acne. My skin back in highschool and college, a time when acne should have showed up was way better than my skin now. I don’t know what happened but zits just kept on showing leaving unsightly scars on my face. I tried every possible product that I could find and yes, all of them works BUT after a few months or so, the zits say hello to me again.

When I discovered that I was pregnant this January,  I noticed how my zits have flattened. They all say that pregnancy triggers acne or can even make it worse BUT on my case, it decreased, HALLELUJAH!

So what remains to be my problem now (or until my baby comes out) is how to deal with the scars.

Ladies, do you know any vitamins for acne scars? Please leave a note here.

Thank you, xoxo

I’m on my 14th week of pregnancy and until now I haven’t started shopping for Baby Chuchu yet. For sure Chu is a boy otherwise the Chinese gender calendar will owe me bigtime

Moving on, I don’t know why I haven’t started shopping yet. The sight of the very expensive baby products in the mall irks me, I guess, especially now that I already know that there are more wonderful products online, hehe.

Right now, I’m always on the lookout for more baby products online and that’s when I found ZEBEBE.COM – a haven for baby products online!

Mommies like me will surely get a lot from this site because the products of Zebebe.com are all award winning baby products such as baby gifts, clothing, toys, feeding items and lots of baby gears. And the best part? They’re selling it at a fraction of its actual price!

So why Zebebe.com?

• They have a wide array of innovative baby products
• They sell it at a very low price
• They will deliver it right to your doorstep!

But wait, there’s more! GET P50 OFF ON YOUR PURCHASE (use the coupon code ENTREPREMOM)

Personally, I am eyeing the following items for my baby:

Philips Avent 2-Pack Ventilated Orthodontic Pacifiers (0-6M) P249

Halo Technical Comfort Short Sleeve Body Suit P320

and of course this!

Philips Avent Polypropylene BPA Free Bottles, Dual Pack – P699

So what are you waiting for? SHOP NOW and GET P50 OFF ON YOUR PURCHASE (use the coupon code ENTREPREMOM)

Here I am, almost 4 months pregnant and already worrying about my baby shower, or should I say baby showerS?

I have several support groups who are all willing to give me a baby shower. Putting them into one is definitely not a good idea since they all come from various groups who have different interests.

So what should I do now? What should I prepare? Should I hand out Paper Culture baby shower invitations or make an online one because definitely everyone I know has a Facebook account. Should I shoulder all the expenses? I don’t really know. I am very clueless about this because I didn’t have a baby shower with my eldest child.

Help please! Any idea will be highly appreciated.

…never ask my mom to buy maternity clothes for me again )

Thursday, I asked mama to buy me several maternity dresses. Instruction was it should be short as I don’t want to look so manang. I was texting her as she was shopping so I really thought we understood each other. Deep inside I was hoping that my mom will not buy me any of those blouses with silky fabric (think bridesmaid dresses) because I find them hot and itchy.

Saturday, I texted her telling that I’d drop by to get my dresses/blouses. She said that she’s leaving early and she’ll leave it in the porch of her mansion (duh. sa pintuan sa labas ng bahay LOL). I said ‘cool’ and dropped by around 9:30am. I saw two department store bags on their doorstep and since I was in a hurry to leave, I didn’t bother to check it anymore.

Oh, guess what? I just checked it tonight and they were all in MEDIUM sizes! dear lord! how will I fit into those? So my task tomorrow is to bring these clothes back again to SM and have them change the size into XL.