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| Feeling huge at 34 weeks plus. |
Alhamdulillah I am finally 37 weeks along with my second pregnancy. God knows how much I deeply hoped to reach today so that I don't deliver preterm. Preterm means the baby's lungs haven't satisfactorily developed to function well in the world outside the womb. Therefore medically doctors would administer IM steroids to the mother prior to delivery as studies have suggested that they can help in lung maturity.
Other than that there's a battery of other risks related to preterm delivery which I was so much fearful of, thank God He has let me go on thus far. Alhamdulillah.
Hitting term means the baby can pop out at any time from now, as he/she is already in a 'safe' or 'mature' state to live independently. So what should I do to prepare for the whole situation? This is not the 1st time having a baby but I have to get things in place so that nothing is missed, hopefully.
Among the things need to be sorted out:
MOTHER
- Labour exercise
- Play around with the exercise ball
- Kegel's exercise
- Labour breathing exercise
- Perineal massage
- Walk a lot
- Book the massage & tungku lady
- Mother's labour bag (may/may not be combined with that of the baby's)
BABY
- Get the baby bag ready
- Newborn diapers (we forgot to bring diapers to the labour room last time!)
- Wash breastmilk pumping set
- Wash/Buy bottles for bottle feeding training
- Baby- where to sleep? Haha
- Postnatal care set
Most important of all:
- Pray hard that Allah will grant ease in the whole process
- Get the mindset ready
InsyaAllah may it all go smoothly. Ameen.
