before he was born
I found out I'm pregnant on my birthday 1/22/2018. It was a mixed feeling of surprises and feeling lucky.
The pregnancy was uneventful. The hardest part was the morning sickness during the first trimester. I discovered morning sickness was a misnomer as I was feeling nausea all the time for more than 6 weeks, well into the middle of the second trimester.
Due to my supposedly advanced maternal age, OB did a whole bunch of tests, including DNA test etc. Every single result on every test came back normal. And we go in for ultrasound every couple weeks. He was active on the ultrasound.
In the last trimester, he moves a lot in my belly, seems to be reminding me that he is there, I need to pay attention to him. This is always entertaining.
Initially, J was shocked and quite a bit worried about the perspective of a baby coming. It seems to him that life as how we know it is gone, and he's not ready. As time goes, he seems to be getting more customed to the idea that this happening. There must have been quite a few things happened during the 9-month pregnancy, but it all paled in comparison with the pregnancy. The noteworthy one was the relationship with J was hitting a rocky patch. My babymoon plan failed miserably, with J leaving me at GHF by myself 2 days into the vacation. About a month later, I discovered the reason he was absent. Yet, I was somehow determined to not let myself to be defeated by this, or even to get depressed over this. So I keep an optimistic outlook. We started to see Amy about 2 weeks before I was due, and it was helpful. Things seem to be starting to move in the right direction.
The pregnancy was uneventful. The hardest part was the morning sickness during the first trimester. I discovered morning sickness was a misnomer as I was feeling nausea all the time for more than 6 weeks, well into the middle of the second trimester.
Due to my supposedly advanced maternal age, OB did a whole bunch of tests, including DNA test etc. Every single result on every test came back normal. And we go in for ultrasound every couple weeks. He was active on the ultrasound.
In the last trimester, he moves a lot in my belly, seems to be reminding me that he is there, I need to pay attention to him. This is always entertaining.
Initially, J was shocked and quite a bit worried about the perspective of a baby coming. It seems to him that life as how we know it is gone, and he's not ready. As time goes, he seems to be getting more customed to the idea that this happening. There must have been quite a few things happened during the 9-month pregnancy, but it all paled in comparison with the pregnancy. The noteworthy one was the relationship with J was hitting a rocky patch. My babymoon plan failed miserably, with J leaving me at GHF by myself 2 days into the vacation. About a month later, I discovered the reason he was absent. Yet, I was somehow determined to not let myself to be defeated by this, or even to get depressed over this. So I keep an optimistic outlook. We started to see Amy about 2 weeks before I was due, and it was helpful. Things seem to be starting to move in the right direction.
This is the year of the dog in chinese zology. So baby Roan will be a dog. We didn't have a name for him for a long time, so I picked Oliver as a backup name. In many ways, he reminds me of Oliver, and secretly I was hoping that this is the spirit of Oliver coming back to our lives. I was envisioning Roan to be a smart boy, with a kind heart and an independent spirit. I am also hoping that he will have a happy charactor and gain the wisdom to navigate life in the society successfully. And that's why we picked 陶然 as his middle name. 与君一醉一陶然。
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