19 June 2012 - Your favourite song

               I had an appointment with the doctor yesterday and was happy to know that I am neither anemic or do I have diabetes. So that tells me that I can go on hogging sweets every time you ask me for it! Your heart beat is still quite fast i.e. 150 per minute which is normal. Your dad and I were happy to know that both you and I are absolutely healthy. I had never thought of my health so far in my life, but now since you are inside, I need to take care of myself too. I can see your dad already taking up the role as a dad and that too a very good one with a lot of sacrifices. Earlier your dad loved bananas. But now if there is only one banana left at home, he doesn't like bananas that day, and if there are three, his stomach will be full after eating only one! So I already see a caring dad in him. :)

             I was listening to music as usual today and I noticed that you react differently when I listen to 'barbie girl'. You seem to like that song very much! I can feel you dance from inside when I listen to it. This afternoon, after playing for sometime, you fell asleep and I was reading a book. Thought of listening to music and the first song went on peacefully. 'Barbie girl' started next and somebody woke up immediately and started jumping from nowhere! I wanted to test it again - changed the song and there were no movements. Played 'barbie girl' again and my entire tummy began to shake!

               Today I felt my stomach clenching a few times and then I realized that I have been feeling it since last few days, once or twice a day. My nurse in hospital had asked me yesterday if I feel contraction. I had said "no". But today I got to know that these are the contractions I am supposed to feel. So my stomach is already practicing and getting ready for labour!

05 June 2012 - Dad saw you kick

               Today is the first time your dad clearly watched you kick! He kept watching for a few minutes and I am sure that he was amazed to see it! Now he has no other option than believing that you have the capacity to shake my entire tummy. Earlier he thought either that I am exaggerating it or that I AM shaking it. But today he saw the tiny creature kicking me from inside. Though the kicks were only on the left side of my stomach, entire tummy was shaking. And you repeated the kicks several times. I saw your dad smiling to himself after that! :)

               I read in the internet that you are breathing the amniotic fluid regularly now, you swallow it and you get hiccups too! The only toy you have to play with is the umbilical chord. You can hold it and shake it as well. I feel you play inside after lunch and rotate on the same place. I talk a lot to you and you have that only way of responding. I hope you recognize my voice. 

               Tomorrow I have my diabetes test and a test to know if I am anemic. I hope you are getting all the nutrition you need. 

30 May 2012 - I want all the food in the world

               I am hungry 24/7.. It's just the opposite of how I used to feel in the first 4 months of my pregnancy. I hated eating then, I would have been the happiest if I had to skip a meal. But now, it's YOU who is making me eat a crazy amount of food! Don't you believe me? Then listen to my eating schedule. I have my first breakfast with 3 dosas at 8 in the morning and I am hungry again at 10.30! I eat my second breakfast of either fresh fruits or dry fruits and nuts with biscuits and milk. Then starts my first lunch at 12.30, second at 3 p.m, snacks time at 4.30. How can I not eat at 6 p.m. when your dad comes home hungry after a long day's work? I give him company though the bigger amount goes to my stomach. Then dinner at 8.15 and before going to bed, I eat again. Or else who wants to wake up at midnight and eat like I already did a few times?

               Let us talk about you now. I am used to the hard kicks I get these days. But the new thing is, where I get those kicks! You don't kick me at one place now, it keeps changing every one hour! If you can't stay still for more than an hour and if you keep turning round and round 3 months before you are even born, I wonder how much trouble will I have catching you once you are out and start running around the house! But I really enjoy the fact that you are quite active in there! The only trouble you give is, you like kicking on my bladder. When I am outside the house shopping, the first thing I will have to do now is, search for a bathroom and stay close to it!

               I had my doctor's appointment today, and I am not very excited anymore about the appointments because I know I don't get to see you here after until the last month. But your dad and I were happy today to hear your heart beat when the nurse placed the heart beat instrument on my tummy. It was 140 per minute - still super fast. Now in malls and shopping centers, everybody notices that I am pregnant. And I am proud to carry you.. :) You can hear even your dad's voice now and you listen to music. As I already said, you kick more in response when I keep my hand on you, but I can already see your respect for your dad because when he keeps his hand on you, you stop all the kicks! You are quite partial I say!