The days just fly by so quickly…it’s unbelievable. When I last checked in I was 12 weeks pregnant (or so I thought...more on that in a minute) and due on September 13. Here are a few belly pictures. We haven’t been so great at remembering to take them, and in the beginning there was no point because there wasn’t really a belly to take a picture of! Read on to find out why there are two different timelines.
13 weeks/14w4d
15w2d/16w6d
17s1d/18w5d
18w2d/19w6d (Today)
This pregnancy has been going amazingly well. I’m so lucky to have had it easy thus far and we hope everything continues to go well for the second half. I won’t bore you with every single milestone and detail, but I did start feeling little flutters of movement a week and a half ago. When I first felt it I told Bryan, “Um, I think I feel the baby. But really, I have no idea if that’s what this is.” My parents came over later that night and I described the feeling to my mom. She started jumping up and down and yelling, “Oh my gosh, that was the baby! You felt the baby!” And then I started jumping up and down and my dad and Bryan looked at us like we were crazy. Whatever, they’re just jealous.
We had our first ultrasound (no reason for any before this point) on Monday and it seriously was the most amazing thing ever. Really breath-taking and tear-inducing for both of us. The tech and the doctor both said everything looks absolutely perfect so far and to hear that just lifts this huge weight off of your shoulders.
The pics are scanned in and a little hard to see here. The first one is the classic profile shot, the second one is the (kind of freaky looking) 3D image of the face, and the bottom one is a shot of a foot!
We still don’t want to find out the baby’s gender, so the tech had us look away while she checked out that business. It’s kind of weird that there are people out there who know what we’re having even though we don’t. I asked the tech what the ratio is of people finding out/not finding out and she said it was about 50/50. I was really surprised to hear that because every time I tell someone we’re not finding out the sex, they look at us like we’re crazy. Our reasoning is that there are so few true and real surprises in life, why would you willingly take such a big one away from yourself? Just to feel more in control? But, to each his own.
Oh, and when the tech was taking the baby’s measurements, she asked us how sure the doctor was about our due date. I didn’t really know how to answer that since there was really no way of knowing before this except to go by the date of my last period. She said we were measuring ahead of the 18w1d we thought we were on Monday. By the time everything was said and done, we walked out of the doctor’s office being 19w5d! So holy something Batman! We’re way closer to the halfway point than we thought. My weeks used to turn over on Sundays, now they turn over on Wednesdays. So Wednesday I will be exactly 20 weeks and halfway there!! That is really just insane. I actually feel kind of cheated out of 11 days of development. Which obviously isn’t the case and kind of silly, but oh well, that’s how I feel. So now my due date is September 2, which, coincidentally, is also my MIL’s birthday!
After our appointment we spent the afternoon touring 3 different daycare centers and my head is still spinning! That stuff deserves its own post.
Also deserving of their own posts? Cloth diapering and maternity clothes. See, I have lots of stuff to talk about (even if it is all pregnancy/child related…you should probably just get used to it). It’s just that the days don’t have enough hours in them.
We had our first ultrasound (no reason for any before this point) on Monday and it seriously was the most amazing thing ever. Really breath-taking and tear-inducing for both of us. The tech and the doctor both said everything looks absolutely perfect so far and to hear that just lifts this huge weight off of your shoulders.
The pics are scanned in and a little hard to see here. The first one is the classic profile shot, the second one is the (kind of freaky looking) 3D image of the face, and the bottom one is a shot of a foot!We still don’t want to find out the baby’s gender, so the tech had us look away while she checked out that business. It’s kind of weird that there are people out there who know what we’re having even though we don’t. I asked the tech what the ratio is of people finding out/not finding out and she said it was about 50/50. I was really surprised to hear that because every time I tell someone we’re not finding out the sex, they look at us like we’re crazy. Our reasoning is that there are so few true and real surprises in life, why would you willingly take such a big one away from yourself? Just to feel more in control? But, to each his own.
Oh, and when the tech was taking the baby’s measurements, she asked us how sure the doctor was about our due date. I didn’t really know how to answer that since there was really no way of knowing before this except to go by the date of my last period. She said we were measuring ahead of the 18w1d we thought we were on Monday. By the time everything was said and done, we walked out of the doctor’s office being 19w5d! So holy something Batman! We’re way closer to the halfway point than we thought. My weeks used to turn over on Sundays, now they turn over on Wednesdays. So Wednesday I will be exactly 20 weeks and halfway there!! That is really just insane. I actually feel kind of cheated out of 11 days of development. Which obviously isn’t the case and kind of silly, but oh well, that’s how I feel. So now my due date is September 2, which, coincidentally, is also my MIL’s birthday!
After our appointment we spent the afternoon touring 3 different daycare centers and my head is still spinning! That stuff deserves its own post.
Also deserving of their own posts? Cloth diapering and maternity clothes. See, I have lots of stuff to talk about (even if it is all pregnancy/child related…you should probably just get used to it). It’s just that the days don’t have enough hours in them.
