Pregnancy check up - 9th month

Went for the 9th month check up on June 10. Oh my god, I have gained 3kg in total! And baby is now weight at 3kg!

Well, don't ask me why. Basically I didn't really eat a lot and is already avoiding taking too much carbohydrates and take more protein. Doctor warned me to keep an eye of my diet so that baby won't go too big. As I still have 4 weeks to go for full term. Sigh....

Lynn is 2 years old now!

Lynn turns 2 years old on May 16. However I cant get both family members to get together on the same day for her birthday celebration. At the end, we celebrate with both family members on 2 different days. Well, Lynn is lucky in the way that, she has the chance to cut the cake twice and she has 2 birthday cakes! Hehe, she cant wait to cut and eat the cake!

Back ache

I have been enjoying minimum back ache for many months in this pregnancy, until recently. On the day we went to Malacca, I hurt the back muscle from carrying Lynn. I accidentally pulled the back muscle When i was putting her down. I can feel the sharp pain from the lower back and I can't help to shout out.

For a moment, I couldn't move and get up. Lynn was looking at me. She knew something was not right. And she knew is was because I carried her. Actually all these while I'm avoiding carry her, unless she's really demand for it, and I will just carry her for short distance and short while only. We have been keep on telling her that mommy cannot carry her anymore because she's getting heavy, and at the same time mommy also need to carry the baby in the stomach.

I knew I cannot carry Lynn anymore, due to the pull muscle. And I have to be very careful not to hurt the back again. However I don't expect the pain get worse. When I was in Malacca, I come to almost cannot walk stage. I need someone to support me when walking. Every step create a sharp pain in the lower back. I had no choice but to seek medical treatment. The doctor gave me some patches for the back. It was just to relief the pain, but not for healing the back muscle. The muscle need quite a while to heal, and I had to be very careful.

From that day onwards, we can hear Lynn said "Mama tong tong" (means Mama in pain in Mandarin) to everyone. And she stop requesting me to carry her anymore. Instead she will just ask for a hug, and some kissing. Of course she still miss me carrying her, as she will demand me to do something for her, as if to replace what she has missed. I will try my best to fulfill her needs, whenever I can, unless I feel very tired, then I will ask her to demand it from her daddy.

Since then, I will constantly having back ache, whenever I feel tired. I hope this will not continue for long, after the baby has come out. I do hope able to carry Lynn after delivering the baby.

Getting clumsy and forgetful

While the stomach is getting bigger and bigger, and I'm gaining more and more weight, now I can feel like I'm getting clumsy than usual. I'm walking slower nowadays, feel tired easily, always need to adjust myself while sitting, feeling less energetic etc. All these are the side effects of the pregnancy. And I'm getting forgetful also! Things that I remember the night before can totally out of my mind when I wake up the next morning. I have to always search for the thing as I forgot where did I put it. Yes, it is a bit irritating but it's the package of the pregnancy. :) While we enjoy the special moment with the baby inside our stomach, at the same time we also experience lots of changes due to the hormone change during pregnancy. I consider myself being lucky at least I don't get high blood pressure, diabetes, other complications etc during pregnancy. So what else can I complain?

Toilet training

Lynn is going to turn 2 this May. Ever since she's 18 months, we are trying to toilet train her, but to no success. She is good in everything, but except toilet training. She won't tell if her diaper already full or dirty, until we smell it. I don't understand why, but I have the feeling that she know about it, and she just refuse to tell as she wants some attention from us. Even at home, all this while she refuse to sit at the potty whenever I asked her. As she just wanted to stick with us and she see that sitting on the potty prevent her from sticking with us, even though I accompany her sitting at the potty. Well, sometimes it's difficult for us to understand why the children will have this thought and feeling. At the end, I have to use food to persuade her to sit at the potty. I told her that, if she sit at the potty, then I will give her "bing bing" (biscuit) the next day morning. And this time, she didn't make so much noise and didn't say "No!" to my request. Instead she took off her own pant (as I have requested) and happily sit at the potty. Even though still nothing come out, but at least I'm happy that at the end she is willing to sit at the potty. And since then, I have no problem asking her to sit at the potty.

About one week later, on last Monday, the babysitter told me that Lynn will tell her before she needs to go toilet. She will use the potty instead and no more dirty and smelly diaper. I was so happy to hear that. It's like a magic to me. At first, we tried very hard to toilet train her and with no success. And then we didn't really do much, suddenly she is like just know what to do and do as what you want. Now the babysitter wanted to train her to use the potty for wee wee as well. In which one night, Lynn took off her pant wanted to sit at the potty, but before she manage to do so, she pee on the floor. Luckily she was standing on the floor mat at that time so the cleaning is much easier. I just need to wash the floor mat. Well, It will be messy at the beginning, but I hope we will not face much trouble on this and is worth it. :)