22 weeks

22 weeks 2 days
weight ~ 61.7kg

mummy feeling hungry always every 3-4 hours. food intake increasingly large. imagine we used to cook about 1 and 1/4 cup of rice with a small portion for mummy but now we have upgraded to 2 cups of rice and almost 1/2 goes to mummy's dinner plate! that's just for dinner....3 hrs later will be supper time usually 1/2 an apple (to relieve constipation which works ocassionally) and a slice of wholemeal bread spreaded with jam / peanut butter with a pc of cheese thrown in at times.

speaking of which that brings me to the escalating melamime tainted milk saga. It's really unbelievable for these idiots to cheat in milk powder obviously meant for infants and children. The daily dose of news brought anger to me, are there PRC idiots mad or what, hearts eaten by wolves probably. Now peanut butter had been my all time favourite on my sandwich. Reading from the forum, realised that Skippy is Made in China and confirmed from the packaging yestersday although there have been no mention of milk / milk protein being used. Okay I know I'm reacting quite critically in trying to decide if it is safe for consumption as our body is able to get rid of the toxic on its own. Then again the situation I'm in currently does warranty paranoid concerns and behaviour as it does concern and might affect our precious little one.

looking at the prices of diapers these days and making a fair bit of comparison among the different brands. Imagine this silly mummy and daddy actually went around feeling the different softness and texture of diaper samples last weekend. we have come to realise that it does make a difference between brands and as always better quality comes with a premium that's going to burn a big hole in the pocket! Mummy have more or less decided to make the challenging move to use cloth nappy for our precious in the daytime and a trustworthy diaper (read as absorbent and non leaking) in the night. I know many of you would have been laughing out loud and started to place bets on how long would this insistence of using cloth diaper last. Well it's always a trial and error thingy isn't it.

Baby have been extremely active for the past few days regardless of mealtimes, post meals, TV time or even sleeptime! Mummy was just complaining to daddy yestersday that Baby is practising his somersaults in the tummy which leads us to another of daddy's joke! "Could he be dreaming inside thus the large movement"....can faint lor! Once again at night Baby is having such large movements creaing sudden nudges on mummy's tummy that I had to ask daddy to place his palm on the tummy. Baby stopped right on track for a good 1-2 mins and once the palm is gone, the havoc start again. Haha, uncertain to cry or to laugh out loud!

mummy is also very slow in her actions these days especially in walking, more so after dinner. citing yestersday's example, we had to stock up on my staple food of wholemeal after dinner so we walked to the nearby 7-11. mummy had to grumble at daddy to slow down his pace as it's making me breatheless and impossible to keep up. He too in turn grumble and said with his usual pace, he would have reached long ago. Had to remind him what dr woody said the other day, getting heavier thus have to slow down in actions especially slowing down in walking pace. wonder how bad can it be over the last trimester, slower than a granny perhaps.

Now mummy is really praying hard that she could breastfeed Baby with a good steady supply of breastmilk. It's gonna be really tough and challenging but I'm hoping that I could preservere on despite the pain and what's not. As for now, it's anybody's guess!