Speaking of Martial arts, I''ve been wondering on wether I should open my pores already. My spine training is going good, It''ll be a work of art by the time I''m birthed, and opening pores now isn''t that hard. Opening the pores is just an extention to the tingly spine training, you just need to straighten the imaginary tail more. Till eventually you feel you forhead expand like a baloon and something surges up from the bottom of your vertebra. Its a bit like the feeling of pooping exept it goes up you spine. Then the poop feeling meats the baloon forehead feeling andVOILA! yours pores are allopened!
The first time is always the hardest, it''s when the pores break their chains and breath freedom. It''s like you get rid of all that sticky polution on you and taste the world with your skin.
However. I did that when I was 10 in the mountains somewhere. Right now I''m a fetus. I''m not worried for myself however, but my host. My mother.
What will happen if I open my pores in her woumb? Where will all the energy go? Will It all baloon up in the woumb and damage her. Will me messing around effect her vitality? What of the umbilical cord attached to me? Maybe this could cause complications for her at birth?
This is why I''m agonizing over what to do right now.
I will meditate in all seriousness.
Oummmmm~
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I have decided to put of opening pores untill after birth. There is no point risking mother for something I don''t need to do.
Umu~
It feels like something beens lifted of my chest.
I''m going to listen to mother''s heart for a while.
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They say you should teach them early. So I am doing math.
God I never thought I would say that.
I''ve also started training my jaw in ernest. The bite is a very underestimated move, when you can''t use your hands and are to close to use a kick, the bite can be very effective. Not as self damaging as the headbutbut just as unexpected, the bite could save your life. Though I say all that, all I can do now is clench lightly repeatedly. I don''t wantmy jawto be deformed by clenching hard too often.
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Now the daily routine is:
Meditate - Limb exercise (circular movement, clenching bending) - Food time (digesting) - Jaw exercise (feels right to do it whilst digesting food) - Meditate + Spine tempering ( I only do this when the "stamina bar" is full, it''s very tiring) -Mental arithmetics - Meditate - Repeat.
Now that there''s nothing to worry about it almost feels like time has slowed down again.
Oummmmm~
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Took longer to come than expected but I have definatly reached Week 13. It''s a development milestone and the start of the second trimester (whatever that is. Ask your mum maybe). How do I know for definite? Thats because week 13 is when the organs come out of the umbilical cord to their perminent home in my abdomen.
How did it feel? Dunno.
Maybe as a self defence mechanism of some sort, but as soon as I felt my organs shift out of the umbilical cord, I immediatly fell asleep.
When I woke up they were alreadyin place.
Slightly glad I didn''t have to experienced that.
Oummmmm~
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Week 13 was more eventfull than organs moving into place however.
Acctually, it happened not long after I go my organs.
Dinner time.
I experienced"eating" food for the first time. When I felt the new sensations in my tummy, my spine involuntry tingled. Sound familiar?
A surging feeling came from the bottom of my spine and rushed to my head, before I could stop it, it reached my head and I felt my world bloom! Or should have.
Instead something unexpected happened. Opening pores should be like blowing snot out of your nose, but this was like there was no snot, I was just breathing.
My pores were already open...
I had wasted time again...
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I guess pores only close after birth...
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Although I spent a while sulking, this is a good thing.
I might be able to train my pores now and start practising Taichi in the crib!
But first I should tell a bit about Taichi.
The Taichi I was taught was not exactly a martial art, more like a support skill you can use with any thing.
Ever heard of the Taichi 24 forms, also known as the Tachi 24 movements? (AN: Taichi can be substituted with Taiji)
A series of movement created in the late 1700''s to early 1800''s. They are suppost to teach Tachi through movement, and naturally open pores with time. Collectivly they are known as Taichiquan, there are a few differnet styles of it like Chen Style T''ai Chi Ch''uan (Chen Style Taichiquan),Yang Style of Taijiquan, Wu Style Taichiquan and many others. There''s also the32 Sword Taichiquan forms aswell.
My teacher told me that it''s mostly bullshit.
That it''s not real martial arts and only good for cultivating health.
