RAYAH

Constant visits to my Ob-gyne excites me. Along with the usual check-up, i get to see rayah in a 2d format or what is known as Ultrasound (by the way, there’s this 4d format now which costs around 4,500 wherein you get to see your unborn in a colored format and you can actually check who-has-who features approximately 90% accurate than the old-style, nonetheless, it entails a large amount of cash to be intouch with your unborn nowadays). What proves more important than the normal pre-natal visits is that it actually binds me and my husband to a not-so-usual experience of seeing an unborn and preparing for her arrival.

Seeing rayah’s heartbeat double as mine gives me an unexplained feeling. I have observed her turn from one side of my tummy to another for the past 7 months now and i must say, she is one hyper fetus. I have survived listening to beethoven, bach and mozart everyday to work while inside the car just to support a scientific claim that it indeed helps one’s baby become brilliant, smart, witty etc.  Now, while posting this blog, rayah won’t stop kicking me. I can feel contractions in my stomach, medicine explains it as the Braxton-Hicks. It’s my Rayah saying "mommy, can we go home now?" (You see i have gone shopping for her things today and it took me 5 hours to finish everything, and yesterday we just bought her stroller with her dad for another 6 hours. wew! That’s the kind of exercise that i need though.)

Just as we were glued in the ultrasound monitor, Dr. Carmela Dy told us that its 100% baby girl and that she looked more like I am.

Rayah’s my mini-me. (oh well, not to mention unsolicited stares from my husband, since he have been wanting to have a baby boy).  Overall, my weight and blood chemistry are normal. Rayah’s in breech position as of the latest ultrasound so it gives me an assurance of a possible normal delivery.

Overall, nothing can compensate for a wonderful feeling of going through pregnancy. I have never regret this feeling, not even once.

I felt very blessed since the day i knew about Rayah- our Svetlana Viktoria Cortez Roxas.

(photo credits: pregnancy.org)

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