Wellness & Vitality
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Confinement so far
I praise God that my confinement lady is a great cook. That does make a big difference whether your confinement month is a torture or a bliss. Okay, so far, I won’t say that my confinement time is like paradise, mainly because of the exhaustion and sleepless nights, which will have no end. However, I really like my CL, called Mandy. I got her through the agency, SN-nanny, and she’s from Setiawan. The first time I met her, I was surprised that she is very young. Anyways, she’s quite the modern type, although she has her own beliefs in do’s and don’ts, but she doesn’t force it on me. She…
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Things I couldn’t have lived 14 days without
For some mothers, the confinement time is traumatic and horrifying, aka imprisonment in your own room with your new baby that cries and poops non stop. Thank God for me, today being day 14 and it’s going great. I owed it a lot to a very nice confinement lady. But that’s for another post. Today, I want to talk about some of the products I bought that really helped me through the pain and the supposed torture. 1) No-Rinse Shampoo and Body Wash I bought these from Thebabyloft.com. Most women, me included, cannot go more than 2 days without washing their hair. So imagine when in confinement we are not…
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The Birth Experience
This can be pretty graphic, so read at your own risk. So by my calculations, my EDD aka Due Date for Baby Josiah was Feb 6. However, by Monday Feb 2 I was starting to get some contractions. By Wednesday, I finished all the work I can so I don’t have to go back to work on Thursday. So many people were asking me to take 2 days off before the due date. On Wednesday whole, I was timing the contractions, and it was getting pretty regular at 5-10 minutes apart, lasting at least 30 seconds. That was from early morning, then as at around midnight, it became closer and…
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Last checkup..hopefully
Today I went for my last checkup with my OBGYN, really hopefully this is the last checkup before delivery as my EDD is this Friday, Feb 6. Although it is normal to be late for up to 2 weeks, I certainly hope that is not the case as my baby is getting bigger and bigger! As of now, he is already about 3.4kg. Anyways, it will be very near, as yesterday, I lost my mucus plug. Well, was a bit shocked at first, but after that, I realise this is just a sign that labor might start anytime between a few days to a few weeks. At the moment, I…
