so for your second pregnancy, you don’t even mind going for appointments alone anymore. you hardly care if you come across to others in the room looking like a single, unwed, pregnant mum, heh. you look at other couples and go, “hah! been there, done that. pfft, amateurs.” :p
anyway, izad had his IPPT in the morning, so i went to the clinic alone after sending him. since i arrived pretty early, i was #4 in the queue, so i was in and out in less than two hours.
the doc, as ever, made me feel good, which is his magic. everyone who walks out of that door always has a nice big smile on their face. really!
i got the ‘long card’, which is given in your second trimester. the card has all your pregnancy details and you’re supposed to bring it everywhere you go in case anything happens to you and you need medical attention, the ‘long card’ has what the emergency doctor would need to know about your pregnancy.
i’m officially 17wks now, and out of curiosity, asked the doc to count the date of conception. according to his round calendar, it was end of july, which STILL perplexes me, coz i could’ve sworn it was during the national day holidays… :p
then it was on to the bed, where he did the scan…
and voila!
ok ok, to the virgin eyes, they’re just a blur of streaks, right? but what would be of REAL interest to you would be the first pic on the left. see the little pair of drumlet thighs on the top left corner? the doc looked at it and went:
“ahh, i don’t see anything sticking out in between… there’s a high probability that it’s a girl… i think it’s very likely to be a girl!”
and THAT, my friends, was the point where this entire pregnancy shifted its paradigm, and my enthusiasm, which was previously lacking, took a 180 degree turn, and my heart leapt, while a yelp escaped from my lips – alhamdulillah!
i told – no, ordered – him to scan it again, and again, and he said, again, that there’s a high chance it’ll be a girl, although we can’t be 100 per cent sure if, say, its scrotum or whatever is still in its abdomen, not yet fully formed.
but STILL! 
i think i remember (and so does izad, when i told him the news later) that aniq’s balls of fire were pretty much in-yer-face when we scanned around this time. heh.
in any case, i dare not hope too high, and will wait for the next full scan, which will happen two days before my birthday next month.
… but STILL!
hope is a pretty powerful thing (although it still doesnt eradicate all these irritating physical discomforts i’m having 24/7). not to say that i’d be awfully disappointed if he’d said it’ll very likely be a boy, but you know…. there’s all this pressure from people who found out about my pregnancy, and the first thing they ask is, “so, is it a boy or girl?” followed by “if it’s a girl, good ah! can close shop!”, which is fair enough, coz i catch myself saying the same thing to others as well. it’s got to the point when i snap at well-meaning people with an “i don’t know lah!! don’t ask me can??”, simply because i don’t know, dammit! and yet another good as any reason to keep this pregnancy hush-hush for now.
i asked the doc to show me how high my womb is now, and with the span of his two hands, explained where it is, including my appendix, intestines, stomach, etc. macam biology lesson! :p the womb is currently at the borderline of my bellybutton, which is getting more and more protruding by the day.
oh, and yeah, the baby was moving its arms around pretty much while i was scanned, although the doc said i have a very “cooperative baby”. but look at that, that hand with the little bony fingers – it looks like it’s doing a “bang! bang!” gesture, JUST LIKE ITS BROTHER, lol! obviously, aniq has been ‘asking’ the baby to play “shoot gun” with him. (he literally brought one comb, his makeshift gun, to my stomach once, and insist the baby take it, while he held another comb. oi, kecik-kecik ajar orang jadi terror/ist??)
took the blood tests after that, which required much coaxing of my almost non-existent veins. didn’t succeed the first time, so i was punctured twice. like the first time, i’m fascinated with the amount of blood that comes out of my arms. am hoping baby #2 will also have a high threshold pain like its big bro.
kak maya had already predicted it’ll be a girl from the last massage, from what she gathers looking at the shape of my stomach and my ‘symptoms’ (ie. sweet tooth and bad skin). and again, she made the same prediction when she came for my third massage session in the evening. but then, she said, although doctors give assurance, sometimes the baby has other surprises in store. like her first born was 90% confirmed girl, and voila! out came a boy.
so, we’ll see… till the next month’s (much anticipated) detailed scan at eastshore! *flutters*
afternote: i dug up aniq’s old archive and yeah, there’s a visible difference between the two at around the same time!
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