The Chen Style Taichiquan was formed by ChenChang Xing. It was madebecause he was coerced into teaching goverment Taichi. Chen Chang was reluctant, but with no choice he drew inspiration from the Xing Yi Quan animal styles, other martial arts and his own experiencesof using Taichi to create the Chen Style Taichiquan; something that gives the feel of Taichi without the real core.
But how would they know?
Yang Lu Chan, and later his grandson Yang Cheng Fu, further devolped it into the Yang Style Taijiquan. Li Tian Ji then created the Taichi 24 forms based off of all of them in the 1900''s, he''s known as the father of modern Taichiquan. (AN: Holy crap 3 Off/of''s in one sentence.)
(AN: Arghhhh so much switching tabs with those3paragraphs. Need to get the names and dates right.)
My teacher said Taichi only has two moves, just like the Yin-Yang simbol sometimes used to represent it.
Sensing force (Yin) and using force (Yang), thats it.
However to sense force effectivly you need to open your pores, and to use force effectivly you need to to know how to open and close pores at will. Thats why I said I will only practise Taichi after training my pores and also why I don''t really see Taichi as a martial arts.
(AN: Notemy different uses of the wordsTaichiquanand Taichi. I differentiate the two, they are not the same.)
Right now I am going to start working on closing and opening my pores. This shouldn''t cause any harm to mother dearest so I''ve no hesitation.
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Three weeks. It took threewhole weeks to finally get my pores to close, albeit breifly. It is much harder than to do than it was on Earth.
You know that feeling when you pushtwoNorth ends of a magnet to together? Now imagine there are hundreds of magnets you are trying to push together, and more are being made everyday. Thats how hard it was. And you have to do them all together, If you close only one or two then the "pressure" that you felt when closing them would be added to every single other pore. Closing them groups at a time is the worst thing to do, you have to do them all at once.
But likemost martial arts stuff the first time was the hardest. From know on it should just get more easy with every try. Not to forget that I''m still in the womb, this should be much more easy outside. Probably.
You know in Xianxia novels they sometimes go "Did you start training in you mothers woumb or something!?"
Yes, yes I did.
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In the last three weeks I''ve had other changes other than my pore training.
My heartbeat is becoming more pronounced, this is the point where the outside can start picking it up with the help of a doppler device. Somewhere in week 15 I noticed dull orange light through my eyelids, because I had other stuff to do it wasn''t as exciting asI thought it''d be. Also at around week 16 I got the urge to contract and expand my chest; doing so let fluid into my lungs, probably in preperation for breathing, something I had forgoten to practice.
Breathingexercises was henceforth added to the daily routine.
I''m about the size of a lemon bynow.
Oummmmm~
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Week 17 and shit is getting real. I can feel urine.
I can also hear now, I mean properly.Noisesfrom outside are starting to reach me and I can hear my heartbeat in tune with mothers
I spent a while listening to outside, trying to distinguish which one''s mother.
Don''t really care about dad though. My past life''s dad was not exactly good so maybe that''s why.
Getting irittated just thinking of it...
Meditation is needed.
Oummmmm~
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Week 18 and I''m getting urges to move around more.
My imaginary staimna bar is bigger than before so it''s no problem, I just added extra spine training. My limbs do occasionally twitch though.
I think it''s at this point that my mother starts to feel the movement.
Hello mummy~
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7 days since I got urges to swing my arms around.
Week 19 and I''m getting urges to make silly faces. It''s quite fun and a good strees reliever.
I''ve distinguished the beautiful voice (bias, they''re all muffled) as my mothers. Whenever I hear someone else''s voice I make stupid faces at them.
Get away from my mother you bastards!
Grrrrrr~
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Week 20, about halfway.
At this point I''m carrot sized.
This week was just as eventful as week 13 for just one reason
Little Thunder Jr is alive.
I cried manly tears.
I''ve been groping around there for a while and now it''s confirmed. I have a dick!
Your son has been born old friend...
Hehe, you look just like your father when he was young Jr.
Let me tell you, when me and your dad teamed up, we were the ultimate duo.
I''ll tell you some of our heroic deeds to pass the time...
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More urges, this time to hicup.
I''m also growing hair. I don''t mean the one on my head, they''ve been growing for a while. I mean Lanugo, fine soft hair that should keep me warm.
