MATERNITY CHECK UP

My pregnancy journey so far so good. No morning sickness, no headaches, no constipation, no nothing.. Fine, not entirely no nothing. I did vomiting like 3-4 times and experienced light headaches during my early pregnancy and now starting to feel backaches. But still...bearable! Thanks little one for being so good as this is mommy first experience!

Today is my 25 weeks of pregnancy. One thing for sure, i becoming a little too sensitive. I felt neglected over small reasons and crying become like best healing process ever. Well, i hope i doesn't sound creepy because through my readings, it's perfectly normal for pregnancy women. Blame the raging hormones. Well, this entry is not about weepy mom-to-be i am. It is about my maternity check up experiences.

As this is my first pregnancy experience, i am totally a dummy..But i am lucky as my elder sister & my sister in law already pregnant twice and they kept giving me useful advises based on their previous experiences. Clearly, we are all experiencing pregnancy differently. Therefore, regular check up are extremely important.  

I will listed down all my queries about pregnancy and asked my ONG Dr during the regular visit. I personally went to both health agencies, government and private. I know nowadays people tends to choose either one and mostly will go for private when money is not an issue. I grown up hearing stories about bad labor services in government. They says you are going to be like a guinea pig in the labor room as bunch of internships related staff will watch you in labor and doing the stitches. You are like their experiments. Well, what an unpleasant thing to hear. Imagine all the strangers watching you in labor. Yucks!

Thus, i decided to  giving birth in private hospital, just to be safe & put my mind at ease. Currently, my ONG visit is once a month. Somehow, during 5th month of pregnancy my mother keep asking me to register at the government hospital as she says, it is compulsory as the mid-nurse will visit me during the confinement period for regular mother and newborn check up. Now, being the obedient daughter i am, i went to the government hospital optimistically. But of course, the que are long and they have specific station for each test and you have to wait for your turn at each of the station which take time like forever just to heard your name to be called. Imagine it takes about 4 hours to complete the whole process during my first visit. After my second visit, i totally learnt that coming at 8 am is not early enough. Got to be there at 7.30 am to ensure you are on the top of the list. Well, shame on me. 

But i got to say, everything got their pros and cons. In this case for instance, i do like the consulting session with the nurse. She gave me so many tips without need to be asking. Ironically, she is also pregnant about 5 months that time. I felt like we are best friends instantly. As for the don't like part, apart from the long que and too many station to attend, i don't really prefer the ONG consultation because they only scanned once (For me so far), and there's only 1 screen for the Dr. She did turn the screen a liltle bit facing toward me, but hello...you are explaining too fast and i don't really get to see it. She goes like, ok there's the baby's head, legs, arms, backbones..well, the baby normal. And i'm like WHAT??? Which one is legs, arms or what is what..I don't see it and this is my first time i see my little precious in shaped. Plus, they don't print the images so i can't go ga-ga looking at it day and nights. Compared to the private hospital, they do ultrasound for each visit. I am not sure whether it is good and safe to do ultrasound regularly tho. Maybe the government are trying to be safe or simply because of the costs. Despite all that, my heart keep pounding so fast and i felt like so much joy remembering sees my precious already forming shaped. I felt like crying. I can't wait for my next visit to the private ONG as they got two screen (one for the Dr and the other one for me..like that's what i'm talking about babeh) which is in 4D & the explanation are more digestible.

Well, so far that's all i got about my experiences during maternity check up. I am glad the little one are growing normally in my womb. Here's the sneak peek of little precious from my previous visits :