<font color="aa00aa">Gina, HBB</font>
I was watching my taped episode of Tim Gunn which runs after project runway, and he was making over a mum. Her old lifestyle is filled with being a mum to a toddler, wife and her work, so the so-called lifestyle therapist made her wear hats for the different roles she has, and write down what she does for those roles. When it came to a cap with her name on it, she has very little, almost nothing that she does for herself. So I think with the number of hours in a day, very easy forget about us as an individual which isn't about doing things for others. So good to do something for ourselves so we feel our own existence too. I got my own guilty pleasures too, somewhat like stress relief for working so hard whether it is food or shopping, quite important, otherwise I'll go bonkers.
<font color="aa00aa">34weeks checkup</font>
I just went for my gynae checkup this morning, baby hasn't put on much weight over these 2 weeks, only 2.24kg (34weeks), about 500g increase, while I spurt another 1.5kg because I fell behind on my milk powder regime, and fell prey to noodles and white rice. She still down, doc says she probably will stay down now, just that still facing the side. Filled in my pre-admission form, which the clinic recep say they will coordinate and pass on to the admission staff for me, and got an admission letter from my gynae with details of my blood work, medical history, drug allergies and PD for the baby. We spoke about the painkiller arrangement, so going to start with gas first then move to stronger painkiller, last epi, since she inform me epi can be quite expensive and with 1st child, don't know my pain threshold yet. I didn't disagree either cos reading the hospital bill threads, seems like the charges for the epi gets escalated by the number of dosages/vials you end up using too. For the first month, I'm going to take one of the PDs on the FBI programme in TMC, so can use the FBI to offset some charges, then get another PD closer to my place.