Easter almost over and week 28 creeps close

As frightening as it is...the days pass really quickly and the kicks and punches are starting to come in stronger than ever. Baby 'Peanut' has no limitations to what she does and does it whenever she wants. It's not really much of pain but sometimes she strikes you just on the nerves that make you swear like you've never-ever...I'm starting to reminisce what I'm going to miss from work...At least my colleagues will be the first I'll miss and then the absolutely fast pace working environment that keeps me on my feet all day long. I do look forward to going back for a bit more challenge after my maternity leave.

Since it's still Easter Monday, my dearest hubby and I took a ride to Helsinki center to have some lunch-dinnerish combo at a Nepalese place we've never tried before (Restaurant Mountain). To our surprise the food was actually reeeally good. It's so out of the way everytime we go to the city that we never bothered to go all the way there just to test it out, but since almost everything is closed today except small stores (open until 16:00) and some restaurants, we decided we'll give it a go...We didn't regret it one bit as the price was also affordable... :) We would have eaten at home if we didn't have visitors today looking at our apartment, but it was good that they came so I got to eat what I REALLY wanted to eat ^__^ !

So what did we do the Easter weekend? Well, we went to visit Peanut's Grandma to be with Nemu. She was so spoilt over the weekend as she was free to run anywhere and everywhere...Literally EVERYWHERE! <_< She was so spoilt to a point that she forgot her name :P. I was happy that I didn't have to cook or clean...but it was a bit difficult to sleep on a smaller bed than what we have and being so big up front, the mattress was not very comfortable on a convertible couch bed thing. So we stayed only one night, I ended up being really exhausted after we got home that I slept until 12:30 <_< (The Tipsywan style). My dearest hubby came to wake me up so that I could help just freshen up the place before the visitors came, if he hadn't I'd probably sleep pass the Tipsywan hour :-O .

So that was what we did in Easter and dreading week 28 all at the same time. Today I'm continuing my preparation for Baby 'Peanut' I decided to order some of her things from UK but I need to figure out the logistics company that would either receive or pick and deliver. We aren't buying her pram until much later as I'm not planning to go to town anytime soon so we'll buy it sometime in August. The cotbed comes later too as she'll be placed in an Ikea cot or a travel cot in our bedroom until she can move to her own room. The travel cot is a good idea as we may be travelling around so she can be sleeping in that in the beginning saves buying too many baby furniture. I also got to know from Andrea a friend that nasal aspirator (although not used often) is a life saver, I tried googling to find out more about it but did not get a definitive answer on how necessary is that. Rather than sucking the boogers out of your little one I think opening her nasal area with a device (non battery operated) may be a life saver for a frustrated little one that is having trouble breathing while trying to feed.

I should get the mother's box soon as I left the application 1 1/2 weeks ago, I'm hoping to get last year's box since this year's option is rather meh looking. I don't want my little girl looking like a fish :P even if she probably doesn't care what she looks like at this point. Oh well one can hope. If I don't like it I can always sell it forward and buy a nicer one for her. No harm done. :), now I'll just get my things in order for tomorrow as I have one day to handle some paperwork and other stuff :).

Ciao!

Happy to be a soon-to-be-mum

Although 4D ultrasound cost me a canon and a tank, it was a big relief to see that my baby was neither an elephant, a whale nor an alien...However the distorted figures of my precious little thing did scare me every now and then as it wasn't easy to focus in on her. Yes it's a SHE!!! No we don't really have a name for her yet. We 'had' a list but it sort got spoilt after seeing her. She didn't seem to fit any of the names we liked. So now we have to redo our list and try to find something more suitable for her and not to mention easy on Finnish tongue <_<. Somethings I'm just not willing to compromise but when it comes to a baby looking almost a carbon of her dad it's just inevitable that she needs a strong name.

