Ultrasound pictures! 23w5d

Oooh, twice in one day. Thought I would go ahead and get these up while I have a minute.

Definitely a girl!

Doesn't she look like she's smiling?

Her legs looks really long! What's up with that?! We all know I certainly don't have long legs.

I think this one is my favorite! It's so cool to think she's playing in there.

Finally got Luke to feel the baby kick. Thursday evening she was moving around in there, so I put his hand on my stomach. Of course she stops, but since we were watching tv he just left his hand there and waited. She moved, and I asked if he had felt that, and he said yeah, but he wasn't going to say anything because he wasn't sure if that's what it was.

And then yesterday he got to see her moving. First time that I've been able to see the movement on my stomach, like a quick ripple. It's pretty cool.

24 weeks now. I can't believe I'm almost done with my second trimester already. It feels like it's starting to race by. We need to get started on the nursery and look at child care for when I go back to work. Which scares the crap out of me. We've had just enough bad experiences with home child care for Zane that I'm really nervouse about leaving her somewhere.

I knew it had been a while since I had updated, but didn't realize that it had been over a month. :(

Lots of definite baby movements now. Less fluttetring, more jabbing and kicking. I'm starting to feel more of the movements higher up, more around my belly button and a little above. She's such a stinker- she'll move a bunch at night, so I'll have Luke put his hand on my stomach, then she won't do anything. Silly girl. You can feel most of the movements when you put your hand on my stomach, it's just a matter of catching her at the right time. She really starts up around 9:00 each evening. Coincidentally, so does my heartburn. Ugh. That started up a few weeks back, and I'm wanting to know if I seriously have to do this for the next 16 weeks?! Peanut butter, one of the greatest loves of my life, is a serious offender right now. Zane and I went to get sno cones last week and I had horrendous heartburn within 15 minutes. It's sugar and water! Really?!

With the much warmer weather last week I had some definite foot swelling. Friday evening it was a straight line from my ankles to my foot. Ew. With the slightly cooler weather this week I haven't had any problems. Just wait until we hit the middle of August!

My supervisor is talking about the possibility of me being able to come back to work a week or so early and get a lot of my home visits out of the way then. They would then just tack that extra time worked onto my maternity leave. What a relief that would be, because I'm so worried about getting all my home visits done and meeting all of my parents before I have the baby. And it would drag out the paid portion of my maternity leave a lot more. I'm still trying to decide what I want to do about that. I'm leaning more towards 8 weeks now, but we also have to look at what we can afford. I guess we could always set aside some of the money I make from summer school to offset the smaller paycheck in October.

Sex check is tomorrow! Please be good baby and let us see what you are for sure. I've been using our girl name (and no, we aren't telling ahead of time!) for the last 6 weeks now, so hopefully that's what you really are. Although muffled it wouldn't sound that far off from our boy name, so she/he won't be too confused. :)

I wonder if I can backdate posts, because I'd like to go back and fill in things I've written down over the last month. And add in my first sono pictures. I have got to do a better job of this once she's actually out!

Baby movement and shopping

Friday was the first day that I was almost positive that I was feeling some baby movement. I've been wondering since the beginning of last week actually. Friday morning when I woke up I flipped over on my stomach (enjoy that while it lasts, Shannon!) I must not have done that for awhile, because I noticed that it feels like I'm laying on top of a baseball. Weird feeling. So I'm laying there for a minute, and start to feel something. I decided to hold my breath and see if it was my heartbeat or something. Still felt it. Everyone says it feels like gas, but that's not quite it either. I guess that's the closest thing to it, but I wouldn't really say that describes it either.

I've noticed it quite a bit this weekend, and then again today at work. If this child turns out to be as active when she comes out as she has been this weekend and from what we've seen on the ultrasounds..... Oh boy. :)

In other news, I have garage sale fever. A gal at work told me I have to garage sale-ing for baby clothes once I know what I'm having, because you can find some fabulous things for very cheap. So I checked out one last Friday morning and went to a kind of city-wide type one at Kenwood Hall on Saturday. The one on Friday was all baby boy clothes, and the glider they were selling had just been sold right before I got there. Drat! I need a glider and footstool, and $20 would have been a steal. :( I had better luck on Saturday though. I walked away with a hooded bath robe, 2 onesies, 2 wooly footie sleepers, and a cute! purple sundress for $2 total. Yay me! I figure, yeah, we're not 100% sure baby is a girl, but if not, then I'm only out $2. The two dresses that I bought (one at Target, one at Babies-R-Us) are sitting with their receipts in the nursery, so they can be exchanged if need be.

Shopping for baby girl clothes is like crack.

17 weeks today! I hope my whole pregnancy continues to go as quickly as it has so far. It doesn't seem like I should be this far along yet. (I say "this far along" like I don't still have over halfway to go!)



Our ultrasound was last Monday. The tech was able to see all the parts very clearly except for the spine, because the baby was laying on it's back, instead of face down like (I guess) they usually do. What she could see of the spine looked good, as did everything else. Heart has four chambers and the heartbeat is strong. Bladder, kidneys and stomach all appear to be in working order. At this point, she wouldn't give us a definitive answer, so we have to go back in six weeks, but she thought that............



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(So much for my intuition, eh?)

Luke made the comment later that evening that he won't be able to relax until the day she's married. Ha. He's going to be *that* dad, apparently. :)


She could still yet turn out to be a he, and the necessary parts were just not viewable in the ultrasound. Dr. Knox said that at this point she won't commit unless she sees an obvious penis, but we can pretty much count on a girl. And when we go at 22 weeks for the check, supposedly she's never been wrong. That better be the case, because how much would that suck to have a room full of pink and out pops a boy?


So even though it's not a definite for-sure thing yet, I'm going to find something pink and girly to buy tomorrow. And keep the receipt just in case....


Will post ultrasound pics and a new belly pic later. It's midnight, and I really shouldn't be up still. I made the mistake of taking a nap late this afternoon, and didn't wake up until almost 7:30. Ah well, it's Spring Break. I have nowhere to be tomorrow or Monday (Zane's at his mom's house) so it won't be that big of a deal if I'm a little off.

Belly pics!

This is the very first belly pic that I took. 1/8/09 - 7 weeks 5 days.

1/28/09 - 10 weeks, 4 days

This one is the most recent. 2/10/09 - 12 weeks, 3 days - Yay bump!

I haven't bothered to take a new pic yet, because I honestly don't see a difference between this one 2 weeks ago and now. I probably will over this coming weekend.

First trimester is officially over. 1/3 of the way there! :) Not much else to report right now. I feel pretty good, just really tired in the evenings.

Hey Baby,
Happy Valentines' Day! Today your Daddy and I went to Wichita to eat lunch at this amazing restaurant called Old Chicago and do a little shopping. At my insistence we went to Babies R' Us. I think we may actually agree on bedding and strollers and all of those fun things. As Daddy looked through some snowsuits on clearance, he mentioned that he's starting to feel like you're a boy too. Are we going to be in for a surprise if you're a girl. I've been referring to you as a he all along. I hope that doesn't give you issues when you get older. :) Honey, we're going to love you like crazy no matter if you're a boy or a girl. And either way, you're going to end up with some monkey things, because your dad is obsessed with monkeys for whatever reason.

Along those lines, let me again stress to you how important it is that you position yourself in such a way on March 9th so that we can see what you are. Got it?

I love you,
Mommy