Explosion

You may have noticed that for the past 4 and a half months, I have not uplaoded any new pictures of myself. I'm not sure myself why but we have been taking pictures of the progress of the tummy growth through the weeks for archival purposes. Hee hee!

But now I have decided to finally present you the first pictures of me post-fertilisation (bwahaha..), and that is mostly because I just needed to show just how the tummy seemed to explode in size overnight! Usually my tummy grows strangely big overnight and that is due to a gassy tummy. It would go back to normal size in the night and when I wake up in the morning it wouldn't be so humongous. But now, it's gone 2 days and the tummy has NOT gone down in size.

It is just BIG BIG BIG! I'm going through a freak out moment right now cos all this while I had thought that my tummy is quite small for being almost 5 months along. Not that I was not pleased that my tummy was pretty small. As a matter of fact, I was VERY pleased that the tummy was relatively small and hide-able and the neighbours still have no idea we are expecting.

Here is me in an attempt to hide the tummy on 16th April 09 (19 wks along).
Quite successfully too, I think.

But now, there is NO way I can hide my pregnant tummy even when I have a jacket on and suddenly everything feels so real. There is a baby growing inside there!! And to top it all off, the baby has started kicking! I have felt something that I suspected were tiny kicks for a week or so now but it wasn't strong enough to be felt on the tummy. But this week, the baby has been kicking and kicking and finally dear husband can feel the tiny kicks I had felt which is a great thing cos he had been feeling a little left out by not being able to feel a single kick. It's wonderful to see his face light up when he has his hand on my tummy and he knows his baby is in there kicking away.

And the other night, we experienced the most compelling evidence that the baby is active and moving around in there while it still has the space to do it. I was lying in bed getting ready to sleep and I shifted position and apparently that prompted the baby to move as well and it felt like she did a wild somersault, didn't quite make it and ended up upside down, butt up and pushed hard against the right side of my tummy. And the funniest part of it was that it felt like she couldn't move and was stuck in that weird position. Both husband and I could actually see the right side of my tummy bulging weirdly out and it was hard and felt VERY uncomfortable.

All I could do was laugh in discomfort while telling husband dear to massage and shake my tummy so that we could hopefully move the little one back into a more normal position. And it worked!!! Massaging the tummy definitely helped to move baby back into a flatter position but how weirdly cool is that??! Hee hee!!

Comparison of how the tummy has EXPLODED into BIG!

Tummy at 19 weeks along (16th April 09)





See how it the tummy is JUST past boob level.

Tummy at 21 weeks (24th April 09)





Look at how SHARP the tummy has become and HUMONGOUS! This happened almost overnight! How fast can this baby grow! I'm freaking out cos this is not gradual and I don't feel like I have the time to get used to the size before it moves up in size again. Is it wrong for me to think that way?