Babies :)

A few of our friends have been in town having babies lately. A few weeks ago we were together and I took a few pictures :) Here are the boys showing off their baby bellies :)

I love jumping pictures, so I had to get a picture of the prego girls jumping :)

Here they are jumping again... but WITH their babies! They all had their baby boys within days of each other - how fun!

Aren't they cute! :)

38 Weeks!

So I thought I needed to post another belly picture :) We were checking out some goats today (for a holiday coming up this week - I'll have a post up about it in the next couple of days)... and thought that goats would make a belly picture more interesting... BUT they didn't really show up in the pictures :) haha! All you can see is me and a bunch of men staring at me ;) haha!

So here is my 38 week belly picture!

Baby Shower Fun x3!!

My awesome friend Leslie threw a baby shower for me and 2 other friends (Megan & Mindy) in the Capital that are pregnant! She made these fun invitations and designed them herself. I love this picture (below) of the three of us she drew! (I'm the one on the left) - cool hunh??

She even made an awesome cake to match!!!!

Here we are posing like the picture :) I look so HUGE!!! Me and Megan (far right) are due just a day apart! We're both 36 weeks in this picture. Mindy is due in March :)

We played games :)

I love taking pictures during games, you can get some great poses :) haha!

Here's a picture of me and Leslie :) It was a lot of fun! Thanks!! You ROCK! :)

I just noticed how puffy my face is in this picture!! It's time for the baby to come!! haha! I'm hoping this baby comes soon!! Make sure you put in your votes for when you think the baby is going to come :) There might be a prize for the winner :)

35.5 Weeks! HapPy FaLL!

Yesterday I was putting on a shirt that I hadn't worn yet while pregnant (it's still a little hot to wear long sleeves) and realized that my belly looked a LOT like a pumpkin! So, we went to work cutting out a pumpkin face :) Aashini was excited and pulled out her pumpkin :)

When Aashini first saw my stomach she was scared and ran to Adam. After that she kept saying: "Scary Pumpkin!" I did get her to take a picture with me and she was less scared :)

... and this is me trying to stand up after taking that picture :) haha!! I think I look a little crazy ;) It's a lot harder to stand up these days :)

... and one more jumping picture :)

Don't forget to post your day/time guesses for the baby to be born! :)

35 Weeks!

I am now officially more pregnant than I've ever been (I had Aashini at 34 weeks)! I definitely feel pregnant! I know I'm supposed to keep getting bigger but I just don't see how that's possible! Here's a few belly pics... I look pretty rough :) haha! And yes, my belly is "pointy" looking. I always end up with a torpedo-looking belly!

So I really have no idea what is going to happen as far as WHEN we're going to have the baby and HOW. We originally thought we were just going to plan a c-section because we didn't think we could do a VBAC (natural birth) here in our city. If you want to know more, I'll explain more, but basically we didn't think the hospital was equipped for it. A couple of weeks ago we found out that the hospital is equipped for it and my doc does them all the time and actually prefers to do them.

With all of that said, that means that we could possibly have a natural birth. There are a TON of factors involved with that though... first of all, for her to even consider it, everything has to be going perfect (my Blood Pressure has to be perfect and I can't have any big signs of preeccampsia, along with a few other things), AND I have to go into labor on my own (she won't induce me for a VBAC). So, along with all of that, we weren't planning on having a VBAC, so we didn't do an extra visa run, which means that we have to leave the country by January 7.... SO, that means that I can't have the baby past the due date because we need about a month to get the paperwork in AND a baby can't fly unless they're at least a month old.... SO I have no idea what is going to happen :) (I sure said "so" a lot!).

We went to the doc yesterday (thank goodness my doc is back in town!!). My BP is a little higher than normal, and my weight registered much higher than it should (I gained 4 kg ~ 8.8 lbs in 2 weeks) - which is a sign of preecclampsia. It was a different scale than normal at the doc's office, so I think that's why (at my home scale I had only gained about 2 kg). I'm also swelling in my hands, face (yes, my lips, eyes & nose... so nice) and some leg swelling. It's normal to have swelling in pregnancy, but the way I have swelling is usually related to preecclampsia, so my doc was a little concerned. She wanted to CHECK ME INTO THE HOSPITAL! I am NOT ready to go into the hospital, so we talked it through and she decided to have me run some tests and come back on Tuesday.

In the picture below you can see how I feel about all of this - haha! I look scary in that pic!

Sooooo.... all of that said.... I have NO idea what is going to happen :) Hopefully I won't have to be checked into the hospital on Tuesday but we're going to be prepared for it anyway (my bags are packed!)... I'll keep ya posted!!!

You guys ROCK!!!

Mela Fun!

I took a funny belly picture today :) I'll explain the Disney part in the next post, but thought I'd post the belly picture part of it before I'm further along (if that makes sense). Here's 32.5 weeks! (I love how Minnie is pointing at my belly :))

Last night we went to a Diwali Mela (Fair) in our neighborhood (I wrote more about it on the other blog if you're interested) :). Aashini is finally big enough to ride on a lot of the rides, so that was fun for us as well as her. She loved this ride!

It's just a bunch of cars that go around in a circle (man-powered).

