Week 32
Visited Dr Ravi at Hospital Sultanah Aminah for the follow up, and this time my amniotic fluid is on the high side. He suspected that i might have gestational diabetes, even though my previous glucose blood test came back to be ok. So i need to monitor my sugar and carbo intake closely.
Two days later, we visit our own gynae Dr Mohan of Johor Specialist Hospital, and he commented that i've too much amniotic fluid, a symptom called polyhydramnios. Dr Mohan said that it could be caused by gestational diabetes, and required me to go on a strict diet with no sugar and very low carbohydrate, and have my blood glucose measure before and after every meal. He had given me two steroid jabs to strengthen baby's lungs, as he suggested that we have the baby out as soon as possible to prevent any later complication. I was kind of reluctant because preterm baby has his risk too, and he assured me that with the steroid jabs, the baby lungs will matured in 48 hours time and baby will be fine. It will be better or the baby to come out, than to stay inside with a lot of unknown and uncertainties. Well, at one point we have too little and not enough for little bud, now we have too much. No matter too little or too much, it's just not good for the baby. Just when we thought we can have a breather till baby's arrival, now we are having this issue, which set my mood to the bottom again
We bought the device and started pricking myself everyday 6 times, recording down the reading and also the food i have eaten, so we know what can i take and what will cause the sugar level to go way higher. It's really a pain because we live in asia whereby most of our day to day cuisine consist 60-70% carbohydrates such as rice and noodles, in order to avoid carbs, i started eating western food such as chicken chop, pork chop, beef and salads with meat, whole meal bread sandwich, well the choices are rather limited and we always have problem finding places to eat.
Week 33
We're back to visit my gynae Dr Mohan of Johor Specialist Hospital again, and this time the scan showed that the water level has gone down and it's in the normal range again. Dr Mohan checked the placenta and umbilical cord diligently through the ultra sound and told us that everything seemed fine and baby is growing well and doing well, and still suggested us to schedule for csec on the first week of September which is on my week 37. We're a little lost to be honest, we thought that everything has been fine now probably we can go through normal delivery, but Dr Mohan think the best is to get the baby out soon. We went to see Dr Ravi at Hospital Sultanah Aminah, he advised us to follow what Dr Mohan has suggested because he knew us better.
Looking back at my pregnancy journey, i am truly Dr Mohan star patient! From first trimester bleeding, second trimester oligohygramnios, and now third trimester polyhydramnios and gestational diabetes, i guess it will be best to get baby out as soon as possible. I've read about the risk of all these symptoms, one of it is stillbirth, which gets me very paranoid everyday whenever i don't feel my baby moving. I guess it is good to have baby arrive earlier than to worry so much.
Week 34
Follow up with Dr Mohan again and scan show that amniotic fluid is in the normal range and baby is growing fine, placenta and umbilical cord working well, and we told Dr Mohan that we are going to choose a date for baby's arrival and will let him know next week. He said that it's fine, and i've been doing well on my diet, and baby will be fine and will be able to wait till 37 weeks.
We were searching high and low for geomancer to select an auspicious date and time for little bud's arrival, and i suddenly recalled that I've seen this Master Tay in Singapore and with his prediction and some elements balancing help, he said i will have a Monkey baby this year, and indeed it happened! So we decided to seek his professional advice on our little bud's birth day and time, and chinese name too.
Master Tay has been very patient and explain to us on the dates he has suggested and the reason behind it, and what does it symbolises. He's also given us a selection of baby's name for us to choose from and tell us the elements of the names and the total number of all the character strokes symbolises what. Lastly, he asked us to text him the date and time of birth together with the name we have selected when baby is here. He will do a final check and let us know about the name. Hubby is very happy with his service, being a baba, my husband proficiency in mandarin/chinese is rather poor, and Master Tay has been very detailed in his explanation on the different dates he has given.