The Lanugo and devolping body fat is there to keep my growing body warm.
However with my training the body is being kept warm anyway and the body fat is being burnt away.
I can still feel it however, it''s like it''s merged with me, strengthening my muscles. An unfamiliarfeeling but a nice one none the less. Another wonder of the human body.
I will meditate to try and feel out the changes.
Oummmmm~
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I can hear clearer.
Not everything, just everything that is mothers; her voice, her heartbeat, her stomach churn,organs workand blood flow. I can hear all of it clearly.
With this level of intimacy I may become a yandere, no joke.
Most likley my brain is going through some rapid devolpment. It''s not only sounds, Ican also see light clearer. Sometimes I even get the urge to turn away from bright things, I am resisisting it however, I want to get used to light as soon as possible.
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Mango sized fetus.
Week 23. I feel someting like pores but not exactly pores on my tounge during training. They are taste buds.
During the past life I felt my tastebuds at the time of opening my pores aswell. I remember asking teacher why there were poresnot on my skinand him explaining...
I remennised a bit.
My organs are developing nicely and functioning well.
However.
There is also something unfamiliar around my navel. I''m worriedthere maybe something wrong with me and paniced a bit. Fortunatly it does not seem to be interfearing with anything.
I need to meditate to calm myself.
Oummmmm~
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Week 24
I feel something developing in my lungs. It feels like paint.
I think it''s there to renforce them after birth
Also hair.
There is quite a bit on my head now.
Lanugo is mostly gone though.
The thing around my navel is also growing. Its troubling.
Oummmmm~
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Figured out what that thing that was bothering me was. Through intelligent deduction? No no, this thing told me:
*Oumm*
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Oh yeah... I was in Narutoverse wasn''t I. Forgot about that.
Deja vu?
Next thought: How should I train this thing then?
I''m a training maniac.
Didn''t expect any thing but I checked anyway.
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No dice.
Deja vu much?
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I lost count of the days when Iimersed myself in meditationtrying to move mychakra, but now I have nails. I noticedmy fingersstarted to wiggle unintentionally.
Not much luck with the chakra other than being able to move it a bit within my dantian. It feels like there is a pressure inside my dantian stiffling the chakra''s movement.
Maybe when the ever growing Chakra network (meridians) connect with each other will the pressure in the dantian be relieved.
By the way, I noticed the chakra network grow shortly after I sunk into deep meditation. They were like tree roots growing out from the swirling shaped dantian. I can''t move my chakra into the pathways because there is blockage at the entrance to every pathway, it''s like a seal.I am working at grinding it away with my Chakra but it''s tiring.
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I remember it''s around week 26 that the immune system starts developing so I must be around there.
Lymph nodes, spleen and other stuff are developing. I feel myself getting stronger, not in a muscle or bone way. But more the sence of invulnerability is growing. Something I experienced many times in the past life, whenever I complete a new move or find I''ve grown taller that feeling grows.
The feeling of confidence.
Looking forward to fighting people on the outside, my emotions go into slight disaray.
I should meditate to calm my mind.
Oummmmm~
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Weeks 28 and 29 developents were mainly focused on my legs. They grew stronger, both muscle and bone. Now my kicks should be quite forceful and blunt so I have to take care durng training not to harm mother.
Little Thunder Jr grew bigger.
The Chakra network is almost complete, only the head, heart and a few other tenketsu left to conect but they sure are taking their time.
At the end of week 29 I should be atleast cabbage sized.
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Week 30 and 31 were similar. The brain and eyes developed.
At week 30 I could keep my eyes open for extended periods and have been training my sight.
Mainly just focusing and unfocusing, moving and blinking my eyes. Nothing I haven''t done before but the results of hard work are already showing. At this point a normal baby''s visionwould be reather poor, but I can already see the veins of the woumb clearly.
I guess seeing the fruits of my labor showing spured me on.
Week 31 and I feel a definite change with my brain.All details have become slightly sharper, that includes all five senses. I think my brain is now more fully developed.
When mum talks I start picking up sentences unconsciously. I think this is the time when normal baby''s start to learn language. Earlier thanI would''ve thought.
