My Lady of the Lantern

I am currently busy solving Fermi's equation writing sequel to Cinderella reading Ashtanga Yoga books moving a tiny continent to UsualCity. The next few days will be about settling in, checking out stuff, and getting comfortable in the new digs. I might not be here for a teensy-weensy while - it could be two days, two weeks or a little longer than that. But remember what this gentle giant said: (Image Courtesy: http://www.johnkhor.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/i-will-be-back-terminator.jpg / Image not used for commercial reasons, and I don't mess with the Terminator.)

Spent the weekend with DH's family, and came back to my mum's place on Sunday afternoon. It took me not-long to see the mosquito bites....Figlia has got these red dots on her face mostly - six of them, with one on the nape of her neck, all thanks to mosquitoes! Aaargh! Since Saturday, my bleeding has turned from brown spotting to fresh red blood. I am not even sure what to think of it. I am still not ready to go back to the hormone, and 'try it out to check if this gets controlled'. By my calculation of April first week, my next AF should have arrived mid of this week. Now I don't know if it has come earlier, or I am just sitting as a dice, and being constantly played. Aaa-Aaa-Aaaaaargh!!

- All the things I did not like much during pregnancy are back on my food list for e.g. capsicum. - I haz a sweet tooth. Well, I always liked sweets, but I could never say that I had a sweet tooth. I had a chocolate toothie, but not this. - I lost weight and sometime in March I was just two kgs over my pre-pregnancy weight, and then rather than falling any further my weight seemed to increase. Joy muchos? I haven't stood on the weighing scale, but I feel heavier. And on Wednesday, I was four steps close to a scale, and still did not stand on it. Yeeeouch. - I am not going to worry about my weight more than twice a day. Once when I see myself in the mirror and then when I undress. Cool, huh? - I still don't feel like wearing any perfumes. Incense from my mother's incense sticks sometimes seems to curl and sit on my nostrils.  - I got fresh stretch marks this time, but they are localized at those very spots as where I developed the stretch marks from the previous pregnan...

Sometimes, I really go back to the drawing board and wonder what God's plan really means. Recently, that thought was set off by the news that someone I knew in real life had conceived on contraception. And she was not ready to have the baby. The couple finished family building more than a decade ago. The lady has old eggs by all medical standards, and yet the egg of questionable quality, and her hubby's made-of-steel sperm converged on a full moon night and resulted into a baby. She did not want the baby, but she was, let's say 'very affected' by having to not continue the pregnancy. She happens to be the second person I know who has managed to conceive while actively trying to prevent a pregnancy. And one of them has conceived twice on contraception! And I can look at number of people here, in this corner of the blogosphere who would have readily accepted for that conception to have happened in their own uterus. God's will, Yadda Yadda....and I wonder how f...

A little after the 11 week update , I found the girl clenching her fingers and moving them dodgily towards her mouth. We sometimes wake up in the wee hours, and convey sermons to the dark room in general and to yours truly specifically. And yours truly is not supposed to show that she has gone back to sleep/wants to go back to sleep. That ends with a lot of persuading to go back to sleep, and some amount of feeding. She now rests her feet against any surface and pushes herself against it...That had been happening well before the 11 weeks, but it was not forceful and intentional...now she seems to have found the force and way to do it intentionally. She is now able to focus at objects at varying distances. Do babies have colour preferences? Figlia focuses very well on red colour. And then there is this yellow pillow cover too that often catches her attention. She had a lazy left eye...that coordination has now become a-ok. We just faced our first cold+cough bout. Glad to have the...

Someone hinted to me yesterday that I must take precautions because I become pregnant very fast. (That led me to think, for the first time, that this person had actually not assumed I would conceive Figlia so quickly after getting back into the fray.) I have been labelled a lot of things, but never as a quick conceiver. How outrageous really! ~eyes rolling in my skull~ Ha Ha Ha! P.S. There is no word such as conceiver in English language?

- My AF creole reads Bleeding, Silent/Spotting, Silent/Spotting, Bleeding And Then Spotting, Spotting. Needless to say, I am worried the missus being so unpredictable this time and being almost not-to-be-seen in between will show its licks again and again for a while. Translate it to: wear protection constantly. - I read a very very funny breastfeeding story courtesy an FB friend. You have to read it. You must. - Baby Girl's cough has become better but has not disappeared. There will be immunization in the coming week and I am hoping that it either go away by then or I get some lasting solution. - Yesterday night, while changing her clothes I made her wear her a top that used to fit her fine. It now fits her snug! And maybe in a few days, it will become too tight to be worn comfortably. Clothes have become shorter. I am lovin' it. - I have finally started packing, albeit a little half-heartedly and with not much tempo, to go back to UsualCity. When I came he...