Week 22 & It's my birthday!!!

Yay- it was my birthday weekend!! That means a lot of food. Mom x2 and I made samosas for the baby shower this weekend and I kid you not but I ate 7. Thinking about it makes me want one right now! They were so delicious and fried! Plus I had 2 bday cakes (one with Uncle G and Parul) and one with the fam. Not fried but super delicious. Here's your truly at dinner with G&Parul:



"This cake really is 12 layers"



"..eleven, twelve. Okay fine i will look at the camera now"



OMG- the bump is big and I'm only at week 22. I wonder what i will look like at week 38 (hopefully 8 pounds lighter). Anand joke that we'll need a crane to get me outta the house by the end of this. This proves my point: Boys are stupid.

What da deal-e-yo, yo, yo, stop rubbing my belly! I don't mind if family and friends do it but an almost stranger rubbed my belly. It was so bizarre. I was getting a bride ready this past weekend and the FOB saw me and rubbed my belly.

Monday I had my monthly appointment with the doctor. I waited for 20 minutes and saw him for 5. He saw the belly and could tell that the baby's doing just fine. He said something about the uterus growing as it should be. it's right around my belly button. I just took his word and agreed. He didn't tell me the heartbeat count... I'll have to ask him next time to see if we can figure out the sex of the baby from that. I have my glucose test between now and the next time I see them. I'm hoping all is fine there. I really would not like it if i had to count my carbs and sugar intake.

Oh, another fun fact.... i know 12 girls that had or will have babies in 2011!!!!
(Nital, Nisha, the girl i know on facebook, Huma, the lady at my work, Prashanthi, Hetal, Sara, Shital, Me, and two others that i cannot name yet b/c it's too early). Out of these: BOYS: 3, GIRLS: 3 , UNKNOWN: 6

Week 21

The weeks are starting to blur now. When someone asks how many months I am, I am tempted to log on this blog to see how many months. I’m glad I have my handy dandy tracker on the right (no, really – look to the right of this post). I like know the growth of the baby too. I wish I can capture the change each week on the tracker. I noticed my knee is better now. Not sure if my body got used to the extra weight or if it was because of the cold. Either way I am just happy I can walk without feeling pain in my knee. Oh and speaking of weight…. Hello appetite!! I know I shouldn’t have complained to the doctors about not gaining weight. I’ve gained like 5-6lbs in the last month. So now I’m officially 11lbs into this pregnancy. It doesn’t help that it’s my birthday week (yay- last year in my 20s!). It also doesn’t help that Kavita makes the most delicious no-outta-the-box cupcakes with real frosting.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the baby’s room. I think once the weather gets a little nicer, we want to get the room ready. That means the three closets in the room that have our stuff in it will have to be condensed in about 1 closet. The baby’s room has more closets than ours. We have one long his/her closet. Baby has two individual his/her closets and also an extra closet. The extra closet houses my shoes right now. The other closet stores Anand’s Indian clothes, suits, shirts, and my dresses. We also have extra blankets and pillows. I have no idea where we are going to put the stuff that’s in the closets, but we’ll just have to downsize. Learn to live with less than what we have. Okay, back to the room. We wanted nothing pink or blue. 1) cus it’s just not our things and 2) cus we don’t know the sex of the baby. I am torn between a sunny and bright colored playroom or a clam and relaxed boudoir-esque room. One thing is for sure. We have the colors picked: yellow and grey. I wanted to do strips in my living room and that didn’t happen so I might convince Anand to do it in the baby’s room. Here is a collage of idea that we might use to decorate:

Week 20

After 2 weeks of going to ultrasound we finally have some good news. The baby is okay. I never thought there was anything wrong with the baby but the fact that they couldn’t confirm made me nervous. I saw the heart and it looks good. Although I didn’t understand it as much as the tech and the doc did. Saw the baby’s foot and hands and that was really amazing. Here are the handprints and footprints:

Kavita is sending out the shower invites today/tomorrow. I’m excited to see who will come. I’m excited about summer in general. It will be so nice to get out of the house and take a walk in the park. It’s been raining the last couple of days so it’s helping with my allergies but that’s one part about spring and early summer that I don’t like.  Stupid allergies.

