Happy 11 Weeks!

Happy 11 weeks to you, Baby Bee! The babe is growing like crazy now and we'll get to see for ourselves on Tuesday. I'm actually starting to get nervous about the u/s next week. I want the baby to be perfect and healthy, but who doesn't? The waiting is what's kicking my ass. Today when I was telling my mom about the scan I realized that it was in a mere week. Come on Tuesday.

Hello second tri, goodbye hips

I'm only a week and a half from 2nd tri and low and behold I'm already losing my patience, losing my mind and losing my hips.

Now I know that sounds crazy but I am. Apparently my body is making room for another person and quite frankly (s)he's got a lot of shit. Just when my belly bloat, aka beer belly, started to slim down my hips, aka love handles (wink, wink, nudge, nudge), have started to take on a life of their own.

I hear this means it's a girl. ;)

Not that me and Mr. wouldn't be trilled with either but comeon' how fun are little girls? You know before the puberty and drama?

Either way, Mr. thinks it's funny to "tease" me by asking if the ultrasound tech was sure she didn't miss twins.

Hilarious. Really.

Baby Prune

With bones and cartilage starting to form and vital organs beginning to function, baby is making major progress. Body length will almost double in the next three weeks, and arm joints are now working. (Soon, legs will too.)

I had my finger stick for our NT scan in two weeks. It's crazy how much a finger stick stings! We get to see Baby B in less than two weeks!!! I'm so excited to see him/her looking like a real baby. :) Grow baby, grow!

Baby Raspberry

Yay Baby Monkey! You're growing fast!

We switched OB's yesterday since my previous one was no returning calls and the office was "forgetting" to reschedule appointments and instead letting their OB patients wait for a "1 and a half hour back up to clear up." Phst, yeah right.

My new OB office is amazing. They have three OB's and three midwives to rotate so you almost never have to wait for your Dr. to finish delivering a baby. Also, their office is in the actual hospital so that's really a no brainer for us.

We got to see Baby B again today. It's amazing the difference between the almost 7 week picture and the 8 week picture. He actually looks like a little person now instead of a blob. Baby measured 8w 2d today when only 8 days ago he was measuring 6w 6d. I think that the first u/s tech just didn't get the best picture to measure, and at 7 weeks(ish) the baby is sooo small, it's gotta be hard to tell when you have him all on the screen... at any rate the hb was in the 160s today (last week it was 140), so we're happy about that, too!




We scheduled our NT scan for 2/3 so we will get to see Baby B at 12 weeks, too! I've seen some other girls 12 week u/s and they are really amazingly different so we're really excited about that one too!

Our big u/s will be around 18 weeks and I believe we have another u/s around 26 weeks to measure baby. Not to mention that our awesome OB does 3D/4D u/s between 28-32 weeks, too. So we'd like to get those as well.

I feel really lucky that we are getting so many opportunities to see the baby.

Two months down, only 4w 5d until we're in 2nd tri!

Baby's first photo shoot!

Baby B measured almost right on (6w 6d) and his HB was 140. Such a relief seeing that little heart beating :). Now just 6 weeks to go until 2nd tri!

Baby Blueberry

This week Baby B is the size of a blueberry. Tomorrow is our first u/s and hopefully we'll get to see a heartbeat. I'm almost done with month two but I already feel like I'm the size of a house. Only six more weeks until we're out of first tri!