Most of our friends already know that we’re expecting a baby. We sent out our baby announcements through word of mouth and emails as soon we discovered the wonderful surprise. But shhhh nobody yet knows the gender of the baby. Not even us! Last week when I had my check-up, the doctor was not able to find the sign that would tell us. We have to wait till the next visit then.

A short clip of baby H at 15 weeks and 2 days.

As more and more people are asking what our baby will be, boy or girl, I am thinking maybe we should keep it a secret from everybody to heighten their anticipation. Hehehe silly me. It’s just a thought, but maybe I’d go for it.  Who knows what crazy ideas a pregnant woman can concoct.

Hello! How’s everyone? I haven’t updated my blog for almost 2 weeks already! Weeee… where have I been? My pregnancy hormones don’t give me enough zest to write and If I do (which happens very seldom), before I could even gather and form my thoughts into words, Caity or something else would distract me. Aside from that, I don’t have enough time for everything. I usually cram all the house chores in the morning because I want my afternoon to be free for resting with Caity. My online venture is badly affected. I can barely catch up with my assignments on Ferrari parts , insurance quotes, etc. I hope when my first trimester of pregnancy passes, all the discomforts and laziness I’m feeling would be all gone so I can accomplish many things especially with my online work.

Oh, and also we’re taking advantage of summer by spending our weekends outdoors, if the weather permits. In fact last week we were out for two nights at a friend’s cottage for a parteee! But that’s another story to tell.

By the way, as I am writing this, my nap partner is already asleep.  I sacrificed a bit of my afternoon siesta to write this. =) But now that I’m done, I’m off to dreamland too.

After a long wait, I finally had my first appointment with the OB/GYN doctor last Tuesday. Guess what? I am really pregnant! Of course I am. I mean I am aware of my situation even before the doctor’s visit but it’s different to see the baby from the ultrasound results; a real proof that there’s life growing inside me. Anyway, I am already 11 weeks pregnant. So far everything is looking good but still they had to take blood samples (6 vials!) for some tests.

Here’s the baby at 11 weeks:

Baby’s length measures 50.97mm.

And my doctor now has the 4D ultrasound which can capture the baby’s movements in a video. Cool!

Hmmm it seems we’re going to have another active baby like Caity (little C). =)

I’ve been feeling super lazy lately! I only want to sleep and eat. Sometimes I’d rather sleep than eat but little C’s pangs of hunger (or mine) forces me to get up and feed her (or myself). I have many things to do that are put on hold, simply because I don’t want to move and also my mind refuses to work. Based on my previous pregnancy, I had this lousy feeling on my first trimester too. I still have over two months to go till it hopefully ends; that’s still a long way. If little C can talk, I know she’d complain that I’m such a boring companion. The best part of my day is after lunch when she takes her nap coz I also rest with her. Sometimes we’d sleep for three hours!

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It’s all done! I thought it would be painful but nahhhh, nothing but a little pull and the string was out! The doctor cut both ends with scissors, pulled one end and that was it.

“Have you given birth already?” Hahaha not yet! I’ve been hounded with this question many times by my friends for the past days. Baby is actually moving a lot especially at night. I can feel a bump here (probably her butt) and some bony part there (her leg?), then she starts jerking around, stretching my belly wide! Whew! I told her that there’s plenty of space to do her stunts outside my belly; coaxing her to pop out already but she seems to like staying there still. Oh God, give me more patience!

waiting for my baby…

Anyway, M took a leave since Monday in anticipation of little C’s arrival. It will be our last few days together. After baby comes out, it will be a totally new life for all of us. Less freedom to do things in a whim maybe and we’ll have to act like real adults coz a pair of innocent eyes will be watching us and will likely copy whatever we do. So since Friday night, we enjoyed our time together watching the 3 last episodes of Heroes (finally we’re done watching it. Bring on the new season!) and we also drove out at 10pm to buy burger & fries… tsk tsk tsk; then on Saturday we watched the first series of the Bourne movie (The Bourne Identity); ate out last Sunday after the Mass; and last night we watched The Simpsons movie. In between these activities, M spent time playing PC games and watching his anime movies, while I finished my Korean drama.

Tomorrow I’ve got a full schedule. I’ll have another check-up with the doctor at 8 in the morning, an invitation for lunch by the mam and the baby shower in the afternoon which my friends will be hosting for me. That is… if little C decides to stay longer in my belly (I hope NOT!).

So that’s it! I plan to take a long walk with M later in the afternoon to force little C to come out!

Because of my frustration the last time we had our check-up, I instructed M to insist to the attendants that he should be present with me in the examination room so he can translate whatever I want to ask the doctor and vice versa. I felt that the doctor would be comfortable explaining things in their language than talking to me in English. Thankfully I got my request!

So this time it was better. I got some essential information.

- baby is already approximately 3 kilos.
- my cervix is still close.
- no sign of baby wanting to come out yet.

* I gained only 300 grams in the past two weeks! Not bad at all!

I used to count by months, then by weeks. Lately I’m counting by days! My estimated due date of delivery is August 24, a date which is already so near yet seems like I’m waiting for eternity!

Doing nothing while waiting for my delivery date can be a bore! To keep me sane, I’ve been watching movies, chatting with my family and friends online and of course blogging! Oh I’ve been reading books too. If you put it all together, that makes me a busy expectant mom-to-be! heh!

Another thing I did to keep me occupied was signing-up with Bloggerwave, another company that pays bloggers to write opinion posts for advertisers. Since their launching this year, thousands of bloggers have joined their team. Now their focus is to gain more clients and advertisers who will provide opportunities for their bloggers. So if you want to earn extra money, I invite you to join Bloggerwave.

My bags are packed, finally I’m ready to deliver you my dear baby anytime you want to come out! I have everything that I’ll need in the hospital including your tiny stuff. All the preparation has been done; your room, your crib, your clothes, your bathing stuff and other essentials to welcome your arrival. I really don’t like waiting, but right now that’s all I do, waiting with much excitement for the day you’ll pop out.

Will God answer my prayer? Will you arrive this week as I have been wishing for?

“I don’t understand.” was my mantra yesterday at the clinic. How many times have these nurses been told and yet they still speak to me in Czech! We couldn’t understand each other that’s because they won’t allow hubby, my translator inside the examination room. It’s frustrating!

Ohhh, even the doctor, poor doctor I can still remember the look on his face. He looked scared talking to me, like there’s a gun pointed in his head.

You speak English? I asked.

A little.

Then he led me inside the room and “interrogated” me. Hah!

“Any problems“? He started.

“I have back pains”

“OK…”

I paused, waiting for an intelligent advice from him… nothing so I continued

“and my eyes can’t focus“. (I’m talking in minimum so he can understand me. I’m afraid the more I talk, the more he would be confused.)

“OK…”

At this point, I expected him to rattle off advices for the back pain and eye problem but nada… so I asked

“Is this normal?” He just nodded. Arghhhh!

During the examination I asked more questions only to get vague answers! Then finally before wrapping things up as he was inputting data into the computer, he told me I can ask him if I have some more questions. Yeah right! Who wants to ask when I don’t get satisfactory answers!

Whatever, it doesn’t matter what they say or not. I’ll just program my mind that everything will happen according to what I believe in. I’ve already claimed that I’ll have a safe and normal delivery and I’ll have a healthy and beautiful baby girl. That’s the power of faith! Amen!

* I gained 700 grams in a week!