Japanese was never my first language but honestly, I had listened to so much anime that sometimes I would even think in Japanese! Picking up the languagewhilst trainingwas added to the agenda.
(AN: Seriously, I learnt Spanish, French, Latin and Japanes at school. Plus I my family speeks a mix of Arabic, Hindi, Gujarati and Tamil. Sometimes I do think in one of thoselanguages, although mainly Japanese and English.)
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AllTenketsu... CONNECTED!
The moment my Chakra network Compleated all tenketsu points throbed. A burst of pure power came from the crown of my head and the tenketsu at my heart. They both charged along my merdians, bypassing all blockage formed at each tenketsu, and slamed into the seal stiffling my dantian.
At this point my hard work an persistance one again bore fruit.
Ever since I developed the datian andfirst got that 1 point of chakra, I''ve persistantly grinded it against the seal like blockagelocking it in.Althoughthere wasn''t any chance of breaking out anytime soon, I had grinded away almost halfof the blockage.
Normally when aman runs into a wall they go around it no? I didn''t. I continued to run against it, even if it were iron, steel or dimond, I would continue to run at it with the will of an immortal zombie cockroach. That undying will is what drove me to perfection in the last life without even knowing it.
That willhas once again pushed me slightly closer to idealperfection.
The combined power from the heart and head would have just barely cleared away the sealing blockage around the dantian and then disapear but now with half of it gone...
And...
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Booyah baby.
Sorry I didn''t get this out yesterday, but as you can see. It''s quite long
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Chapter 4 - Fetus part 4
Chapter4 - Fetus [More wuxia shit]
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(Find the option to change theme at the botom of the web page)
The time passed from when power surged from my head and heart, to getting a message saying [Dantian unlocked], was only around five seconds. However they were a very eventful five seconds.
Manygood things happened in those five seconds.
The first one was:
When Tenketsu were forming on my meridians, they each came with the same seal like blocakage that I had arond my dantian, yet the poweres from HH (heart and head) completely bypassed them.
No, more like went through them. Each one of the blockages are now more sturdy than before but they no longerblock the meridian path itself, only the tiny hole thatlets chakra out.
I''ll have to clear them later.
Second good thing was when the HH powers slamed into my sealed dantian.
If I was a normal baby the seal blokage around the dantian would be left untouched. The HH powers would just barely clear away the blockage and dissapate after it used up its energy.
However; I had already grined away half of the seal already so the HH energy only had to use hlaf of its energy to clear away the blockage. What hapened next was like oil meeting fire; fire being my chackra and oil being the HH power.
As soon as the HH power touched my chackra it was instantly dyed blue and I got the:
After that all my chakra was pulled towards the tenketsu poin in the middle of my dantian, as if drawn in by gravity. The chakra instantly disappeared into it and I feltit pulse throungmychakra networkitslef, not through the chakra network but the chakra network itself.
The chakra in the network was once again drawn to dantian tenketsu (temp name) and pooled into my dantian, this time in an even greater quatitiy.
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...Welp thats what happened.
All in 5 seconds.
I really need to meditate this time.
Oummmmmmmmmm~
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Daily rotine has been altered.
Moving on.
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How do you deal with big changes?
Youjust deal with it.
Week 32. It really feels like I''mshedding my old self.
The final remains of the Lanugo have been cast off, and circulation in my body seems to have improved with the completion of the chakra network. Skeletal muscles are growing even stonger and the bones themselves are hardening even more.
The body fat I''m burning into muscle are also showing some changes; from time to time they will ripple, as if it''s semi-solid,causing the spaces between each muscle fibre decreases.
This means that not only do I avoid looking like a buff monster baby, but my muscles have become moretough and exposive.
Also sinceit makes meslightly smaller I waste less energy keeping warm.The changes with my musclemay seem miniscule to the outside but as a 40cm long fetus; it makes a differnce.
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Week 33.
On EarthI could open and close my pores with each step, or play with them to the beat of music. There was no tiredness caused by opening them and it only tooka split second for them to close.
Unfortunately I''m nowhere near that level. Opening my pores has a slight delay from when I will them to open to when they open, closing pores even slower.It''s also very tiring and needs alot of concentration, nothing like the almost subconcious control I had over them in the past life.