She didn't want to get off!! She loved it!

There was a booth there that had diyas (lights/lamp) that kids could paint. Aashini thought it was AWESOME! She was so cute painting. She painted so carefully and everyone watching was amazed and how meticulous she was painting. It was funny!

Here's her diya :) I think she did a good job :)

Holiday time is fun!!

32 Weeks!!

I haven't posted belly pics in a while, so I guess I need to do that. I look pretty rough in these pics though! haha! Aashini really likes my belly button right now (in all it's poking-out glory) and if you ask her where the baby is, sometimes she points to my stomach :) It's cute :)

So... I have had a couple of questions this pregnancy. One of them is if I'm going to have a boy or a girl. It's probably obvious at this point in the pregnancy that I don't know and we're not going to find out :) haha! but there's a few reasons for that. One of the reasons is that we like the surprise :) We think it's fun :) BUT the main reason is that it's illegal here. We could have found out in Thailand, but we didn't :) We like the surprise :) You can find out here too if you want, but it's illegal, so it could cost the technician their job and I really don't want to hurt my witness asking them to do something illegal.

Anyway, most people ask me why it's illegal here. The sad reason is that female foeticide is a big problem here (killing or aborting female babies). According to the government's statistics for our city alone, more than 24,000 female babies are aborted each year - and that's just in our city alone!! It's causing a lot of problems and the sex ratio has become really skewed. For every 1000 boys born in our city, there are less than 820 girls (they should be about the same!)!! It's crazy. So... they made it illegal to find out before birth what you're having.

You can see a sign in the pic below that is in the waiting room at the doctor I go to. It says:

"Ma. The world's most precious word. Where will all the mothers be tomorrow if there is no girl child today? Stop Female Foeticide"

So do you think I'm having a boy or a girl?? (you can vote on the top right of the blog). I'm carrying about the same as I did with Aashini. At the beginning of this pregnancy I craved more protein, but now I really want sweets! This pregnancy I'm craving South Asian food and last pregnancy I didn't want anything to do with it. Last pregnancy I had some SERIOUS morning sickness that lasted forever but this pregnancy even though I felt bad and was nauseous every morning, I didn't even throw up once (PTL)!!

I'm actually feeling pretty good! It's amazing how different these pregnancies have been. I'm still sleeping pretty good (only wake up about once a night) and have a decent amount of energy. Of course I'm more tired these days, and all the other fun things that go on at this time, but it's going great. Thanks so much for all of your prayers!! That's totally why I'm doing so great this time around :) I'm 32 weeks and last pregnancy I had Aashini at 34 weeks!! What a difference!!

Not real attractive, but thought I'd post them anyway :) I like to take jumping pics - especially while pregnant - BUT sad to say, these are going to be the last jumping pics of this pregnancy... I was hurting later that night after all that jumping :) haha!!

We're still struggling with baby names :) We had a boy & a girl name picked out but we keep changing our minds. We have a lot of trouble picking boy's names. A lot of our picks end up sounding like dog names... so hopefully we'll get a name before this baby is born!! Culturally we could wait a whole year before we give our baby a name, but we have to hurry and get the passport and exit visa after the baby is born (b/c we have deadline to leave the country), so we don't have any days to spare!!

That's it! :) Let me know if you have any other questions or anything like that! You guys ROCK!!!!

27 Weeks!!

I'm 27 weeks! Yay!!! I've made it to the 3rd Trimester!

I've been feeling pretty good - much better than this time last pregnancy! Thank Goodness! I've been pretty tired the last few days and having a lot more aches and pains though - so I think some of the 3rd trimester fun is setting in - haha!

So enough about me... here's a funny Aashini picture. She fell asleep eating the other day in the funniest position - it cracked me up! :)

22 Weeks!

I haven't posted any belly pics in a while, so we took some today. I'm 22.5 weeks today! I'm over half-way! Yay!!! It seems like my belly growth rate has slowed down a bit - Thank goodness!!!
We also took a few funny pics :) Here's Aashini trying to look like me :)

I'm not quite sure what this one is about :) haha!

Not sure about this one either :) haha!!
Half-way there!!!

Vacation Fun!

Our vacation was great and I took about a million pictures of Aashini... so before I get to those pics, I thought I'd post a belly picture :) You can't actually see the size of my belly in this pic, but you can see my weird shirt :) haha!

19 weeks!

Aashini had so much fun playing with the Plumeria flowers that were all over the place...
Aashini was scared of the sand at first. It freaked her out to walk on it. After (sort-of) getting over her fear of the sand, she had a blast playing in it!
"smiling"

I liked this pic.... you can see the crazy sandbar that was in the ocean - it was huge!

Aashini LOVES Snakes! (or "Nakes" as she calls them). I don't think she's actually seen a real one yet, but she loves them in her books. We found a millipede on the road one day when we were walking and she thought it was a snake and was sooooo excited and kept yelling "NAKE! NAKE!!" :) It was cute :)

Playing in the sand before dinner... Adam says these shorts look like Jams - does anyone remember Jams? haha!

Aashini doing her "fish face".

Adam told Aashini to show her teeth and smile and this is what we got :)

I don't know why, but this picture makes me laugh :)

We had a very fun vacation :)