You have cheeks this week and are about 80 to 93 mm from crown to rump.
We started our trip on Wednesday, 27 December. We drove for about five to six hours in drizzle. We arrived in the cool mountain-side restaurant feeling very hungry and ordered our food straight away. We ate baked fish with yummy spicy sauce, some stir fried green vegetable, satay, and hot fluffy rice. Then we checked in to the next door resort for a night stay.
The next day, we continued our journey to my grandparents’ house. We had our dinner first before getting to their house.
Meeting your great grandparents was always a source of joy for me and your aunties. We arrived at their house at about 9 pm. Hugs and kisses and long talks into the night followed. In the morning, your grand-aunt came with her two daughters and we had a great time chatting till afternoon.
Today, the whole family from your grandma’s side came and gathered at a restaurant to celebrate your great grandma 80th birthday. Only 3 of my cousins could not make it to come, the rest of us were there. We had lunch, some games, and exchange of gifts. I think your great grandma really enjoyed the party.
There I met a cousin who was seven month pregnant. She said the baby was predicted to be a girl. The baby will be four months older than you, darling. I looked at her and see my future in her. I will be that big in a few months time! And honestly, I could not wait to be that big and to have you come out!
Saturday, December 31, 2005
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
the 13th week
Christmas is coming! This will be your first and last Christmas in the womb, dearest! I hope everything is going on well with you in the womb and hope you’ll have fun this Christmas! Exactly on the 25th December, your maternal grandparents will celebrate their 25th Anniversary! Nice numbers, right? Your grandma is planning to have a photo taking session in white tops and blue jeans with the whole family members. Then we’ll have a nice dinner. We still have not decided on the place, but I really hope both of your grandparents will enjoy the whole thing. We also prepared a photo album for the gift. I hope we can finish the album in time. Gees, I used a lot of ‘hope’ in this paragraph.
Next week, we’ll go to your great grandparents’ house. A ten-hour car drive and we’ll have fun on the 31st December to celebrate your great grandma’s 80th birthday. This year is full of celebration, isn’t it?
You’ll be in your 14th week next week and I’m expecting to be able to feel your movement!
Sometimes it feels very strange to write to someone who’s residing in your own womb right now. So close, yet I still can’t feel you or see you. Can you feel me if I touch my tummy? Can you feel your daddy if he pokes? Or your aunt when she vibrates my tummy? Well, I don’t think you can remember that when you are reading this letter. Anyway, God bless you dear Child. Have a nice Christmas inside there!
Next week, we’ll go to your great grandparents’ house. A ten-hour car drive and we’ll have fun on the 31st December to celebrate your great grandma’s 80th birthday. This year is full of celebration, isn’t it?
You’ll be in your 14th week next week and I’m expecting to be able to feel your movement!
Sometimes it feels very strange to write to someone who’s residing in your own womb right now. So close, yet I still can’t feel you or see you. Can you feel me if I touch my tummy? Can you feel your daddy if he pokes? Or your aunt when she vibrates my tummy? Well, I don’t think you can remember that when you are reading this letter. Anyway, God bless you dear Child. Have a nice Christmas inside there!
Sunday, December 18, 2005
week twelve
Dearest Child,
Your twelfth week has just ended and the second trimester is starting soon. We spent two nights in your grandparents’ house again on Thursday and Friday nights. I got a sudden craving for cut fruits with sauce of mashed green chilly with brown Javanese sugar and salt. On the last four to five days, I felt very gassy in the stomach. I kept on burping and that was not very nice. Friday morning, your grandma suggested for me to get a full body massage to get rid of the wind. So instead of going to office, I stayed at home, enjoying a full body massage (by a professional massager) and having a nice afternoon nap.
Sunday afternoon, we went to a big mall in the city. Your dad wanted to meet his high school friend and I wanted to buy some underwear for the pregnancy. My tummy is getting bigger and bigger every time I look at myself in the mirror. I hope the growing size is normal.
Oh, and the nausea is disappearing and my food intake increases by a little bit.
Yesterday, we are supposed to attend my senior high school friend’s wedding party. But I was still feeling gassy and a bit tired. The evening gown that fitted and looked rather acceptable was still a bit tight and made me difficult to breathe. So we canceled coming and had a nice rest instead.
