5 August 2013 - We Have Reached the Third Trimester!

               Your time to see the world is getting closer as we have reached our third trimester! Give me a high-five! May be you can kick me now and I can touch your little feet with my hands. :) I am now 28 weeks pregnant.

               Today we had another appointment with the doctor and here after we will be meeting her once in three weeks. I had my diabetes test and anemia test last week and the results came to be normal. So we can go ahead eating sweets! But this time, I don't crave much for sweet which I did when your sister was inside. But now I feel like eating a lot of spicy food. I even made your Chaithra atthe's father get me mango pickle from native place. And the big full bottle has already reached half its way! One of your great grandmothers even advised me to reduce the amount of pickle I eat, she says that the baby's eyes might burn inside! Whatever the reason is, I need to eat less spicy food anyway.

               You have started practicing how to breathe and as of now you breathe the amniotic fluid. I wonder if my stomach looks even bigger than the last time now, because already my pack of clothes that I can not wear anymore is doubling in its size. And once again I have become friends with all the bathrooms at the nearby shops. I visit them almost every 1 and a half or 2 hours. I feel shortness of breath these days. Climbing stairs makes me very tired and breathless. Bending down and picking your sister up is tiring too, but she is still small and can't walk yet.  

               As per the baby sites, you have started using your brains and here after you will have to keep using it till the end! You are now the size of a big eggplant and weigh around 2 pounds. You are putting on the layers of fat in your body. And what makes me really happy is that your lungs are mature enough to survive even if you are born now! Your eyesight is developing too and you can now see the light that passes through my womb. I have recently felt your hiccups too for the first time and this time I didn't have to make a research on it. I already knew what they exactly were and was really amazed to get those little tickles!