Last few weeks of pregnancy (37th week - 15 Dec)

The EDD is usually calculated based on 280 days = 40 weeks = 9 months 6 days. Statistically, the mean period to deliver is 280.6 days with a standard deviation 9.7 days. Assuming 270 days, Gabriella's date of arrival may possibly be 26 Dec.

Last few weeks... Just Waiting

1) Finding the right sleeping position is a challenge. It helps if you have a variety of pillows, both soft and hard. You will also feel warm all the time and tend to use the Fan or AC or even sleep on the floor.

2) Walking become a little more tiring and I tend to look like a penguin these days. Luckily, I do not have swollen feet (which is apparently quite common among many pregnant ladies.

3) I particularly enjoy the baby kicks. By now, your gynae would have told you to count the baby movements between 9am to 9pm. Each day, there should be at least 10. Gabriella makes really cute movements in the tummy. Sometimes it is like a wriggle, sometimes a series of hiccups, and often just plain boxing.

4) Bowel movement is not as smooth as I wish it will be. Though I am on the nipperstudy and my nutrition sample include probiotics, and I take homemade yoghurt, papaya and banana to assist in my bowels, the frequency of passing motion is at best once every 3 days. 

5) On the other hand, I experience frequent urination. My sleep is often disrupted by the urge to go toilet. And if I am out, I try not to hold my bladder so as to avoid uncontrollable leak when I sneeze.

6) Shopping and more Shopping. I have bought pretty much a long list of items, such as thermometer, swaddle, bib, co-sleeper, waterproof blanket, sebamed bath, wet wipes, bottle warmer, Coon diapers, nursing clothes, beansprout husk dream pillow, etc. 

7) We took a while to set up the baby bumper bed which we bought and carried over from Korea. Looks really cute in our room. We bought this bumper bed from a company called Geum B. It looks really sweet in our room. One common concern shared by my dad and friends is that "Isn't the bed too low? Will it be too strenuous to carry the baby in and out, up and down?" Maybe it will be, maybe it will not. I won't know till I tried it. But I do like the fact that this bumper bed will be the playpen and bed for Gabriella till she probably outgrow it. In fact, the bumper bed is so huge that my husband could snuggle inside. 

8) I have also prepared the hospital delivery bag. I was told that I just needed my identity card, hospital paperwork, a set of going home outfit for both mother and baby, toiletries (optional), marriage certificate (if you plan to register the baby's name at the hospital).