"Tuna, can you feel it?". I asked my husband again to make sure that he can feel the fetal movement inside my womb. He fixed his palm a bit to the left of my tummy so that he can feel the movement. "No, not yet..", he said. Then we were in silent for two seconds. Then suddenly he shouted, " Wow! What a big kick, I just feel it, Tuni". I was smiling at him. "Oh yeah, I feel it too. I think our baby is so excited as we put attention to him", I said. After that, the movement was kind of slowing down for about five seconds. I felt it softly and made me a bit tickle in my left tummy.
It becomes our habit every morning to check and feel our baby’s movement. It is too amazing to miss the moment. It seems he’s got regular biologic time to wake up, to move around or to sleep inside my womb.
I remember, one night, it was the new year eve. I guess it is really not a good thing to welcome New Year. But I can never forget that moment. I couldn’t sleep as I found that my baby was so quiet, not move at all. That night, for almost 3 to 4 hours, I kept changing my position in the bed. Tried every seconds to sleep on my left side, my right side, to feel my baby movement. But I couldn’t feel it. I was so worried something might happened to my baby. I whispered to my husband, telling him that our baby hadn’t moved at all this night. He was worried too, but then he felt asleep again. As I got tired, finally I could sleep. But when I woke up, I still felt tired.
I remember, that night as if my anxiety that night was continued into my dream. I dreamed that I went to my doctor to check what’s going on with my baby. In the morning, I was telling about my dream to my hubby. He realized too that I didn’t have a good sleep. Not long after that, we felt relieved finally we can be assured that our baby is back as I felt his movement.
Now I am rest assured, my baby will always be there for me.
Imagining how my baby is nested in my womb this time (almost 32weeks) is more less shown in the figure on right. (wprc).
She is strong enough to come out prematurely, but that’s not what I want. I want her to hibernate to develop and strengthen himself. Let him there till the right time to inhale the fresh air in this real world.
Imagine in that small room of my womb, when he feels bored with his position he tries to re-orient till he feel a cozy position. He has started to breathe in the amniotic fluid. That’s why sometimes I can feel he got hiccups. It’s really amazing thing to experience.
My baby, I will be patient to wait for you. I am always excited with what you are doing there as you give me wonderful feeling that I will never have if you are not there.
