Prayer for Easy Birth

Master of the Universe, I thank You for Your graciousness in granting this pregnancy.

May it be Your will, O God, our God, and God of our fathers, that You have mercy upon all pregnant women of Your nation that are giving birth, and specifically upon:

(the woman’s name and her mother’s name).

Let no sickness or blemish affect the mother. At the time that she is giving birth, may You speed the labor, so she may give birth easily and without any pain or suffering.

In the merit of our holy matriarchs – Sarah, Rivka, Rachel and Leah – may the baby be complete in all his limbs and senses. May the baby come forth to a good and peaceful life, at a good time and with good fortune.

May she deliver the placenta in its proper time, and may she be healthy and well for Your service.

May You heed our prayers, and answer our beseeching. For You are merciful and You hear the prayers of every mouth. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing before You, O G0d, my Rock and my Redeemer.

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T H E  66th L E T T E R

August 6, 2010 @10:23 p.m.

Dear Baby,

Hello, baby! Glad you’re asleep now. This morning, you didn’t sleep! You slept at 2p.m. instead. You were also busily mimicking our moves. You saw your yaya (nanny) wiping the glass door, and you did the same! How’s that for a 15-month old baby? And you did the wiping like a PRO. Mommy’s so proud of you.

Today, you ate a lot. WOW. Awesome, really. You love to eat macaroni. You also ate rice with soup (beef). I asked your yaya to prepare boiling water from the rice, and this will be the water to be used in preparing your milk. Some people say that you’d really gain weight with it.

You saw Mommy on the weighing scale. You also weighed yourself. You stepped on the weighing scale, and looked down to “see” your weight. Haha. Uh-oh. You gained a kilo from the last time we checked your weight – ahh, two months. Oh no. But I think you did increase in height. PB. I hope you’d really continue gaining more kilos in the next months.

I saw that you already kissed your yaya in her pants. Hmmm. You must be liking her a lot, too, for you to do that. You only do that to Mommy and Daddy. Am I feeling jealous here? Haha.

I am a little bit worried of the shape of your legs. Ahh, is it because you didn’t allow Mommy to massage you from two months old and until you reached your 1st year of age? It’s only recently that you’re allowing Mommy to massage your legs, but, only for a few seconds. I hope that as you learn to walk well, your legs would straighten up.

This is all for now. Sleep well, baby.

iloveyou,

mommy

Oh my God, I have totally forgotten about the calendar! I thought September isn’t over yet!

It’s both a yay and a nay for me that October is here!

Yay! because we’d be going back to our home country soon.

Nay! because I am panicking inside. I have still a lot of flab to lose!

I have to visualize myself wearing that ideal, perfect weight.

I have to eat well.

I have to exercise moderately.

I have to keep moving.

It’s past 1a.m. already and I am still wide-awake; tinkering the Web on how to lose my flab in just a month. Geez.

Hard work, dude!

I just joined SELF to keep me motivated.