Category: Pregnancy Journey

  • Food Served at my Maternity Clinic

    Food Served at my Maternity Clinic

    Food and good nutrition is an essential part in recovery from delivering a baby. I would like to share the meal prepared in my entire stay (six days, five nights) in my maternity clinic. I got admitted in the morning of Tuesday, October 22, 2019, past breakfast time (around 7:30). I delivered the baby at…

  • My Childbirth Seminar: Sneak Peek at my Clinic

    My Childbirth Seminar: Sneak Peek at my Clinic

    Friday, September 27, 2019, the day I attended the childbirth seminar in my clinic. This was scheduled a week before, during my last prenatal check-up. It was scheduled for an hour and a half, from two o’clock to three-thirty in the afternoon. I was the first one to arrive (about fifteen minutes before the time)…

  • My Pregnancy Journey – The Rough and Tough Road

    My Pregnancy Journey – The Rough and Tough Road

    Sometimes I wonder how my mother did it seven times. Yes. Seven times. She got pregnant seven times. She gave birth to seven children, and I am the fifth of them. Now, it’s my turn to give birth to my first child, and many things, I thought were beautiful about pregnancy seem to fade away.…

  • My hospital bag

    My hospital bag

    I am now 33 weeks and 2 days pregnant and weeks ago I could not help myself watching YouTube videos and reading articles about what to put in my hospital bag. I have come across multiple lists and it got me panicking to have those things right away. You know it is my first time…

  • Temporary Visitor Visa extension of my mother and sister in Japan

    Temporary Visitor Visa extension of my mother and sister in Japan

    Originally, my mother and sister`s visa is good for only 90 days. They came here last July 20th and scheduled to go back home to the Philippines on October 13th. That would be about two weeks before my due date which is October 30th. Upon consideration of many things, we decided to extend them a…

  • 30 weeks 6 days

    Baby (in my womb) is extra active today- kick, punch, roll and other intrauterine acrobatics, like she’s making my belly wave. She’s also making my deep sleep hard to get. Last prenatal (last week), we found out she’s in breech position. I was told to do some exercises (cat pose) before going to bed to…

  • Twenty weeks

    Twenty weeks

    Today, Wednesday, June 12, 2019, I`m twenty weeks pregnant. I`m halfway of this life-changing journey. It`s so surreal. I can`t believe I`m here now at this point. After what I have been through, it` so hard believe that now I am holding my baby bump and proudly showing it to the world through my social…