Category: Pregnancy and Babies

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23 Weeks Pregnant Belly

This is the first time I’m posting a picture of my pregnant belly on this blog. (I’m at 23 weeks today.) As much as I want to document each week, I can’t. My mom and my MIL are both against it (sort of a superstitious belief for them). But I thought one or two pictures won’t hurt, so I took this yesterday…

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It’s quite big already, yes? When I was in the first trimester, I impatiently waited for my baby bump to start showing. Now I can’t even keep up as my pregnant belly grows bigger and bigger each day. Whenever I walk on the street on my way to work, people keep asking me how old my belly is or when my due date will be. It seems they, too, are excited for the arrival of the actual baby.

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Pregnancy Learning is Fun

Pregnancy has opened a lot of avenues for learning to me. And I’m surprised by how interested I have become in understanding more about my delicate condition and my baby. I can’t believe pregnancy can be this enriching and fun to learn!

If before, I surf the net mainly to blog hop, check out online news, browse through shopping sites or look for discount online jewelry, now I gravitate towards pregnancy topics like a metal object to a magnet does. Every day, new pregnancy questions come up in my mind and I make sure that I get the answers to them straight from Mr. Google.

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Fear of Stretch Marks

I bet any pregnant woman has experienced this particular fear. I mean, who wouldn’t be afraid to have an itchy belly and see spider webs showing up on their tummy while growing a life inside their womb? While stretch marks cannot be prevented, they can be reduced. A lot of pregnant women swears by cocoa butter and moisturizing lotion to lessen the stretch marks on their tummy.

As for me, I don’t fear the appearance of stretch marks that much. It’s because I believe it’s a natural phenomenon. If it appears, then I let it be. I just take a bath daily, apply a gentle soap on my tummy and rinse well and wear light and comfy clothes.

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I can’t afford to get sick.

The night before last, I was not feeling well and thought I’d succumb to flu. My throat felt sore, my head ached bad and I had chills all over my body. I was panicking because I didn’t want to get sick while pregnant. I knew it wouldn’t harm the baby just yet but it wouldn’t do any good to it, either.

To combat the sick feeling, I took a 500 mg of Ascorbic Acid, drank more water and went to bed earlier than usual. The next day (which was yesterday), I woke up feeling a lot better. I couldn’t thank God enough. I was happy I didn’t get sick as I thought I would.

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Five Months

I’m five months pregnant and life can’t be more exciting for me. Our baby has been more active than ever, making stronger kicks and flutters every now and then. Feeling these movements from our little one never fails to make our day. I don’t even mind getting disturbed from my precious slumber by the baby in the middle of the night, which has been the case lately.

The only pregnancy symptom I’m having these days is heartburn. I manage it by eating small meals or when it has already struck, I would sit up straight to elongate the lining on my esophagus or just let the pain go away on its own (usually takes a few minutes).

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