Ever since you started making your presence felt in Mommy's womb, I figured you were a pretty calm, gentle baby. You'd move, squirm, wriggle and give little tiny prods and kicks but they never "rearranged my insides" if you know what I mean :)
Plus, you tend to be quiet in the afternoon, too, only gaining momentum right about 8pm and escalate into a bit of an aerobic workout around 10:30m - 11pm.
Well, today, Mommy learned you have secret Jujitsu moves that pack a punch. All 4 kicks came while Daddy and I were praying for you in the car, with the last being a 9.0 if ever the Richter Scale could be applied to "babyquakes".
I actually felt sore inside for a good 15 minutes after. And wondered if my stomach was still the same shape as before.
Don't get me wrong - I'd rather you Bruise Lee me than not move at all. Which therefore brings me to the little scare we got in the evening.
As Mommy said, you normally get pretty active from 8pm onwards; if I balanced the TV remote on my tummy, nobody would call me a nutcase if I said it would soon become a "dancing remote". Well, after the Jujitsu performance, I didn't expect you to go all quiet on me. But that's exactly what you did.
You went all silent. And the only sound I heard were those of my gastric juices digesting the chicken I'd eaten for dinner. Of course Mommy decided that this was "out of your pattern". But as I didn't want to panic, I waited to see what God was trying to tell me. 9 o'clock came. Then 10. Nothing - all was quiet on the Plains of Wombus Maximus.
Mommy then told Daddy about it and together we spent 30 minutes calling out to you, talking to you, singing to you - and if you recall a strong yellow light almost blinding your new little eyes - well, that was our attempt to get a response from you with a flashlight.
At 11pm, we decided that you were either too tired from your Jujitsu performance or struggling with the umbilical cord around the wrong places. So we drove to the hospital to make sure it wasn't the latter.
The sound of raging "horses" spluttering out of the machine was so reassuring! At an average of 140 bpm, your heartbeat told us you were doing fine. The machine didn't allow us to see you but it was equally good to hear you.
As you can see, it's not easy being a Mom. There are little things to watch out for every single month of the 9-month pregnancy.
Mommy's next checkup at the gyne's is on 15 December. Hopefully, my blood sugar levels will be normal or else I wouldn't be able to feed you rice, bread or anything sweet like chocolates, cincau and fruits.
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