March 28, 2009

That's Renei Danielle T. Ambayec's birth date! :)

I'd be admitted at the hospital on the night of the 27th because I need to undergo some medical procedures before the big D-day. My official delivery date and time - March 28, 2009 8:00 AM.

Yes, double 8 for luck! Even mum agrees! :P

Anyway, I CAN'T BELIEVE I AM GIVING BIRTH 10 DAYS FROM NOW! It might be the second time but hell I'm nervous! I won't be completely sedated this time! I'm going to see them cut me! *faints*

OH GOD.

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In other news, Giann's earned his first bruise 2 days ago:


Yes, EARNED because I think being bruised isn't so bad. ;) Makes my little soldier tougher and stronger! And mind you, he didn't cry when he fell on his knees. I was so proud haha. His maid was so worried - she was so concerned about Giann's little bruise when she showed it to me. I was like, "ahh, he's a kid! he's a boy! of course he'd run all around and get bruised!" Let Giann be a little boy. Let him be rowdy and tough and naughty! We already have a reserved, timid Daddy! :P

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I MIGHT go on a swimming outing on Saturday. I have not fully convinced myself to go but Pau won't go without me. And I know he wants to go! All of our friends are going. And after I give birth, Pau won't get to go out cause he will spend most of his days taking care of me and Giann (he won't take care of an infant!) so I really want him to go to this swimming party. But I don't want to go because it would be the first time I'm going to spend the night without Giann, I'm not sure I'd be able to sleep without my little bub. And I'd be the only girl in that party. Not that it matters nor I care but yeah. Also, I won't get to swim anyway! I don't know if I'm still allowed to as I'm going to give birth 5 days from then so any strenuous activity might induce labour. And I don't want to go through labour! NOT AGAIN! But I want to go for Pau. Ahhhh.

Oh well, the party isn't 100% all planned out anyway. Because an all-boys organising a party is GOOD LUCK. Haha. Nobody takes initiative! :P

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Pau and I are thinking of creating Myspace accounts. Haha. It crossed our minds after stumbling upon Steve Burns (of Blues' Clues) Myspace profile. :P

But yeah, probably not.

xoxo

lazy days

Pau's off to Manila today but I decided that Giann and I would just stay here in Laguna. I'm about to give birth 2-3 weeks from now (tentative dates are March 28 and April 3. Final would be set on the 18th depending on the result of my PUTZ) and I need to be as relaxed as possible. Driving to Manila has been ultimately tiring the day they started building the Skyway again. 3 friggin hours of sitting down, waiting for the traffic to FINALLY move, trying to pacify the bored little Giann is not at all relaxing in any way. And you know, Giann's maid can't travel. She gets super dizzy and vomits. The last time I tagged her along to St. Luke's for my check-up, she ended up being more of an 'alagain' than Giann.

Anyway, I want to have boring, idle days as much as possible. As I still need to do a hell lot of things before giving birth:

1.) Have Giann's hair cut
2.) Buy Baby Red's 'going away' clothes and blankets
3.) Buy #1 nipples for Baby Red's hand-me-down AVENT feeding bottles from Kuya Giann (I decided it's not wise to buy a new set of feeding bottles for Red as Giann has like a dozen of 4 oz. bottles that he doesn't use anymore because he uses the bigger ones now!)
4.) Of course, the last ultra sound that will determine Baby Red's birthday! :)
5.) One last check-up with my OB-Gyne before the big D-day!
6.) Grocery shopping for a month's supply of Giann and Red's milk, diaper, baby wipes, food, and essentials for Pau and I. I'd be home bound for a month or so after giving birth and Pau won't do grocery shopping on his own so we better stock up!

I AM SUPERWOMAN HEAR ME ROAR! :P

So, idle days are very much welcome. If I don't need to go out, I won't. I'm very much happy to be a bummed pregnant lady thankyoverymuch. :P

xoxo

Baby Red

We've finally named her! :)

Yes, I am having a mini-me! Lucky lucky me! I'll get to buy those cute pink dresses, doll houses and Barbie dolls! Yay! Don't get me wrong, I enjoy buying balls and guns and t-shirts and shorts too. But they're not as fun as pink dresses! For one, they're not PINK. :P

See, for the time being, Pau and I couldn't agree with what to name our little baby girl. The names we came out with before suddenly didn't seem appropriate for our angel. But we've finally found the perfect name -- RENEI DANIELLE. :)

The next problem we had was the nickname:

Mommy Lhai: Ren-Ren na lang!
Me: Ano ka ba Ma? Ang panget! Pang-Pitong Gatang talaga! Parang yung name nung batang kalaro ni Giann, Nik-Nik? Nik-Nok? Nok-Nok? Ah basta parang ganun!
Mommy Lhai: Eh bakit san ba sha nakatira?
Pau: *laughs*
Me: Ah basta ayoko! Lei na lang!
Mommy Lhai: Baka maconfuse sha sakin "ano ba to, lola ko Lhai, ako Lei!" Elle na lang!
Me: Pwede din... Panget naman kasi ng Nei parang "neigh" ng horse!
Mommy Lhai: Ah RED na lang!
Pau: Ayun maganda!
Me: Tama RED na lang.
Pau: Tapos mga damit niya puro red and pink lang! Basta shade ng red...

