pregnancy update

i cant believe na isa lang ang post ko for august... what happened? hehe...

so sa ngayon ay 61 kilos na ko. starting at less than 50 kilos before i got pregnant, disente na siguro ang weight gain ko ngayon, di tulad ng first pregnancy ko na akala ko free for all food galore na araw araw (lol)..

33 weeks pa lang, although ang bilang ng ob ko is 35, nakalimutan nya siguro na namove yung date of conception ko ng 2 weeks, haller, kaya nga ko nabuntis e, kung sumunod ba naman ang ovary ko sa schedule nya e di dapat safe ako non, anyways, im still happy, especially today kase nakita ko sa panaginip ko ang baby girl ko!!! hindi sya kasing puti ni kuya jared pero taba-taba sya ng onti, saka cute pa rin syempre...

grabeng super likot, iniexpect ko ngang lumabas sya before september ends, tho' october 6-18 ang expected delivery date ko.  at eto na naman ako, natatakot sa labor.

di tulad dati na wala akong iniexpect, parang mas takot ako ngayon dahil alam ko na kung gano kasakit :S

sana nga lang mas less na sya ngayon... at mas mabilis!

antok na naman ako.... makatulog nga muna. ulit.

5th prenatal appointment

i gained 2 kilos in one month.  haha.  total weight gain now is 6 kilos, and im just on my 6th month... prepare for some serious weight gain now that im finishing my 2nd trimester :D

last night was my 5th prenatal appointment, no ultrasound (not again) but i was surprised to see a scheduled vaccination for diphtheria/tetanus... so i went home with a sore arm which still hurts until now...

plus another disappointment from pizza hut when i was expecting a very large pizza (it says 'calls for teamwork') and it turns out it just almost as big as their large.  stupid flyers floating around...

im just happy to go home these days coz i see my bravia :)
32 inch baby!

music for babies

tulad ni jared, me music lessons na rin si bopbop baby kahit in utero pa rin sya :)  same music kase hindi ko naman dinelete sa mac ko ung johnson & johnson's, mozart at nursery songs ni jared dati.

kaya hindi ako magtataka kung dancing queen din ito paglabas haha...

kagabi naka-surround pa kami kaso na-boring ako kakakinig (nakikisali kasi) kaya ngayon sa headphones na lang, sya na lang mag isa makinig habang nasa office kami...

araw-araw na to hanggang lumabas na sya... ano kaya, singer ito o dancer din tulad ni kuya?

pregnancy take two

5 and a half months into my second pregnancy and  i can already list the differences between jared and our new baby..

of course, now im not so paranoid about food and drinks, but still a little careful on what i put inside my tummy.

in comparison, i could call myself detoxified when i found out i was pregnant for the first time.  i was decided to do everything right.  but now im more relaxed.  i don't worry about the small stuff like being super healthy all the time.

• i did not drink coffee or tea, unlike now - but i only take decaf to wake myself up in the morning, and only a few warm sips.  and tea once in a while, when i feel so full from breakfast.
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• i was always drinking calcium-fortified milk in the evenings before.  maybe that's why jared has such strong teeth... (ok, i better start doing that again somehow)  
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• i was super into cooking.  even if it's hot in the kitchen, every night i'd be thinking of something to cook just to hear the garlic pop when i put it in hot oil... i loved it then.  but now i actually had a restaurant deliver food every lunch so i don't have to cook until dinner...
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• i loved oranges with jared.  now i like mangoes.
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• i felt prettier then.  i think my skin is dull nowadays.
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• i was hardworking, i wanted people to say 'wow, she's a working pregnant lady!'  and i even worked until the first day of my labor.  now i always envy people who can wake up anytime they like and i try finding excuses to not go to work in the morning.. and in the afternoon :)
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• i never had trouble sleeping before.  now i feel aches and pains in my back, and cramps on my legs.  and i always wake up in the middle of the night...
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• i felt my baby kick earlier than usual, just 4 and a half months into pregnancy, and i feel her kick more painful now that im on my way to 6 months!  its like jared's nine-month kick.
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• i still did not have morning sickness, and just a little vomiting spell in the morning, but headaches are such a pain this time around, they usually come every two weeks and stay for 2 days...  though my OB told me it's safe to take paracetamol im still determined not to take medicines when im pregnant.  (bambi was kind of amazed when i went through childbirth without any painkillers at all...)
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• omg, the constipation...  its worse!
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• junkfood cravings - double up!  but my meal portions are smaller now.

