A Color of Your Own

Sansai is an edible vegetable grown in a mountain. In this season of a year in Japan, you can find it in a mountain and see it at a local farmer's store. Sansai is good for health. I watched TV program featuring Sansai this evening. It says Yomogi is good for blood vessel. Fukinoto is good for intestine. The most popular way for eating Sansai is Tempura. I do not cook Tempura at home because it needs to take care of a large amount of oil after cooking. But I was thinking of beginning to cook tempura and other fried foods as we are welcoming a new addition to our family.

Pregnancy yoga is gentle exercise for pregnant woman. I used to do yoga at  a fitness gym and my home sometimes. After pregnancy, I brought a pregnancy yoga book with DVD and do yoga at home following its instruction. Once I attended a pregnancy yoga class at Mellow-Yoga studio in Yamato-shi. I have a plenty of time for myself until the delivery, so pregnancy yoga is good a way for me to keep my health in good balance.

Prenatal classes are divided into three days in my local city. The first class taught about nutrition for pregnant woman. The second class taught about delivery and prenatal exercise. Becoming a father had an experience of pregnant woman wearing a big-belly-shaped bag. The third class, which we took today, taught about after childbirth. It includes baby care, mother's body change and how to give a newborn a bath. In the end of the class, we experienced bathing baby. Newborn baby doll was 3kg. I felt heavy to hold him only withy by left hand. It was difficult to wash him well for the first time.

Our private car, Fiona, which is Honda Fit 3 had regular inspection at a car dealer today. There was no issued found. In half a year, she will have ministry of transportation test which is obliged to undergo by law. While my husband and I were waiting for the inspection done, we visited to a library building which also has a health improvement space where you can measure blood circulation, bone density and so on. My results were so so. Good thing is figures of bone density has improved than last time.

It was my last working day, today. I could have a good experience working for elementary school students. I am relieved that no accident and trouble happened all the way through, like flu catching, running kids' strike, and slipping on snow on commuting. I am grateful to my colleagues that they supported me to work safe with my baby in my belly. There are three months until the expected day of the birth, and one more month until returning to my hometown. The most important thing is to live healthy, physically and mentally. I will have some exercise like walking and pregnancy yoga. And more, I would like to do what I want to do before child-care-life. One of them is learning English. In that study areas, pronunciation, writing knowledge and reading skills are to be focused.

The weather forecast says it is peak season of pollen fever this week. It refers cedar pollen in Japan. In winter, many people wear cold preventive mask to prevent or not to spread virus. In spring, it becomes for pollen prevention. In these seasons, I was more careful about my condition than usual as I am pregnant. I've been wearing preventive mask whenever I go out. I know it looks weird to foreigners. It might be a part of Japanese culture in which we are very careful about hygiene and there are many cedar trees.