Birthday present for me

Just a quick update, nothing super new to report. Baby is doing good, as near as I can tell. I have my 20 week ultrasound scheduled, which is the big one, where we get to take a really good look a baby, and find out gender and everything! I am super excited. The appointment is scheduled for my 30th birthday, which I thought would be an excellent way to celebrate! So stayed tuned for that, I am sure we will not only have pictures, but lots of news!!

16 weeks and counting

We'll try to take pictures every month or so to give you an idea of how the baby is coming along, at least from the outside. This picture really doesn't look considerably different from the one we took three weeks ago, but I certainly feel different. The skin on my tummy feels tighter, more full. Also, my belly button is starting to look funny. It is not poking out yet, but it is certainly getting pushed on from the inside.It's rather amusing.
I already feel huge, which is funny, since it's still barely noticeable for the most part. I'm pretty sure that I will not get used to it, and I'll just continue feeling like I'm very large, seeing as how I'll be getting larger. My reactions to my body are almost as entertaining as what's actually happening.
Also, I got back results of my baby's risks for certain genetic disorders. The risk for Down syndrome is 1/3646 and the risk for Trisomy 18 is 1/24041. So I think we're doing pretty good.

Ultrasound pictures!

Thanks to my wonderful friend at the Shoreline Library, I was able to get these pictures scanned (finally!). These are from two weeks ago, when I was 12 weeks, 5 days pregnant.
You can't seen much, but you can see the head, and the body. That's baby's hand in front of the face, it looks like something is sticking out of the mouth. And you can sort of see baby's legs. We could see it better in the actual ultrasound. What got printed out wasn't quite as clear.
So there you are!! We'll have another ultrasound at 20 weeks, when they'll let us know the gender of our baby (yay!), and we may have more before then, I'm not sure. I will certainly continue to post whatever pictures we have.

a visit to the Doctor

We had another brief doctor's appointment on Friday morning. They went over the results of the blood-work they did the week before, which is supposed to check for various birth defects. We are happy to say that everything looks good, but of course we were not expecting any difficulties.
We also got to hear baby's heartbeat again, which was lovely. Not much more to tell, but I promise that at some point soon I will get that ultrasound picture scanned and posted. Oh, and in 6 weeks we will be able to tell what the baby's sex is! We will definitely keep you posted!