Growing Appetite and Achy Hands

I am in my 30th week, 3rd trimester, now. Went to the doctor and he told me, that I cannot have anymore chinese herbs in my third trimester! I wanted to say, I haven't really started yet... But of course I smiled and kept quiet. I have a few more bottles of bird's nest that I will finish up within these 2 weeks before I really follow his advise. 

Baby is about 1kg now and I am very glad to find that her head has gone down and she is no longer in the breach position like last month. That means she is engaged in the position ready for her birth. Although it's still 2 months away from her due, it lifted up some worry in me. All my other babies got engaged in the head down position quite early.

Lately, my appetite is really growing. I feel hungry and am not satisfied with my regular meals. So I have to buy snacks and eat supper at night. Sometimes, after eating, I am so full that my tummy feels like it's going to burst! Partly because the baby is also getting bigger and sometimes, her position in my womb stretches my tummy a lot. Just for last night, I had lok-lok (truck parked at Prima Kajang) and soup kambing (at Sup Power Ali, Kajang) for supper after the regular dinner! This sup kambing soup along Jalan Semenyih had caught my attention for a long while. Finally last nite we went to try it out. To me the soup is too spicy/hot and that covers the other spices. But the price of the sup kambing was RM3.50 only, pretty cheap and a plate of bread was RM1. Then when we reached home, we still had taufu fah and soya milk.

In office, I will be snacking a lot too. One day I had instant bihun at about 5 pm before going home for dinner. I do feel pretty guilty but I promise to go on a diet right after the baby is born! Or maybe after confinement la, I promise!

Apart from the increased appetite, late pregnancy also cause water retention and achy hands (or carpal tunnel syndrome). My legs now look like they belong to an elephant. Especially at night when I sleep, I would wake up in the middle of the night because of extreme pain in the arms/hands. Carpal tunnel syndrome is when water retained in the body get redistributed in your hand (when you are lying down) and that put pressure on the nerves of the hand, causing pain and numbness. I have this in my previous pregnancies as well, but it was more pain in the wrist. This time is pain on the whole hand. Even regular use of the hands is sometimes hard, like using the chopsticks or typing is difficult sometimes. *Sigh*, lots of changes happen to your body during pregnancies, you men out there should be so glad you cannot get pregnant and appreciate your wives for carrying your children!

Ok, forgive my complaining, every baby is precious and every baby of mine is worth more than diamonds. They are blessings from God.