Bloated

My tummy looks too big and I have severe back pain. I can’t walk for more than ten minutes. I can not bend and do things. For Godsake, I even breathe heavily when talking! I feel like I am fully pregnant. Midwife says, some do get it like this and it is the wind, she says!

I did not have perfectly flat tummy before, but it wasn’t too bad. After the laparoscopy, it was bloated and was bigger all the time. But the doctors told me that for some people it may take few months to subsiding down. Ahh, the joy few got in seeing me disfigured! They did not miss a single chance to be nasty at me, I tellya. Knowing how great I am ( ), I obviously forgave them, after all, their simple head didn’t give them a clue that they were actually flattering me by doing what they did. So I enjoyed.

Now, I am fully bloated. I do not know this is the laparoscopy gas still hasn’t subsided down, or it is simply the case of one type of pregnancy issue.  Anyway. It is TOH who suffers, as he has to do a lot of work himself. 

If any of the mommies or preggies who read this blog had/has similar problem, please give me tips. It will give me the I am not alone feeling first of all.  Thanks in advance.

Eating habits

1. I munch all the time. Alternative to my caffeine fix.
2. I don’t mind yogurt everyday. I don’t hate yogurt, but I can’t bear to see it for  consecutive day, until now. Now I can have yogurt everyday. But, it has to be just once a day. I need my apple pickle to get that yogurt rice down my throat. (cooking apple, pickled similar to mango pickle, made fresh with salt and chilli powder with garnishing).
3. Give me any fruit. I can inhale it.

Eating

I am eating all the time. Atleast munching on something all the time. I used to be on coffee 24hrs before pregnancy, but now since I had to reduce it, it is something or other munching all the time. Not just the coffee craving alternative munching, but I am feeling hungry all the time in general. I know they say it is just 200 extra grams of food is all that is required for the other person  growing inside me, but i am hungry all the time and I am munching all the time. I don’t seem to have gained weight either!

How are you doing?

The stomach pains have gone without notice.

1. But have sever back pain these days.
2. Heavily bloated.
3. Sometime constipation problems.

Tips:

1. I chew fennel seeds after food or anytime when I feel like it.
2. I drink mint tea (Add crushed mint leaves in tea and filter it out). Fennel seeds or the mint or together they seem to have helped to cure problem #3.
3. I carry a cushion around to support my back.

Otherwise I feel a lot better than previous weeks.

The little one

Entering 9th week

This is an exciting week for your embryo, which is now officially recognised as a foetus, which means “little one”.  

Your baby’s heart has four chambers and the liver is producing red blood cells……..

The face is very human looking although the eyelids are still closed tightly over the developing eyes. The hands can bend at the wrist and the feet begin to lose their webbed appearance. Your baby is very active, already moving his arms and legs, although you can’t yet feel the movements.

Hello world

7 weeks and three days old. You measure 7mm big. We saw the heart beating fast. Welcome to Life.

7th week

6 weeks completed and seventh week started.

Tiny kidneys and lungs are forming, the eyelids are beginning to form and the tip of the nose is distinct. Your baby’s heart now has a right and left chamber. 
…….

Your baby is beginning to move and those first embryonic movements can be detected by ultrasound.

Stomach pain

I have been having stomach pain similar to the periods pain, from the start i.e since the expected periods date (13 May). Looks like it is normal.

6th week

5weeks completed and sixth week started.

Blood is now circulating around your baby as the heart begins to flutter. The kidneys and liver are growing fast, and the neural tube closes, connecting the brain to the spinal cord.

Your baby’s facial features are appearing. Folds on either side of the head will become ears. There are openings for the mouth and nostrils and the retinas of your baby’s eyes are also developing, as are the beginnings of fingers and toes.

Positive

Positive!