one good thing though, i learned that being pregnant doesn't mean its a free for all buffet all the time.  i previously thought it was a good excuse to eat whatever i want and blame the weight on the pregnancy.  but now i only eat what i can, coz too much or too little makes me vomit.

next update: wait til im 9 months.

its a girl!

simula nung bata pa kami, naglalaro kami ng sinulid, karayom at lapis para malaman kung ilan ang magiging anak mo at kung sinu-sino ang babae o lalaki.  meron pa ngang huhulaan ka daw kunyari, tapos dpeende sa ridges sa gilid ng palad mo e malalaman din kung ilan ang magiging junakis mo...

naisip ko lang, pano kung di magkapareho ang lalabas sa inyo ng asawa mo? haha, lagot sya...

so anyways, alam ko na kahit dati pa na lalaki talaga ang magiging first baby ko.  kaya ang confident ko non nung iniscan na ko ng radiologist dahil di pa man nya sinasabi, alam ko na (at kita rin ung tutuy bago pa man sya magsalita haha).  pero ngayon...

 di ako ganon ka-confident kahit alam ko sa loob ko na babae ang second baby namin.  lagi kasi akong natatalo pag nakikipagpustahan ako kay bambi.  kaya napasigaw talaga ako sa tuwa nung sinabi ng radiologist na babae sya!  babae po ang anak ko!  ang saya saya ko grabe!  

ngayon alam ko na na tama pa rin ang chinese lunar calendar :D

at ang pinakaexciting sa lahat?  MAGSHO-SHOPPING AKO NG MGA PINK NA BABY STUFF!!! aminin, ang sarap magshopping noon para kay jared dahil first baby at excited ka sa lahat ng mga nakikita mo sa mothercare, pero ngayon, mas excited ako kase ang dami-daming cute na gamit para sa babae!  i can't wait for my 8th month!  para masimulan na ang shopping!!!

wala syang kasing-sama...

ang isa pa naming amo, nagpakita na naman ng kanyang super evil powers today... killjoy sa birthday ni ate maricel.

yan tuloy di na pwede magparty sa office... badtrip talaga sya.



anyways nagpa-cbc (complete blood count) ako this evening, ok naman.  blue pa rin naman daw ang dugo ko.  kailangan ko kasi ang results nito para sa 4th month checkup ko sa 17.  parang ayoko nga muna magpa ultrasound, nakakatatlo na kasi ako... siguro pag 5th month na lang pag kita na yung gender ng baby, right?


ansakit parin pala magpainjection!  tapos inaapi natin yung mga batang umiiyak.

e ikaw kaya tusukin ng karayom?

the name

this afternoon while i was sitting near the window i was thinking of a name for a girl... only in my mind. but when i came to think of tuscany i felt bop-bop-baby move for the first time!  and then a lot of times after that.  it was so early... i don't remember the exact date when jared moved but i think it was further along 4-5th month...

well, im almost four months and im still clueless for a baby's name.  bambi keeps suggesting weird names to me and unlike jared's name which just popped up and we actually both liked it, right now its taking some time before we can both agree on a girl or a boy's name.

looking at the internet does nothing.  it either gives you 19th century names like jacintha or fabiola, or uncool names like fawn.  and one site has a list of 50 craziest baby names from celebrities, which really makes me wonder if they (the offsprings) liked the individuality or silently curse their parents for being bullied.

let me show you why:

50 craziest celebrity baby names (in alphabetical order)

Aanisah: Macy Gray (also mother to Tahmel)

Apple: Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow

Astrella Celeste: Donovan and Linda Lawrence (also parents to Oriole Nebula)

Atherton Grace: Don Johnson and Kelley Phleger

Audio Science: Shannyn Sossamon

Aurelius Cy: Elle Macpherson and Arpad Busson

Blue Angel: U2's The Edge and Aislinn O'Sullivan

Bluebell Madonna: Geri Halliwell

Brooklyn: David and Victoria Beckham (also parents to Romeo and Cruz)