I guess it's best to wait until she's born, we'll still have about a month after that to register and find her an official name. Until then she'll just have to settle with some digits. At some angles she does look like her aunt Denise...maybe it's those pics when you can see through her eyeballs :P...Because Denise didn't really have much of white when she was a baby. She had black mouse eyes! :D

Being now 26 weeks and 1 day pregnant I feel that everyday is closer to the day when my little ambulance will appear. I cannot wait for that painful day however I want her to still grow well inside. I've taken a vow to work with less stress and if I run out of hours, I just have to make a habit to do it tomorrow. It is not going to be easy...Another thing I can do is to take more breaks throughout the day since I can work later from home and this way I don't tire myself too much.

These few weeks I've seen so many kids and babies that I'm wondering what I'll do wrong with my own...Everyone seems to have the perfect little angel and seem to be handling it very well. I just hope that when my turn comes my little angel will be a little angel not a fire engine or an ambulance. Anyways here's a small preview of my precious little thing...

Baby 'Jyri and Tiina' is born!

My dearest 'baka' friend had a baby this afternoon. According to the message a sweet baby girl, weighing 3,44 kg at the length of 51 cm. This is such an exciting day! I'm sure they are thrilled. I would like to visit the family but I think I'll wait until they have settled in with their newborn. I can understand the need of privacy and getting bonded with the child. I'd like to have that with my newborn as well. I don't need someone in the background nagging me and wanting to hold the baby every now and then...I guess it's fine in the hospital but when we get home we just want to be alone for a while...at least 2 weeks :).

For me the bonding process is important. Your baby is never a baby forever so this is the best time for new parents to reflect the moment. Get it into their heads that there is a new person in the family...new adventures and frustrations of trying to get things right. I keep hearing that perfection isn't everything with a baby, you just need to do your best. Let's see what kind of a control freakazoid mumsy I'll be! :D

Work it is....Just 2 more loooooong weeks.

It's time for me to go back to work now that this momma is feeling a bit better. No more strong nausea and baby tauren is behaving rather well. In a couple of more weeks hopefully I can feel baby tauren move. It is going to be exciting. I started to panic about confinement because I don't know what I should do. I've been reading about it alot and there are so many different tips and things you cannot do after birth.

If that wasn't bad enough, I started to have the fear of giving birth. Kind of bad timing when you're already carrying the spud close to 3 months. I guess the fear will go away a little at a time. Right now it just seems to be just one fright after another. I will try to becareful these few days as there are slippery times ahead. I don't want to jeopardize baby tauren's safety. I'm hoping that in January things will start to pan out a bit better.

Christmas is coming close and my dearest sister is coming to visit me. I'll be preparing roast turkey per her request as well as Nasi Lemak :). I have some great Nasi Lemak recipes lying around on scribbled paper that I should actually make a site with the recipes in them. She also requested rendang daging and fried chicken (She thinks she'll be able to finish this <__< I have my doubts!). Anyways if I make my usual portions minus the fried chicken it's doable however I feel that this is not going to be the case. I can make a big pot of sambal and freeze it. The last time I thought I was going to make Nasi Lemak again it took me 1 1/2 months and my sambal although in the fridge started to look dodgy although it still smelt right, I threw the darn thing away (What a waste of my dried chillies ;___; and assam!)

I'm also contemplating on Bak Kut Teh and some chinese soups. I haven't had those in ages and I'm starting to miss them. First I need to confirm with the Elders...the almighty you cannot do this and you cannot do that during pregnancy people.... Apparently being oblivious about your own pregnancy is perhaps better than having to worry about how it will go. Right now it's time for Momma to go to bed, I have a consultation appointment with the Clinic that will take my health measures and discuss what my options for birth are (far away hospital or the midwife school (is that even a real word?) <__<)

In the meantime...Jacey's frozen box has Lor Mai Kai, Fish Ball, Pork Balls, Roti Pratha, Yau Char Kuai, Char Siew, Nemu's sausage :P, Madagascar Vanilla Ice Cream, Tofu Ice (hmmm dodgy), Fish Tofu, Tau Pok (tofu), Some Pandan, Some strange herbs and some meat. Other stuff like french fries and ice are not so interesting :P

I don't even want to know what's in my fridge...Last thing I remembered was ten gallons of Tropicana juices :P...Love this during food aversion.... :D Alrighty...!!! Off to bed to snuggle with the hubby ^__^