This week we also watched our wedding DVD and I am still glad we have gone through that! I enjoyed the marriage much more than the wedding. Well, maybe because I’m not the partying kind. Anyway, that was the official start of our family. Have you watched the wedding DVD? What do you think of your younger parents in the wedding outfit?
Your twelfth week has just ended and the second trimester is starting soon. We spent two nights in your grandparents’ house again on Thursday and Friday nights. I got a sudden craving for cut fruits with sauce of mashed green chilly with brown Javanese sugar and salt. On the last four to five days, I felt very gassy in the stomach. I kept on burping and that was not very nice. Friday morning, your grandma suggested for me to get a full body massage to get rid of the wind. So instead of going to office, I stayed at home, enjoying a full body massage (by a professional massager) and having a nice afternoon nap.
Sunday afternoon, we went to a big mall in the city. Your dad wanted to meet his high school friend and I wanted to buy some underwear for the pregnancy. My tummy is getting bigger and bigger every time I look at myself in the mirror. I hope the growing size is normal.
Oh, and the nausea is disappearing and my food intake increases by a little bit.
Yesterday, we are supposed to attend my senior high school friend’s wedding party. But I was still feeling gassy and a bit tired. The evening gown that fitted and looked rather acceptable was still a bit tight and made me difficult to breathe. So we canceled coming and had a nice rest instead.
This week we also watched our wedding DVD and I am still glad we have gone through that! I enjoyed the marriage much more than the wedding. Well, maybe because I’m not the partying kind. Anyway, that was the official start of our family. Have you watched the wedding DVD? What do you think of your younger parents in the wedding outfit?
Thursday, December 08, 2005
week eleven
Wowy dearest,
All your vital organ have been perfectly made by now, they continue to grow in volume. By the end of this week, you will be twice your length in the previous week. Half of that length will be your head.
In your eyes, the irises started to develop. By the end of this week, the inner side of your ears will be completed.
We can now count your fingers and you are already able to swallow, yawn, and suck.
I am still experiencing sudden waves of nausea, but definitely better than the first weeks. My tummy is getting bigger, but the last time I weighed myself (which is about three days ago), I am still 49 kg. I used to be 50 - 52 kg.
I keep on wondering about your activity inside there. Sometimes when I was not careful in moving myself, I got worried about you inside there. I hope you are a strong baby there...
This week, daddy started to play jazzy Christmas songs and Christmas is indeed coming!!! Your daddy is a great companion for pregnant mother. You should be proud of him from inside there, little child. :)
Today I did not go to your grandpa's office, I felt that I need some rest. And your dearest grandpa came and brought me lunch (cooked by your grandma, of course). Everything was prepared well, and we had soup plus some fried beef to eat with warm rice for lunch. I really think that the three of us should stay in their house for at least a month after you were born, so that you can taste their love and great care too. :)
I'm getting something to eat for both of us now, darling. Love you.
All your vital organ have been perfectly made by now, they continue to grow in volume. By the end of this week, you will be twice your length in the previous week. Half of that length will be your head.
In your eyes, the irises started to develop. By the end of this week, the inner side of your ears will be completed.
We can now count your fingers and you are already able to swallow, yawn, and suck.
I am still experiencing sudden waves of nausea, but definitely better than the first weeks. My tummy is getting bigger, but the last time I weighed myself (which is about three days ago), I am still 49 kg. I used to be 50 - 52 kg.
I keep on wondering about your activity inside there. Sometimes when I was not careful in moving myself, I got worried about you inside there. I hope you are a strong baby there...
This week, daddy started to play jazzy Christmas songs and Christmas is indeed coming!!! Your daddy is a great companion for pregnant mother. You should be proud of him from inside there, little child. :)
Today I did not go to your grandpa's office, I felt that I need some rest. And your dearest grandpa came and brought me lunch (cooked by your grandma, of course). Everything was prepared well, and we had soup plus some fried beef to eat with warm rice for lunch. I really think that the three of us should stay in their house for at least a month after you were born, so that you can taste their love and great care too. :)
I'm getting something to eat for both of us now, darling. Love you.
Thursday, December 01, 2005
the tenth week
Dearest Child,
I am in my tenth week of my pregnancy, and that makes you about seven to eight weeks old by now. In two weeks time, I'll be done with my first trimester, and you will start to grow bigger and bigger and bigger.
