baby talk

i've always marvelled about the gift of life. i'm always thrilled to hear that somebody's pregnant or suspecting that she is.

THRILLED - i mean i'm afraid of the responsibilities that come along with it. life is hard and it's becoming harder and raising a child unprepared is not something that you think over once or twice ad everything will turn out fine. you could go on sitting up all night thinking of making ends meet... but you just can't... simply because life is tough.

you just can't make the ends meet so don't. =) because God will find a way of doing that.

more than being afraid, anxious, and worse, being paranoid, by thrilled i mean i'm awed and excited about the new life that's blooming inside a woman's body. if i happen to see anything about pregnancy or babies on discovery or national geographic, i see to it that i finish the show... yup even if it's at 2am. so far, i learned that (i'm not sure if i recall these accurately though):

upon intercourse, the sperm travels for about 4 hrs to find the egg. so when you do it... you could become pregnant in 4 hrs. cool!!! and you won't know it 'til you miss your period.

a number of sperm will excitedly try to penetrate the egg but only 1 will succeed. once a pserm enters the egg, the egg undergoes a suddern transformation so that it doesn't allow any sperm to come in... hehe 1st come 1st served basis!

on a 4D image, it was shown how the baby drinks the fluid in the womb. the baby literally hungrily gulps in fluid!!! like a fish gulping or SUCKING in water.

the baby's lungs aren't functioning yet while he/she's still in the womb.

under stress, the mother's blood pressure rises (of course). this doesn't have an effect (yet) on the baby. it's only when the mother's blood pressure goes back to normal rate that the baby's blood pressure rises... and he/she is disturbed and jerks defensively as if sensing danger.

in the womb, we could readily determine if the baby will be left or right handed with his preference in sucking his thumb. suck the right thumb and he'll probably be a righty.

did you know doctors perform operations on unborn babies? this is sooo amazing!

play a lullabye or music or read a rhyme to an unborn baby and he/she will recall this once he/she is born. in experiments, crying babies will hush when they hear the familiar music or rhyme.

i dunno... i got all hyped up and excited after hearing that i'll be a ninang of 2 wonderful babies... =) not sure of the other one though... we'll know tomorrow... =)