After my last bleeding 3 weeks ago, I have been extremely careful with myself: no heavy lifting, no long-time standing, no large-scale housework, and be cautious of any pain inside my tommy. I also checked myself more frequently for any blood-tinged drop or clots.

Everything seems fine until yesterday afternoon….

I went to the bathroom, just thinking how good it is that I had no bleeding for 3 weeks. Suddenly, I saw something pink on the toilet paper. Quickly I checked myself again with another piece of toilet paper. This time I saw one dark red blood-tinged clot.

THIS IS NOT GOOD!!

Pregnancy | December 27, 2007 8:30 am | Comments (0)

At this early stage of my baby development, I don’t want make our communication too complicated. With this idea in my mind, I created a simple song for my baby:

Baby and mommy, mommy and baby;
Baby is mommy’s baby, mommy is baby’s mommy;
Baby kisses mommy, mommy kisses baby;
Baby loves mommy, mommy loves baby.

It sounds very simple, but I think it is good to my baby at this stage, since my baby is only at the 4th month of gestation and his/her ears just began to form and develop.

Fetal/prenatal education series | December 26, 2007 10:14 am | Comments (0)

This week is my 15th week gestation, the fourth month. As the baby’s head has grown, the ears have moved to their proper places on the sides of the head. The eardrums and the bones of the middle ear are formed.

This means soon my baby will begin to hear and react to the noisy world of my uterus. Of course, the most noise the baby can hear is the rumbling of my stomach, the whoosh of blood through my blood vessels, and the beating of my heart.

This also means it is the right time to start to practice prenatal/fetal education to my baby. According to what I learned about prenatal/fetal education, human personality starts to develop before birth and is directly influenced by the mother’s experiences. Mother’s nutrition and physical well-being, as well as her mood, thoughts, speech and actions, were held to influence the physical, intellectual and moral character of the future child.

Fetal/prenatal education series | December 20, 2007 2:24 pm | Comments (0)

December 9, 2007, Sunday, it began with a nice and sunny morning. Everything looked as usual. It seemed to be another peaceful and normal day.

I went to the bathroom. I had a little bit constipation. I need to drink more water, I said to myself. Then, when I was about to finish, to my surprise, I found some bright red bloods coming out of myself.

Bright red blood…my mind was running quickly like a windmill. What does this mean? Am I going to have an abortion?

Pregnancy | December 17, 2007 2:05 pm | Comments (0)

I just received a phone call from prenatal image center that my risk of having Down syndrome and Edwards syndrome was within normative range, actually much lower than the cut-off.

It means my baby passed the first-trimester prenatal screening!! I was so happy about this great news!!!

Healthy Pregnancy | December 7, 2007 12:18 pm | Comments (0)

On November 28, 2007, we were invited to Dale & Piriya’s wedding. Dale is a kind, handsome Caucasian man, always with smile on his face. Piriya is a beautiful, shy woman from Thailand. Since she works in a Thai restaurant, the food on the wedding was undoubtedly Thai food.

Before we went, M (my husband, referred as “daddy”, “M”, “the little thing’s daddy” since we don’t know the baby’s sex yet, and etc) and I were little bit worried: Piriya said they would cook the food as typical Thailand style.

Oh, my goodness! I know how authentic Thai food tastes like!

M and I were prepared to have a bowl of cereal when we came back home…

early pregnancy | 9:47 am | Comments (0)

On November 8, 2007, one week after I first knew my pregnancy, I came back to see the doctor. This time, I saw my little thing a little bit clearer than last time. It looked like a little chicken, with very vague shape of body and head (with my guessing). The doctor could identify his/her [...]

early pregnancy | December 1, 2007 5:09 pm | Comments (0)