However it''sbarely at a satisfactory level for what I want to do next.
I want to clean up my waste a bit.
However I should first explain a bit about how pores affect your body.
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Your body is like a car underwater and your pores the door.
It''s diffiult to open the doors when the car is in the water because the water pressure is sealing it closed.
There are two ways to open the doors.
The smart one is to let water into the car so thatthe pressure difference outside the car and inside the car is less.
Now imagine the water is Qi/Ki and the car you body. That was the old way of opening your pores, with cultivation and shit.
Unfortunately, neither me nor my teacher had mysterious inheritances from unknown "grandpas".
So we had to open the doors the stupid way.
Brute force
If the person inside is strong enough to offset the water pressure then the doors open fine no?
Do you even lift bro?
Now lets imagine the person in the car as a substance called "force" or "hidden force".You might haveheard of them in wuxia novels?
Hidden force is not just something like pushing or pulling; it''s an invisible and intangible substance that is cultivated through martial arts, and is only useable to those who have control over their pores.
Don''t question it too much.
Hidden force is very useful, although not as much as Qi if the stories are anything to go by. It can''t heal injuries by itself, you can''t bind swords with it and you can''t accend to immortality with it (probably).
However you can add it to your attacks to make them more devestating. If used correctly you can use them to set broken bones, and close injuries when used with the correct knowledge.
I refuse to make a Jedi joke
Elementry use of force is simply circulating it around your blood stream to lessen bruises.
It can also do lots ofother stuff to your body, including cleaning up your waste a bit...
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It''s basic courtesy not to make mess or trouble for your host no?
Right now all my waste is going to mother to deal with. Not only that but because I''m always working myself to the brink in training I probably consume more than other babies.
I don''t want to stop my training thus I decided that I should at least deal with my waste.
This was a technique I was taught in my past life. It might be better to call it a trick as it has no name.
My teacher said it''s what martial artists developed when therewas toolittle food tosustain theirpractising.
The effects are less wate = less wated food =less food needed =can continue practice.
The trick can also be used in a variaty of other situations: when a martial artist is marching to war and wants tokeep their condition good, or even when a martial artist is pregnant they would somethimes use this for the benefit of the baby and mother.
I keep saying martial artist because it''s a trick that only those with good control over their pores and Hidden force can use.
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The first part of it is away of eating that efficiently destroys your food and turns it into enregy.
When the food reaches your gut you place hidden force onto it. I won''t go into how you control force because it''s a pain but anyway; you place force on the food.
As long as you don''t will it the force will not disturb your food because it''s intangible.
At this point you have to make sure your pores are completely closed.
Next you have to will your force to integrate with the food so that it''s not on, but one with the food. Once possession of the food is complete you open you pores swiftly at the same time. This creates a vacuum like occurance and the force, as if gas, rushes to the openings (pores) without you willing it at all.
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The force is already intergrated with the food. where the food goes the force goes, and where the force goes the food goes. Of corse the food can''t go to the skin like the force but it will go as war as it can: slamming into the insides of your gut the food will get dispersed and broken down, good for digestion.
However if it were only that then it would be a bit disappointing no?
When the hidden force is forceably (lol) drawn to the pores it also takesa little ofanother intangible energy with it. It''s got no name but my teacher, myself plus everyone else who sense it belive that is is something that''s normally broken downthrough the digestive system and only shows itself as glucose or something. The intangible energy thats drawn away with the hidden force isthe raw form of glucose... maybe?
Again.
Don''t question it too much.
That nameless energy is the core of the second part of the trick.
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Unlike Hidden force cultivated through hard work,this unnamed energy from food doesn''t stick around for long.
If you just leave it alone it will dissipate into your body as energy, rejuvenating and stimulating( ?¡ã ?? ?¡ã) the body slightly.
Which is good and all but my aim is to eliminate waste right now.
Once the unnamed energy reaches the pores with the hidden force I hold it there by closing my pores and putting hidden force and the unnamed energy into a stasis like condition. Of course little bits of the energy will dissipate but like I said it''s not a bad thing.
