17 Weeks and counting...

Week: 17

Trimester: Second

Doctor: Dr. Dato' Siti Zaliha

Hospital: Sime Darby Medical Centre, Subang Jaya

My Weight: 53kg

My BP: 110/70

Baby's Weight: About 5 ounces (140g)

Baby's Gender: Undetermined

Expected Due Date: 12th May 2010

Basically I gained about 5 kilos in the past 5 weeks. That would be an average of 1 kilogram per week. I still wonder how did I manage to do that.

Should I put the blame on the endless festive season and chains of birthday celebrations? Obviously I have stuffed too many food in my face in the past whole month! What a scary fact to swallow. To make it even worse, I just realized that I only weighed at 57kg when I was 34 weeks pregnant with Amsyhar. Now I'm only 17 weeks and already hitting 53kg! Oh no!

Despite my ever skyrocketing weight increase, I am still happy with today's pregnancy check up outcome. The baby is growing very well, alhamdullilah. Based on the ultrasound scan, the baby's physical shape looks good. The arms, the legs, the head, the spine, all gave out good measurements. The gender is still undetermined as it is too early to tell. The bloodtest results are fine too. My placenta is located in the opposite direction of my cervix and this guarantees me from having placenta previa problem. For more info about placenta previa please click [here].

One thing about this baby is that it likes to show off its 'skill' everytime it is on the scan. The last time I did my scan, the baby was doing endless sommersaults and was being very physicaly active. This morning, the baby extends one of its arm towards my placenta and showing off its tiny fingers as if to say 'I'm growing fine mommy'. Nevertheless, show off or no show off, what I really want right now is to have a healthy normal baby, and hope it'll grow healthily throughout my preganacy and afterwards. I pray every second that the baby is well and hope to see her / him in May 2010. Do pray for me folks. Till then, see you in the next update!

p/s: Thanks in advance for all your prayers! ;)