For a while, I stopped talking and was just listening to my mom keeping a hand on the belly, trying not to breathe, and waiting for the baby to kick me again, when I suddenly felt another slight kick somewhere down, on the left! I was feeling like crying – I was so happy to finally feel my baby inside! This was one of the happiest days in my life!

I think, I felt one more kick after it during the conversation, but all three kicks were soo slight. Waiting for more kicks!

What you may be recommended by your doctor is to:

• take 400-800 mg folic acid daily,
• take 200 mg vitamin E daily,
• eat protein rich foods,
• eat 5-6 times a day, little portions.

Another recommendation from my doctor is to listen to the music I enjoy and autogenic training. All pregnant women can pretty often experience fear, like “is everything ok with the baby?”. Telling yourself “everything’s going to be ok” is said to help.

Having enough sleep (my favorite recommendation ) goes without saying!

Unfortunately, no sports and fitness are allowed now and I’m usually very active. Hopefully, I will continue training soon. For now I’m only allowed to walk a lot (they say, walking is the best kind of physical activity for pregnant women), which I try to do regularly.

The sings of this condition are any kind of bleeding (from bright red to brown), spotting, clots, severe abdominal pain, spasms, lower back pain. So, if you have these symptoms (especially bleeding!), consult your health care specialist immediately!

My doctor also says, toxicosis is also not a good sign. Ideally, you shouldn’t have it at early stages of pregnancy. As for me, I do sometimes feel sick, but this feeling disappears when I eat something (what? – it depends) or drink water or kefir.

As soon as you have any spasms – just lay down and try to relax and breathe with your abs.

I was recommended to lie on the sofa most of the time at home. Fortunately, I can even work this way with my laptop. Otherwise, if your family can’t provide you such conditions, it’s better to go to hospital, if possible, because when the woman with threatening miscarriage is at home, she anyway does all the things around the house from time to time and threatens the life of her baby even more. Besides, for most families it’s not so easy to make the husband do this all.

Fortunately, I don’t have bleeding now, but when I’m standing for a long time – washing the dishes, for instance, – the spasms and even the back pain start again. I’m simply following the recommendations and try to stay calm.

My doctor told me to come in about 10 days for another ultrasound scanning to listen to the baby’s (actually only a tiny embryo’s) heartbeat. I only wonder if such frequent ultrasound scanning is not harmful. Anyway, now I want to think only about positive things!

Girls, avoid dairy products, bread, fruits and veggies, as they may cause gases which, for example, will not let your doctor see the ovaries by transvaginal ultrasound. Such “atmosphere” inside you can disperse the ultrasound and your doctor may miss something there. So, if you want to know as much as possible about your health, better follow this diet. My doctor also says, for the correct ultrasound scanning the bowels should be empty, too. This is called “being prepared”.

I was actually twice a good girl this day. Today we even had a walk in a park again, then my husband took pictures of various trees, flowers and insects (his way of relaxation), while I was sitting on a bench reading a book (my relaxation method) – the novel ‘Une vie’ (translated into English as ‘A Woman’s Life’) by Guy de Maupassant – this is exactly a kind of book a pregnant woman should read (except for books about pregnancy, of course) – it has everything: love, hate, dreams and disillusionment. Oh, and pregnancy, of course

Please, wish me good luck tomorrow, as I really want to have a baby in 9 months!

I didn’t manage to change my way of life (more walks in the fresh air, going to sleep early) so fast, but I hope, I will very-very soon. I normally go to sleep at about 3-4 am, sometimes later, very seldom – earlier, but my gynecologist says, it MUST be changed for the sake of baby. This unhealthy regimen has been for a year, so it’s going to be really, really hard to change it, in consideration of the fact that we both (my husband and I) live according to it. We both work at home, this is why it’s hard to wake up early if you don’t actually need to. But, as already said, I will do my best to change it and make my way of life as healthy as possible.

I’m a pretty active person, I play (professional) badminton three times a week and do Pilates, dancing and sometimes yoga. I stopped with the latter three this last week of delay, but I really wanted to play some badminton, besides, we always do it together with my husband. But I had to promise I would not jump, run a lot, make too abrupt movements… (otherwise it can lead to miscarriage). Well, it means, I almost would not play, as badminton contains of all this .

Although we still don’t know if I’m pregnant, we need to behave as if I am, I do understand this, but it was so hard not to jump, not to hit smashes, and in the end when I was about to lose the game I started to play as I always do. I’m a bad mother, I know, but I probably don’t have the necessary hormones in my body that would stop me yet. I will probably better not play at all during pregnancy, because it’s impossible to play if you are not allowed to do EVERYTHING you can to win. By the way, I won most of the games !

To be honest, I had some light pain while I was playing – somewhere in the underbelly, inside, but I’ve been having it almost always since we (hopefully) conceived. And this pain was actually the reason why I called my doctor about 2.5 weeks ago. So, after my today’s physical activity I didn’t have any discharge (the sign of miscarriage). Let’s hope, my baby’s ok there (first of all, let’s hope, he/she IS there). I try to believe, I will be strong and not play, really. Coz I still can dance and do Pilates… This fact calms.