The healthy snacking

24weeks +5 days into the pregnancy, i've gained 9kgs.

(Pictures were taken 1 week ago)

To put that into perspective, based on my height and pre-baby svelteness, i'm only supposed to gain 15kgs in total. For a normal pregnancy, the weight gain is usually backloaded- ie one should expect to gain 60-70% of the weight in the last trimester.

To put even more bluntly, I'VE GAINED TOO MUCH WEIGHT!!!! I still look okay from the pictures but i tell you, these hips don't lie.

Earlier today i went for my prenatal check up. The nurse gasped when she saw that i put on 6kgs in 8 weeks. That's almost unheard of amongst chinese women. Chinese women are very very health conscious during their pregnancy.


case in point:
I was sitting in the waiting lounge about to devour my all-in-one chocolate/custard/almond croissant after a whole night of starvation. This woman next to me then whipped out (or should i say brandished) her bag of "snacks". It consisted of a tomato, a cucumber and a kiwi fruit. Mind you it's not chopped up nicely in a lunchbox drizzled with fattening creamy dressing. It's really just a tomato, a cucumber and a kiwi fruit, like she plucked them straight from the garden.

I felt so guilty about my croissant (damn her!) that i actually left 1/4 of it unfinished. I looked down at my belly and apologised to T for not giving him a healthier breakfast. boohoohoo...

Well at least T is growing just fine, he is 733g today.