Week 31 - Freya shows us who's boss...

We went to get a 4D ultrasound and the first image that came up was Freya showing us her middle finger! :-) Marek said we have a little girl with an attitude! Spent the next 15 minutes or so giggling over her antics. She's very active, playing with her hand all the time - putting one little finger in her mouth, shoving it up her nose, making peace sign... seems like she's going to be a handful when she's out...

Week 30 - Back in Sydney

Arrived back in Sydney on Monday - the flight was 3 hours delayed from Singapore so we didn't take off until 3 am in the morning. Freya enjoyed all the special attention given to her by the SQ stewardess (all pregnant women out there, if you really need to fly - fly Singapore Airlines and you'll be spoiled rotten). Mommy spent almost the whole Tuesday sleeping...

In Jakarta Freya got the first taste of her grandfather's bus driver style driving (Indonesian bus driver, mind you - not civilized Australian ones). At 64, my dad can still make Sandra Bullock's driving in "Speed" look like child play.

Speed bump - kick. Another speed bump - kick kick. Sudden brake - punch punch kick. Another week with this driving Freya would've decided to come out early.

PS. We're doing the 4D ultrasound this Friday so check out this blog next week for cool pictures (and hopefully video)

FACT: This week and the following three, the bub puts on fat at a greater rate. The skin is still a bit wrinkled, so there's room for the new fat underneath (does this mean we'll talk diet soon?). The lanugo will start to fall out although a full head of hair may stay. The eyes are fully open, but it can't be very interesting just watching all that hair floating around. Baby hiccuping starts to get more violent (tell me about it...) and mommy can feel the little jerks (and sometimes big jerks in the middle of the night that wakes mommy up and then she can't sleep again and then.. oh forget it). Bub may be jiggled around by the Braxton Hicks contractions. Height: 27cm, weight: 1.3 kilos.

How mommy’s life is changing:

• Boobs are still getting bigger - will they ever stop? Unfortunately yes.
• Start feeling Braxton Hicks (practice contractions).
• Midnight wee starts easing out, only went to the loo once last nite (yippee!) although I went 12 times during the 7-hours flight from Singapore. Surely I can get so many frequent wee flyer points...
  

Week 29 - NujuhBulanAn

Mikkel Rev comes in rap and jazz versions this week but at least daddy has learned to sing the second verse of the song (but that means I get to hear Mikkel Rev for one full minute instead of 30 secs…). Tried very hard to start calling Freya “Klumpen” again simply because a couple of friends said their babies was determined to be girls on the ultrasound only to come out with teeny willies. However we already have “daddy’s little girl” in mind we can’t go back to Klumpen so Freya gotta stay.

Freya and mommy made the 8 hours trip to Singapore last Friday. More stories a bit later (mommy’s busy eating).

FACT: Baby is looking very babyesque at this point - plumper and rounder. The newborn-baby breathing rhythm is developing steadily; it's more regular, with fewer stops and starts. Height: 26cm, weight: 1.15 kilos.

How mommy’s life is changing:

• Finding a comfy sleeping position is getting really challenging. And still 10 more weeks to go *sigh*
  

Week 28 - Yoga Ooommmm….

After 6 months of denial, I finally dragged my sorry ass off to ante-natal yoga class for the first time. Apart from I can’t keep myself balanced standing on one leg, it was going well and I like the yoga instructor very much. The other ladies were a lot more graceful than I am but heck, I’m not going to give birth standing on one leg so sod it! The breathing exercises are good but some of the instruction goes well past my head - like “use your inner upper chest breathing and direct it down towards mother earth” kinda thing. Inner upper chest breathing my *** I inhale and I exhale and that’s it. No mother earth for me.

I desperately trying to teach my dear husband another children song so now he alternates between Mikkel Rev and Ole Brumm *phew* although it’s still just one Ole Brumm for every hundred Mikkel Rev…

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Her kommer Ole Brumm (Here comes Winnie the Pooh)

en liten bjørn i skogen (a little bear in the forest)
tra la la la la bum (well… tra la la la la bum)
jeg heter Ole Brumm (my name is Winnie the Pooh)

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Darling daddy-to-be said he’ll miss my tummy very much when Freya is out and he’s planning to impregnate me non-stop to keep my tummy forever at the right size. Hmmm…

Freya’s kicking is more coordinated this week and she can really aim at certain stomach part to take my breath away. If she comes out in time she’d probably have enough time to practice for the Olympic in Beijing next year.

FACT: Freya would start hiccuping. She will usually decide to party while mommy is resting or asleep. Her eyes are partially opened - quite sensibly as who would want to open their eyes wide in a fetid old swamp of amniotic fluid? She is now covered all over with vernix, so it looks a bit like one of those long-distance swimmers smothered in gunk. Except babies have got more brains than to try to swim from Cuba to Florida. Height: 25 cm, weight: 1 kilo.

How mommy’s life is changing:

• Nothing much. Just wee all the time.