Monday, I started to go to your grandfather's office to 'work'. Actually to learn about the business while helping him in any way I can. Your grandmother said that the labor will be easier if I keep being active during the pregnancy. And when I get busy, without I know it, nine months will pass and you will be outside my womb! Your grandmother made lunch for your father and I yesterday and today, she made dinner. Both of your grandmother are great mothers, I hope I can be like that for you too, darling.
I still don't know your gender, and a lot of people still think that you were a boy. Sometimes, I pictured my self, older, and walking or talking with a young man, my son. But sometimes I thought about playing with a little girl too. Curious as I am, I will be equally happy with whatever gender you have. The name candidates for now is Derrick and Vincent for a boy. We haven't had our selections for a girl.
Really could not wait for the next check up (which is in two weeks time) and oops! I just remembered that I have not taken the vitamin for today!!! Anyway, yeah, I really wanted to see you in the ultrasound scan next two weeks.
You have a nice day today in my womb, baby dearest.
I am in my tenth week of my pregnancy, and that makes you about seven to eight weeks old by now. In two weeks time, I'll be done with my first trimester, and you will start to grow bigger and bigger and bigger.
Monday, I started to go to your grandfather's office to 'work'. Actually to learn about the business while helping him in any way I can. Your grandmother said that the labor will be easier if I keep being active during the pregnancy. And when I get busy, without I know it, nine months will pass and you will be outside my womb! Your grandmother made lunch for your father and I yesterday and today, she made dinner. Both of your grandmother are great mothers, I hope I can be like that for you too, darling.
I still don't know your gender, and a lot of people still think that you were a boy. Sometimes, I pictured my self, older, and walking or talking with a young man, my son. But sometimes I thought about playing with a little girl too. Curious as I am, I will be equally happy with whatever gender you have. The name candidates for now is Derrick and Vincent for a boy. We haven't had our selections for a girl.
Really could not wait for the next check up (which is in two weeks time) and oops! I just remembered that I have not taken the vitamin for today!!! Anyway, yeah, I really wanted to see you in the ultrasound scan next two weeks.
You have a nice day today in my womb, baby dearest.
Friday, November 25, 2005
almost ten weeks
This week, you will grow really fast. This is according to a book by Professor Stuart Campbell, "Watch Me Grow!" The book is full of 3D baby pictures inside the womb, taken by 3D ultrasound scan. So, your father and I can roughly imagine what you look like every week inside the womb.
In the ninth week, your look is already resembled a baby. Your back is straightened and your neck is formed. Your tail (yes, you had a tail once!) will start to disappear and your arms and legs grow longer with an amazing speed. You start having a nose too. From your crown till your butt, you are measured about 22-30mm.
Then in the tenth week, you grow longer, now your length from head to butt increased to 31-42mm. Your brain develops very fast so your head looks much bigger now compared to your other body parts. Your eyes and nose can be seen clearly, but your eyelids are still stuck and will not be opened till a few months later. Twenty little teeth-to-be start to form inside your gum. Your fingers are formed too. And your legs measured about 2.5mm.
Your nerves can now receive signals and most of your internal organ has started to function. Your heart has reached its final form and beats 140 times a minute. Your lungs, stomach, and intestines are still growing. The kidneys start to move to its final position too.
Pregnancy is a miracle, I'd say. A journey together with the Creator to make a new human being inside my own body. Your growth fascinates me and your father. And the understanding that every single human being is made this way, remind us of how special each and everyone of us is. Dearest child, we love you.
For now, I could not feel your presence yet, I could only feel the indicators like the waves of nausea. You are already moving around inside me now, it's just that you are still too small for me to notice the movement. I could not wait to feel your moves and your kicks, darling.
It's an hour past noon now, and raining softly outside. I'm going to have my lunch now. *hugs*
In the ninth week, your look is already resembled a baby. Your back is straightened and your neck is formed. Your tail (yes, you had a tail once!) will start to disappear and your arms and legs grow longer with an amazing speed. You start having a nose too. From your crown till your butt, you are measured about 22-30mm.
Then in the tenth week, you grow longer, now your length from head to butt increased to 31-42mm. Your brain develops very fast so your head looks much bigger now compared to your other body parts. Your eyes and nose can be seen clearly, but your eyelids are still stuck and will not be opened till a few months later. Twenty little teeth-to-be start to form inside your gum. Your fingers are formed too. And your legs measured about 2.5mm.
Your nerves can now receive signals and most of your internal organ has started to function. Your heart has reached its final form and beats 140 times a minute. Your lungs, stomach, and intestines are still growing. The kidneys start to move to its final position too.
