Symptoms

3-5 week: Mild dull cramps in stomach and hot flushes. Appetite improves.
5-7 week: Backaches begin. Loss of appetite.
7-9 week: Backaches continue with fitful sleep at night. I do not eat rice anymore. This is weird. Coz there are no cravings, just that I do not want to eat rice. It is now replaced by spaghetti.
9-10 week: Backaches ease a little with massage by Dearie. Fitful sleep continues and Dearie told me that I started speaking gibberish in my sleep. Eating is a chore to me.
11 week (now): I am starting to get emotional and have weird thoughts/dreams.

Last night, Dearie brought me out for a walk at T1 and TM to scout for a new handphone for him. I started to have this tight pain above the left side of my waist. It's still there now and I have no idea how I got this pain. Did I pull some muscle while sleeping? I thought that I could sleep it off last night, but apparently, it did not disappear this morning. So I'm on MC today. When I got up to bathe, just standing for a mere ten minutes in the toilet was painful. Hmmm... weird. Will see doctor later when Dearie comes back from work to bring me. I don't think I can walk to the doctor or take a bus.

Fatigue and backache

are my symptoms. Thank God for no morning sickness though. I'm into my 10th week already... will be into my 2nd trimester soon! Exciting... but that's when I'll start gaining lotsa weight and the tummmy gets even bigger by the week. Cannot imagine...

3rd visit to gynae

Today, we found out that baby is 27 mm already! And we saw it kicking and wriggling away while the gynae was trying to measure its size via the ultrasound. So cute!

The backache

is killing me... can't stand for long, can't sit for long... My gynae said that I'm still too early to have backaches, and it will only get worse. She thinks it's because of my posture. I guess it's true... but how? Sigh...

I'm trying to be happy most of the time now, so that my moods don't affect my baby. But... sigh... how to be happy when teaching? When students don't cooperate? When I still have to get angry, scold, chase for homework. Sometimes I really don't know what I'm doing anymore. It's their life right? Why should I even care? Let them lead their own lives they want, if they don't care about their results, why should I? I'm tired of being angry and affected by their attitudes towards their studies. Guess I have to loosen up and think for the best for my baby.

Why did God have to call me into this line... I guess I'm still finding out.

Hmmmm...

If it's a girl... How about Adel? It means "God is eternal"...

If it's a boy... How about Aaron? Moses' brother Aaron was the first high priest of Israel...

Long awaited update

Life has changed dramatically for me since the last post. I've gotten married, moved to my in laws' place, assimilated into my work environment, gotten the keys to my new house, and now... oh well... check out this place for more updates when I feel like blogging. Haha...

With the recent swine flu saga,

school has been very strict with temperature taking, hygiene etc. So much so that the examinations timetables went topsy turvy, and many people had extra work to do. Oh well... back to marking the exam papers... and I forgot to mention, that I'm drowning in papers at the moment, and drowning in work.