Pregnancy update

Even though i'm in my second trimester, supposedly the honeymoon period of pregnancy, my appointments with dr kowa are still 3 weeks instead of 4 weeks apart. Dr kowa is exercising extra caution due to my previous miscarriage.

So our last scheduled appointment was on the 4th Aug. Dr kowa as usual started off with his consistent reminders: not to lift anything heavy, esp not to carry fu, don't do too much physical work. He will ask if my work is tiring yada yada.. He sure sounds like a father reminding his child, more so to me since he's the same age as my mum.

Then he'll rattle on with other information. This time he told me that with a pregnancy beyond 26 weeks will mean a chance of the fetus to survive if born prematurely. Of course, chances of survival will improve with each week of pregnancy though such preterm babies will still require high dependency care for survival. Usually such high dependency care will be required till the baby is supposedly full term (37 weeks).

And yes! Today marks my 26 weeks 0 days of pregnancy and it's quite a relief to pass this mark. I'm praying everyday that I will be able to carry little r till full term before we finally set our eyes on each other. I learnt that our minds can actually work wonders so every now and then I will picture to myself that my cervix is closed tight and i'll go through the natural labour only upon full term.

I had a mini scare over the weekend when I saw some spotting. I called kowa's clinic first thing in the morning on monday and the clinic called me to go to the clinic to let dr kowa examine. For fear that the stitch had given way. To our relief, everything was fine, cervix was is still tight, stitch still in place and dr kowa didn't detect any blood and little r's heart is beating strong. Perturbed as I was wondering where the blood came from, I had decided that I should focus my mind on the fact that everything is alright.

Next appointment: 25th Aug. I'll be 28weeks 3 days pregnant.

Statistics and ultrasound scan pictures will be posted on a later date..