Pregnancy is a miracle, I'd say. A journey together with the Creator to make a new human being inside my own body. Your growth fascinates me and your father. And the understanding that every single human being is made this way, remind us of how special each and everyone of us is. Dearest child, we love you.
For now, I could not feel your presence yet, I could only feel the indicators like the waves of nausea. You are already moving around inside me now, it's just that you are still too small for me to notice the movement. I could not wait to feel your moves and your kicks, darling.
It's an hour past noon now, and raining softly outside. I'm going to have my lunch now. *hugs*
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
the first nine weeks
Dearest Wowy,
Our counting was based on LMP (Last Menstruation Period) count. So the nine weeks started on the first day of my last menstrual period, that was 18 September 2005. You was not created until about the third week. I feel the need to explain this because we just got married for about seven weeks. You were made straight away. I think you are our wedding gift from our dear God.
We found out about your existence on Sunday, 23 October 2005, after a day of nausea and two test packs. We confirmed it once again the next morning with another test pack. We've told your grandparents and aunties right away, though. They were surprised and excited, but not as surprised and excited as both of us, of course! Your three youngest aunties have started kissing my tummy everytime I was going to leave from their home. And they constantly send their love over sms and phone too, until now! I'm sure they are going to be more excited once my tummy started to grow bigger and bigger and bigger.
Monday, 31 October 2005 was our first check up. We waited for an hour for the doctor even though we were the first patients. We spent the waiting time chatting about you and about pregnant mothers around us. Then the doctor came, apparently he had just delivered a baby upstairs. We gave him short introduction about us and about you and the doc asked me to be scanned. The doctor congratulated us the first time he saw the ultrasound scan monitor, "Yes, this is definitely pregnant and we had it in line with your information". We went out beaming proudly. This was our first time being a parent-to-be, so you can imagine the excitement.
Your father had a "lebaran" holiday from Monday, 31 October, all the way to Wednesday, 9 November. And I fell sick with runny nose and slight fever during that holiday. Both sets of your grandparents and aunties came for a whole day to help your father taking care of me. Your father was very sweet and caring throughout, and I am very thankful having him as a husband. Everyone, including me, was worried about you when I was sick. I really hope it did not affect you in any negative way, dear.
The end of your seventh week was spent in your mother-side grandparents' house, we stayed a night there because your youngest aunt had her 17th birthday on the next day, Monday, 14 November. It was our first time spending a night in our parents' house after the wedding. We had a birthday cake, "tumpeng", and noodles for the birthday.
Tuesday, 15 November, we went to another doctor for our second check up. The doctor gave us our first parent's fright when he spent about five minutes starring intently at the monitor during the ultrasound scan, while typing something on the keyboard and turning the handheld scan gadget over and over my tummy. Your father and I was shooting worried looks a few times during that long five minutes. Then suddenly, the doctor exclaimed, "Good! We even have the heartbeat now!" Apparently he was taking his time to measure your CRL (Crown Rump Length) and your heartbeat. You were 1.5cm in CRL and had a heartbeat of 165bpm (beat per minute). He said everything was fine and you were in your eight week.
So that makes this week, your ninth week. I am getting better in handling the nausea, but still can't eat as well as before pregnant. Everyone said it was totally normal. Some people even lose a few kilos during the first trimester. I lost one kilogram when I weighed last week at the doctor's. I'm still staying at home and happily entertain myself surfing and writing, while learning to cook.
Oh, and these two days, I noticed that my tummy is getting bigger! I did not have a flat tummy to start with, so your grandmother said that it was normal for me to get bigger now. I just wished I could have a flatter tummy (compared to before pregnant) after you are born later. Haha.
Okay, so that was your first nine weeks.
Our counting was based on LMP (Last Menstruation Period) count. So the nine weeks started on the first day of my last menstrual period, that was 18 September 2005. You was not created until about the third week. I feel the need to explain this because we just got married for about seven weeks. You were made straight away. I think you are our wedding gift from our dear God.
We found out about your existence on Sunday, 23 October 2005, after a day of nausea and two test packs. We confirmed it once again the next morning with another test pack. We've told your grandparents and aunties right away, though. They were surprised and excited, but not as surprised and excited as both of us, of course! Your three youngest aunties have started kissing my tummy everytime I was going to leave from their home. And they constantly send their love over sms and phone too, until now! I'm sure they are going to be more excited once my tummy started to grow bigger and bigger and bigger.
