A new life

Still in the womb

2006-07-19T12:23:00.000+02:00

Everyone in my mom's family lost their bets on my birthday. Ha! I'm not coming out yet, it's too cozy in here...

Today is my due-date!

2006-07-15T12:53:00.000+02:00

But don't expect to see me just yet. And I'm not telling when I'm coming ;)

Mommy is big and tired and nervous and has trouble sleeping, but she'll endure that for me, she's very patient...I am feeling just fine in here.

<- This was taken 10 days ago (in my new room!), so now you can imagine us even bigger!

I haven't been writing for weeks, because I haven't been connected. First mommy an me were staying at great-grandmothers house (there's no WiFi) and then the net wasn't up here at first also, while jobs were being done.

I am still continuing to grow, my hair and nails as well. I'm about 15% of fat - just in case, cause I don't know how to shiver yet. But as I understand, this days the temperatures outside are unbearably high anyway...

Mom and grandmothers have prepared everything for me - they washed and ironed loads of diapers and clothes that are waiting for me neatly folded and stored.

The 37th week

2006-06-24T19:36:00.000+02:00

As of this week I am considered full-term. But I will wait in here for a while, to grow just a little more and to give my parents time to finish arranging our future home. I have already descended a little and my mommy feels like I'm going to fall out, when she walks. Don't worry, I won't. She keeps forgetting things, so I want to tell her, that this is perfectly normal - MRI scans of pregnant women even showed that brain size actually shrinks in the third trimester. They don't know why - maybe it has something to do with sleep deprivation an overall feeling of tiredness - but it'll get back to normal after birth...(good thing, otherwise what would I say to my grandma - she's been through this three times!).
I still have trouble with hiccups as I am practicing inhaling and exhaling. I want to have this breathing thing down, before I'll need it. I am very good at grasping already (mom, dad - get your fingers ready!). I can also suck my thumb, turn my head, swallow and blink.

I have hiccups...

2006-06-16T13:05:00.000+02:00

...all the time... I guess I need to work on drinking this fluid. How do you people do it?

The 35th week

2006-06-11T23:05:00.000+02:00

I am rapidly gaining weight and accumulating fat and I am supposed to! Aren't I a lucky woman? Now my arms and legs are getting plumper and when people will see me, they will adore cute dimples on my knees and elbows. That's what you call babyfat!

My temporary home looks like this for now from outside. You can see that i'm taking a lot of space;)

2006-06-06T22:12:00.000+02:00

It's been getting lighter in here, since my mum's belly is stretching. I like it, I have more to see. I know my mum's internal organs by heart now...

My parents started going to school for future parents. Of course, I get to listen in on it. The detailed descriptions of labour and pain kind of freaked my mother out, but I think if she does her job well, I don't have much to worry about. I just go with the pushing and squeezing and other people will take care of me.
After each lesson there is an organised tour of maternity ward for a smaller group of participants - but they wouldn't let us see it today, because of encreased security. Apparently some satanists threatened to take a child born on 06.06.06 for sacrifices...I'm glad I'm not due yet...It's probably a prank, but the hospital has to take it seriously.

A month and a half to go...

2006-06-01T12:42:00.000+02:00

I've been neglecting this blog lately. I admit. It was on purpose. I feel obligated now to write the "read-by-relatives-Slovene" one every week and I hate repeating myself. Also, nothing much has been happening. I am growing and fattening now, everything that should be seems to be developed already. Accumulating fat under my skin makes me look pink, not so red anymore. Also, I don't have as much space in here, so I can't roll around. I still try to move as much as I can and I kick around...I am already in a head-down position. They can feel where my head is from outside mom's tummy. And I guess she can feel my elbows and knees all over her body ;)
I have dreams now! That's so exiting! Although they don't differ much from what I can percept during the day. Guess they will get more interesting when I'll have some experience with the outside world. Unless I believe in C.C. Jung's archetypes and collective unconscious. Am not sure where I stand on that. Will let you know after I finish highschool.
Oh, and since my last post my head grew a little due to rapid brain growth. Also I can scratch myself with my over-the-fingertips nails. Hope mom will let me paint them soon.

I'm a girl!

2006-05-13T23:19:00.000+02:00

Yes, I am! I forgot to tell you, I let them see that I am a girl this week. Well, I didn't forget, I wrote it on my slovene blog. Why do I have two? I started this one to express my thoughts and observations, but then my grand- and greatgrandparents got overly excited about the idea and "demanded" / wandered why I wouldn't write it in Slovene. So I started writing another one, mostly with information about my growth and other happenings they would usually ask me about. It might be less personal. But I know they're printing my posts out! Hmmm, there was a time, when greatgrandparents didn't know how to use the computer...
Anyways, they were looking at me on wednesday and tried to take some nice pictures. They weren't successful though, as I was moving around all the time. There is one smudgy, but you can see my closed eyes, my nose, mouth and chin.

Also, I am entering my 31st week today. Funny counting, it starts at least two weeks before I existed, which means that actually I am not even 29 weeks old!

Geek?

2006-04-27T21:33:00.000+02:00

My uncle thinks it's geeky having a prenatal blog. My aunt thinks it's corny...Let's wait till she gives me some cousins and then we'll see, how she thinks...What do you think?

I am rapidly growing, so this uterus is getting tight for me. I think the owner noticed, as I am trying to create some space :)
Today we listened to some Mozart. I mean I had to listen to it. I don't think she liked it very much, but my parents got this idea, that I'd like it and that it's good for me. Hope she's not going to be one of those complicated and ambitious moms.

Alive and kicking

2006-04-23T11:00:00.000+02:00

I started this day with kicking and then kicking some more...
I am glad my mommy slept in today, I don't like it when she starts her days stressfully, hurrying somewhere...Don't know where daddy is...guess he woke up earlier to write his diploma degree...

Veste kaj, nevem, zakaj pišem ta blog v angleščini. Verjetno, ker je na .com in ne na .si. Ali pa zato, ker se izognem slovničnemu spolu...No, saj kmalu bodo itak zvedli, ali bom rojena ali rojen. Ati pa pravi, da bo kupil domeno in bom imel/a svoj (prenatalni?) mejl in svojo spletno stran!

Hello!

2006-04-22T23:12:00.000+02:00

I don't have a name, because I haven't been born yet. So this is my prenatal blog, that my parents thought I should start writing. Today the 3rd trimester of my "pre-life" started, this means that I am in my 28th week and that my parents are expecting to hold me in three months. I can't wait to see them. I have my eyes formed already, with eyelashes and everything, but there's not much to see in here, except changing of light and dark. Mommy wants to see me again with that machine I tried to hide from the last time. She wants to know, if I am a girl or a boy (I didn't want to show it yet - let them wonder! ;)) and have some nice photos of me before I am even born!