One more week

Chamu is now 9 weeks and 1 day. By this time next week, we will be able to announce this wonderful news to our family and friends (and also get to see him again on ultrasound). The ultrasound session last week was unfortunately not recorded properly so we cannot really see the powerful heart of little Chamu again on our computer. Next Monday, his heart should be even stronger. Nothing has changed much in our life. Other than the fact that I'm slowly growing out of my clothes. I have become a bit anti-social lately because I am getting bigger and cannot explain to people yet why. My favorite pass time has become sitting in front of the TV and flipping channels.
It's embarrassing but I guess my body is expanding faster than other mother-to-be's. I now have to wear my pants without buttoning them up. I had to go get maternity clothes last Saturday even though my baby does not even weigh two ounces. I am still constantly tired. I need to sleep a lot otherwise I get cranky. The worst thing is still my problem with the appetite. Jaime is frustrated with the fact that I can never tell him what I want to eat and yet frown at any food he brings to me. I am also very frustrating as well dealing with my constantly hungry stomach and not being able to find anything that suits my need. According to the books we have, I should be able to eat normal again in 2 weeks when little Chamu enters into his second trimester.
Even without revealing the news about little Chamu to my dad, he has already agreed to start a diet and to try to quit smoking... Next week he will have one more reason to get into a healthier lifestyle! :)

Almost 9 weeks

This week is a bit better for me than last week.

For one, I am back in Hong Kong so there are more choices for food. Little Chamu is still the pickiest person when it comes to food. He misleads me sometimes to signal cravings for certain food, but when Jaime actually finds me the food, he usually has already changed his mind again.

I still try to eat as much as I can but often times I find myself on the verge of barfing...

Papi tells little Chamu not to make Mami sick but I guess he just has to do his "stuff" in order to grow.

Last night I had a sudden craving for Korean food. We went and ordered a whole table of Korean and Chamu decided he will only eat Kimchee Jeege with rice. Tonight we had a dinner appointment with EGT and Chamu told me he had a craving for Japanese but on the way home, he was too shaken up by the bus ride and decided he wants to make my stomach tumble instead.

Well I guess the only benefit out of this is that the doctor won't nag on my weight increase at the next check up. Already I have passed the 60KG mark which is the heaviest I have ever been! and Chamu only accounts for full 2 ounces of it. The rest of the weight has shown up on my boobs, butt, and belly... Time for my body to start using its reserved fat...


P.S. We figured out that little Chamu should have been little "Lalu" instead since he was M.I.T. at the famous Sun Moon Lake... hehehe

Chamu's Debut

Today is the first time we are going for the check up. Quite nervous. Prior to this, pregnancy seems to just mean no appetite mixed with constant hunger, hating the usual food I love, endless tiredness, tighter pants and shirts, etc.

We waited for one hour and half since the Doctor had to postpone most of her meetings due to an emergency. Doctor came in and she was very nice and made me a lot more relaxed. We started the ultrasound session and very soon we saw our Chamu for the first time!

He is bigger than we thought he would be (at 1.7 cm). According to our calculation, he should be around 7-week old but based on his length, the ultrasound determined that he is 8 weeks and one day big! We can see the shape of his head and body and the most amazing thing is his beating heart! small but strong and follows a steady rhythm. I was speechless and couldn't believe this thing, this being, this LIFE, is actually growing inside of me. Jaime and I were ecstatic. Even though Chamu still looks like an alien being in his current form, he is already the cutest baby we have ever met!!!

P.S. I have decided to use "he" for Chamu for my convenience but Chamu is not confirmed to be a boy. Mystery will only be solved on May-18-2008.

All Day Sickness

Morning sickness is not a correct description of the symptoms that one goes through during early pregnancy. In my case, it is "all day sickness". When we booked the Sipadan trip for the October holidays, we had no expectation that I would be pregnant. After we found out, we decided to proceed with the trip since everything is paid for and non-refundable. Some quick research on the Internet tells us that diving during pregnancy is not a possibility so I had brought with me four books and some DVDs to hope to kill time when Jaime is out diving.


