These are some of the stuff that I have been doing this past week sebagai attempt to preoccupy myself while waiting for baby #2 to arrive:

1) membuat aktiviti2 yang berkaitan dengan sekolah Diya. Seperti raising money for 'Childrens in Need Day' dan membakar dan menjual cupcake bagi tujuan raising fund untuk sekolah.

2) Membuat aktiviti shopping di dunia cyber - tapi dengan justifikasi pembelian yang bersesuaian (matilah makk)

Apekah yg ada dalam packaging ini?

Mungkinkah jenama ini?

3) Mengadakan hari 'Diya & Mom day' dan pergi makan Japanese food dekat Ichiban. (sebenarnya alasan sebab tetiba craving Jap food gittew.. Mak hentam ajorr sushi2 tuh sebab dah nak branak pown..)

Rainbow Maki

Squid rings (although diya thought they were pretzels lol)

My tempura udon

Anyways, my dad has confirmed his visit and will be coming on the 18th! And oleh kerana ittew, rombongan puan Fatimah telahpun dipanjangkan sehingga 30th December! *pomspoms*

Now I need to reschedule my Scotland trip sebab initially the plan was to go between 17-20th. I myte reschedule the trip after the christmas week and sebelom pi Scotland, we myte singgah bi*cester on boxing day aci tak? hihi..

As for preparation for my family, I'm thinking of buying an inflatable double mattress which I found at Home Bargains at a very reasonable price. I think its a good investment coz next time if ado tetamu lain nak datang boleh makk pakai tilam itu sajorr, pls it would not take up any space if its not being used. :) So adek2, anda akan tidur diatas tilam belon harap maklom. :p

ps: Tmrw is my nephew's 3rd birthday and he is having a party at McD (sungguh jeles tak dapat pegi!) Anywys, happy birthday Adam!

Today I had a workshop at the Uni, Introduction to SPSS, to be exact. Sesuwai dengan tahap makk yang tak reti pasal SPSS nihh..   hihi.. I thought it was quite useful, although contoh yang diberikan adelah lebih sesuwai utk survey/questionnaire based research. I'm planning to use it for my content analysis. So kena try tweak here and there lah utk menyesuaikan dengan keadaan.

Anyways, after the workshop, instead of asking ubie to fetch me, I decided to walk home . I just feel that I need some exercise and walking is said to help with labour kan? Anyways, I took my own sweet time terkedek2 jalan macam itek, and what usually took me just a half-an-hour walk, turned out to an hour walk! hihi.. that is to show you how slow I was walking. Thank god I managed to make it on time for my antenatal appointment at my GP. 

Speaking of antenatal visit, baby is measuring spot on 38 weeks. She is not engaged yet, but baby is caephalic (she has been since week 20 kot) and hopefully takdelah nak pusing2 after this. My MW, Denise, discussed about post-due date matters and she said that if I go beyond 40 weeks, I will be offered a membrane sweep on 30th Nov and according to her about 50% women will start labor after having the sweep. But lets just hope that I wont have to. hihi.. 

Anyways, I feel extremely tired these past few days. I just feel like lying down in bed. Sometimes, I even feel nausea and last night I vomitted. Its almost like 1st trimester all over again. Denise said that it can be a sign that labour is well on the way. Harap2 betullah ramalan MW ku ini..

Anyways, tomorrow is another day of SPSS workshop. And I shall waddle home again, hihi..

BTW, I like tomorrow's date : 17/11/2009. How I wish baby #2 will be born on that date. But its proly unlikely that I will.. hihi.. 

I'm still here in case you are wondering. No babies yet. In fact, no signs that the latent stage is starting. I did have mild period pain-like (very mild in fact) but that is basically it.

I'm pretty okay with the waiting game. I mean, the baby will come when she is ready so no need to feel too impatient for no reasons. After all, I am still 2 weeks away from my due date. 

