Princess Peach?

Your fetus is forming teeth and vocal cords... savor this, their non-functional phase. Baby is approaching normal proportions, with a head now only one third the size of the body. Intestines are in the process of moving from the umbilical cord to baby's tummy. (Much more convenient.)

Oh baby, this week you're daddy's favorite fruit. And although the thought of peaches usually turn my stomach, I've never been so excited to have one!

Whoa baby!

First off may I say that my fears about not seeing a whole lot of difference from the 11 week scan and the 12 week scan was not an issue. At all.

We found out on Tuesday that baby was measuring 12w 4d instead of 12w 1d! Two measurements were at 12w 4d and one (when the baby was balled up...) was 12w 2d. Either way the babe is a growing machine! My LMP said I would have been 12w on Tuesday but my OB said we're more like 12w 3d. We're now at August 15th, the day before the Mr's 29th birthday, which is a lovely jump from our first EDD at August 20th. Looks like August is going to be a busy month.

At any rate we got two amazing pictures of the babe and I've been staring at them wondering if I would be able to tell is the baby will be were pink or blue. Hmmm... I cannot wait. Really. So here(s)he is, in all his 12w 3d(ish) glory!

Milestone Day: 12 weeks!

Development:

This uses actual developmental stages to divide up a pregnancy. From LMP to 12 weeks the embryo develops all the major organs and becomes a fetus. From 12 weeks to 27 weeks the fetus continues developing and reaches viability. From 27 weeks on the fetus finishes development and prepares for delivery. Here the second trimester begins at 12w 0d and the third at 27w 0d.

Here we are 12 weeks. Which means Baby B is entering 2nd Tri and we're ready to spend the next 15 weeks with you!

The baby is a swimmer!

I had a surprise u/s today. I went in to check for a cyst or something that could be the cause of this crazy, sharpshooter pain I've had for four days. I was sitting on the ever-so-comfortable examine table donned in my so sexy white napkin and the midwife walks in and says "I thought I'd see her in the sono room..."

Awesome. I reminded her I had my NT scan in less than a week, but hell, who turns down a sono? Especially one the Dr. says is "necessary".

I can't put into words how incredibly shocked I was when I saw the baby. He was MOVING. Flipping and kicking and waving his arms. Moving. It was nuts. She gave me two pictures taken within seconds and you can see the baby was kicking.

I was kind of disappointed because I wanted to see a big difference between the u/s at 8 weeks and 12 weeks (which OMG there was) but now I have another u/s at about 12 weeks and I'm thinking I won't be seeing a whole ton of growth. We'll see I guess.

So here he is, at 11 weeks 3 days! Keep growing babe!

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.

New Blog

Isn't it lovely?

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!