Orange

We are 15 weeks along, oh my! Our little one is now the size of a navel orange. He has grown so much in the last month even though he/she still only weighs about 2.5 or 3 oz. I read in our baby book a few really fascinating things that are going on this week. This week our little can start to sense light, they can’t actually see because their eyelids are still shut, but if we were to shine a flashlight on my belly he/she would sense the light and most likely move away from it. The other thing that stuck out to me was that this week he/she will be spending a lot of time practicing breathing by actually inhaling and exhaling amniotic fluid.

Now that the bathroom is finally done we’re going to move onto getting ready for the nursery. First we need to rearrange some rooms in the house. The office will be moving downstairs to the spare room, our bedroom will move to the old office in the front of the house, and we’ll have the nursery where our room is now because it’s in the back of the house and will be quieter etc. So this week I’m going to try to finish clearing out and organizing all the extra junk that’s in the spare room and Andy is going to move the office furniture to the spare room downstairs. Maybe we’ll even paint what will be our bedroom this weekend or prob next week. I’m looking forward to getting to have a space for our little one, even if it will be empty for a while until we start to decorate and get the crib and all.

I’ll do a post on our DC trip soon with pics and all soon. I just don’t have them at work with me right now. We had a fabulous time though, it was a great trip!

We got to see our baby!!

We got to see our baby yesterday!! It was so incredible, we actually got to see our baby, and he/she looks like one this time. In the last ultrasound he/she mostly looked like a pulsating grain of rice, which was still amazing, but my he/she has come a long way in 4 weeks or so. We were so excited to get to see our little guy, we got to see the head, and face; nose, eyes, mouth and all. His/her legs and feet, arms and hands, belly, neck, and even their heart beating away. The ultrasound tech said that he/she was being very cooperative and was in a great position, which I'd like to hope will continue! It was so cool, we got to see him/her moving around.

The tech was able to the measurements so easily she decided to try to get a good 4D image for us. It was absolutely incredible, we could see him moving around in there in real time, and he was moving a ton! He was wiggling his legs and had his arms up by his head moving them up and down as if he was dancing; then he got a bit tired of all the 'dancing' and decided to suck his thumb. It was so incredible! We were so excited we could hardly contain ourselves. It was definitely an amazing moment for Andy and I to get to share together. It's such a miracle that God has made it so that this all works so perfectly.

It's amazing seeing how much he's moving around and how much he has already grown into the little person he will become. I still don't feel anything that's going on so it's just astonishing to see it. He/ she's really responds to my movements as well already, the tech pushed on my tummy a few times and it made him bounce around a bunch. I think getting to see the ultrasound really helps us both, it continues to make it more real even though I can't feel any of it and neither of us can see too much of a difference in me size wise yet.

So they checked around the neck and checked the length of the nose because that is where they would see signs if there was a problem with extra chromosomes, and everything looked good. So they are sending some blood work off to check some other things as well but so far it looks good. The heart beat is at 155 which they said was perfect for where we're at.

3 months!

We’ve made it to the 3 month mark! We go in for our 12 week appointment today (a week late so it’s kinda our 13 weeks apt) and are really excited about it. All weekend we’ve been talking about how we get to go see our baby today! We’ll have another ultrasound today and also hear our babies’ heart beat! Andy hasn't heard the heart beat yet, so I'm really looking forward to getting to hear it together! Our baby should look more like a baby in this ultrasound rather than the little dot we saw in the first one. We are having the nuchal fold scan done today which will check for spina bifida, Down syndrome, and other chromosomal abnormalities. So I’m feeling a bit nervous about it, but God has taken care of everything so far and I know He will continue to do so. It will still be good to hear the doctor say that everything is normal and our little one is still growing like he/she should be.

So now that we’ve made it to the 3 month mark we’ve started telling more friends and extended family as it comes up. It’s been really great to get to start sharing our good news with everyone! Although, we’ve spent the last 3 months trying to be careful to not say anything about it and not to spill the beans, it’s odd at times to be able to actually talk about it now. But it’s exciting to get to share it with others! I’m thinking that I need to tell work soon, I think a few people are a bit suspicious, including my boss, and the frequent doc appointments don’t help. So I’m thinking that this week I’ll sit down with my boss and let him know. I think Andy will let his work people know as well, we have his company picnic sat so I’m sure they will all find out then if not before that.