It's moving a lot now!!

All of this week, baby's been moving a lot. Baby's most active when I sit down or rest just after a meal. Today baby also woke me up at 7am! I guess we only have a few more weekends when we can afford to get up at 9am ;-) and we should take full advantage of those...

In 2 days, we'll know if it's a girl or a boy! How exciting...

A note about fitness

I'd always imagined I'd "get into" the best shape of my life and _then_ get pregnant. But you know, baby had other plans ;-) Due to my knee operation and recovery, I started seeing a personal trainer Maria at Axis, Mountain View. In less than 15 sessions, my knee was feeling a lot better. We'd also found out I was pregnant, so Maria shifted gears more into focusing on keeping my joints flexible and my balance where it belongs. I used to see her twice a week, but now started seeing her just once a week in the hope that I can get myself to do other activities during the week.

They recommend that during pregnancy women should exercise at least 3 times a week. In addition, Maria also wants me to go for a walk every night. Well, slow and steady as I am, I'm far from "walking every night". The once a week visit to Maria is the only thing I can manage in some weeks.

But I think I did find another activity for 2 more times a week: aqua exercise. I just went to my 24hr club today for the first time for the aqua exercise class. Suffice to say, right now, I'm feeling on top of the world :-) It feels wonderful to have worked out for an hr in the water. I got there a bit early, so was able to swim 4 laps. The class started and they made us do a proper warm up for 10-15 mins. Then the exercises started. They were pretty intense :-) and I had loads of fun doing them. Most of the other classmates were old women but at least 3 of us were around the same age. At the end, there was a 5-10 mins cool down and stretch session too!

I really enjoyed it and hope baby enjoyed it too. I'm sure I'll feel the effects of the workout in a day or two. In case they aren't too bad, I think I'm planning to go both days of the week - Wednesday and Friday at 8:30am!

I felt the first flutters :-)

When people often described their first baby movements, they'd say "oh, it felt like something fluttering" and I'd often wonder - how can that be?! Well wonder no more I had to, coz last night I felt it :-) and it was definitely a flutter.

I was in the middle of the night and I was fast asleep. All of a sudden I felt this pressure, then followed by some fluttering for quite some time :-) I really enjoyed the sensation of life inside for the first time. I was strong enough to wake me up too. Yes baby, I hear ya ...

Daddy's the BEST

Yeah baby, your Dad's the BEST :-) He loves me so much! And he loves you a lot too. In fact I'm beginning to suspect he loves you more than he loves me... You know, I'm not sure I'll be able to handle that very well ;-)

You got me all tied up in knots...
And I'm loving you lots and lots...
I'm just loving you lots and lots...
I'm loving you lots and lots...

We had fun with US

Ujjval & Sonali came down to CA to visit us all. As Sonali was in her 7th month already, we threw them a surprise baby shower on the day they landed here. It was a lot of fun. We also had 2 games, Indian Chinese khana and khoob saari baatein.

The Gappa session continued when we met at our place for Superbowl Sunday. We got a really precious "2 pregnant girls" photo together :-) I shared with all the girls the "booty" that Mumma got for us -baby clothes and items :-)

Baby Shayona, the little darling she is, was a real highlight. She's so cute and cuddly :-) Love her "haa" face!

Dada and Dadi are here

Amit's folks are finally here. Mumma will stay with us till the end of my eighth month. Thanks to Mumma (Dadi) for coming over to pamper me, feed me lovely home food, take care of me and Amit, support us through the pregnancy, answer so many of our queries.

I know Daddy gets his funny bone from Dada (Puppa). Baby, all the tickles you feel are thanks for Daddy and Dada making your Mummy laugh a lot :-) I hope and pray that you're born a happy baby.

Mumma (Dadi) has shopped wonderful cute dresses for Baby, even a book for your Mummy to read. Now Mummy has lots of reading material, and a big cataloging job to do, arrange your clothes in your baby room. Okay, time for your Mummy to make a TODO list :-)

Another group of friends in the know now

It was Friday night and we got together for dinner at Vidyut and Sarika's... coined the (U)naware's. Sarika had cooked everything at home for all of us. It was the first get together at their house after their wedding. This is our Qualcomm gang as we fondly refer to the group. Gokhan and Birsen were also attending after a long time. Birsen was in her 5th month.

I think it was casual conversation about their expected date, and all of a sudden, Amit announces "Oh ya, and I think Mamata has a news to announce". I was totally caught off guard :-) and as usual unprepared. Hope either Amit learns I can't handle these "on the spot" thinking situations, or I learn actually how to come up with good stuff to say, as Amit always does!

Anyways, I punted it right back and Amit, and he announced we are expecting. I think Rashmi was the most shocked, and asked me several times "You skied?!" :-) It seems Smita (Dabbu, Rashmi's sister) had some "idea" after reading my orkut scrapbook reply to a friend of mine. Vidyut and Sarika finally know now what Amit was bursting to reveal within the first 2 hrs of our trip to Tahoe over Christmas. Sudha knows now that I lied on the New Year's Party about that "medication". Of course Nitin had an idea, thanked him for not bugging us about it too much before we were ready to share the news.