My Pregnancy Diary during a Pandemic - A Malaysian Pregnancy Experience

I've tried so many different stuff to quell the nauseous feeling and I finally (on my 5th month :/) found a solution - sucking on an ice cube.  The cold seems to dispel the nausea pretty effectively. Though once the ice's melted, the nausea may sometimes come back. If it does, pop another ice cube into your mouth and try again. Most of the time, 2-3 cubes will completely dispel the nausea for me.  Not to mention, if you're like me and have very sensitive teeth, I still managed to place the ice cube on my tongue and use the roof of my mouth to hold it there as it melts. That way, the ice won't touch any of my teeth and I won't get that sharp pain feeling that I usually get when I eat anything cold and chilly. Note that I also use the more expensive "toothpaste for sensitive teeth" which is supposed to help dampen that sharp pain feeling (or alleviate it altogether if you're lucky) so that might have helped too. A quick side note, I'm eternally grate...

I was just going about my routine monthly checkup (5th month) and the nurse who's seeing me - the clinic saves doctor's visits for the more severe cases/consultations - told me pointblank that she was covid positive just last week.  Imagine my shock then!  She complained that probably one of the "moms" at the clinic - P/S: The clinic I go to has a "mom and baby" department that's separate from the rest of the clinic (general population). - probably gave her the illness and that she was out with fever for 3 days.  I was getting increasingly worried at that point since I wasn't sure if she's Covid negative now - it's possible she isn't but because of staff shortages, she had to go back to work - and I'm just too polite to ask her outright.  However, on the brighter side, we were both wearing masks, were about 1m away from each other when we talked and she even had a face shield on (over her mask), so I reckoned my baby and I are probabl...

We've just finalized the names for our baby!  ...despite not knowing what gender it is xD So basically what we did is to prepare two sets of names - one in case it's a boy and another in case it's a girl. We plan on having a second child anyway and hopefully they will be a boy and a girl so we can make use of both of the names we've come up with. Took me ages to get the Chinese names right though! Had to "design" the name so that it fits the "feng shui" for the Year of the Cow... ahem, I mean Ox... not that I'm a huge believer of Feng Shui in the first place but we both agreed that why should we tempt fate when it's so easy to just give the child a "good head start" with a good Feng Shui name :P And no, I don't think I'll reveal them here ;) at least not until I know the gender of the baby.  However, as a teaser, I can reveal the "ang mo" or English names that we've come up with for them - "Alan" afte...

First of all, let me say that I'm writing this retroactively. It's something that I should be writing last week but because of my - ahem - condition, I couldn't muster up the energy or strength to do so. Now, I know that the morning sickness stuff typically lasts until the 4th month... at most. Most of my mom-friends said so, as do many online resources, and considering how much I've suffered for the past months - imagine vomiting out meals that I could barely swallow in the first place every day - I was more than happy to put all of that behind me... unfortunately, this isn't the case for me. Despite being the 4th month, I'm still terribly nauseous, dizzy, and bloated; I find most food unappetizing,  and I'm vomiting out semi-digested food almost every day. The nausea is just horrible... that constant feeling like you're about to upchuck or those moments where you're dry heaving while fearing that actual food might come out... and the lack of appeti...