Here's Master Tay contact - Master Ricahrd Tay
Visited Dr Ravi at Hospital Sultanah Aminah for the follow up, and this time my amniotic fluid is on the high side. He suspected that i might have gestational diabetes, even though my previous glucose blood test came back to be ok. So i need to monitor my sugar and carbo intake closely.
Two days later, we visit our own gynae Dr Mohan of Johor Specialist Hospital, and he commented that i've too much amniotic fluid, a symptom called polyhydramnios. Dr Mohan said that it could be caused by gestational diabetes, and required me to go on a strict diet with no sugar and very low carbohydrate, and have my blood glucose measure before and after every meal. He had given me two steroid jabs to strengthen baby's lungs, as he suggested that we have the baby out as soon as possible to prevent any later complication. I was kind of reluctant because preterm baby has his risk too, and he assured me that with the steroid jabs, the baby lungs will matured in 48 hours time and baby will be fine. It will be better or the baby to come out, than to stay inside with a lot of unknown and uncertainties. Well, at one point we have too little and not enough for little bud, now we have too much. No matter too little or too much, it's just not good for the baby. Just when we thought we can have a breather till baby's arrival, now we are having this issue, which set my mood to the bottom again
We bought the device and started pricking myself everyday 6 times, recording down the reading and also the food i have eaten, so we know what can i take and what will cause the sugar level to go way higher. It's really a pain because we live in asia whereby most of our day to day cuisine consist 60-70% carbohydrates such as rice and noodles, in order to avoid carbs, i started eating western food such as chicken chop, pork chop, beef and salads with meat, whole meal bread sandwich, well the choices are rather limited and we always have problem finding places to eat.
Week 33
We're back to visit my gynae Dr Mohan of Johor Specialist Hospital again, and this time the scan showed that the water level has gone down and it's in the normal range again. Dr Mohan checked the placenta and umbilical cord diligently through the ultra sound and told us that everything seemed fine and baby is growing well and doing well, and still suggested us to schedule for csec on the first week of September which is on my week 37. We're a little lost to be honest, we thought that everything has been fine now probably we can go through normal delivery, but Dr Mohan think the best is to get the baby out soon. We went to see Dr Ravi at Hospital Sultanah Aminah, he advised us to follow what Dr Mohan has suggested because he knew us better.
Looking back at my pregnancy journey, i am truly Dr Mohan star patient! From first trimester bleeding, second trimester oligohygramnios, and now third trimester polyhydramnios and gestational diabetes, i guess it will be best to get baby out as soon as possible. I've read about the risk of all these symptoms, one of it is stillbirth, which gets me very paranoid everyday whenever i don't feel my baby moving. I guess it is good to have baby arrive earlier than to worry so much.
Week 34
Follow up with Dr Mohan again and scan show that amniotic fluid is in the normal range and baby is growing fine, placenta and umbilical cord working well, and we told Dr Mohan that we are going to choose a date for baby's arrival and will let him know next week. He said that it's fine, and i've been doing well on my diet, and baby will be fine and will be able to wait till 37 weeks.
We were searching high and low for geomancer to select an auspicious date and time for little bud's arrival, and i suddenly recalled that I've seen this Master Tay in Singapore and with his prediction and some elements balancing help, he said i will have a Monkey baby this year, and indeed it happened! So we decided to seek his professional advice on our little bud's birth day and time, and chinese name too.
Master Tay has been very patient and explain to us on the dates he has suggested and the reason behind it, and what does it symbolises. He's also given us a selection of baby's name for us to choose from and tell us the elements of the names and the total number of all the character strokes symbolises what. Lastly, he asked us to text him the date and time of birth together with the name we have selected when baby is here. He will do a final check and let us know about the name. Hubby is very happy with his service, being a baba, my husband proficiency in mandarin/chinese is rather poor, and Master Tay has been very detailed in his explanation on the different dates he has given.
Here's Master Tay contact - Master Ricahrd Tay
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