more ultrasound pictures

They sent us home with a stack of pictures from our most recent ultrasound, which was done on the 19th of August. I scanned them all, just to preserve them, but I won't be sharing them all here. There are a couple that are just a little too creepy, and at least two that I have no idea what you're even supposed to be seeing. But here are the rest!
Well, blogger decided to be difficult about the formatting of this post, so I may just leave all of the picture descriptions at the top, and the pictures below. Hopefully you can figure out what it is you're looking at!
First is a picture of baby with his hand in front of his facing holding the umbilical cord. He was playing with it a lot while we were watching him. This is a 3D image, which is why it looks a little different.
To the right is a profile view of baby's face. We've decided he has my nose.
Next is another 3D picture, this one more of a profile view, with his hands up by his eyes.
To the right of that one is another, similar 3D shot, one of the creepier ones I think.
Here is a 3D shot of baby's legs!! (I've been feeling those a little bit recently - I'm sure I'll be very familiar with them by the time he arrives!)
To the right of the leg picture, another 3D face shot, a little more defined, I think.
And finally, this last shot is the one where the doctor said, you have a boy! No idea how he can tell from that, but I thought I would include it anyway, for entertainment value.









































So there you have it! Baby pictures! I've been feeling him moving around a lot more lately, which is very entertaining. I can even feel it from the outside sometimes, so Robert's been able to feel it. And I've started my registry at Target. It's really made me realize we have a real little person coming soon that we'll be taking care of!

It's a boy!!!!!!

I love how all of my post titles end with exclamation marks. But really, it's all so exciting! So, as you can see from the title, we know that we are having a boy. Knowing that makes him seem more real, more present in our lives somehow. We still have to decide on a name, but the baby and I have been discussing it, so I'm sure we'll agree on something soon.
We had a fantastic ultrasound where we got to see him move around a bunch, and even got some fairly creepy 3D pictures. I'll have to scan them and get them up here at some point, which I promise will happen soon.

20 weeks!! We're halfway there.

I am actually, finally, beginning to show a little bit! It's not quite enough for people I don't know to think I'm pregnant - for all the world knows, I just put on weight like that. But I can definitely tell, as can the people who see me regularly. For some reason I feel like this picture is not entirely accurate - I feel like it actually makes me look a little bit bigger than I am. I think I'm not standing up straight.
This is an exciting week, as you may recall . . . on Wednesday we go in for the ultrasound!! Which means more actual baby pictures, and news about the baby's gender!! We are so excited to see our little one again.
For the past week or so I have been feeling little flutters inside - not real kicks or anything, but I definitely feel someone moving around in there. One of my books called this "quickening". I know some of it may not be the baby, but I know for sure that some of it is. Soon I know I will be able to feel the baby all the time! That is exciting.
I have not been back to the doctor since my last post, so I have no updates regarding whether or not I'm still consuming too much sugar. But I have cut myself off from all the extra-sugary things that I didn't even realize I was eating so much of - ice cream, cookies, candy. If you would have asked me before, I would have told you that I don't eat very much of that stuff. Now that I'm paying attention, however, I know for a fact that that's wrong. I have also been paying attention to added sugar in stuff, but I feel like that is less important for me, since my excess sugar obviously came from all of the excessively sugary stuff I was apparently eating all the time! So hopefully this new awareness will help keep me from getting gestational diabetes, and at the same time, it's definitely making me healthier!
So, keep your eyes peeled here, I'm sure I'll have the post up as soon as I have time on Wednesday! (It is my birthday, and my mom is flying in, so it will be a busy day, but I'll get it up as soon as I can.)

Sugar!!

So I'm in trouble. Apparently I have been eating too many sugary foods, cause I got a lecture from the doctor when I went in for my visit this week. I have never been the kind of person who pays super close attention to what I eat. I figure I eat well, very little fast food (and I like to think the fast food I do eat is not as bad as McDonald's), not very much junk food, lots of vegetables and very little meat. I do love chocolate, and ice cream, so I know I'm not perfect, but still. Now I will have to pay attention to added sugar in stuff, and no more ice cream or other sugar-filled goodies for a while. (/cry)
Other than that the baby seems fine. I will probably start feeling baby move sometime around our next ultrasound, or maybe very soon thereafter. So exciting!! I am sure those updates will be infinitely more interesting.