Eight Check-Up (13 January - 30 Weeks and 5 Day)
On this day, we did a Placenta Site Scan at another clinic assigned by our Gynae. The scan is basically did a scan to check on the position of the placenta since i had low-lying placenta in my last scan. Once the scan was done, i went to my Gynae's clinic with the result on hand.
My total pregnancy weight became 2.5kg (i lost my weight due to surgery in December). My baby as usual always bigger than expected hahaha, he was 1.93kg. The Gynae mentioned that everything is well except that my placenta is still low-lying and hence we need to consider to option of C-section.
As my Hospitalisation Leave is over, i went back to office. I was not allowed by my hubby, parents and in-laws to take bus or mrt, and was asked to take taxi for return trips. I took Grab for 1 week, until another nightmare came upon me.
23 January (Monday) - Week 32 (Another nightmare -Hospitalisation)
I woke up around 5am as i felt that i peed on my pants. I went to toilet and noticed that i was bleeding (fresh blood like menstruation). I was shocked and panicked. I cleaned up myself, went out toilet to wake my hubby up and told him about it. We then called the emergency hotline in MAH (Mount Alvernia Hospital) and they connected me to my Gynae. She asked me to go to MAH immediately and warded under Delivery suite. On the way to hospital, I was crying and worrying about my baby as i knew that bleeding is not good while pregnant. My baby then was only Week 32 (not full term yet), i kept praying in my heart that baby would be alright and i did not have to deliver him early.
Once i reached MAH, i was warded to the Delivery suite, it is a place where all the mothers to-be are warded before their delivery. I was put under drip to help me with bleeding and contractions but the side effect of the drip was light-headed, nausea, palpitations and some will experience breathless. Thankfully i felt only the first three of side effects and not the last.
This time around, i told my hubby not to inform our parents. We wanted to hear from our Gynae before we inform our families so as not to worry them unnecessarily. Before my Gynae came to check on me in the afternoon, the nurses kept visiting me to do Contraction Test and Baby's heartbeat test, Blood Pressure Test and Temperature Test. My Gynae did ultrasound on my baby and told me that i bleed was because of my low-lying placenta. She asked me to stay in hospital to monitor my progress and my baby was alright (Thank God).
In the evening, noticed that the bleeding was no longer fresh blood but its more like old blood (darker red colour). Thereafter, we decided to inform our families and told them that my baby and i were fine and stayed in hospital to monitor. The next day, my bleeding is still dark red colour, and my gynae said it was a good sign and hence she was reducing my dosage in my drip bit by bit to ensure that i would not be dependent on the drip and could just rely on the oral medicine.
On Wednesday morning, my Gynae checked my contractions test result and my bleeding was better and hence i was given a green light to go home. She gave me about 3-weeks of Hospitalisation Leave and told me to bedrest at home.
Chinese New Year (CNY)
Since we knew that i was pregnant in last July, my parents in-law already decided to come to Singapore to spend CNY with us. In addition, my elder sister already planned to celebrate her daughter's 1st birthday in Singapore as her in-laws stay in Singapore. Hence my parents and my sisters planned to come to Singapore for 2017 CNY.
Since i need to minimise my walking, i have been taking Grabs and Taxis everywhere from 1st day to 3rd day of CNY and it was only for short visiting (ie visiting my hubby's grandma on 1st day of CNY, my niece's bday party on 2nd day of CNY and lunch with big family on 3rd day of CNY).
Those short days are my happiest days despite my pregnancy nightmares. It was the first time that my elder sister could celebrate CNY with us after she married 6 years ago. It was a happy day that my family is expanding from only 6 of us (parents and 4 sisters) to 9+2 (parents, 4 sisters, 3 my parents son in-law, 2 granddaughters and 1 grandson coming soon in few months).
Thank you for reading my pregnancy blog, Stay tuned for the next one (Pray that baby is co-operative).
