Loving-It Being Preggers and Being Post Preggers

I love being pregnant.. Pregnant ROCKS~

Yes, it actually rocks - at least for me..

Jessica Alba hates it.. but I love it...

See, when I'm pregnant a.k.a. preggers, I get to eat and indulge in food.. not that I don't get to do it now. Kinda like a guilty pleasure for me. But it's the thought of sharing what I eat with the little one inside me..

Isn't it YUMMILICIOUS?

Hmm.. the thing is.. when I'm preggers. I like my body.. the curves and the boobs.. Yes the boobs does expand so does the butt> but becareful of the butt expandations.. it could cost you many butt accidents.. eg. ripped pants and knocking stuff off shelves. Oh and the glow is very true.. it ain't a myth as one would say. My cheeks appeared pinkish and my complexion was pearly. Anyway it's very pretty wearing maternity clothes.. I love my maternity jeans. They're super comfortable and very chiq i can say. They don't come cheap either.

(PS. I still have them > check them out!!!)

Then people would ooh and aah with you. And you get extra benefits like going thru' express lanes.. need not to queue > WOO-HOO~ Plus I get privilege seats at public places, get to use the disabled loo, and furthermore, I get to take my time walking slowly. Erm.. FYI I walk with posture when I was preggers.. not penguin-like which I watched most preggars did.. Left>Right>Left>Right...They didn't stand up straight. Just follow the comfort of their body. Ah.. very bad for preggar's body.

THAT'S THE JOY OF BEING PREGGERS~
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Then, there's the post preggers body.. Sorry honey, the little one has taken all your
good stuff and put to good use. Gone are the smooth and silky skin.. gone are the shiny tresses.. gone are the fluid inside of you.. you feel like you've been drained dry.
But don't worry the boobs and butt stays..YEAH~
Just that it's a little flabbier and heavier in size. Boobs are sore cuz the milk glands are full.. feels like they can't wait to burst. That's when the breast-feeding come and save you. The skin becomes elastic and the stretch marks becomes more visible cuz at last you'll get to see the other end of your stretched tummy. HAHA~

Don't mean to scare any of you but that's that way it is..

Then you'd wish you had gotten that special exclusive cream for your stretch marks. I did use.. but not those RM500 a tube kind.. I think I bought a few... Cocoa Palmer Butter, Colonial Dames Vitamin E Oil and etc.

Not a very pleasant sight for the first few weeks.. then it starts to hurt when the uterus contracts to it's normal size which is BTW very good indeed. Breast-feeding does wonders.. it helps to minimize the size of your tummy, reduce the gas and also decreases your chances of getting pregnant..

It doesn't mean '100% safe sex'. Nowadays nothing is safe anymore.

Well, after getting the first sight of your little one, the pain, the ugliness and the moodiness gradually disengages from you and happiness takes over. By the time you've gone home and fuss about 'the little one' and a month has passed then you'll notice yourself again. Your body would have gone back to its original state.. or maybe a few pounds heavier. I tell you, I looked horrible for the first month.

Sorta' like a mad cow.. LOL~

After the ins, outs, ups and downs of getting pregnant, being pregnant and post pregnant, experienced mothers love to brag about their EXPERIENCE to those inexperience ones..

A Fast Forward Version of How I Became a Young MOM of 3~

Hey there, I'm Elena.. got pregnant with my first child when i was 16.. hmm maybe i wasn't even 16 yet.. close to 16? Ohh don't bother, it doesn't matter now. Then, I left school, and my friends left me.. well most of them. Usually you can't count the number of friends you have. I can.. 1,2,3 >2 maybe? I have cyber-friends thou, but it ain't the same.. I don't mean to insult.. but it's true.

Back to story, OK I got pregnant, my parents found out> OUCH!!!
Told Jake, the father;my husband, he's great.. often is.. I think.. hehe.. he said he'll go through it with me no matter what! See? Isn't he great? He didn't went running, did he?
Then, his parents found out> double OUCH!!!
We had everything FF(fast-forward not what you think it is).. we had our pre-wedding pictures taken at 'De Paris'.. truthfully, they aren't nice.. they looked fake.. you know like models trying hard to keep that smile just to pleased the photographer? We plan to retake the pics.. but it'll be post-marriage pics then.. OK, we had the dinner celebration at Mines Resort City on the 28th of JULY 2001 even before we registered our marriage at JPN. Is that illegal? Well, anyway we had our marriage certificate a few months later..

Then on the 8th of November 2001, Joe Anselm Yong Zhen came into the world.. sounds awkward.. came into the world.. but that's how people put it.. Before he came into the world, there was a lot of ups and downs.. both physically and mentally.. physically>NO, Jake did not hit me.. what i meant was physically on baby Joe. When he was in me, my gynae found out that his intestine is not inside his stomach.. it was outside.. floating? Sounds freaky right? It did freak us out as well.. freak my FIL the most. Had some important discussions here and there.. did some test.. mighty pricey test.. turns out that he's OK... had to do caesarean so right after i got my GA, got the baby out, poof he went for surgery to push the intestine back into his stomach..

*GA> very shiok.. where you get to count backwards.. I personally love the feeling of drowsiness and the part where it goes blank.. no pain.. thumbs up.. but I swear it makes you a little less of a memory keeper.. don't know if it's the GA or the pregnancy..
~but the recovering part from the Caesarean is so so pain.. pain-est ever.. can't stand up staight.. can't pee... not to scare you girls but you'll fear pain no more after going through that..

OK, back to story mode, Joe had his surgeries, sorry it was 2 times.. have to cut short the story in order to FF.. he stayed in Gleneagles Ampang for a month.. so my confinement was basically in between home and hospital.. Jake and I had to travel back and forth to visit him.. to give him moral support.. Eh you think babies don't know? Wait till you have one then you'll know.. They seems to know and feels everything...

That time i was staying with my inlaws.. but I don't get on well with my 'you know who'.. so we moved to a condominium.. but it was scary.. our lot was on the highest floor which was the 19th floor.. and I'm paranoid by those rapist and robbers.. what to do, I was still a young girl even though I have a baby, right? So we moved to my mom's and it's still my home till now.
At least we don't have to go through cat fights and stormy weather everyday.. at least we don't have to pray for sunny weather before returning home... that's where the mental stress comes from..
I stated as 'comes' not 'came' cause it's still coming..
Hmm.. leave you to think of what I mean..

Then.. a year and a half later, I got pregnant with my second child, Judith Ann Yong Qi. She was born on 16th of May 2003. I had caesarean too, and this time the pain ain't that bad.. see what I told you? First cut is the hardest and the deepest..
Then.. a year and a half later, I got pregnant with my third child(eh, I did not copy and paste from the above, I typed).. baby Javier Andre Yong Zhing was born on the 23rd of March 2005.. he's cute as a pea but is a cheeky devil? Haha
He resembles his dad.. got his dad's trades.. juicy type.. wahaha

So now, Joe is 6 (turning 7 in November), Judith just turned 5 and Javier is 3...

FF> fast-forward
GA> general anaesthetic
FIL> father in law