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All praises to Allah the Almighty, for He has granted us the journey this far, and with Allah's blessings, until junior reaches full term and possibly be out by end of that month :) Although I have experienced series of backaches, shoulder aches, nosebleed.. and recently pelvic bones ache, i still feel all of these pales in comparison with the active movements felt in my tummy :)

Anyhow, we have more or less 11 weeks to go, insya Allah. Suddenly time flies so fast, my heart starts beating every time i see Deliver Me on Discovery channel. I don't know how composed i will look during labour, although i try to psych myself by saying I will go through it gracefully. 

Right.. So i have created additional tabs in our Excel expenditure sheet, which consists of timeline and hospital bag checklist. In between husband's travelling, i no longer keep tabs on receipts because (a) most major items has been bought, and (b) i mostly buy little things like clothes and blankets which doesn't add up that much when he was away.

Timeline captures info such as weekly things to do, where to buy what vs time that i have before this baby pops out. I put in a 'Stop Shopping' alert in week 36, because i'd be full term then, and from that week, really, we're just counting days down. Hospital bag obviously lists stuff to be packed and stash in the car once week 37 reaches.

I have to say, i love checklists, despite its ability to silently tell me how (un)prepared we are by each week :) the feeling that i get everytime i update it post shopping trip... like i can now breathe normally. I suppose, that's one of the chapters i'm grateful i don't earn that much.. because the joy we get spending a little bit each month beats the spree.. anytime!

I do have an issue whenever we walk into baby store.. my mind will play games with my heart. Telling me we need more of this and that. More clothes, more blanket, more Medela bottles. Considering Mothercare sits up there, and quite far from my office (well, it is far to me) I rarely visit the store. Yeay for me and my purse!

I have gained 7 kgs from the start until now. If you ask me, yes i'm terrified as i have couple of months to go, which means anything could happen. But Nauzubillah, i'll just pray my weight wouldn't balloon that much. During our last checkup, my awesome gynae says my weight is pretty much nice looking on the graph. Alhamdulillah, anything for you dear baby :)

Check up for week 30 is due this Saturday, insyaAllah, hopefully all goes well. Big 3 is finally here! Baby stuff wise, Alhamdulillah we has crossed out so many items :) everything except car seat. And booking bidan. 

There's a lot to be done rupanya! Okay, i should talk about what need not, and what need to be bought..