May 7, 2006

physical contact

When I was resting my hand on Emily’s tummy the other day, I felt a hump bobbing up from it. Thinking that it might be somekind of a message, I made a series of gentle taps on Emily’s tummy… which encompasses a string of complex Morse codes to ask for the well being of the inhabitant inside.

But I wasn’t expecting any reply to that, I was just doing it out of boredom’s sake. Then it happened. I felt a couple more bobs from Emily’s tummy after the taps, then stopped. I tapped a few more times, and it responded with more bobs. This exchange of ‘almost’ physical contact (separated by a layer of epidermis, a layer of placenta membrane, through a molecular volume of amnion fluid and possibly, even a layer of undeterminable thickness of lardy substance - which all only amounted to not more of an inch) went on for quite sometime, before either one of us became too tired and ceased the act.

I think I’ve managed to establish somekind of a primitive communication with my unborn daughter. The feeling’s ecstatic. (she’s complaining about the lack of air conditioning inside)

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14 comments: “physical contact”


  • May 7th, 2006, 9:16 pm | #

    You’re sooooooooooo Michael of My Wife & Kids.


  • May 8th, 2006, 11:51 am | #

    awwwwwwwww…….. cherish the moment before you know it’s gone.


  • May 8th, 2006, 12:48 pm | #

    dang it, u r making me want a kid!


  • May 8th, 2006, 1:11 pm | #

    and oh, at the end of the conversation? my daughter said she concurs with the list of rules I made for her future date. HEEHEEEHEEE


  • May 8th, 2006, 3:43 pm | #

    Woi!!! I thought you said you dun wanna get to close with her?! Liar. LOL!!! ;p


  • Shar
    May 8th, 2006, 8:14 pm | #

    Awww, this makes me wanna start making babies wif Jase. :P


  • azlin
    May 8th, 2006, 11:47 pm | #

    i used to rub a lit torchlight on my tummy. heck, the kid made me stay awake at night, i might as well caused the same distress on him when he was asleep.

    sheeshh! no wonder, he’s not sleeping much nowadays and terrorize me whole day long.


  • MorpheusX
    May 8th, 2006, 11:50 pm | #

    Yo.. your baby wants char koay teow la..


  • May 9th, 2006, 9:34 am | #

    titoki - I said I don’t want her to close to me, but I didn’t say I’m gonna act cold blooded and not love the kid.

    shar - You need any pointers? XD

    azlin - You’re one heck of an evil mom. Bad karma bebeh… payback time.

    morpheusX - Ok. I’ll feed her mom char koay teow then. Ahaks!


  • May 9th, 2006, 12:23 pm | #

    Teach her how to count in binary.


  • Shar
    May 9th, 2006, 3:24 pm | #

    Azlin: hahaha, that’s so chomel. I will try that when i am pregnant.

    michael: jase say not yet cos out our thailand marriage is not legit here. :P


  • May 9th, 2006, 4:23 pm | #

    Dear, I thought you told me you had a headache the other night?


  • May 10th, 2006, 9:58 am | #

    awww, i can imagine michael talking to his baby girl :) daddy’s little girl.


  • May 12th, 2006, 7:00 pm | #

    I think she’s trying to say “Daddy, quit knocking! I can’t sleep!”. She’s bound to say it again when she gets to her teens :p