At
last, the long awaited scan. I was breathing so fast and in a panicky mode when
I entered the hospital for the scheduled scan. I was approaching my 19th week of pregnancy when
this happened. I was initially asked to enter the Doppler room, where a midwife
attended to me, asked me to lie down on a reclining sofa and started to search
for the baby’s heartbeat using the Doppler scan. As the midwife, searched for
the heartbeat, my heart skipped a bit when she took a long time to find the
heartbeat. For a split second I thought it happened again (as I lost my two girls
around this time of pregnancy). But after a few minutes, she managed to find it
and it was so beautiful to hear my baby’s strong heartbeats. She then asked me
some formal questions on how I am doing and I explained that I felt the baby’s ‘soft
kicks’ occasionally, to which she got excited. Yup, I have been feeling some
flutters for the very first time since the 16th week of pregnancy.
But it wasn't regular and I get panicky if the quickening wasn't regular. The
midwife explained that baby’s kicks get regular and stronger as the pregnancy
progresses.
I was then asked to enter the ultrasound room to have my anomaly scan. The technician started the scan and she conducted it quite fast. We saw our cute little baby move and its growth seemed satisfactory. To which we felt relieved that we have been doing an OK job. We tried to peek at the essentials to find its gender but failed as the technician moved the scan probe quite fast, deliberately not wanting us to find out. Our obstetrician later revealed to us that revealing the baby’s gender before the 22nd week is illegal in Japan. At a point, it was amusing to see our baby opening its cute little mouth and swallowing the amniotic fluid. Satya laughed looking at it and it chuckled me to see him so happy. It was indeed a very happy day for the two of us. But that doesn't stop us from continuing worrying about the well being of our baby. As the day goes by, we feel so connected with our kuddi baby hoping that everything will go well.
Studies revealed that cells from both mother and baby can cross the placenta during pregnancy. Therefore, there are high probabilities for my body to pass my two babies’ cells to their third sibling, giving me little assurance that at least their cells can linger and live up in their sibling. Here’s hoping for the well being of our precious kuddi…
I was then asked to enter the ultrasound room to have my anomaly scan. The technician started the scan and she conducted it quite fast. We saw our cute little baby move and its growth seemed satisfactory. To which we felt relieved that we have been doing an OK job. We tried to peek at the essentials to find its gender but failed as the technician moved the scan probe quite fast, deliberately not wanting us to find out. Our obstetrician later revealed to us that revealing the baby’s gender before the 22nd week is illegal in Japan. At a point, it was amusing to see our baby opening its cute little mouth and swallowing the amniotic fluid. Satya laughed looking at it and it chuckled me to see him so happy. It was indeed a very happy day for the two of us. But that doesn't stop us from continuing worrying about the well being of our baby. As the day goes by, we feel so connected with our kuddi baby hoping that everything will go well.
Studies revealed that cells from both mother and baby can cross the placenta during pregnancy. Therefore, there are high probabilities for my body to pass my two babies’ cells to their third sibling, giving me little assurance that at least their cells can linger and live up in their sibling. Here’s hoping for the well being of our precious kuddi…
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