Announcing Baby Shyu

Head, shoulders, knees and toes... our baby’s got ‘em all. It’s official now, it has its own chart in my hospital file and everything. Baby Shyu is currently 13~14 weeks, due on 12/24/2009 Christmas Eve. Another 6 months to go.

This is our second peek at the little one. It was just a peanut shaped thing last time we saw it. Now its head and spine formation is complete. On the black and white ultrasound photo you can see a little of its cheekbones and face structure. Gonna be a beauty.

Baby Shyu’s heartbeat is strong. We saw the flickering movement on the monitor and heard its fast beat in the doctor’s office. It’s an active one too, did a little dance during the sonogram to show off its arms and legs.

Now we pray that the good news keeps coming: that baby remains healthy.

Here’s what we showed our family after we had our first ultrasound. They say a picture says a 1000 words.





Here’s what I wrote in my secret diary (waiting for today to make public) when the stick showed positive:

April 27, 2009

The long wait is over… we’re finally pregnant again!

It’s been 7 months since we lost Daniel. The doctor had suggested that we wait at least 3 months before trying again, to give my body time to heal and rest. It actually took us 4 months before we felt physically and emotionally ready. And I think a large part of the speedy recovery had to do with being with our family for the holidays. So the past 3 months we’ve been patiently waiting (but I’ll admit that I was pretty disappointed when I wasn’t pregnant last month), but now I can say the long wait is over! We’re pregnant again!

Now as optimistic as we are, dear hubby cautions me to not get too excited and get my hopes up. As we experienced, having a baby is not so easy. So I’m keeping emotions in check, concentrating on health related issues like taking folic acid, taking less caffeine, getting a balanced diet and exercise etc. I’ll let myself go nuts with the other fun stuff after we pass the 20-week mark.

I didn’t have many pregnancy symptoms during my last pregnancy, so I expect that it will be the same this time: no morning sickness (thank god), no food aversions, and no obvious cravings (lucky for dear hubby). But I do feel fatigue every once in a while and I gotta pee a lot. Also, not sure why but during this particular pregnancy I rise/wake up earlier while last pregnancy I couldn’t get out of bed at all. Does that mean this one will be an early riser? Oh the horror!

I expect the next 15 weeks (I’m about 5 weeks now) are going a little déjà vu. I’m signing back on to the pregnancy websites thebump, ivillage, and whattoexpect. The prenatal books are unearthed from the bookshelf, where I have fun comparing the baby’s size to fruits: blueberry, grape, apple, and as big as I got was a mango. I like to keep progress of the fetal development: like right now it’s developing its face (jaw, cheeks and chin), kidneys and liver. Next week it’ll be the brains, mouth, arms and legs. Fascinating!