the tummy has been hanging too low too early, and putting a lot of pressure on the pelvic area the past few days. not only is it uncomfortable, but a lot of people have also commented on it looking like it’s in the late stages already. even my grandma thinks the doc has miscalculated and i’m about to give birth any time soon.
worrying? well, yeah.
thankfully kak maya came by on thursday, and i relayed my concerns. she had a look and went to work on it, basically puuuushing my womb up a little so it wouldn’t lie so low. gah, post-natal flashback! i couldn’t help but squirm around a bit and clench my butt. yikes. :S
but it worked, and it doesn’t hang as low as before, thus not placing as much pressure on my pelvis. now the weight i’m carrying feels more centered and balanced.
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had another partnerless visit to the doc for the checkup yesterday since the partner had his own medical appointment at TTSH at the same time.
my aim for that day’s check up was to get YET another confirmation of the gender, you know… see if there’s any, erm, new ‘development’ since the last time. (i STILL can’t believe my luck lah!) the doc obliged, of course. 
25+ weeks.
edd now stands at 14 april. (it just keeps getting earlier, gah!!)
weight of baby, 740gms.
total weight gain, a grand 6kg.
he pointed out the “p*p*k” (yes, HIS word, not mine), and assured me it’s 99.99% girl. of course, me being the pessimistic me, i asked him about the other 0.01%, which he said was up to God. ok lah!
then i made him print out the p*p*k picture.
the conversation then once again ‘derailed’ to him persuading me to make MORE babies in future, insisting that i had another good ten years more to go (preggers at 40??! you gotta be kidding me!).
“2005 and 2008 one batch, wait a while, then another batch. four lah, get baby bonus.” MACAM BUAT BISKUT EH!
actually, he wasn’t the only one i went into ‘discourse’, or rather, ‘debate’ with about this very same issue of producing more offsprings. my ex-tutor, who called me up the other day to talk about a totally different matter, started going on and on about how i MUST have more kids or, he ominously warned me, “you will regret it la, ana.”
this coming from a 52-year-old swinging bachelor who’s never been interested in the whole marriage institution or even a proper relationship himself. hehe.
his view is more of an, erm, ‘elitist’ one, which i don’t wish to subscribe to. he has this ingrained belief that graduates will beget graduates, which is just… ugh. he cited peers and past tutees who were graduates, worked hard in their careers, along the way only making time for one or at most two children, and later in life, confessed how they greatly regretted not spending more time and energy on having more children, because their kids were all bright and did well in school. “wasted, you know,” he said.
huh.
in any case, i don’t want to go into it here. i’m sure it’ll cause some VERY strong reactions… :S
(although, it DOES bring to mind that damn funny Mike Judge movie, ‘Idiocracy’, that got me thinking for weeks after watching it on dvd, on a similar issue.)
i think it takes a lot more than merely good genes – on paper – to produce bright children. there are so many other external factors involved, doncha think? for all you know, their kids probably did well because there were fewer of them to concentrate on, more resources to tap on, etc. and hey, who’s to say we even make good candidates as natural churners of future leaders or movers and shakers? that’s just too much pressure, on the kids AND ourselves…
anyway, about having more of them, i’ll cross the bridge when i reach it.
i’d like to reach the end of bridge number 2 safely for now, thankyewverymuchly.
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