28 weeks of pregnancy and I’m quickly approaching the end point! It really seems like the pass 28 weeks have gone by so quickly! I guess this would be a good time to reflect on the past 28 weeks my belly has been growing and growing and growing…

Here’s the top 10:

10. Ability to cut queue at the airports
9. Special care for you inflight
8. Lots of attention showered upon you
7. Being able to show off my bump
6. Able to sleep whenever I’m tired
5. Able to feel the miracle of life growing inside me
4. Not having you to carry things, or lift heavy stuffs, or push things.
3. Glorious food
2. A willing husband to satisfy your cravings
and the number one reason:
1. OFF FROM WORK!

I can hardly reach my feet now, and I’m one of those who can’t leave their toenails alone! Since I haven’t been able to reach my feet in some time, I think it’s ok to leave my toenails long, and I don’t care.

Clumsiness. I have noticed that I run into things easily, drop almost everything I pick up and can’t seems to control my belly bumping into things like never before. I find myself bumping into tables, chairs, walls, trolleys, and people! It’s a double whammy at this stage of pregnancy as bending over is another adventure. I have to resorted using my feet to push stuffs together into a pile so I only have to bend over once. I’m also tends to be clumsy when it comes to eating. I stained my tops and sometimes bottom very often.

I have the memory of a goldfish. Forgetfulness flows through me like the sand in an hour glass. My mom once asked me to Skype my sisters and I tend to only remember it like 2 days later, and pass the outdated news to them. The other day, I forgot my food in the oven until the next morning.

Not only my belly is growing, but my arms, my fingers, my legs, my feet, my butt, my boobs… and body parts that I don’t even know are getting bigger by the day. The same running shoe I wore pre-pregnancy that fit my foot just fine then, make my feet hurt like hell now! My swallen feet make me look cute.

Pimples! I’m like back to teenage again? Well, even as a teenage, I never had acne… Pimples and pregnancy seems to go hand in hand for lots of preggers, but who would know pimples could grow on your hair scalp?

I realise I grow hair in unwanted areas. My belly has a lot of fur growing on it! Luckily these hair aren’t permanent! I almost look like Mr. Beer Belly. What the HAIR!

Laziness has become my hobby. Do nothing, sleep, nap, day dreaming, relax, eat, chill out…

People, especially the one I hate wanted to touch my belly, even though it’s not a huge bump yet in my first trimester, and I do not like this. Just hands off my bump!

I get out of breath doing just about anything now… picking things on the floor, make up my bed…

It’s warm everywhere. In the supermarket. In the subway. In the bus. In the cab. In the restaurant. In the bookstore. In the retail store.

No one will offer you a seat in Shanghai subway because everyone has a hiddern disability. They will look at you, stared at your tummy, then your feet… back to your face again, rolled their eyes like saying “Ha! I’ve grab a seat! You don’t”

Being pregnant has nothing romantic! I feel like a man! I’m burping all the time and sometimes you can’t help it when it comes to public. I find that no matter what I eat I have gas and trying to eat slower doesn’t work either.

Sleeping is another problem. I’m a side stomach sleeper. Means that I sleep ON my tummy. It’s the only way I can fall asleep. It gets very problematic when your bump gets so huge that I can’t find a comfortable position to get a good night rest. It’s also hard for me to sit in a certain positions, like sitting on the floor is kind of tough because I can hardly get up.

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I’m back to my home country yesterday and had my first anatomy scan today.

When my doctor rolled the ultrasound wans over my tummy, I could see the baby’s head, face, perfect lips, heart, kidney, lungs, stomach, arms, 10 little fingers, legs and 10 little toes.

She also measure the growth of my baby, the heart beat, position of placenta and amniotic fluid.

Everything is fine. My baby is perfect.

Do you want to know the baby’s gender? Yes.

“It’s a girl! She’s very active.”

I’m thrilled!! I’m going to have a girl!

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This signage was mounted outside the sonography rooms.

Sex determination test through ultrasonography are banned in China to reduce the country’s increasing gender umbalance. A preference for sons still run deep in rural area where tradition is strong, as they believe boys can do heavy labor.

According to The New York Times, there is now gap of 32 million more males than females under the age of 20 in China.

But in fast growing cities like Shanghai, people prefered girls because they do not need to fork some money out when their daughter gets married in the future. They spoiled their little princess to get a rich son-in-law.  As for boys, parents need to spend money on buying a house for him when he set up his family.

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