Kick boxing

These are days of kick boxing, strongerNstronger in last two weeks. 

After trying few nights, waiting on the belly, to feel the kick, I got one - the other day. It was Great !  Some of the active days, the kicks are all around the hemisphere, no pattern what-so-ever. Mini must be expert in somersaulting by now. It already seems a long journey, from zygote to a kicking-being. They say, it must be boy, from the kick style, a minijo.

Some days are very quite. Ofcourse, if you don't hear back from the baby, you start the wonder game.. is everything OK with him/her.

If anybody is curious to see kicking, here's a kick-video from the Internet (repeat, Not Ours)  

hanging out with the Belly

With the presence of the baby becoming more tangible with visible movements, we find ourselves talking to mini. Waiting for the kicks are getting rewarding. So hanging out with the belly on the weekend seems like a fun thing to do.

Mom has wakeups during the nights, then listens to music or sermons or even youtube Frasier in the attempt to sleep. Why is there no kicking since morning today, baby must be bored...As you see , lots of anxieties.

The words of wisdom from family: Take walks, it will make a healthy baby. So we are off to a stroll on the minuteman trail.

The six meal solution

Reading through the "six meal solutions" & calcium-protein overlappers (yogurt), makes you feel how little we are thinking or eating healthy. For now, we are loading the lunch bag with triple fruit load, jelly on wheat-wich and the entree itself. Some days I sneak in a zip-load of baby carrots, but they invariably come back home. Apparently it takes too much time to eat them.

The nature's best source of calcium, is thankfully mom's choice drink & cereal base. 1% Milk. The motivation reached its peak when collard-green was suggested in the grocery list. Well, I didn't want to miss the chance, collard-green it was. With great fan-fare we made collard with shredded coconut sprinkles to tone it down. It was just a little more bitter that mustard-greens. So we are back to square one. I tried collard, mixed with tuna for lunch... the lunch box found its way home, half empty, half full.

In its hay days a pint of ice-cream found its way to the freezer, but the cravings took a U-turn 1/3rd of the way. Now the ice-cream finds itself neglected. Same story with pickles, apples & orange-juice

Smoothie are a big hit, so are cranberry juice, pears & oranges (if they are super sweet). So we have checked off protein, carbs, vitamin C, omega+, calcium from the daily dose; with minimal red meat, all the iron has to come from the prenatal pill. phew, Are we missing anything?