Last week, my fundal height was 36cm, which was 1 week smaller to my gestation week. Tapi scan menunjukkan baby is 2 weeks bigger. So technically kalau ikot scan measurements, I should be 40 weeks today. I hope that baby wont be too big, but I'm not that worried TBH.

I am however, worried that I havent been able to contain myself when it comes to food! Aiyo! Seriously, everytime I go to the loo at night (thats like every hour), I will grab those sinful M&S Belgian Cookies and munch away before dozing off again. Erk! Sangat keji! Ini tak termasuk munching while I watch TV (which I dont normally do), while I'm on the Net, while I'm cooking, aiyo!! *pengsan la kalau mcm ni sampai 40 weeks!)

I just hope I can shed all this weight (macam che sabb yang kurus ittew) and be discipline with Wii Fit (a gift from My sis cinderella!! tengkiu sis! - supaya saya kurus macam dia) after giving birth nanti. Hihi..

Oh, BTW there is a big possibitily that my dad will also visit me next month, after his work trip to Cameroon. *pomspoms* But I'll only know for sure this Friday. 

Just wanted to let you all know the result of my meeting today. It went great! I was very lucky that they were very supportive of me having a VBAC and yes, I will be delivering at the MLU! *ecstatic*

I can also use the pool, for both pain relief and water birth. She basically said that I might as well take advantage of all the equipments there and increase my chances of having a VBAC.

In the meeting, she explained the risks involved and discussed what my options are. I also have full right to refuse any procedures - I opted to decline constant electronic monitoring as I cant be in the water if I have that stapped on.

However, I did agree to vaginal checks in every 2 hours (to monitor labour progress) and if my second stage does not progress in an hour I can be wheeled in to the consultants unit. But again, she said that all this is not written in stone, and as long as I have positive progress in labour and that both the baby and me were fine, they would still keep me there.

Apparently, not many women took the opportunity to deliver VBAC at the MLU (at least at my hospital). She said they only received about 20 cases throughout the 4 years since the unit was opened.

Anyways, nak juga mention bahawa makk feeling2 bonding dengan head of MLU ittew krn dia pown was pregnant (with twins plak tuh) masa buat PhD. hihi.. And perlu jugak makk drop the name of my supervisor. Kerana emak sv saya adelah seorang yg terkenal dalam midwifery world. hihi..Funnily enough, she kenal my sv jugak! Terpaksa makk lebih bonding2 gittew.. LOL

Anyhow, I am very very happy with today's meeting outcome, and decided to treat myself with lotsa chocolates! LOL

Now I just need to relax and wait for lil bubba to arrive, hopefully soon!

Pray for me having a successful VBAC people!

Out of all the bargains and deals that I have seen so far, this is probably the greatest find throughout my 2 years being here.

Girls leather winter boots from Clarks!

These gorgeous leather boots are priced at 5 quids each and on top of that they are listed as one of the orange multi-buy items (which means that you can get another pair for free)! That means that each pair of boots would cost a freaking 2.50 quids!! I almost fainted!

As you can see the original price was 38quids people! 

Even the cashier thought it was a crazy deal. He said that the store might as well give them for free at that price. LOL!

Furthermore, its pink (obviously diya's fave), they have stars and flowery pattern on it, and the most important thing is the base is made of rubber (which is very useful here since autumn/winter tend to be mostly cold and wet.)

However, the sizes were limited, but I was lucky enough that it was just slightly bigger than her current size and she can fit into it already (thank god that they are high boots so it gives a better snug and hold of the legs when walking). I bought the other one at a bigger size and hope she can still fit into it for next winter.

Oh, i got these babies at the outlet btw. Sempat lagik pi bershopping while menunggu nak beranak nihh.. Well, they are for scotland trip and Diya needs boots for winter anyway. The one that she has (from last year) dah tak muat. *matilah justification untuk bershopping* haha.. Lagikpun my midwives kata, creating distractions can reduce frustrations while waiting for baby #2 to arrive.

ps: its getting really cold now. Tapi kami still tak on heater lagik kat umah, nak jimat punya pasal.. haha.