The first baby feeling

Yay!! Just few minutes back I felt our baby for the very first time!! I felt the baby poke not just once, but almost 3-4 times. It was like a soft finger poke. It was such a wonderful feeling!! It almost made me cry out of happiness :). It's hard to express, but it does make me feel very special and assures of an existence of a soul and a life existing inside of me. Isn't that cute and amazing!!



I messaged Amit instantly and told him how I felt our baby for the very first time. He felt splendid and I wish I could pass on the same feeling to him as well. It definitely is a day to treasure as from here on, it would be 3 of us all together as a family feeling, loving, and caring for each other.

All this while I was not sure if whatever I feel was the baby or something related to uterus expanding, gas, or something weird happening in my belly. I had been feeling some heaviness around my lower abdomen for the last couple of weeks and felt strange. I often got confused and wondered if it is the baby or something else. I have been reading online and reading books and everywhere they mention about the 'butterfly feeling' ; 'flutters' and so on and so forth but never could co-relate with what it means.

I wonder what trigger the poke? I had the spicy 'dhokla' as soon after that I had 4 pokes in 4 secs. Maybe that did the trick heheh? Amit said, the baby ko mirchi lag gayi hai :)

Whatever might have triggered it, it surely made the mom happy. And it would worth a mention "Baby, you did make my day....muuah:)" Bless ya!

Babies, Babies, Babies... everywhere

Lately, I have started to hear a lot about babies! On channel news (Caylee being on the top of the list), optimizing baby genetics, baby brains, baby advices, and what not! Well, I guess it's understandable cause I am all about babies now [giggle]. I guess it's a natural way of phase changing procedure that we all go through.

Perhaps those baby info that I have listed above doesn't excite me all that much, infact it makes me depressed especially the kidnapping news of babies. I’ve read that it’s natural to feel that way! The news that gives me a kick is to hear other people who are expecting and are in the same boat. Well, there are few- who have already delivered (I still consider them in the same bracket) and there are some who are recently shared their expecting news!!! Good thing is that the year 2008-2009 would have a lot of babies, and will make our baby have a lot of friends and cousins of same age group. Coolio, isn’t it?

I have started listing out the people who have delivered in the past couple months/ or will be delivering soon in the coming months.


Delivered babies

•Raashi (girl) born on July 3, 2008 (our baby’s cousin) - My SIL, Rakhi didi’s daughter
•Sargun (girl) born on July 7, 2008 (our baby’s friend) - My friend, Sona’s daughter
•Alaina (girl) born on August 15, 2008 (our baby’s friend) - My friend, Anu’s daughter
•No name yet (boy) born on , 2008 (our baby’s 2nd cousin)- My cousin SIL, Sapna’s daughter

In the running:
•Joy and Nidhi – don’t know the gender yet - due in November ‘08
•Shashi and Shiney – expecting a Baby Girl - due in November ‘08
•Shagun – don’t know the gender yet - due in January ‘09
•'US' – don’t know the gender yet - due in February ‘09
•Varun and Shalini – don’t know the gender yet - due in April ‘09

Perhaps, there are few babies in the family who will be few months or a year or two apart to our’s and I am hoping they might bond well together well cause of not so much age difference between them. They include, Navika (Kangan’s daughter), Anitej (Akshay’s son), Dylan (Ashish’s son), and Tanisha (Varun’s daughter). Let’s see- we have to consider the distance between us and them as well and will depend upon how often they get to meet each other. Though it’s a long thought as of now, but it’s good to see so many babies around! Cute!

So if you notice, a lot of baby girls’ in the group! It’s nice to see girl power all around.

I’ll be updating the above list as and when I get more updates of these groups.

Orangish Red Rose

It's Rose time. Such bright and beautiful rose petals make my everyday splendid and beautiful. Thank you Amit, for such a nice gesture!

From Our Little Bean

Cravings?

First thought that comes to anyone’s mind as soon as you tell them that you are pregnant is “are you having food cravings?” I guess it’s a natural phenomenon to crave food while you are expecting, albeit an obvious question. To be frank, I was expecting more cravings than it has actually happened with me so far. Whatever I have seen in movies, and have seen around- women pester their husbands and get upset if they don’t the stuff they are craving RIGHT AWAY!

Ummm, good thing is…it hasn’t happened that way with me! Lucky eh? I do feel desire some foods but generally that yearning settles down max in 30 mins. So if I distract myself- I won’t even notice or remember that I was craving for something a while back.

Interesting and the most surprising part of ‘MY cravings’ is- that I love having stuff that usually Amit’s favorite. Geez, how did this happen? They say, you crave for stuff that your baby loves. Does that mean, the baby likes all the stuff his father likes? No wonder he or she’s going to be “HIS baby”!

I am posting the pictures of my recent cravings. I’ll keep adding to this list as and when the list gets increased :).











Yummy isn't it :)

Purple it is!!

Not sure the name of the flower, but the flower for this week is this purple, bright and colorful bunch. I love the color.. it's bright and rich. I am hopeful that this brings bright and nice ambiance around us.

hmmm...

Well, the journey so far has been adventurous- a bit of scary feeling like when you ride a roller coaster. That's why I kept away in seclusion from this blog. For some reason I thought- it's better to give yourself a space.

Keeping aside the scary part, onto an optimistic and +ve news! I will start 12 weeks starting today. I am sort of confused, as in our last doc's appointment thee nurse pushed our D date back to 3 more days. That is made it Feb 9 instead of Feb 6!! They monitor baby using ultrasounds, and derive the d- date with that. Ultrasound reminded me, that I have to scan the ultrasound picture and post it soon here. We've gotten 2 ultrasounds so far, and the baby looks cute :). In the 1st very ultrasound, we could hardly make out anything. When doctor's told us, that this is the head and thats baby toes... then we realized to the fact that we are looking at some baby and not a piece of peanut! Ha!! Ya that's how babies look when they are just 6-7 weeks old (gestational age).

The second ultrasound, took both of us by surprise. The baby was moving his/her legs and hands up and down. The technician said that we woke up the baby and Amit named the moment as "baby first yawning moment". It was an ecstatic moment and feeling, when you see a live inside you.... its amazing and beyond expression.

The next appointment is not until next Friday, when we'll complete the first trimester and we are hoping to see and hear good and +ve things from the doctor then. Fingers crossed!!

It's White Lilly week...