Pinay Mama

During my days, I don’t take even a single sip of alcoholic drinks. Though it was very late when I found out that I am pregnant with Elijah. Taking a risk won’t do anything, it will just lengthen my pain. As what I had said in my previous post, I may surely satisfy myself in my vices but it won’t contribute any good to me and my son’s health.

Drinking alcoholic drinks during pregnancy can cause serious mental and physical defects in you and your unborn child.

Your baby my have small body size and health circumference,  nearsightedness, flattened cheekbones, smaller eye openings, deformed ribs, hip dislocations, heart and kidney defects, learning disabilities, genital malformations, facial abnormalities and many more.

It is never right to drink alcoholic drinks during pregnancy. Don’t take a risk for your baby’s future.

I am having a hard time dealing with Elijah now when it comes to eating and changing his diaper. He is only 10 months and two weeks but I can’t handle him without being mad for at least ten seconds. I know I should not but what can I do?

There are times that he eats plenty when we are outside. I don’t know what’s inside our home that he doesn’t like. He used to play with his mouth when he is eating. He never chew it when he is not in the mood.  He’ll just cry at you really loud like someone is pinching him.

Changing his diaper makes me feel so irresponsible. I get mad. Seriously. He wiggles like a worm when I am about to put his diaper.

What will I do to you baby boy? Mama doesn’t want to scold you but I can’t help it. You are getting naughtier each day and I don’t know how to handle you. Sorry. I promise to lengthen my patience on you. I love you handsome!

Before I met my sorority, there is this group that I can really rely on when I am lonely. They are bunch of kids from different college departments in University of the Philippines Baguio. We go out late at nights, share the most corniest joke ever made and everything that you can think of. We are confraternity members because we think we aim for something that will surely help other students. Hahaha! Funny.

We call ourselves as mamasangs and papalords. We are brothers and sisters from another mother. We got our own unique fruit names to identify one another. Betadmu was derived from the greek word Beta and dakmain mo, a tagalog word which means to grope something. It was founded last  April 24, 2008 by mamasang Maricon. There is, of course, a process if you want to be a member. It is not that hard but I am not going to spill the process here. Hehe. We got chapters too. Hoorah! the UPB (University of the Philippines Baguio), UPD (University of the Philippines Diliman), LOA (Leave Of Absence), AWOL (Absence Without Leave) to which I belong now. Hehe.

If your looking for us then sunshine park is the best place to reach us.

I am so lucky to be a part of it. No regrets. I love their company, I know I always will.

During my pregnancy days, I always read articles about things that I should be careful with. Also I take vitamins and drink milk in order for me and my baby to be healthy.

Smoking cigarettes can be very dangerous to your health even if you are not pregnant.

It doubles a pregnant woman’s risk of having health problems. It also causes complications like fetal growth restriction, premature delivery, altered brainstem development of the fetus and even Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

I, as a mom, is here to give my son a wonderful life. I don’t want him to suffer from what I have done. Smoking will surely satisfy me but it won’t contribute any good to me and my son’s health.

Elijah is one of the few who has excessive folded skin in his arms. Many say that it is called Michelin Tire Baby Syndrome, characterized by multiple, symmetric, circumferential skin creases, or bands, on the forearms, lower legs, and often the neck that are present at birth according to Wikipedia.

Elijah is normal so there’s nothing to be worried about.

May I present to you, the pretty women in my college life, Benilda Fonseca and Maricon Montajes.

from left: Maricon, Benet, Me (Phoebe)

During my pregnancy days, I never crave for anything that it will come to a point that I will whine about it. Or let me just say that I never crave for anything.

My friends always ask me if I crave for longanissa, a Filipino native sausage, during my pregnancy. If you look at the pictures below, maybe you’ll say yes, but my answer is a big NO. I never wanted the taste of it even before. Look at his arms,

I don’t know where he gets it. But one thing is for sure, He is normal. He is a healthy bouncing baby boy of mine. Hihi!

I make it to a point where there should be at least a mama and elijah day out every week. SM Baguio is the most ideal place for us to have a date since it’s raining almost every afternoon. Below are some of Elijah’s picture in Quantum.

Seeing him smile is the most wonderful gift ever given to me.

Postpartum depression(PPD), also called postnatal depresion, is a form of clinical depression which can affect women, and less frequently men, after chilbirth. – wikipedia

There are three types of postpartum depression. The baby blues, which is the most common form after giving birth. Significant number of daddies are also suffering from baby blues before or after child birth. Second is the postnatal depression, a depressive feeling after having a baby. It includes tearfulness and feeling of failure. The last one is the puerperal psychosis, also called as post natal psychosis. It strikes during the first two weeks after giving birth. It includes extreme depressions and hallucinations about the baby that requires professional psychiatric treatment.

From what I had experienced after giving birth, I can’t tell that it was post partum depression or let me say that I never feel depressed after all. I am happy. Yes, I was laughing that time because they keep on telling jokes at me. There is no way for me to be depressed, I mean, Elijah is with me now, I can carry him through my arms and breastfeed  him. What’s depressing with that?

Last week, Elijah, granny, Chichi, my sisters and I went to town to have a family lunch at KFC. Hihi! Afterwards, we went to Tiongsan supermarket (cheap counterpart of SM here in Baguio) to buy foods. I bought Elijah his very first 5-in-1 feeding bottle.

This is exactly what it looks like. Haha! No. Just turn it to color blue. He loves it very much that he doesn’t want me to touch it or he will scream really loud.