Men think differently from us. They are always like that. First time, very “kan cheong” second time around, ai! ya! normal only……………..
Don’t let their insensitiveness hurts you.
Except for the few lucky ones , most of us grow one size bigger after pregnancy and have many unsightly scratch marks. After giving birth, go for sensible healthy meals and appropriate exercise. Yo! Sheela, tips need here! Regular exercise and good eating habits will take us a long way to achieve our desired body weight. Plus, our work coupled with the children, bf, the household chores and all is enough to make anyone lost weight!
And I do think, physical attractiveness alone is not the most important thing in a marriage. No matter how slim and pretty we are, there’ll be younger and prettier girls than us. The key to a happy marriage got to be communication. Don’t let work, children and other commitments take precedence over private time with your DH. The changes that occur after bb arrives are inevitable. However, we should take the changes in stride and learn to cope with them effectively without compromising on our relationship with each other.
Perhaps, Cleya, you could tell your friend not to worry so much about the pregnancy blues, just relax concentrate on child no.1 and enjoy this special time.

Nice to have you on board,
Jennifer

My girlfriend is pregnant with her second one and she was commenting on how disappointed she is with DH this time around - he has been so busy with work that he has been rather insensitive to her pregnancy this time around.

I am trying for our second one, but it sounds a little scary. Everything is so settled now, and DH is just ‘perfect’ - well as much as i can realistically hope. He seems excited about another one, but are they really able to share the excitement as they did with the first one?

I know some women worry about their hubbies thinking them fat, or not sexy enough - but that seems like a first time pregnant thingy. After one, we know how DH is about such issues. Aren’t pregnancy worries different when it’s the next one? I stand back and wonder if he will understand that so many things will be different, what about housework ? Finances? And I’m not even pregnant yet! Will looking fat still be a worry? Am i normal or worrying too much?

I think confinement is a good time for mums to rest, but without all the pantang larang. Would have love to have someone do all the work for me and just breastfeed the baby and sleep with them, but all the CLs that I talked to wasn’t supportive of breastfeeding, so I decided to go solo.

I didn’t follow any of the pantang larang, bcos my mum didn’t, and her mum didn’t either Seriously, I can’t find a good reason to, and not bathing is definitely something I can’t do. After having Leonard, it was heat wave season, and after bathing with warm water, it was still so warm that I bathed with cold water after that. Took too much chocolate after having #3 and had bad constipation

My mum helped me with Leonard for 1 week, and after that I went home bcos her house is sooooo hot, and I couldn’t take it anymore.
So with all 3, I basically stayed home with the baby myself, and sometimes DH will bring food back, sometimes I cook myself. Do other things also like laundry, watch tv, surf the net, bathe the baby, ironing clothes and go shopping. Have to climb staircase also cos I live on the 4th floor with no lift, and carry the baby myself.

So far so good, no aches in my body that did not come from something I overdid or strained myself.

I think taking the heaty stuff that makes us sweat is for the body to produce more milk, since the breast glands are modified sweat glands. I did take some Chinese tea during a dinner during the confinement month, and I could see it reduce my breast milk. Took nasi briyani and boomed the supply shot up again. Must be all the herbs in the rice.

My MIL followed all the pantang larang diligently for all her 13 kids, but still got arthritis and all sorts of aches in her legs and hands. So IMHO, we can rest all we want, but if we still have to wash clothes, mop the floor, cook and iron and do everything else for the next 40-50 years of our lives after and while having the kids, we’re bound to ache.
_________________
Mom to Leonard (17/05/00), Lucas (28/11/01) and Laurenz (21/06/03).