First scan and first time hearing the baby's heartbeats at 8 weeks
13 weeks scan
23 weeks - details scan
Alhamdulillah today i am already 7 months pregnant. I can't believe how quick time has flown by since it doesn't feel long since the first time i knew that i am pregnant. It feels surreal that this pregnancy journey almost come to an end now. Like any other moms, i just can't wait to meet my baby and i pray everyday for my baby to grow and develop healthily, normally and beautifully. InsyaAllah. Amin YRA.
I haven't shared much about my pregnancy journey up until this point, but tbh, even before i am pregnant, i was already made an Instagram account for our baby (lol i know, i know hahaha). So eventhough, i didn't shared much, but i did post this and that on that Instagram account for personal memories. At first i was like, planning to take month by month baby bump photos, writing a diary, making Tiktok video on pregnancy journey, etc etc. But as time goes by, i am just me who is nothing but a panda. Haha.
So far, Alhamdulillah, my pregnancy was somehow A-OK. Everything was so far so good. My regular check ups is at Klinik Kesihatan, Presint 18, Putrajaya. My health condition is overall fine. HB was good (only one time it was below the normal level because of caffeine (i drank 3 in 1 Milo everyday while working from home) - the nurse was furious lol), i am GDM free, everything else is also all right and i pray that it will maintain this way until i deliver my baby. And i hope that my baby's health condition is also A-OK until the end. Amin YRA.
I didn't experience morning sickness to the point of throwing up everyday or being all weak and etc. But i did feel nauseous almost all the time especially during my first trimester. There are lots of things that i cannot smell, cannot look including my so called favorite foods, perfumes and even shower foams lol. One time my sister wanted to eat nasi kukus but all i can feel at that time was feeling sick just by the smell of nasi kukus. I even puked that night. Hahaha.
And before i was pregnant, i can go for hours not eating breakfast and anything (as long as i have plain water with me) but not once when i am pregnant. Swear to God, i am already hungry like crazy even when it was just 9am in the morning. It's not that i can eat a horse kind of hungry, but i just hungry. And the nausea attack will be just as wild as ever during this moment. And yeah, this situation and nauseous feeling are still continues until today. Haha. But i thank God that i am still all good and i can still go to work that i don't need to stay in bed all day just because of my morning sickness.
My sister has been my main pillar of strength all this while during my pregnancy especially when it's just two of us (and the cats) living together under the same roof plus the never ending MCO. Even my husband can't be here with me for months just because of the long distance. Hence, my sister is the one who take care of me everyday, cook for me, clean the house and everything. It's feel great to be pregnant somehow lol. Because you can just be like, "help me, i'm pregnant" and the people who love you will just do it even with no (or many) complaints. Haha. Regardless, i pray that Allah will ease everything for my sister and grant my sister the highest rank in Jannah for all the good deeds she had done and will be doing for me and my baby. Amin YRA.
And of course, we can never ignore the elephant in the room which is the COVID-19 virus. Especially when the total new daily cases for today is already 20k with total overall cases of 1.2 millions like, what is that? How can that ever possible? Sigh. Before COVID-19, for parents expecting a baby, the months leading up to delivery is a time of excitement and joy. But now, because of the pandemic has brought an unknown into the community, another emotions are also added up: fear & worry. But even with the concern for COVID-19, evidence still says that hospitals are safest places to give birth. Like, it's 2021, we can't just decided to give birth at home right? Lol.
Our initial plan was for me to give birth at Hospital Seremban (so that my baby's birth certificate will be Anak Nogori, like, of course lah kan?). But when the MCO is happening again, we have to agree for me to give birth just here at Hospital Putrajaya. Especially when it is the nearest hospital from our current home. However, ever since last week, especially when the other nearest hospital which is Hospital Serdang has became full COVID-19 hospital, my family and i knew that all of the population near here will go to Hospital Putrajaya to give birth. And everybody can read on the news how pregnant moms and the babies in the wombs react to COVID-19 (nauzubillah).
At this point, i can almost confirm that i might end up having my delivery at the private hospital instead for the sake of my safety and the baby's. Unless if things go the other way around towards the end. All i can do now is to pray and pray that i will give birth normally to the baby (pray to avoid C-section or anything that will cost both of my kidneys lol). May Allah ease this remaining pregnancy journey and my very soon to be delivery experience. Everything shall be okay. InsyaAllah. Amin YRA.
Rabbi Yassir Wala Tu'Assir. Rabbi Tammim Bil Khair.
