Yayyy...the third trimester is here!

Just 12 more weeks..well, that's what Pregnancy Weekly tells me! To be frank, all these dates are confusing. The sonography reports give different dates each time, books tell me its 9 months + 1 week from the first month, etc etc...so what month am I in now? :) I'd like to go by Pregnancy Weekly and confuse my doctor the next time I go to see her...maybe argue a bit with her (actually I can't, the lady does not communicate!!)

Now, isn't that a point of concern? Shouldn't gynaecologists be a bit more talkative? Granted that they see preggie women everyday..and each one's feelings/questions/doubts are more or less the same...but gimme a break! I'm going through this for the first time!! Sheeesh...sometimes I wish she'd show some enthusiasm. The husband and I ask point-to-point questions and hope she doesn't blow her top with some of the stupid qs we come up with...if we manage to get her to smile at our foolishness, we actually think we've had a narrow escape!! haha...boy, have I made my doc sound like the doc who created Frankenstein!! (come to think of it, I believe that doc was quite excited when Frankenstein started moving)...

So, yeah...2 trimesters down..1 more to go...its week 28 now; which would mean, that the 7th month is over with this week. Now begins the breathlessness, the swelling of the legs, etc etc. I already feel like a potato sack waddling around. It sure doesn't help that I go hunting for Mathew's tshirts to wear at home..(which, btw, I'm gonna overgrow in the next few months..hehe)...

But I gotta tell you, its miraculous how a baby can be growing inside another human being..here, me!! When baby kicks or rolls around, I'm sometimes taken by surprise (yep, even now...the denial continues..what's that alien thing inside me, I sometimes wonder)..sometimes, its like as if someone has just given me a POW! or a SOCK! (like in the comics) right in the lower stomach...hehe...and I've never been beaten up even once in my entire life, that my baby does from inside these days!! :)

Any minute thing can get me all anxious these days..the reigning one these days is my high cholesterol level. I've always been plump, but reading about its consequences during pregnancy can get anyone all jittery- hence I gotta exercise and watch my diet like crazy now. The doc says that I can't put on any more weight (like that's possible!!)...but I wouldn't mind if baby started using up my existing fat..I'd be the first mommy to loose weight by being pregnant..hehe...yeah right!

All in all, I really need your (anyone who's reading this blog) prayers for a safe delivery...lemme put up a really cute pic of how a normal baby at 28 weeks is supposed to look like now! Can you imagine? wow...God is indeed great!

5th month and counting....

Yep...after all the mallu complaints, and aunties at church asking "visheshams onnumille", people (who I barely know) stopping me on my morning walks saying, you should see doctor so and so....(boy, couples, lemme correct myself, INDIAN couples who're trying to enjoy their first few years of bliss, I know what you guys go through!! maaaaaaan...) yeah, after going through 3 years of all that, yep, we're expecting!!!

Does the lil' tiny 6-inch, 240 gm (according to babycenter.in) 19th week baby inside my tummy realise that mommy-daddy are as excited as kids in Disneyland knowing that we're blessed with a miracle? Of course not...but we can't wait to feel the first kick and see how he/she looks!!! Oh, what a blessing technology is...the first time I saw and heard my baby was a reminder of how great God is...and how amazing His works are, truly truly beyond any human's understanding.

Only time will tell how our baby would be like, and how we'd fare as parents...have to tell you, its going to be hair-raising experience! (not to mention the birthing!! OMG..hope science progresses at light-year speed and helps me out with that!) but for now, its patience...waits....ultra-sounds....doctor visits...guessing games...apprehension...and prayers. :)

I hope I'll be able to post a pic of preggie me...but until then, I kinda liked the animated pic above...
God bless you all....