Monday, 31 October 2005 was our first check up. We waited for an hour for the doctor even though we were the first patients. We spent the waiting time chatting about you and about pregnant mothers around us. Then the doctor came, apparently he had just delivered a baby upstairs. We gave him short introduction about us and about you and the doc asked me to be scanned. The doctor congratulated us the first time he saw the ultrasound scan monitor, "Yes, this is definitely pregnant and we had it in line with your information". We went out beaming proudly. This was our first time being a parent-to-be, so you can imagine the excitement.
Your father had a "lebaran" holiday from Monday, 31 October, all the way to Wednesday, 9 November. And I fell sick with runny nose and slight fever during that holiday. Both sets of your grandparents and aunties came for a whole day to help your father taking care of me. Your father was very sweet and caring throughout, and I am very thankful having him as a husband. Everyone, including me, was worried about you when I was sick. I really hope it did not affect you in any negative way, dear.
The end of your seventh week was spent in your mother-side grandparents' house, we stayed a night there because your youngest aunt had her 17th birthday on the next day, Monday, 14 November. It was our first time spending a night in our parents' house after the wedding. We had a birthday cake, "tumpeng", and noodles for the birthday.
Tuesday, 15 November, we went to another doctor for our second check up. The doctor gave us our first parent's fright when he spent about five minutes starring intently at the monitor during the ultrasound scan, while typing something on the keyboard and turning the handheld scan gadget over and over my tummy. Your father and I was shooting worried looks a few times during that long five minutes. Then suddenly, the doctor exclaimed, "Good! We even have the heartbeat now!" Apparently he was taking his time to measure your CRL (Crown Rump Length) and your heartbeat. You were 1.5cm in CRL and had a heartbeat of 165bpm (beat per minute). He said everything was fine and you were in your eight week.
So that makes this week, your ninth week. I am getting better in handling the nausea, but still can't eat as well as before pregnant. Everyone said it was totally normal. Some people even lose a few kilos during the first trimester. I lost one kilogram when I weighed last week at the doctor's. I'm still staying at home and happily entertain myself surfing and writing, while learning to cook.
Oh, and these two days, I noticed that my tummy is getting bigger! I did not have a flat tummy to start with, so your grandmother said that it was normal for me to get bigger now. I just wished I could have a flatter tummy (compared to before pregnant) after you are born later. Haha.
Okay, so that was your first nine weeks.
Sunday, November 20, 2005
First Letter
Dearest Wowy,
Okay, you might be wondering about the name. It is a name your father gave you when we just found out about you growing in my womb. Wowy, from WOW, because you just surprises us. This name will only be used strictly to call you while you are still inside... and inside these letters I'm writing while you are still inside.
You are growing into your ninth week and we still don't know your gender yet. We're still searching for THE name you will be called with for the rest of your life. Let's just hope you love the name we gave you.
This is the first letter, but I will write about your previous eight week. I will give you all the letters written for you during the pregnancy or during your childhood as a gift on your birthdays when you are much older. I hope these letters from the past, written by your younger mother, will enrich your life in some ways.
I am about 24 years and four months old now. Still adjusting myself in being a wife (your father and I just married in less than two months!), and I am still completely clueless in being a mother. When you are reading this now, I hope I have been a good mom for you, and a good wife to your father.
It's 12:34am now and I really need to sleep. My body is not only mine now, but yours as well. We love you.
Okay, you might be wondering about the name. It is a name your father gave you when we just found out about you growing in my womb. Wowy, from WOW, because you just surprises us. This name will only be used strictly to call you while you are still inside... and inside these letters I'm writing while you are still inside.
You are growing into your ninth week and we still don't know your gender yet. We're still searching for THE name you will be called with for the rest of your life. Let's just hope you love the name we gave you.
This is the first letter, but I will write about your previous eight week. I will give you all the letters written for you during the pregnancy or during your childhood as a gift on your birthdays when you are much older. I hope these letters from the past, written by your younger mother, will enrich your life in some ways.
I am about 24 years and four months old now. Still adjusting myself in being a wife (your father and I just married in less than two months!), and I am still completely clueless in being a mother. When you are reading this now, I hope I have been a good mom for you, and a good wife to your father.
It's 12:34am now and I really need to sleep. My body is not only mine now, but yours as well. We love you.
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