Dearest munchkin,
The last Sunday we had one of the scans again (nuchal scan) and for the first time we got to see you in whole. Your whole body was fully formed - the hands, the head, the legs, the nose. You were resembling your brother Ram. For a while I felt I was looking at one of those pretty creatures in Princess Mononoke.
Small tiny wholly white creatures with round head and empty eye sockets. I don't mean ghost kind of way but cute.
It was such a huge emotional feeling for me to see you. I was almost close to tears and I can't express the overwhelming feeling of love I was feeling for you. We also got to hear your heartbeat, blood flow and the lab technician told us you were growing quite fast for a 11 week old and that we can expect the delivery to be two weeks earlier than actual expected date of delivery.
The way she told us about this we weren't sure if she was happy about it or if it was a caution. So we had to ask her again if that's unusual to which she, thankfully, confirmed it wasn't.
Amma too was in surprised mood. In the scan we could see you moving both your hands and feet and making some movements but Amma wasn't feeling it in her. Few more months and I think she would start feeling you every bit.
There were lot of comedy of errors too on that day. Around 9:30 Amma had her breakfast and the technician had told us that we had to wait 2 hours and give blood again. That would be around 11:30. We started the day by first giving blood sample, had nice packed breakfast (chapatis for me, pongal for Amma) in the hospital, got the scan done. All this got completed by around 10:20. We had an hour to kill and also the folks there wanted to have our first scan reports to ascertain the exact date of delivery. We had to go back to our house. It was sweltering hot on that day and as we neared the botanical gardens, we made a stop near the bondam seller, and had one each.
Reaching home I lay flat on the bed while Amma was on the phone with Dadi and Ammamma telling them about day's proceedings. After resting for about 20-25 mintue and picking up the reports we went back to the hospital. We entered the lab to give blood. While strap was being put on the arm of your Amma, the technician casually asked when we had last eaten, what we ate, did we have anything in the middle etc. His eyes flared up when we mentioned we had coconut water on our way home. He wasn't happy to hear that and told us cocunt water contains sugar and that would impact results and kind of blamed us for having missed that part. He went on to add we may need to wait another 2 hours before he takes the blood sample. It was stupid really and it was definitely his fault. Before I could retort, Amma gave it back proper telling him he didn't say anything about not drinking in the interim time and blasted him to let at least others patients know about it. Anyway on re-calculating the break time we realized we had to wait for another 1 hour.
Outside the lab, the heat was on and Amma scolded me for making her drink coconut water and that I should have been more thoughtful, more diligent and why is it that everytime I cause such trouble with consistency. I didn't argue much. Sometimes just hearing her out is enough. She will only understand what really went wrong and would come back to me. So all in all we finished our day around 12:30, a hour late than anticipated and got back home.
An eventful day nonetheless and with that first glimpse of you, my eagerness to see you has multiplied.
With Love,
Nanna..
The last Sunday we had one of the scans again (nuchal scan) and for the first time we got to see you in whole. Your whole body was fully formed - the hands, the head, the legs, the nose. You were resembling your brother Ram. For a while I felt I was looking at one of those pretty creatures in Princess Mononoke.
Small tiny wholly white creatures with round head and empty eye sockets. I don't mean ghost kind of way but cute.
The way she told us about this we weren't sure if she was happy about it or if it was a caution. So we had to ask her again if that's unusual to which she, thankfully, confirmed it wasn't.
Amma too was in surprised mood. In the scan we could see you moving both your hands and feet and making some movements but Amma wasn't feeling it in her. Few more months and I think she would start feeling you every bit.
There were lot of comedy of errors too on that day. Around 9:30 Amma had her breakfast and the technician had told us that we had to wait 2 hours and give blood again. That would be around 11:30. We started the day by first giving blood sample, had nice packed breakfast (chapatis for me, pongal for Amma) in the hospital, got the scan done. All this got completed by around 10:20. We had an hour to kill and also the folks there wanted to have our first scan reports to ascertain the exact date of delivery. We had to go back to our house. It was sweltering hot on that day and as we neared the botanical gardens, we made a stop near the bondam seller, and had one each.
Reaching home I lay flat on the bed while Amma was on the phone with Dadi and Ammamma telling them about day's proceedings. After resting for about 20-25 mintue and picking up the reports we went back to the hospital. We entered the lab to give blood. While strap was being put on the arm of your Amma, the technician casually asked when we had last eaten, what we ate, did we have anything in the middle etc. His eyes flared up when we mentioned we had coconut water on our way home. He wasn't happy to hear that and told us cocunt water contains sugar and that would impact results and kind of blamed us for having missed that part. He went on to add we may need to wait another 2 hours before he takes the blood sample. It was stupid really and it was definitely his fault. Before I could retort, Amma gave it back proper telling him he didn't say anything about not drinking in the interim time and blasted him to let at least others patients know about it. Anyway on re-calculating the break time we realized we had to wait for another 1 hour.
Outside the lab, the heat was on and Amma scolded me for making her drink coconut water and that I should have been more thoughtful, more diligent and why is it that everytime I cause such trouble with consistency. I didn't argue much. Sometimes just hearing her out is enough. She will only understand what really went wrong and would come back to me. So all in all we finished our day around 12:30, a hour late than anticipated and got back home.
An eventful day nonetheless and with that first glimpse of you, my eagerness to see you has multiplied.
With Love,
Nanna..
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