Here is the bump at 5 months!

I’ve started to feel the baby move in the last couple of days. It really feels like I have to fart (but I don’t. I promise!).  it feels like of gas bubbles. That’s the closest way I could describe it. Speaking of gas… oh man, pregnancy makes you so un-classy. I was at Target the other day and right in the middle of the pop music aisle I had to let one rip. It wasn’t even like I had a choice to keep it in. It just came out. It was air and noise, luckily no smell.  Right there, in front of Grammy winners I farted.  



Week 19

I am starting to see some of the other symptoms of pregnancy lately. No matter what time I go to bed, I wake up in the middle of night and can’t fall asleep for at least ½ hour (or at least it seems). I now know there are a lot of cars that pass by in the middle of the night and one time someone’s car alarm went off at like 4am. Before the pregnancy I would never have woken up to these thing… ask my roommate in college! One time Nital and I slept thru a fire alarm in college – yes that loud, annoying, fire alarm. Luckily one of the girls who was sweeping the floors was our other roommate and she quickly told us to go downstairs. So, waking up every night is a little different. I do not like it. I did learn that if I go to bed a little after midnight, I usually don’t wake up till 6am, which is good. Oh, one night last week my Micheal Buble’s CD went off in the middle of the night. I guess I had set the alarm on my CD player and it went off at like 1:30 am. It woke me and so I listened to the whole CD. One hour later it stopped. Yes, I am lazy.

I had my big ultrasound on March 30^th and again on April 6^th, the one where we get to find out the sex of the baby. Well we didn’t despite what I told my family on April fools day. Both days the baby’s back was turned so the tech couldn’t get a proper pictures of certain body parts (heart, lips, hands). So now they referred me to Yale. I have my appointment set for Monday. I asked the tech if Yale has better equipment than they do and she told me no. She said to me they are only allowed to do two ultrasounds and if they can’t get proper pictures, they have to refer me out to Yale. She said they do their ultrasounds early enough, so in case there is a problem, the patients have options. WHAT OPTIONS!!?!?!? I was so pissing mad when she said that, I literally couldn’t stop thinking if everything was alright. I mean during the ultrasound we saw the baby move a lot and at one point he even stuck his first finger up (Was the baby saying, “hold one minute” or “no, no, no, pictures”). During the exam his feet were by his mouth and his hand over his heart. She took 45 minutes and finally gave up because she couldn’t get proper pictures of the heart (all the arteries). Anyways, when I got home, I was a little freaked out because why would they think I would have to go to Yale if Yale didn’t have better equipment and that is when I finally felt the baby move. I got a quick thump and a feeling of butterflies in my stomach. I swear it happened and I didn’t imagine it. Later that same day, when I couldn’t go to bed I felt the same feeling again. Was the baby telling me everything is alright and he/she is just stubborn like his/her momma?!

Here’s the baby’s head shot at 19 weeks:

It’s a Boy!!

I sent an email to my mom, dad, Dhaval, Kavita, Manali, Hiral, Nital, and Rach this morning saying:

You guys know I had an ultrasound on Wednesday and that’s when we get to find out the sex of the baby… well I kinda did. I told her I didn’t want to know and then I couldn’t take it because I knew she knew and I wanted to know. So now I know what it is!!!

It’s a BOY!!!

Their reaction was priceless. My mom called me about 3 minutes after the email and Kavita called me like 5 minutes after the email. My mom was going on about how she knew it was a boy because I wasn’t gaining too much weight. And she said she always thought it was a boy. I was laughing so hard by the time I told her it was a April Fool’s joke. She said good thing she didn’t call and tell my grandma. Kavita called while I was talking to my mom, so I quickly took her call. She was like, “what you knew for three days and you didn’t tell. I live with you… blah blah blah…“ With her I was laughing too and she ended the convo so abruptly when I finally told her. Nital and Rach also bought into it. I did tell them I was joking. At this point not sure if dad, Dhaval, Hiral, and Manali read it before they figured out it was April 1^st.

Happy April Fools’ Day! We’ll find out in August if it’s a boy or a girl!!!