i think it's what they call nesting

i've heard and read about it. never really thought that it would happen to me. it seems that i'm obsessed in fixing the house all of a sudden. last week was the front lawn, i had to cut the hedge along the walkway to our front door so it would look nice and straight. after that, it was cutting the agapanthus since their flowers wilted already. yesterday was the patio, i threw out any plants i think were dead (before mama arrives and sees it!) and re-arranged all the bromeliads. i even anchored the bougainvillea to the fence with a straw since it was falling already (with eric's help of course!). and for some strange reason, i can't take seeing any cobwebs (and there seems to be a lot now in the garden because of the weather). i tell you, i haven't seen cobwebs these big before! medyo na-iimmune na nga ako sa spiders since i think i've seen all colors, shapes and sizes already. today, it was the garage. for weeks, i've been bugging eric to fix the garage since it's such an eyesore everytime i come home and seeing the garage shelves so disorganized. since he hasn't done it yet, i thought i'll just do it and rearranged it according to category: car, paint and gardening. i get really tired after doing the fixing-up though. i make sure however that i call eric to lift or push anything that is heavy (he's the one brining the laundry basket to the laundry room now).

i'll probably start washing the barnyard stuff so we can use them already. eric keeps on asking me when we're going to put the curtains and the window valance up. i have to remind him every now and then that we're planning to have the baby sleep in our room in his own cot so it's not really necessary to have the nursery fully decorated. he still wants it nice and ready for his baby boy though.

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i rushed to the hospital last wednesday during my lunch break for our bi-weekly appointment with the ob. she was so happy to inform me that as per my last blood tests, my platelets are now up to 145,000 (minimum normal is 150,000). i actually missed a call from the hematologist about this. bp also was normal and test confirmed negative protein leak (sign of pre-eclampsia) so she was pretty happy with everything. i told her about experiencing shortness of breath every now and then and she said that it was because i was carrying high and the baby is putting pressure in my diaphragm and lungs which is causing the shortness of breath. i should get relief when the baby drops which signals that i'm about the delivery anytime soon after that. it was funny that when she measured for fundal height, she commented on how i don't have room anymore left!

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last thursday, the filipinos (or should i say filipinas since it was only us girls) in toshiba threw me a baby shower luncheon. we had lunch at the newly opened ribs and rumps just right across the office. they gave us an avent gift set which consists of an iQ24 electronic steam steriliser, airflex feeding bottles, extra teats, tongs and a bottle and teat brush. it was so nice of them to organize something for us. we couldn't thank them enough! :-)

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pre-natal class last week was spent watching actual videos of birth in the hospital. i never really fully understood how a woman's body...uhm, transforms to push out a human being out to this world, until we watched the videos. and seriously, even if these women knew that they were being filmed, they didn't try to hide the fact that childbirth is painFUL. but then again as we've been told, our body is designed for childbirth and millions of women have been through it and survived (not to mention go through it AGAIN!).

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8 months (32 weeks) now!