Calico: Alice and Sheryl Cooper (also parents to Sonora Rose)

Camera: Arthur Ashe and Jeanne Moutoussamy

Destry: Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw

Diezel Ky: Toni Braxton and Keri Lewis (also parents to Denim Cole)

Fifi Trixibell: Bob Geldof and Paula Yates (also parents to Peaches and Pixie)

Fuchsia: Sting and Frances Tomelty

Gaia: Emma Thompson and Greg Wise

Gulliver: Gary Oldman and Donya Fiorentino

Heaven: Lil' Mo (also mother to God'Iss Love Stone)

Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily: Paula Yates and Michael Hutchence

Hopper: Sean Penn and Robin Wright

Ireland: Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger

Jaz: Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi

Jazz Domino: Joe Strummer

Jermajesty: Jermaine Jackson and Alejandra Genevieve Oaziaza (previously married to Jermaine's brother Randy)

Kal-El Coppola: Nicholas Cage (Kal-El is Superman’s original birth name)

Kyd: David Duchovny and Tea Leoni

Lark Song: Mia Farrow and André Previn

Lennon: Liam Gallagher and Patsy Kensit

Liberty: Ryan Giggs

London Emilio: Slash

Luna Coco Patricia: Frank Lampard and Elen Rive

Marquise: 50 Cent

Memphis Eve: Bono

Moon Unit: Frank Zappa, also father to Dweezil and Diva Muffin

Moxie CrimeFighter: Penn Jillette (also father to Zolten)

Ocean: Forest Whitaker (also father to Sonnet and True)

Pilot Inspektor: Jason Lee and Beth Riesgraf

Poppy Honey: Jamie and Jules Oliver (also parents to Daisy Boo)

Rocket: Robert Rodriguez (also father to Racer, Rebel and Rogue)

Rufus Tiger: Roger Taylor also father to Tiger Lily and Lola Daisy

Saffron Sahara: Simon and Yasmin Le Bon (also parents to Amber Rose and Tallulah Pine)

Sage Moonblood: Sylvester Stallone and Sasha Czack (also parents to Seargeoh)

Satchel: Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee

Seven Sirius: Andre Benjamin and Erykah Badu

Shiloh Nouvel: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie

Sosie: Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick

Suri: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes

Tallulah: Bruce Willis and Demi Moore (also parents to Scout and Rumer)

Willow Camille Reign: Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith

Zola Ivy: Eddie Murphy and Nicole Mitchell

seriously, Pilot Inspektor?  anyways thats their kick.. its just weird to be so undecided about a name. i wonder how long they all thought about it before deciding to give those names to their children.

first trimester is over

thank goodness!

i am almost fed up with the fatigue and sleepiness.  i will have my 3rd prenatal tomorrow and hopefully everything's still fine, coz now and then i feel my stomach tightening a little bit.  and next month i hope i can start to feel when he kicks, its one of the perks of being pregnant!

i started to avoid the kitchen nowadays, and i just have our food delivered by a catering service, which gives me time to sleep more :) but sometimes bambi is being stubborn and not eating just because 'i didn't cook it'.  seriously, would he rather eat what i i cook?

unlike the first weeks of my pregnancy when i was loaded with work, these days i am so bored just counting the time to freedom... which is as bad as being overworked.  at least when you're working time flies fast.

anyways its almost 7 and im about to go out.  bambi and i are supposed to visit one friend who just gave birth and im still thinking of what to send...

wants and needs

since we realized im pregnant, i have been to 2 pre-natal checkups already, 2 ultrasounds, and hundreds of cravings.

but there are foods that i stay away from, because they are dangerous to me and my baby.  some item may sound weird but there is nothing to lose if i abstain from them for just 9 months, to be safe, like pain medications, even if they say it's safe.  that's why I thank God that my headache does not last that long, coz i don't want any complications.

i also do not eat soft cheese anymore, you know, the white cheese that goes with salad?  i loved it with khubus.  and liver spread, coz too much vitamin a in liver and im already taking a multivitamin.  vitaminosis happens when you take too much vitamin a and it sort of backfires with complications.  what else, left-over salads and cold cut sandwiches (unless microwaved steaming hot), basically uncooked food, for fear of contaminations; raw eggs or eggs not cooked properly, unpasteurized milk (i called a milk manufacturer once just to check if the bottled milk im drinking has been pasteurized {idiot})!

