and here comes baby... part 1

Diary of a slightly mad mother-to-be (my version!) Brace yourself, it's going to be a long one (so I've decided to break it into two parts - a la Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, only this is more magical!)!

Friday, June 25th (40w)
8am; Kakak Isha and her parents arrive in Melbourne. It was a wet and cold day, the visitors are tired (from lugging all those luggages up the stairs), we all stayed at home while AY goes to work after picking them up at Tullamarine Airport with Mama.

Sorry my DSLR skills are bad in the morning!

8pm; Because we already had the carseat installed (for Kakak Isha anyways), me and Mama caught the (Free!) City Circle Tram to Narim's apartment in Docklands and met the others who came with AY for her usual pasta dinner.

Muka anxious baby tak keluar lagi!

Saturday, June 26th (40w+1d)

Isha had the vacuum duty in the morning.

12pm-ish; As an initiative to bring on labour, everybody walked with me (in the rain) from our home in Southbank to the NGV to catch the (Free!) Tourist Shuttle Bus.

We stopped in the City, walked again to Bourke Street and they did some shopping, while I had my last Bubble Tea for the next few months. (Okay, seriously, try the Yoghurt Lover, I know it has no tea what-so-ever in it, but YUM!)
6pm-ish; Last Hainanese Chicken Rice at Kopitiam (for the next few months lah!)

Sunday, June 27th (40w+2d)
11am-ish; Off to Victoria Market, where I, of course, indulged, and had my last corn on the cob, jam doughnuts and ice coffee! We walked some more, to encourage labour la konon, and headed home around 5pm.

Spot the husband lining up for the doughnuts (for 8minutes)!

Monday, June 28th (40w+3d)
11am-ish; We walked again from home to Flinders St to catch the City Circle and head to Harbourtown where I could not squeeze in a mani/pedi session so I ended up walking around alone because I lost the others.
6pm; Met AY at Melbourne Central and yes, we walked ALL THE WAY from La Trobe St to Southbank, only stopping at Flinders Lane to buy Kebab takeaway because nobody wanted to have kitchen duty that night. In hindsight, I really can't believe we walked that far! I'm sorry everyone else had to walk with me, especially Abang who had to carry Isha on his BabyBjorn carrier all the way, and Mama, who is, well, double our age.

Isha in her favourite seat.

Put her in a carseat and she'll scream bloody murder!

*Long walks, spicy food, sex, nipple stimulation, up and down the stairs, you name it, we've done it all to try bring on labour. JB is still too comfy in the belly!