And ergo, I am carrying Baby Red. :)

She's going to be a beaut! ♥

xoxo

boo!

I feel horribly terrible that Pau and Mac won't get to watch The Eraserheads second (and final) concert because I can't go. Ever since we learned that they're doing another concert, we vowed to watch it. We were more than excited! We couldn't contain ourselves! Everything was already set, we already have plans for the rest of the 7th...Until I tried to book our tickets:

Y: May seat number ba yung tickets, Miss?
Miss: Wala pong upuan.
Y: What do you mean wala? Wala na?
Miss: Wala po talaga, standing siya talaga
Y: Kahit yung pinakamahal na ticket?
Miss: Opo...
Y: Eh pwede bang magdala ng monobloc or something?
Miss: *laughs* Pwede naman po pero baka mawala kayo makita
Y: Okay lang ate, minsan minsan uupo ako, buntis kasi ako, baka mapagod ako pag lagi ako nakatayo
Miss: Ay ma'am, bawal po kayo manood.
Y: BAKIT?!
Miss: Policy po namin bawal manood ang buntis. Para rin po sa sarili niyong security.
Y: Hindi mo ko bibigyan ng ticket kasi buntis ako, ganon?
Miss: Kahit po bigyan ko kayo, pag dating niyo dun hindi rin po kayo papapasukin. Sayang lang po ticket niyo...

And that turned my world into dust. :(

I told Pau and Mac that I can't go. So now, they're not going as well.

TERRIBLE CONCERT RULES!

But makes sense.

xoxo

pregnancy woes

I'm guessing I have urinary tract infection. I will know tomorrow morning because the laboratory won't release the result until 11 PM tonight so good luck with that.

But I've been annoyingly, weirdly cold since yesterday afternoon, after munching on homemade fries. Like muscle-freezing cold! And my back hurts. And I feel terrible. If you really know me you'd know that I rarely feel cold. Ate (and even Pau agrees) that I've the skin of a carabao! Haha. Like everyone around me is like dying of cold and I'm like, "what is it cold?!" I say I'm made for the finer things like that! *flipshair*

Anyway, tomorrow I will go back to the lab again, visit the ever loving *cough* CRL, go to Jigu (what a funny name, never fails to make Gill laugh!) to know if I can now start with my home-based teaching stint and go see my OB for yet another check-up.

One thing about pregnancy is that it will force you to be okay with hospitals, if not entirely enjoy it. I hated the smell of hospitals for as long I can remember until I got pregnant with Giann and ergo was obliged to visit my OB's clinic once a month, sometimes even twice or thrice and on the 8th month onwards, every week!

But you gotta give it to St. Luke's, its rooms have the ambience similar to that of a hotel's. Even Pau can't complain. :) So yes, we travel that FAR just for check-up! Plus the fact that I love my OB-Gyne and Giann's pedia. They're the bestest! It's shameless marketing right there, I know. :P

Alrighty sleeping now. Good nighty.

xoxo

now i'm a real MUMMY!

My body is seriously deteriorating.

Yesterday morning I woke up with numbness pain - WHOLE BODY particularly my left arm. I could barely stand up.

So I called my mum and she's ordered me to go on a check-up. I did and I found out that my body's running out of vitamins, vitamin B in particular, because the baby is sucking up all my nutrients. Which is a good thing if only it's not making me half a cripple. I told my mum about the result of the check-up and she's made me realise something very very true about my second pregnancy:

"Sabi ko na nga ba vitamins deficiency yan! Nag-aagawan kasi kayo ng nutrients ng baby mo. Nung buntis ka kay Giann, hindi ka nagkaganyan kasi malakas na malakas ka nun. Unang baby mo sha, lagi ka lang nagpapahinga at kumpleto ka pa sa vitamins. Eh ngayon, more than a year ka pa lang nakakapanganak, hindi pa mashado nakakabawi katawan mo sa nutrients kasi nagpabreastfeed ka pa tapos may umaagaw na namin ng vitamins mo. Kaya lagi kay may sakit at kaya sumasakit pakiramdam mo. Kaya dapat talaga uminom ka ng mga vitamins para sayo at para sa baby."