The journey here was long. We had to take two flights, one-hour car ride, and then another 40-minute of bumpy boat ride. Under normal circumstances, I would have been looking forward to the diving since the harder it is to get to the dive site, the more preserved the site is likely to be (and therefore more spectacular it will be). However, this is not normal circumstances. I was nauseous and at the same time worried that the bumpy boat ride was going to cause harm to my baby. I started to think how our 'cheapness' (i.e. wanting to proceed with the trip just because it is not refundable) will cause us eternal regrets. Jaime had to ask the driver to slow down twice before I got comfortable.


Once we are on the island, I soon realized that this may not be the best place to be when you are a mother-to-be. My little Chamu is growing with hormones that make me dislike all kinds of food. Here unfortunately, I don't have much choice in what I get to eat. Little Chamu does not like greasy food, spicy food, coffee, tea, sugary food, all kinds of food. So I am constantly battling with hunger and nausea and sleepiness. I force myself to eat. Afterall, I have a little baby inside of me that is hungry for nutritions. Even though I have layers of preserved fat around my belly, fat alone is not good enough. It is such a torture when you want to eat and need to eat but cannot eat. Every smell seems to make me sick, smell of gasoline, smell of ocean, smell of food... I can only hope that this period will be over soon and in a couple weeks that I can go back to eating whatever I want and need to eat... Until then Chamu hopefully will grow well consuming my previously built fat reserve....

Little Chamu

這個月遲未來潮 往好的方面想
當然是我的肚子裡 在孕育著小寶貝
但人在歐洲
羅馬 佛羅倫斯 米蘭 倫敦
每個城市平均不到兩天的停留 奔波
讓我很是擔心 深怕上回的悲劇又再重演

與老公商量後 決定提早回港休息

回來後不到5天 又得帶我老闆到台灣去洽公 觀光
沒什麼時間在休息 之後又有一早已定下去詩巴單島的行程
讓我很是擔心


回港那天 按日子推算 應該是已接近五週了
小Chamu應該是很積極的長他的小手小腳
雖然我身體上的反應已很明確的告訴我們已懷孕的事實
但我們買了試孕劑 想確認我們做父母的直覺無誤

試驗結果的那條線 非常非常明顯 心中不禁歡呼了起來
Chamu如按日子算 應該是個雙子座的小男孩/女孩
嘿嘿 跟他爹娘該是非常合得來唷

笑问喜鹤何时来

JOJO妈咪日记偷偷地开了张 我的几个细心的好友还是看到了 也各自给了我精神上很大的鼓励 我每每只是含糊的带过 不是我不感动 而是我怕我说多两句 眼泪就要滴下来 我并不是难过而是感动 你们也都是每个月与我承受一样的压力 自问着怎么上天赋予我延续生命的能力使不出来 但凡事求缘分 无法强求
回台湾到诚品看了日本雅子王妃的故事 哈佛大学毕业的她 丛嫁入皇家后就盼着喜鹤来报喜 最终盼到了小公主爱子 为了天皇传位问题 积极再求一子 她心理受到极大压力 最终也只好放弃 在皇宫中她连想有亲情的支持也是奢侈的梦想
我幸运的是 在等喜鹤的同时 有你们的陪伴与鼓励
前两天去探访了Margaret 她应该是姐妹淘中最最勇敢的一个 看到她及女儿都这么坚强 我也好开心 虽然我们也不能做些什么 但希望我们的鼓励也同样的让她有安慰 看到这么可爱的Ines 我们也更有动力继续加油追赶喜鹤咯！

謝謝

好幾天不敢看妳的部落格
那天一看了就掉眼淚
我本來也不想多說
因為原本就沒人知道
但我想告訴我的好友們
至少未來她們不會因同樣情形 感到無助
(最好是沒有 但這情形卻是出人意料外地普遍)
但 其實我沒什麼勇氣 當面告訴大家
(怕眼淚不爭氣)
只能私底下 用e-mail當是沒什麼事的說
謝謝妳 我其實不是大家想像的那麼堅強
只是我的難過 悲傷 都無濟於事
所以 也不用將大家的情緒搞壞
其實 你們什麼都不用說 不用作
就算是隔的再遠 我也能感受到妳們的關愛
JoJo媽咪日記也偷偷地開張
只希望JoJo媽咪日記能早日再續