and then some which have no scientific reason but basically old wive's tales like eggplant, coz it will cause purple discoloration to the baby's skin.

and then those that i want but i don't really need, like biscuits (currently finishing my 3rd can), candies, ice cream, soft drinks and potato chips :D

im a slave...

to my cravings!

last last thursday i had to walk past my house to two streets more just to wait 30 minutes for my daing na bangus order, last thursday i had to walk at the opposite direction to my house from the office coz i wanted a turkey sandwich, and this morning i quietly went out of the office to our nearest supermarket which is a corner away just to buy skittles.

this baby wants to eat a lot!  and not only that, im addicted to mostly junk foods, and soft drinks... i know i had to stop it, let's just consider it a one-week relapse ok?

as of now i am officially 10 weeks pregnant, and here is an illustration that i usually visit on a weekly basis to check the baby's development:

just keep swimming, just keep swimming...

fatigued

seriously, i feel like ive been doing construction work for the past month, even early in the morning i feel sleepy and lethargic.  and it does not go away even after my 1 hour siesta in the afternoon.

what can i expect, my body is growing another human being and it is no easy task.  i just thought it would be as breezy as my first pregnancy.

i had so much to blog but can't find the will to do so, photos and stories are being dumped in my desktop but i just feel so withdrawn and all i want to do is sleep.  one day is not enough.  i lost interest in my job and i was always thinking of an excuse for not going.

and i think i scared on of my colleagues when he found me crying out of frustration in my desk. haha.  that was the highlight of my day yesterday.

no, scratch that, this is the highlight of my day, and my week:

there she is!  (i know she will be a girl) expected delivery date: October 20, 2010!

k-fed

kristinne is fed up.

it has been the most tiring 2 weeks of my life.  even if i have received half of my ebay purchases from last month, it wasn't enough to make me happy and blog.

it started with this sensor...

it's supposed to be cute coz it's hello kitty, but i hated the reason why it's lighting up so i took it off my blackberry and attached it to my roaming mobile instead.

when i was in college i had a simple sticker sensor at the back of my nokia 3310 that lights up when it receives a call or an sms.  and it made me giggle when it lights up because it means i will receive an sms from bambi soon.  so i had such good memories of it.

unfortunately at this time of my life and even if i have a blackberry, i want to throw away the phone when it lights up especially when im at home coz it only means my boss is going to call and i would probably be searching the internet for something or maybe i did something wrong for the day.

dang i really hated him this week!  it seems my stress level has been up all the time even if i have probably the same amount of work, its just that everytime he calls and asks me to canvass a price for something (5-6 items this week from more than 10 suppliers) it really takes up a lot of time and at the end he changes his mind and i really want to hit the phone so hard at my table just so i wouldn't scream!

my darn hormones are probably to blame.  my first pregnancy was such a breeze compared to this.  starting this week i started to lose appetite and was just eating junk foods even though im really hungry coz the thought of rice and viand makes me vomit.  i was just eating bread yesterday all afternoon.  plain bread and water.  i had to, coz i feel sick when im hungry, but ill feel sick when im too full.

ooh, i saw camella's ad yesterday!  those three kids strolling along their village, and they had ice cream... then i wanted to eat ice cream, too!  so bambi bought one for me, london dairy no less!  but, i didn't eat much because guess what...?  it wasn't on a cone like those kids had.  yay... is this what pregnancy blues mean?

i really miss my son!  he wasn't this picky when he was in my tummy... not even one bit.  i was watching his videos yesterday and i missed him terribly, and i wanted to make time pass so quick and make it december already... anyways, 10 more months and ill be free from waking up so early just to be scolded, free from my boss' (sometimes) unreasonable mood swings, free from being disturbed at home for more work.  free, free, free.

anyways, i have some new stuff that i wanted to review so im going back to work and post them later.

thank You, for all the blessings, especially the one inside me..

it has been a great week for me!

i was originally planning to write a post about my terrific tuesday, but my luck ran through the rest of the week!