She made perfect sense. Exactly why this pregnancy is very very much harder than when I was pregnant with Giann. Also the doctor said all pregnancies are different. Having Giann might have been a breeze for me (except for the pre-eclamtic part, the whole 9 months I was concieving Giann went perfectly fine) but that doesn't mean this pregnancy would be as relaxed.

But you know what they say when you're having a really tough pregnancy?

It's a girl! :P

HAHA.

Alrighty I gotta go get some much needed rest.

xoxo

aside from not fitting in my old clothes...

All the things listed above, I'm experiencing. See, you'll never get the most beautiful thing without having to work hard for it. Life's like that. But no I am not really complaining. I can be whingy about bazillion of things but pregnancy is not one of them. Sure I go like "I FEEL HORRIBLY TERRIBLE." (yes horrible and terrible in one sentence!) but I know it's something I need to go through to get me one day closer to having another amazing blessing in my life. :)

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I skipped work today for no other reason than the fact that I am lethargic. But now, I feel nauseous and my WHOLE body hurts like shit. And I'm sleepy even though I just woke up less than 30 minutes ago. :P

Man I'm the laziest person in the history of lazy people!

xoxo

HA-HA-HA

I can friggin relate much!

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Something Pau is very good at (aside from excessive WoW-playing) is this:

Pau's acrylic painting of Mt. Arayat. :)

Galing diba? *beams*

He's got a self-portrait too. I have yet to take a photo of it. Oh and a tiny sketch of my photo too! :P

xoxo

i couldn't find words

"Mum"

I've been wanting to write about something but I wanted to make my first entry about it amazingly beautiful it would top all my other past entries. Well, okay, at least be at par with how I talk about having Giann.

3 months after I still don't know what to say. Heh.

So I guess I should just say it like it is.

I'm four months pregnant with my second child! :)

I know I said I won't be pregnant until Pau and Giann are mature/old enough for another baby. I was surprised though. I told Pau about it and he was ecstatic. He put Giann on his lap and was like, "now you're all mine!" Of course Giann protested. :P But I was relieved to know that I'd only have a hard time with Giann. Pau's embraced his fatherhood. Although his mum still hasn't. But anyway... I'm really excited to have another baby! Pregnancy is hard and makes me uber fat but it's a worthwhile experience. Nothing will ever beat the feeling of having a baby. Really.

Now I'm super excited to know if she's a she or a he! I want a she. I want a little Yeng! :P Giann IS a little Yeng in so many ways but I can't dress him up with cute pink dresses! Haha. At the same time I want another he, so he can defend himself when Giann wrestles him! :P I'm actually preparing myself for Royal Rumble in our room. Heh.

But of course it's not an entire glorious ride. My BP shoots up every day. When I was pregnant with Giann, I was pre-eclamtic. One reason why I delivered via CS. But now, my BP's shooting up every single day. Makes me feel terrible. I guess it's because when I was pregnant with Giann, I only have to look after myself and focus on my pregnancy. Now I commute every single day to work, I have CRL for a boss (worst ever!), I stress over work, then when I get home I have Pau and Giann to look after. It's NOT easy. My pregnancy with Giann was a breeze. I live with mum then and was well taken cared of. Now, I only have myself. There's Pau but he's a boy! He's not FULLY aware of what it's like to be pregnant - to have your hormones work overtime, get silly morning sickness, and feel sleepy 70% of the day.

But overall the baby and I are the doing good. :) Of course Giann wrestles us most of the time but he's okay. I have to worry about his being possesive of me when his little sibling comes but I guess every first born had to go through that process. Giann's a smart kid; I know he'll handle. :) And just because I've a new born doesn't mean I'll take him for granted. Giann's too much of a cutie to be neglected!

P.S. Now y'all know why I'm such a lazy terrible blogger the past months.

Super P.S. I realised I've weird menstrual period. When Ate announced she was pregnant I had monthly period but now I'm actually going to deliver days earlier than she! It was also the same case for Giann - I still had my period although I'm already a month pregnant with him.

xoxo

weeee

GUESS WHO'S EXPECTING A BLESSING?!

No, not me. I won't be pregnant again until my two boys (Pau and Giann) are all grown-up already! (and until I'm out of here)

MY ATE MICH IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yay yay yay! ♥

I'm gonna have a niece/nephew! Giann's gonna have a cousin!!!

Happiness.

Let's all pray for my Ate and for the little bub inside her tummy. :)

WEEE!

I know Ate's going to be a wonderful mother. She's an "Ate" - she took (takes) care of her 3 younger, annoying, spoilt siblings! :P AHH I'M EXCITED FOR HER!!!

Ate, time for morning sickness (the only not-so-nice part of pregnancy - in my opinion), weight-gaining, food-and-Kuya-Jay-Ar-craving, anticipation, anxiety and baby bump!

Pregnancy is one of the most beautiful and wonderful experience a woman would ever go through, really. :)

xoxo