Morning Ladies! This thread has moved so fast!
First of all, heartfelt thanks to many of you here for being so encouraging towards my -ve thoughts and fibroid discovery. Talked to hb and close gfs and I'm feeling better already. Someone told me that nobody will ever be ready, as in I may feel that I'm not ready for an infant, but someone with an infant may feel inadequate for a toddler, and someone with a school-going kid may still feel stressed facing a teenager...so I guess we will need to come to terms with this soon and take on the parenthood journey in our stride. And my gf reminded me that I am already very blessed in the sense that if I really cannot cope or need a break, my parents have already excitedly volunteered to help at the sideline [IMG=http://www.singaporemotherhood.com/forumboard/clipart/happy.gif]
Regarding the OSCARS test results, I managed to review it with gynae over the weekend. Blood test results came back and everything about the baby is good -- neck, nasal bone, amino fluid, risk against 3 types of trisomy. Gynae isnt too concerned with my fibroids though. I spoke to my chinese sinseh after that but she was very concerned instead. She feels that I might have overdosed on hormones during the past 6 weeks in a bid to stabilise the pregnancy -- weekly jabs + daily utrogestran. I was also starting to feel nausea and lost my appetite in the last 1 week or so, all these could be side effects of surging hormones. She advised that I stop the hormonal medication immediately after 12 weeks. Before 12 weeks, our bodies require that to stabilise the pregnancy, after 12 weeks, the placenta should take over the job. So I took 1 last jab from gynae at week 12 and now I'm only taking the multi-vits and calcium tablets from him.
As for herbal stuff, sinseh advised that I only stick to the more neutral ones now, eg 四神/六味. Nothing too cooling, nothing too heaty. To my disappointment, she doesnt think that I need chicken essence or birdnest too! Hb was all ready to buy BN. Sigh! I still havent piled back the 3kg lost, she isnt too worried cos I'm not thin to begin with. But she warned that I need to eat no matter what. Even if I feel nausea or have no appetite, pregnant ladies must take small meals. She said it wont be good if the growing fetus tap on my stored fats =X
Hope the above info is also useful to some of you [IMG=http://www.singaporemotherhood.com/forumboard/clipart/happy.gif]