At this point you just need to hold the two intangible buddies where they are, near the skin, and wait for food to digest normally.
Once all the usefull stuff has been absorbed you are left with the waste, shit and piss.
This is where you use the unnamed energy. You can''t move the unnamed energy by it''s self so I have to push and pull it with Hidden force.
To destroy waste you do nearly the exact oposite of step 1.
I first open my pores, slowly so as not to create suction. I decide on where I want to destroy, piss or shit.
Just like how I moved the hidden force onto the food in part one I slowly move the hidden force and unnamed energy towards a destination.
Once the hidden force and energy are moving I slam close my pores much like I flinged them open in the first stage. Slamming close my pores create an effect like breathing out, exept inside. If that makes any sense at all.
The slamming close of the pores give the slow moving energies the push they need and they hit the waste.
Hidden foce will break the waste up a bit but the real stuff happens when the unnamed raw energy hits the waste; it''s like some sort of chemical reaction, both the unnamed energy and whatever waste it turn into something like pure energy that gets sucked up by the body.
The pure energy is much like the unnamed energy except it cannot be touched or guided, not even with hidden energy. But the effects of the pure energy on the bodyis simmilar to unnamed energy, maybe slightly less.
However the biggest benefit to me and my mother right now is not the pure energy but the decrease is waste.
On Earth I could decrease waste by at least 80%, sometimes even as much as 90%. Although I''m no where near that level I converted a lot more waste than I thought I would: about 10% - 15%, which is good for a first try. My first try on Earth resulted in only a mere 5% decrease in waste.
I think it''s easier playing with hidden force and the like in the womb because I''m completely supported, most likely I''ll have to retrain myself a bit in the cot.
But that''s for the future.
Right now I should be editing my daily shedule
Havn''t done this in a while...
Oummmmmm~
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Week 34
More twitching and urges. First it was my lungs then movement, hicups, hearingand now my eyes this time. Did they twitch a bit before? That was just me seeing light I think.
Whatever.
Eyes occasionally open and close without me willing it. Honestly I don''t know how far ahead I am in development anymore. Opening and closing eyes is soooo week 30.
I think I''m pumpkin sized.
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Week 35
At this point I could be birthed early with little to no long term problems.
I am rapidly gaining fat, and just as rapidly converting it into muscle. I was slightly worried that I would become buff baby but the muscles are condensing more often and show signs of a quantitativechange. I''m not too worried.
With around five weeks untill normal babies are born my head is gradually rotating downwards towards the birth canal.
Things are starting to feel real...
I need to meditate, no use panicing now.
Oummmmmm~
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Week 36
My bones have been storing calcium have become even stronger, the bones on my head are not fully fused to allow flexibility during birth.
I should be happy my bones are becoming stronger still, however no matter how stong they are they can''t defend me from the hurt of being abandoned.
I don''t want to be hated...
Did I over do it?
Did I hurt my mother with my training?
My emotions are jumping.
Maybe because my birth is close my legs are starting to kick more and I''m running out of room in the womb.
But I can''t help but see it as me being nervous.
I know it''s illogical.
Hating my nervousness.
Beating myself up over it.
Telling myself it''s illogical.
It''s a vicious cycle.
It''s claustrophobic
It''s scary.
I can''t even meditate.
My legs feel week even though ther''re kicking.
Stop.
Stop
Please stop...
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Week 37
I am full term.
I''m scared
I can feel it.
I''m scared
I will be born soon.
I''m scared
I relised for the first time how small I.
I''m scared.
Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry
I said I was going to update...
SLIDING DOGEZA!
AHHHHHHH! I''M SHO SOWWY!!!
As a shutin who hates traveling, planes, hot places, and leaving the bed. I had thought that Dubai would be shit, and I wound stay in the hotel room the whole time.Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere.
I was wrong
My family isn''t exactly rich so I was expecting some budget hotel with a sun heated pool on the roof or something.
I was wrong
For whatever reason my parents decided to splurge and I went to the swankiest hotel I''d ever been to.
The place I went to is called the "Jebel Ali Golf Resort"
Google it.
You will see why I coun''t write.
Chapter will be coming from now on.
This time there''s nothing to distract me.