I'm getting worried.

Really!

I have been putting on tonnes of weight due to my "alleged" Gestational Diabetes Mellitus that I'm actually getting worried. Well, worried may be a slight understatement, I'm downright PETRIFIED!... I haven't lost my baby weight post Julian (baby no 1) and now I'm running baby no 3.

Oh my god, now that that's out in the open, and that it's in writing, I can see clearly that I have to start some sort of post partum weight loss diet/exersize (post baby, that is)

Yes, I know breastfeeding is supposed to take up 500 calories a day, but looking at my current eating habits, if I do continue this.... well, I'll be the heaviest one at home. 

That's not good!!! So while scouring the net, I managed to discover some secrets to post partum weight loss...

1. multiple meals throughout the day (low cal of course)

2. resistance training

3. interval training

4. breastfeeding

Sounds super easy when I jot it down like that, but this is what I have to do since I quite obviously don't have Skinny Genes.

Current photo of me, at 36 weeks pregnant... know what I mean?

I will definitely get a post partum photo, just to remind myself what I need to do...

Our Christmas Tree...

This is the time of the year I absolutely LOVE! I wait and wait for December the whole year because it's time to celebrate... there's Christmas Eve, Christmas day, Christmas caroling, and this year there's going to be Little Pumpkin too... (arriving AFTER Christmas, fingers crossed!). More to celebrate this year... the festivities, smell of Christmas in the air, the Christmas cheer... and of course, the holidays! What more? hehe

So, we decided to put the Christmas tree up a little earlier this year, instead of the usual 12 days before Christmas. Julian and Genevieve were delighted and the joy on their faces were... ahhhh!!!! No words can describe it! Julian's 3rd and Genevieve's 2nd Christmas... but I would say it's the 1st Christmas that they are both taking part in the decoration of the Great Christmas Tree.

Ours is 7 feet tall, and many many years old... and we've been collecting decorations only like for 20 years... haha... gleeful!!!

Genevieve : excited looking at the Christmas balls

Maran helping the 2 tots hang up decos... at their height

Julian hanging up a snowman

Still trying to get it right

STILL trying to get it right... hehe. You need nimble fingers, my dear boy

Maran showing off the stars

Maran getting the proper dimensions to hang up the star

Maran hanging up the star

Julian monkey-ing around

And Maran's no better

Genevieve looking at the 2 guys wondering how to get in on the fun

My mom and Genevieve

Tired OLD Maran,decided to crash on the sofa

My dad and Julian

Julian decides that he needs a little more height

And finally crashes UNDER the tree

 What an eventful afternoon.... How I wish we had Christmas every month!!! hmmmm...

The fussy baby

It has been 3 weeks since I last wrote something on Blog... well, that's NOT because I've delivered Little Pumpkin...(oh I so wish!) but mainly because of some health concerns... namely SPD (symphysis pubis distraction) and GDM  ( late onset Gestational Diabetes Mellitus).. Yep I know, very sad. Very very sad indeed.

I have been keeping myself very busy (trying as much as possible NOT to walk) with the computer, loading myself up with knowledge - you can never have too much- about breastfeeding/ pumping breast milk/ finding a name for Little Pumpkin/ how to manage a fussy child etc... and since I have been relegated /banished to the couch and the bed because I can't walk much these days, I might as well do as much research as possible before Little Pumpkin arrives.

Yes, I do have 2 babies already, but after the failure to breastfeed for more than 2 and 3 months each due to a multitude of problems... I have decided to be successful this time (since it's the last time anyway.. hehe). I wanted to share this wonderful article I found online regarding fussy babies. Something I never ever knew I was doing wrong with both my little ones when they were a coupla weeks old, which actually leads me to believe now, that THIS was probably the reason why I started having decreased BM supply and the eventual failure to continuously breastfeed.

A wonderful article which I think many will benefit from : http://www.mother-2-mother.com/cc-baby-B.htm#Fussiness

I will be going in for my Blood Sugar Profile (BSP) tomorrow, for the 3rd time and I hope that against all odds, it comes back normal. I did have durian yesterday, much against Maran's wishes but credit to me, it was the 1st time this pregnancy and I couldn't control myself. I shall be a good girl from now onwards.