Apr
18
News from the bump
April 18, 2007 |
Week 18:
How’s the baby?
According to the scientists the baby should measure up to 15 cm now and should start to do that particular activity that babies most like: sucking their thumb. I still think he’s a boy even if in the last two scans he turned his back to us shamelessly and we could not confirm it, but still, something inside me tells me he’s a boy (maybe because he likes to play Ronaldinho inside my belly with my ovaries). Anyway, if she’s a girl I promise I will not make her wear the blue clothes we bought for the little baby to be. As in both cases the name would have the same initial I will call the little bulb A for the next two weeks (I hope he/she will open his/her legs and let us admire his/her little treasure “You’d better start opening your legs if you don’t want to live naked the first days of your life”).
I think the baby has a special relationship with his father. A few days ago B was ill and when I thought he was better I felt asleep. A few hours later I felt a strong pain in my belly which made me wake up in 0,30 seconds. I found B sweating, with fever and feeling very ill. Also when I get angry with B and I shout or anything similar I feel A kicking my ovaries. I know he cannot hear anything yet, and that he can feel what I feel, but why don’t I feel this when I get angry with any other person? B may have a new ally. Lucky him.
How’s mom?
The belly is getting bigger and bigger everyday. I still cannot understand how I don’t put on weight and I have such a big belly. I hope the next time I visit my doctor I will find an answer to this.
The first three months passed but I still feel exhausted sometimes. Luckily spring is here and the light and the sun gives me more energy, otherwise I would still do nothing but work and sleep every day. It’s true what thy say; that after the first three months you start to feel better. B is starting to notice this also, I don’t get angry that easily and we are getting along very well these days.
As starting from the week 20 A will be able to hear I will start to prepare a music selection that will not include Pantera (right, B?), and that I will play for the baby now and after he is born. Will he recognize the songs when he hears them after he is born as scientists say?
Message to non-pregnant people
I am angry with people in general today because nobody lets you sit in the bus/metro/train/anypublictransportationatall. And I don’t speak about myself here, I still can stand and support my belly successfully, but the poor women that are in 8 or 9 months can hardly stand, and still are seen as “enemies” when they enter the public transporation and are not offered a seat, and if they are this happens only when someone has to get off the bus/train/stuff. This works like this with pregnant women, with old people and with anyone who needs special attention. What makes me really sick is that a lot of the persons in a bus/train are women that were pregnant someday and know how it feels. And these are the women that you will later see fighting for solidarity and women rights. Shame to you all!
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Hey Sim - I sympathise (simpathise??!), although I did get a lot of people standing up for me when I was pregnant, maybe it’s the British. Although one day I stood up for an old man who nobody would stand up for and when the carriage realised I was pregnant about 5 people stood up for me which was funny.
You’re in the best part of the pregnancy now, enjoy it and good luck finding out the sex!