Welcome Carlos Chace! :)

Born: April 3, 3009 1:17 a.m.

Zamboanga Doctor's Hospital

6.1 lbs 49 cms

So, I didn't get my wish of delivering by March. I'm glad though that he came on his own time... catching even me by surprise.

April 1. I had my doctor's appointment, and was very disappointed to find that I was only a fingertip dilated... still no sign that labor was gonna come any time soon. I shared my frustration with my ob-gyn, who gave me samples of Evening Primrose Oil (herbal) to aid in the dilatation and effacement [No approved therapeutic claims]. After dinner, I started having regular contractions, but the pain stopped when I woke up the next morning.

April 2. I walked around town with my mom and our maid for some "exercise". Arrived him around 4 pm and [happily] found that I lost my mucus plug. I excitedly dragged my mom to my ob-gyn [5pm], but was once again disappointed when she said that I was only 1 cm dilated and was very far from effacement. She advised me to go back to the clinic the next day to check if there was going to be any progress. Frustrated, I went to bed early after dinner that night.

April 3. [12 am] I woke up and peed, and I noticed a gush of fluid before my urine came out that I knew for certain was not urine. Since I was in no serious pain, I went online to chat with Art & my friend Fons. I even got to update my facebook status.

[12:35 am] I told both Art & Fons that I had to use the toilet, on my way to there my water bag broke! So I woke both my mom and dad up and told them I think we needed to go to the hospital. Then I went to take a shower (hygiene first!). By then, the pain was getting worse and the contractions getting closer and closer.

[12:55 am] Because I take so long so shower, by the time we left the house I felt like I was already 9 cm dilated, and I probably was.

[A little past 1 am] When we arrived at the hospital, I could tell that the baby was going to come out any minute now. I begged the emergency room nurses to skip the internal examination because I can already feel the baby's head, good thing they listened and sent me directly to the delivery room while my mom took care of the admission papers.

Elevator Scene:

Me: Please apura, sale ya gad. (Please hurry, the baby is really coming out now)

Manong pushing the stretcher: Ma'am blow blow lang muna.

Me: Nooooo [while removing my undies hahaha], please sale ya gad (Please, it's really coming out!)

Delivery Room Scene:

Me: [begging voice] Dali dali, manong, numa ya man stop. (Hurry hurry manong, don't stop anymore)

Nurse: How many centimeters? Is her doctor coming?

Me: Sale ya gad!!! (It's coming out!!!)

Nurse: Ma'am please change into the hospital gown and remove your bra.

Me: No!!! Arrrgh (Iri number #1)

Nurses: Ayyy ta pari ya! (She's giving birth now!) *hurrying up to put their gloves

Me: Arggh!! (Iri number #2) *Baby's head pops out.

Nurses: Hala! hala. *hurrying to catch

[1:17 am] Me: Arrrrgh! (Iri number #3) *Baby's body comes out

Baby's first picture at the nursery

flowers from my husband.

Our 3d/4d Ultrasound At 29 Weeks

Last Tuesday, I had a 3d/4d scan of the newest addition to our little family. I never had one when I was pregnant with Kaden because my Ob-Gyn then convinced me that it's not important, so I had a congenital scan done instead. Now I feel bad that poor Kaden has no "in-the-womb" pictures like this one.

You gotta love technology these days! Imagine having to see what the baby really looks like this early on. Although, we all know that the baby's face changes really really fast. What he could look like at birth could be totally different from what he will look like in a week.

We actually did the scan for hubbylicious who was supposed to be home this month but had to stay in Dubai due to some circumstances. Problem is, the file is too big for me to send to him. It has been days and I still am not able to upload the video on youtube. This is the downside to being a mac user, you have limited programs to choose from if you want to downsize a file, or edit it to make it shorter.

So, my dear husband has no choice but to look at the pictures instead.

It was a great experience. In 40 minutes the baby has moved a lot! and we saw him grimace, yawn, smile, swallow, stick out his tongue, move his arms, cover his face, among others. It was fun to watch him, now I'm even more excited and impatient to give birth than ever!

Baby Boy Update!

From Babycenter.com

How your baby's growing:

By this week, your baby weighs two and a quarter pounds (like a Chinese cabbage) and measures 14.8 inches from the top of her head to her heels. She can blink her eyes, which now sport lashes. With her eyesight developing, she may be able to see the light that filters in through your womb. She's also developing billions of neurons in her brain and adding more body fat in preparation for life in the outside world.

There are 79 days until your due date on April 15, 2009.

You are 201 days pregnant.

You are 6.6 months pregnant.
You are in your 7th month of pregnancy.
Your 1st trimester: July 09, 2008 to October 07, 2008. (0 - 12 weeks)
Your 2nd trimester: October 08, 2008 to January 19, 2009. (13 - 27 weeks)
Your 3rd trimester: January 20, 2009 to April 15, 2009. (28 - 40 weeks)

Gosh! It feels like forever until April.

Depressed!

Unexpected Baby News :)

Earlier today we decided to have my monthly checkup a week earlier since we're leaving for Manila on Wednesday. As of today, I'm only 16 weeks pregnant so I never really expected the doctor to be able to tell the sex this early on. So when she said, "I can already see the baby's sex!" I knew right away what it was because only one gender can be detected with certainty before 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Pooof! and there went my fantasies of shopping cutesy adorable little girly dresses in pink and purple. Gotta dig up Kaden's baby clothes soon.

I should have taken a picture of Art's reaction when he found out. He wants a baby boy sooo bad, so he, Kaden, and the baby could share their "toys".

He looked so excited while I was in a daze. I had my heart set on a baby girl, and so does Kaden (he sounds so cute saying "baby sister" so excitedly). When Art asked me if I was happy, I had to be honest and said "Well, I'm really happy for you but I'm kinda disappointed for me." He just laughed at me.

Now, I'm also getting excited about our coming baby boy. I pray he comes out healthy, that's all that's important. I'm slowly telling Kaden that he's getting a baby brother instead of a baby sister, but he got confused and is now expected both a baby sister and a baby brother. He holds up his fingers and says, "TWO babies, mommy."

Uh-oh.

WE have a Walnut! :)

Oh, and why am I suddenly posting maternity clothes? Because..... as it turns out, Art & I have a less-than-four week old walnut on my tummy! :D

How did I know? Because I felt pregnant even before I missed my period. Much-too-frequent voiding, excessive laziness, even more sensitive olfactory senses, tasting all the sodium in food and hating it, and too much eating.

Actually, I still haven't even missed a single day of my period yet at this very moment because I'm due on the 9th. But because of all the symptoms, I took a home urine pregnancy exam two nights ago, and the results showed me 2 lines on the control and test portions of the kit, which was supposed to mean positive. I showed it to my mom, and she was like, "No way! It's too early to say if you are pregnant, so you're probably not."

But I wanted to know, so I went to Ciudad Medical and took a blood exam, and it came out positive again. So I decided to see an Ob-Gyne, who looked at me, like "Huh? It's too early into the pregnancy if you are." I showed her my results and she did a transvaginal ultrasound, which showed a little walnut. :) Yey! But since it's too early on to the pregnancy or whatnot, the doctor advised to wait another two weeks for another ultrasound to see if there's a heartbeat and to know if the embryo has been implanted on the right site of the uterus.

It's way to early for us to celebrate, so all we can do now is hope for the best and pray that the little walnut is going to be Kaden's new playmate in 9 months! :)

Please please please.