first, i was so happy to go to bcc with maricel last tuesday, coz with a girl i can go to shops that bambi cannot, and test their products on another person without complaints!  when we were with irish before, we always pass by mac to put on eyeshadows and liners. 

even if we were there for only two hours we went home happy coz we both had what we came for.  

she bought a nipper (which made her very happy,  as in very happy, because of a nipper)... and i was able to buy too faced shadow insurance.  at last! they have it in stock!

i always check it in sephora but its always out of stock, so even if i am waiting for my primer potion, i still stocked up on it and maybe sell the potion to maricel or irish, if i find shadow insurance better than it.  or maybe keep them both :) *vain*

i also bought a purifying brush shampoo, but im gonna return it coz the sales lady demonstrated the spray one, but she placed the gel type on my bag.  i was so disappointed when i found out at home.  

in fairness, she gave me a lot of sephora mattifying primer samples.  and these can last me for almost a month!

i also bought a nice-looking violet shade of nail polish from claire's... i was so excited to use this!

but all of my nail art will be put on hold because of a surprise!

then wednesday morning, four parcels from ebay came!  

first was the nyx lipglosses from u.s.!

in three beautiful shades!!!

pinky natural is my best lip gloss color coz it matches with any eyeshadow, apricot is a little turn-down coz the color is diluted, and soap opera queen is the most glamorous!  although, since i have been satisfied with long-lasting lip products i find that they fade too quickly.  and i hated reapplying.

i also received my avon mirror shine silver nail polish (for subtle konad effects like this one i found online:)

and 2 bottles of cuticle oils (coz kristelle took mine away),

and the rhinestones for my nails:

1800 rhinestones, and two clippers

sample nga! :D

then, wednesday night, bambi gave me quite a shock when he gifted me with a blackberry curve!  what?!!&*@(*?  this is for me?!?

i cannot believe that he bought this.  i told him so many times that i don't need a new mobile.  actually, i was really hoping to buy the hello kitty one.  but this is so freaking amazing and did not hesitate to accept it!  haha!  now i have my n95 as my roaming mobile.  *evil laugh*

then thursday morning i received my nail art brushes.  they are so cute!  and soft, and stiff, and i was so excited to use them.  but, as i was saying, all nail art sessions are cancelled until further notice... 

for an explanation of their purposes, watch this long and boring video...

then, (i saved the best for last), thursday night was the night when we found out that jared is officially a big brother!

the biggest surprise of my week!  i am 6 weeks pregnant!!!  i think i am still in shock and in awe, i cannot feel that im pregnant, nothing has changed in me, and there were no signs except that i was delayed, but there it is (with jared's result last 2007), and it is confirmed - i will be a mom of two!!!

what a blessed blessed week for me!  that's why i was so engrossed in cleaning our room today, as in super cleaning, not just wiping and stuff, and doing the laundry.  and it is a two-week's worth of laundry!




this is where i say thank You, for all the blessings, especially the one inside me.  

when friends become too busy

last night, we invited irish to pass by the office to 'accompany' me and maricel at american mission hospital for my check-up.

but it really was a kidnapping scheme, to get irish to come to our office with urgency.  coz maricel and i were actually planning to go to the mall.  we knew irish would bail at something that shallow, since her job is a full-time thing now.

its just that it has been along time since the three of us bonded, so we made up a story and told irish that it was important for me to have her there.

unfortunately, work was still the winning team.  can i imagine irish being so dedicated to her job to leave me with maricel?  it would be funny!

or maybe that moral support theory was not that convincing after all.

but it would also be the truth.  she has been so busy these days, and not unlike our previous ex-colleagues, she moved on and forgot...

maybe it is really so immature of me to force her to come here when she has to work.  it's not really like she was just being lazy or she wanted to hang out with different people now.

yeah, maybe i was being unfair.  but i also think that friends should make an effort to meet with old friends, especially those funny ones, because they're such good people to hang out with :P *selfish*

and speaking of prenatal check-ups, bambi is still not convinced that baby number 2 is on the way.  he has a lot of theories, like it's just cold, or maybe you drank a lot of coffee last month... and since i blew up my chance of knowing the results because of stupidly dropping the wiwi on the wrong place (where the results will show), i just have to wait until the 15th, exactly two weeks of delayed period before i decide to really go to the hospital, and not the mall.