10kg

trying to reduce on sweets and bread these days, mostly eating grains, veggies and fruit. 10 kg in two months is more than a normal gain, although i am feeling the same, and haven't changed in my looks - same skinny girl with a big belly:):):) this is a challenge since i love sweets so much, i guess when a baby comes into one's life- no more me, my likes, my fancies, just him, his health, his well-being...

we learned how to bath and rap the baby last saturday, how to give him massage in home conditions, we had these dalls to practice on, so much fun! tonight is another exciting lesson for couples - first phase of labour - partner's assistance.

we also have started studying ruhi 5 for juniour youth animators yesterday, finally! first 7 sections had a lot to learn from and contemplate on. it's going to be a weekly class, hoping to finish it before i have my son in my hands:) let's hope i can use this knowledge in my services in future.

love

Class - preparaton for labour

Last night was the first session. There are around 10 of us - beautiful young ladies, for most of them it is the first pregnancy. Our trainer is a wonderfl energetic lady, who has an experience of helping 6000 women in labour. She has a great personality and is a great speaker. In one hour and a half I learned so much! Amir had difficulties understanding her as she speaks fast, but he stayed with me till the end. Actually two other husbands were so happy to see him as they were worried to be the only ones there... Here the partnership is just starting developing and being a common thing, as, culturaly, husbands do not participate in such activities of women and especialy they do not see themselves helping out during labour:) But slowly slowly it is changing... at least here in the capital, thank God!!!! Tonight we will watch a BBC production about pregnancy, a 40 minutes long film where the camera was placed into the womb of a woman and recorded the whole process. Exciting!

doctors, doctors...

I've never liked visiting doctors, since childhood. may be cause the docs i visited were not very friendly, or whatever reason i don't know. I wish we had
more Baha'i doctors in the world! Because most of the time it's not that docs don't know what they are doing (which is the case in some situations), but the attitude they have to you, kind of, leave-me-alone, or here-they-come-again kind of attitude. It makes you feel guilty that you came to see them. But of course i am not generalizing, there are some very good ones, who make your day by just smiling at you and making you feel comfortable and cared for. Not complaining, just have to visit two more of them this week. wish me luck.

last night

was so much fun! we had our second ultrasound! we went to another lady who was soo nice to us, showed us everything - his cute little heart which was bitting so fast!, kidneys, legs, arms, feet, hands, head, brains, spine and ribs, and even genitals. it's a boy!!!!! to make sure, she showed it from differenet sides, it was very clear! she said our boy is doing great, then we saw him moving his arm inside, it looked like he was waving at us:):) he is quite active, constantly moving, rolling, he still has some space to do it:):):) she also showed us his eyes, they are big! we came out absolutely amazed of his progress since last ultrasound, and happy that everything is good. next time will be the last before delivery - to see his position at 34 weeks. thank you again for all your prayers!

much love...

tell me everything you know...

about influence of computer on pregnancy. i have read many articles on internet and all of them are very contradictory, some of them say no inflience, some of them say stop using computer especially during the first trimester, when baby's organs are being formed. my monitor at work is very old, i don't think it has a protection, so, after having sitted here for two months, i am gettng worried:) they are buying me a new monitor this week, but still, i am bit worried. please let me know if you know anything about this issue... thanks a lot!

pictures

We have recieved a cd with pictures from our farewel in the Holy Land that were taken by our friend Melonna. It was nice to see them now, almost 10 months after leaving, and remember that warm, cozy home of Liudmila and Serghei on a cold Novemeber evening, and close friends getting coming to say good bye to us and wish us luck. I have posted most of the pics on my facebook, and here are some of them for blog readers.