Now on my 27th Week!

Hello Arvee!
27 weeks pregnant

You're in the home stretch — two trimesters down, one more to go. Your baby is growing steadily as he prepares for delivery day. He will gain weight rapidly over the next weeks and, as the size of your bump increases, you may feel more breathless and tired. Your baby's acting more like a newborn now, too. He opens and closes his eyes, sleeps and wakes at regular intervals, and may suck a finger or thumb. He may also be hiccupping a lot this week, which explains that odd rhythmic sensation you've probably been feeling.

Your baby now weighs nearly 2 pounds/ 875 grams and measures 14.5 inches/ 36.6 centimeters from head to toe. Her eyes open and close, she sleeps and wakes at regular intervals and she may suck a finger or thumb.

Sweet dreams, little baby! Some experts believe that babies begin to dream by the 28th week. What do they dream about? No one knows for certain but the brain is active this week as well. The characteristic grooves on the brain's surface start to appear and more brain tissue develops.

Chalk up any rhythmic movement you may be feeling to a case of the hiccups, which are common this week and throughout the pregnancy. Your baby has them but is breathing in amniotic fluid rather than air. A paper bag can't cure her hiccups, obviously, but an episode usually lasts only momentarily. The sensation for you may be strange but not unpleasant.

Since your uterus is now up near your rib cage, you may now find yourself short of breath if you haven't already. Starting now and continuing through the last three months of pregnancy, you may be plagued by leg cramps, hemorrhoids, varicose veins and an itchy abdomen. Are pregnancy discomforts getting you down? Try some natural remedies to perk you up.

Jay Adam's 2nd Ultrasound

I am finally able to scan my ultrasound results and some photos of Baby Jay Adam. Here they are:

It's a boy!


Jay Adam's 1st Close Up (look for he tilted his head for a clear view)

Can't wait for my 4D ultrasound. I wanna see his face better. As of date thou my tummy is still small. I hope it'll get bigger by the 28th. Adam still needs a few grams to be of normal weight.

Look What The Stork WIll be Bringing In!

Finally had the chance to have my ultrasound last October 14.

We are having a baby BOY!

It's not what we expected but hey, boys are hard to make. And it's our child. We were just surprised, that's all, since I didn't manifest the signs. Blooming nga daw so we thought the baby's gonna be a girl.

So it's going to be JAY ADAM.

Can't wait to go shopping for lil Adam. I hope he gets his father's looks. :)

Now on My 23rd Week!

Hello Arvee!
23 weeks pregnant

Feeling energetic and excited about the forthcoming birth? If you find yourself dancing around the house with joy, your baby will hear the music and feel you sway, since his hearing and sense of movement are well developed now. He's also started blinking his eyelids. At the end of this week, your baby becomes "viable". This means that he has a chance of survival if he makes an early arrival. However, with each week that passes, he becomes more and more mature and better able to cope with the outside world.

Well I hope s/he still won't come up thou. =)

Ultrasound is finally set this week! Yay! We will finally know if it's Jay Adam or Hannah Agatha! Will be going this Wednesday. Finally, we will now know! I am anxious to buy those gorgeous jumpsuit I saw at SM last week. I will be buying two set of clothes - pambahay and for pictorial purposes. hehe I don't want my baby to look gusgusin on his/her pictorial. My baby will have good fashion sense this early! But all is not well and dandy. Baby is too small, OB said. I may be shifting vitamins soon to remedy this. My appetite is not helping either since I don't feel like eating a lot these past few days. I actually feel like vomiting. Also, my singit feels painful from time to time. Does this mean my womb is too mababa? I sure hope not since this can lead to a CS operation. Birth funds are almost 100% intact soon and that gives me relief. I can now focus on just being well and dandy.

Can't wait for Wednesday!

Baby News After a Million Years

I've been a very bad blogger forgeting to update this blog. So many things has been going on especially on my health that blogging has taken a back seat. Anyway, I'm on my 15th week now and here's what Baby Center has to say about the baby's development:

Hello Arvee!
15 weeks pregnant

Starting this week, any stomach rumblings you feel may be your baby trying out some acrobatics, since she can now move all her limbs. She's also becoming sensitive to light. If you shine a torch at your tummy, she's likely to move away from the beam. Anxious to know whether she's really a she or actually a he? Your baby's external genitals are probably developed enough by now that an ultrasound technician can make a good guess at the sex. An amniocentesis is often recommended at this stage of pregnancy for women over 35 and those who have a family history of birth abnormalities. It is also a test which can tell you for certain whether you're expecting a girl or a boy... if you want to know.

So we can now know the gender? I am so anxious to know actually! We all want a girl but if you'll look at me I'm starting to wonder that maybe it will turn out to be a boy. Why? I just look so blah these days! And I have developed this ugly black patch under my mouth. Ugh. And now I have pimples. The only good thing now is that my underarms have whiten but that's thanks to the whitening deodorant I am using. But we are still hoping and praying it's a girl and as mentioned before we shall be naming her Hannah Agatha. THe spelling of Hannah has been voted in Facebook. But if it's a boy the name's going to be Jay Adam. I just wish s/he will have Jay's chinky eyes. So cute!

Oh, and this means I am on my second trimester already! =)

Now on my Eight Week!

I've been an absentee mommy blogger feeling nothing to write because I have just been staying home doing nothing so that my baby will finally be safe. My life has been a big bore lately but surprisingly I am very much liking it. I like it so much that I don't want to go to work again. Ha! anyway, finally put my energy to good use and signed up for a newsletter from babycenter.ph. The website is so useful and it will give you weekly updates on your baby. Here's what it has to say about my baby for this week:

How your baby's growing

The tiny tail is disappearing and so many changes have taken place that your baby has changed from an embryo and is now officially a fetus. This is the critical stage when your baby's organs are forming. Read more information on your baby's development this week.

The baby is now constantly moving and shifting, though you won't be able to feel anything for several weeks. The arms have grown and the hands are now flexed at the wrists and meet over the heart. The legs are lengthening and the feet may be long enough to meet in front of the body. It's still almost impossible to tell whether you're going to have a boy or a girl.

The article gave me more pressure to read everything that I can get my hands on and to start playing the piano again so that the baby's brain will really develop. But then again, I'm sure my kid will be smart and intelligent. After all, we are giving him/her some very good genes! *wink*

Cat Out of the Bag (at least to some)

I finally told my husband of the news and he is happy to be a father soon. As for me, I still dunno how I am feeling which is typical. All I know is that I am more concious of what I am eating and reading and watching. And I have plans on playing the piano again every weekend. This Friday, were off to the doctor.