#trimester loaded

Second trimester
This will be an interesting one. You become more responsive to the life growing

inside of you. Its a mixture of emotions listening the foetus heartbeat during the 4 months scan. It quickly dawns on you that there is a human sleeping peacefully in your tummy. It makes you feel elated, responsible, strong and motherly.
Your bump begins to show at four months. If you are part of the skinny girls club, you might have to wait for 2 more months. The kicks! I don’t have the words to describe them.
You start craving for bites, salted unripe mangos, chilled sausages and some other crazy things we make up.

Third trimester
Forget everything I said earlier, this part is a culmination of it all. The last three months are like an entire 9 months. By now you have added approximately 10 kgs. You look like a pregnant cow. Everything has changed. You become insensitive to people’s opinions. After all, you will be Kiambu county governor’s mother in 2050. So you don’t queue at the bus station. Who even waits at the zebra crossing? Besides, a pregnant lady is always right and y’all wrong.
So you walk with your ego tucked under your arms with your purse. No one dares bruise it. You become fearless. Maybe it is a counter for the fear you have to contend with every night at the thought of the nightmare that waits.
You read books. Every piece of paper that contains information that you deem relevant. Even a breads wrapper is useful at this stage. You scrutinize everything you ingest just to be sure you are taking the right amount of nutrients. The IFAS( iron and folic acid supplement), though you hate them, you take them submissively. You wouldn’t want your son to suffer from spina bifida simply because you missed an IFAS tablet.
You spend 8 hours a day in the internet: Google, reading and seeking advice. You Google: the birthing process, painless delivery, labor experiences and you watch horrifying birthing videos.
You pray. You need spiritual strength now that the physical strength is failing you. You’ve heard of the pregnancy brain? Where a pregnant lady tends to forget almost everything? This is because the brain during this season is filled with lots of worries. What if the baby will be born blind? What if I don’t make it out of the delivery table? Scary dreams flood your few hours’ sleep. You spend the rest of the time visiting the washroom.
You exercise, walk few kilometers daily. You want to be healthy.
You stare at other children and wonder how your son will be. Will he have your small eyes and a forehead? Will he be a chocolate skinned like you or a dark and handsome?
From the internet, some women told you that a boy comes early but you are now at 39 weeks. You are tired from carrying him, from peoples stares and worn out from the anticipation of finally meeting him.
You’ve waited for 40 weeks hoping that all is well with him. You talk to him, but he responds by kicking. You pray with him and his amen is kicking. . And so you want him out. You want to see his small nose and folded hands that signify innocence.