Second Trimester (Week 13 - 27)

Finally the 'public' starts to notice that I am a pregger. I can tell from the way they stared at baby bump.

When baby bump show-off at week 16-18, Kent started to laugh at my belly button. Although I felt blessed looking at my growing baby bump, I am also worried of protruded belly button and stretch marks.

I can barely fit into any of my summer pants nowadays (Betrayer!). Getting dressed up is so much more challenging as I wanna look slim while being comfortable. I tried on all possible dresses that I have in the closet and none really got through my hip or boobs. In the end, I resorted to tunic dress and wrap dress. I am still beautiful (in a way) as a pregger!

Forget about heels, I have to wear those smelly flats that sometimes made me drowsy.

There were moments when I felt kind of sad looking at myself in the mirror. My body changes to cater for baby bump. My hips got wider and that’s the reason I couldn’t fit into my pants. My boobs are upgraded in preparation for baby bump’s nutrients. Green veins are so obvious on my chest that I pretended to be The Hulk. The upgraded boobs definitely come with weight. I am again worried about the increase gravity effect. What if Kent do not find me attractive anymore? (Sob Sob)

As time passed, all these worries seem to be part of my pregnancy journey. Nowadays, I am looking at the mirror admiring my beautiful baby bump that almost everyone envies of. 

At about Week 19-20, I felt a tiny poked on baby bump. I couldn’t tell if that is baby movement or merely gas until I felt a stretch from the inside a minute later. At that moment, I was so sure that it is baby movement. The feeling of having a baby inside me is so special that I can’t wait to share with Kent. He got so excited when he saw baby bump move for the first time. Whenever Kent tried to feel with his palm, baby bump seems to be so comfortable and went back to ‘sleep-mode’. Kent got disappointed of course.

When Kent finally felt it for the first time his response was ‘Why so rough one?’

I manage to snap a photo the first time baby bump misbehaves.

Sometimes baby bump got super tight like a stressed balloon. Apparently this is some sort of practice that my womb is going through to prepare for labour. The first time I felt the contraction, I thought I am going to deliver (WTH)

There was a night when baby bump kept moving. It felt like a consistent baby movement or heartbeat but it isn’t. I thought baby bump got ‘super hyperactive’ because of something particular that i ate that day. Or maybe baby bump is uncomfortable inside? Kent tried to ‘talk’ baby bump to sleep, of course that doesn’t work. In the end, baby bump moved the whole night, Kent slept soundlessly (of course) and I couldn’t sleep. Only knew that its baby bump's hiccup later on. (So, baby can actually hiccups inside the womb)

At Week 24, baby bump and I achieved the weight gain that we are supposed to. I only manage to gain 1-2kg at Week 20. Kent was kind of complaining about it, meanwhile I felt proud not to gain as much weight so long baby bump is growing healthily. I am still below the average pregger weight gain but baby bump is at the perfect point

I am feeling a "little bit" more emotional as a pregger. I felt that I love Kent even more ever since I am a pregger. I want have all his attention. I want a kiss when I am awake and before I go to bed. I felt like bursting in tears if he treated me less attentively. I even had bad dreams one day when he went to bed first and forget to give me a goodnight kiss. I woke up feeling depressed and sad.