It was the 15th week and we were glad to have made it past the critical embryonic phase and now it's officially known as a fetus.
The blood test came back good and we were I believe in the 1:11,000 range for trisomy 21 risk.
We are now scheduled for 1 Ultrascan and Gyne visit on January 19th and the detailed scan at Raffles Hospital on Feb 13th.
We did try to listen for any movement of the fetus by placing my ear to the tummy and I was surprised to hear bubbles and swishing, and occasionally hear "grunts" and fluttering. We noticed that once we went off the Utrogestan the little girl gets very active. We didn't expect the quickening to happen so early as they are typically reported during the 16th to 20th week.
(Quickening is defined as the first time you feel your baby move) We were so excited when we managed to get a call back to Houston!
Now we have switched back to taking Enfa Mama from Anmum & Dumex Mamil Mama . Reason being Mead Johnson's Enfa Mama is the only milk poweder that contains 450 mg of Choline in 100g servings. The recommended intake daily is 450mg for pregnant women.
The blood test came back good and we were I believe in the 1:11,000 range for trisomy 21 risk.
We are now scheduled for 1 Ultrascan and Gyne visit on January 19th and the detailed scan at Raffles Hospital on Feb 13th.
We did try to listen for any movement of the fetus by placing my ear to the tummy and I was surprised to hear bubbles and swishing, and occasionally hear "grunts" and fluttering. We noticed that once we went off the Utrogestan the little girl gets very active. We didn't expect the quickening to happen so early as they are typically reported during the 16th to 20th week.
(Quickening is defined as the first time you feel your baby move) We were so excited when we managed to get a call back to Houston!
Now we have switched back to taking Enfa Mama from Anmum & Dumex Mamil Mama . Reason being Mead Johnson's Enfa Mama is the only milk poweder that contains 450 mg of Choline in 100g servings. The recommended intake daily is 450mg for pregnant women.
Taking a nutrient called choline during pregnancy could "super-charge" children's brains for life, suggests a study in rats.
Offspring born to pregnant rats given the supplement were known to be faster learners with better memories. But the new work, by Scott Swartzwelder and colleagues at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, US, shows this is due to having bigger brain cells in vital areas.
- New Scientist
"Choline was recently determined to be an essential nutrient by the Institute of Medicine. In adults, choline deficiency results in liver damage in humans....Pregnancy has been shown to deplete choline pools, and the demand for choline by a developing fetus could put the mother and the [unborn child] at risk for choline deficiency. Prenatal choline deficiency has been associated with altered [memory], increased [programmed cell death], reduced cell proliferation, and abnormal cell [development] in the fetal [brain.]"
- FASEB Journal, Vol. 16, No. 6, 2002
We will update: The swishing sound, Food we made and Ultrascan report by Jan 19th!
Offspring born to pregnant rats given the supplement were known to be faster learners with better memories. But the new work, by Scott Swartzwelder and colleagues at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, US, shows this is due to having bigger brain cells in vital areas.
- New Scientist
"Choline was recently determined to be an essential nutrient by the Institute of Medicine. In adults, choline deficiency results in liver damage in humans....Pregnancy has been shown to deplete choline pools, and the demand for choline by a developing fetus could put the mother and the [unborn child] at risk for choline deficiency. Prenatal choline deficiency has been associated with altered [memory], increased [programmed cell death], reduced cell proliferation, and abnormal cell [development] in the fetal [brain.]"
- FASEB Journal, Vol. 16, No. 6, 2002
We will update: The swishing sound, Food we made and Ultrascan report by Jan 19th!
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