Waiting for a new post?

Okay, so I know I haven't written much lately, but it just seems to me like not much new is happening, but I suppose that isn't really the case now that I think about it.

The baby is moving around quite a bit now and I feel it every morning when I get to work and start typing on the calculator. So I figure that the baby either really likes the noise or really hates it. Hmmm...

I was able to feel one tap on the outside of my stomach this past weekend. Jeff and I were both sitting in the living room watching TV when the baby started moving a lot, and so I put my hand on my belly just to rub it a little. I stopped moving my hand and shortly thereafter, TAP! :) I was hoping it would carry on for a while so that Jeff could feel it, but no luck with that so far.

We registered at Target a week ago. Jeff was a good sport and went along, but soon got tired and "tested" the glider in the nursery display for a while. :) He says it was a nice glider.

My belly is finally starting to look like something more than a thick waistline. I will try to remember to post some pictures later. However, my memory isn't so good lately, so we'll see!

One of Jeff's cousins and his wife are getting rid of a lot of baby items, so I have been able to get my hands on some baby clothes which is pretty exciting. Now I just need to start sorting them into tubs by age group.

We picked up our nursery set in Dickinson a few weeks ago (see pics), but are still waiting to put the crib together until the walls of the room get re-insulated, so I will update on that later. The pics are from the sellers, so the miscellaneous toys are not ours.

Guess that's all for now. Will post more after our October 10th appointment.

Ultrasound News

Just got a letter in the mail today and the Dr. said that the results from the ultrasound look perfectly normal, so that is good news. There is a little change to the due date from what I had been going by. I thought I was 20weeks as of today, but I am in fact 20W5D, which is 5 days (that's almost a week) more than I thought! Yipppeee! Due date is January 25th.

My next appointment has also been changed since I wrote last. It is now October 10th due to the Dr.'s vacation time.

Not Your Regular Lullabye!

Okay, so I couldn't resist changing the music on the webpage to something a little different! :) I thought it would be nice to show off the baby's heritage with some tunes...

Ultrasound

Today was the day we went in for the "big" ultrasound! It was really exciting, they took all sorts of measurements that will be calculated and averaged to come up with an expected due date. We also got to see some more movement. I think the funniest part for me was to see the baby's mouth opening and closing! Jeff probably has a better idea of what was seen on the ultrasound since I couldn't see the screen for almost 3/4th of the time. According to him, the baby was pretty cooperative for the pictures, then all of a sudden must've woken up and start wiggling all over the place! :)

I've posted the two pictures we were able to take home. The top picture is of the baby's abdomen on the top left, the spine along the bottom left, the neck and then the face. You can just barely make out the features on the face such as mouth, nose and eyes. The bottom picture is of one of the baby's feet. Not sure which one, but I thought it was cute! :)

Prenatal Appointment #3 (9/2/08)

The doctor explained the antibody issue with us more in detail. He said that it is called a "cold antibody", which means it is only active if my body temp should fall downwardly outside of the normal range. He also mentioned that "if we hadn't gone looking, we would have never known it existed", so it won't have an effect on the pregnancy. Strange but good news!

The doc attempted to locate the baby's heartbeat with a doppler, but was unable to find it, so he got out the office ultrasound equipment just to make sure everything was okay. :) I'm thinking the heartbeat was hard to find b/c the baby was wiggling around so much! When the doc found the baby on the ultrasound, he/she was VERY active, and you could see the heart beating...so everything was fine. I actually saw it kicking it's legs around and I couldn't feel a thing at the time, which I thought was so funny b/c it looks like he/she is trying very hard to be noticed. I actually thought it was so funny that I couldn't help but laugh, which made it harder to keep the ultrasound equipment in place on top of my "bouncing" belly.

On Friday, September 5th, I have an appointmetn at Trinity Hospital to have a "20 week ultrasound" performed. I won't be 20 weeks yet, but I guess it'll be close enough. There is some discrepency when it comes to my due date. As of today I am somewhere between 18W4D and 19W2D, so maybe we will be able to get some info on Friday that coincides with one of the dates we've received so far and we'll call that one "the date". The equipment at Trinity is suppose to be far better than that at my doctor's office, so it will be neat to see the baby in a clearer picture and have the doctor double check things to make sure that everything looks normal.

My next prenatal appointment is on September 30th.

Stay tuned... :)