Scenario at the vaccination site:  Kuya assistant: "Diri ang mga buntis." And he guided every pregnant woman out of the queue but me.

I have been solo-parenting for almost a week now.  And that's because our cat, Appa, bit Jan on his left leg. While Jan thinks the biting was an accident, I think otherwise. That cat has been plotting to kill me since day one but was miserably unsuccessful so it decided to take it on…

Every day I wake up feeling like those Instagram moms who seem to have figured out motherhood only to become borderline psychotic when faced with Rhett's homework. Of all the evil that's happening in the world, Math is probably the worst. I have been stumped multiple times by elem…

All this time I thought I am prepared for this. But I must have pushed that button resetting all the things I already learned about newborn care.  I find myself Googling about things I was certain I knew before. Cord stump care, what a normal poop should look like, how much can a newborn …

Tiny beautiful human. We nicknamed him Paopao because he looks like a siopao.

I know you've been reading (especially from me) a lot of these off-putting things about pregnancy. Well, every horrible thing you hear every mother is going through is all true and would even be an understatement. What you don't hear more often are the beautiful things that happe…

In news as inconceivable as me finally eating and loving cheese , my OB has put me on a low-carb, less-sugar diet because I have gained 10 pounds within a month and it doesn't show. And for someone who has never been on a diet, IT IS SO DIFFICULT. We're scheduled for our last feta…

I bled yesterday. It wasn't periodic nor regular. It only happened once. It wasn't heavy, not even enough to soak a pad. But it was enough to freak the hell out of us. Jan drove me to the emergency room immediately and while on our way, I was frantically all over the internet in…

It has been 7 days since the last time I stepped out of our gate. I don't know what it's like to be outside anymore. This quarantine has gotten me hungrier and lazier by the hour. Definitely not the pregnancy journey I had in mind. Two months ago, I established a regular walking…