"Peanut" Few weeks in Mommy's Tummy

Cold January morning at our small rented room near Brighton Station.
Nice place but not nice landlady

When we found out about you, your were about 4-5 weeks old and growing in Mommy's tummy. Of course Mommy's tummy was not yet big and round. Mommy cannot even feel you moving. One thing that Mommy feel changed is the constant headache, nauseated and vomiting.

Actually the sign of your coming began on New Years 2009-2010. We made Tom Yam Soup for New Year's Dinner. It was one of Mommy's favorite food, but somehow the soup tasted so unbearable that Mommy could only eat small amount of it. Now, if the gestation calculation is right then on New Years you would be slightly over 4 weeks old.

The Tom yam Soup Mom and Dad cook for New Year 2009/2010

What the book says about this stage of pregnancy:
Your baby is still very tiny, roughly 1mm or slightly longer. For those of you that need a visual reference that is roughly about the sizes of a small lentil bean!
In weeks four to five the embryo settles into the womb lining. The outer cells reach out like roots to link with the mother’s blood supply. The inner cells form into two and then later into three layers. Each of these layers will grow to be different parts of the baby’s body. One layer becomes the brain and nervous system, the skin, eyes and ears. Another layer becomes the lungs, stomach and gut. The third layer becomes the heart, blood, muscles and bones.

This is when we decided to call you "Peanut". Because you are lovingly nicknamed as Peanut, then I am "Mak Peanut" (as Autie Novi Hamid called Mommy) and Mommy Peanut from everyone else.

What The book says about Pregnant women at 4 weeks of pregnancy
In the first four weeks of pregnancy you probably won’t notice any symptoms. The first thing most women notice is that their period doesn’t arrive. By 4 weeks pregnant you might start feeling a little bit pregnant. The most common symptom women experience this early in pregnancy (aside from a missed period) is increasing fatigue. That's no surprise given the work your body is performing to create a new life! Other women feel some mild abdominal cramping in early pregnancy while some report increasing breast tenderness. 

As for your Mommy, I didn't feel anything so drastic at that moment. Now if I think back there are sympthom such as Mommy wanted to sleep a lot, a tingle feeling on Mommy's breast and feeling off towards several food such as seafood.

1 week later, (you are 5 weeks old) all the pregnancy sympthom fell on Mommy. The book says,

Some women may began to experience Morning sickness. Other women will start noticing they need to urinate more frequently, while still others will start noticing their breasts are growing (and quite tender). Keep in mind that morning sickness (nausea in early pregnancy) doesn't necessarily happen in the morning. Some women experience morning sickness during their entire pregnancy! Fortunately this is the exception to the rule rather than the norm. 

As for Mommy, our 5th weeks marked the beginning of Mommy's 'friendship' with toilet bowl, sink and a vomit bowl. Yep! What they called as Morning Sickness... actually continue for the entire days and weeks and months. Your daddy was busy studying and Mommy will have to try to be strong and won't caused too much havoc that will disturb your dad's focus. Nevertheless, your Daddy was amazing. He left for University in the morning with his packed lunch. But before that he make sure that mommy has food and water that are easy to reach in case of bad headache and vomit hit.

During this time, Mommy was having terrible time. Mommy cannot keep anything down. Mommy can only survive on Milk, Hot plain Bubur (rice porridge) and bananas. Mommy's headache was so severe that Mommy can only stay in bed. Sometimes when Daddy came home in the afternoon, he still have to mop the floor from Mommy's throwing ups.

Everyone advised Mommy to eat Ginger snaps or ginger biscuits but that didn't work on mommy's case.

What the Book says about baby development on the 5th weeks
During pregnancy week 5 your baby's vital organs are growing at a furious pace. Your baby's heart, central nervous system and even bones and muscles will start forming rapidly from this point on. Right around 5 weeks pregnant your baby also starts forming a skeleton. Keep in mind that every baby grows at her own pace during pregnancy.
Pregnancy week 5 is a critical week for heart development in your baby. The heart begins to separate into different changers and starts pumping blood as early as five weeks of pregnancy. Some transvaginal ultrasounds may be able to pick up a heartbeat as early as 5 weeks pregnant, though this often occurs much later. Much like other organs in your baby's body the heart is formed from multiple layers of cells, in this case cells labeled the mesoderm. Other organs that will also develop from this layer include your baby's cartilage, muscles and bones. 

Aside from feeling crappy all day due to Morning sickness. Mommy and Daddy felt very much blessed. God had prepared everything, perfect on its time. We now live in a wonderful basement house with Jan and Rusty, our landlord who treated us just like their children. They have 1 dog named Jessica, 1 cat named Twinkle and 4 hens.

Our Basement Dwelling at Jan and Rusty's House