My Pregnancy Diary during a Pandemic - A Malaysian Pregnancy Experience

I've read plenty of articles about this phenomenon called "baby dropping" or "the lightening" but I've never experienced it until early morning today. Wok up as usual early dawn for my hourly (or so) pee and I noticed a few very obvious things 1. My bladder is actually full for once (can fill more pee before urging me to go to the loo) 2. The almost constant pain I feel in my lower back when lying down is just magically gone! 3. I can definitely breathe a lot deeper and better than before! 4. I can actually lie on my back and not feel aches. 5. The pain in my muscles/joints in between my thighs and my pelvis are mostly gone as well!  6. And of course, once it's daylight, I've noticed that my tummy's shape is exactly like the picture above. Can't say that I'm not ecstatic about this, not because I think the baby's due in 2 weeks to 4 weeks' time (according to said articles), but because I feel more like myself now. Still getting pa...

The baby's growing real fast and it's super active, but I kept getting these constant and prolonged fatigue spells that just made me feel like total crap. I don't feel like doing anything... even sleep... everything seems to ache, especially my ribs, the compressed nerve in my left butt, and lower back, and I seem to have brain fog... Breathing is a chore and every little physical exertion made me pant like a dog. The womb's pushing right up my rib cage right now and I suspect the topmost part is actually at my breast level, so no wonder I feel breathless most of the time... and no, it's not COVID. There are lots of vaginal discharge too and the on-off heatwave doesn't seem to help a whole lot either. Sigh, and there are so much stuff to do, what with the house move, renovation, lawyer stuff, and extending our rental...  Work has been stressful too. I can't wait to just disappear for my maternity leave lol.