It's been a busy month! I really didn't intend to wait this long between posts, but both Bill and I were hit with food poisoning two weekends ago and we were out of town last weekend. But I promise this is a good one.
- the baby is the size of: a navel orange!
- I am two weeks into the second trimester and feeling pretty great. no more queaziness. I'm more tired than I was before the pregnancy, but nowhere near as tired as I was between weeks 6 & 9.
- as you can see I haven't really "popped" yet, but I feel like my belly is maxing out the space it originally had. I don't feel like there's anywhere else for it to go but out at this point.
- the baby has grown A LOT. it's now about 4 inches and 2 1/2 ounces.
- we had both our third and fourth appointments. at the third appointment with the doctor, we heard the heartbeat and a new noise: the baby's little kicks! it was exciting to know that the little one is in there moving around, especially because I haven't been able to feel anything yet.
- it was at the fourth appointment on Friday (15 weeks) that we had a nice surprise. because I was asking a lot of questions during the appointment, the doctor and I got into a long conversation and both of us forgot about listening to the heartbeat. so, as I was checking out, a nurse came to get me so that they could check the heartbeat and they pulled me into the ultrasound room. so, instead of just listening to the heartbeat, I actually got to see the baby on a 3D ultrasound! So much has changed from that little smudge we saw at week 7!
there it is! a head with an eye and two little arms and two little legs! and it was moving it's tiny arms around. it was the most incredible thing i've ever seen. but because I was not scheduled to have an ultrasound and we had our last appointment so close to this one, I had told Bill it was not worth coming to this one. So, I felt TERRIBLE when I was in there getting to see this without him, especially when she showed me this:
so, surprise, it looks like we're having a girl! I commented to the ultrasound tech that maybe you couldn't tell for sure this early, but she (almost offended) said she was sure of it. of course I'm ECSTATIC (we both are) about having a girl, and we'll definitely know really truly for sure in four weeks at our 19 week appointment.
- i was so certain it was a boy, and i was so wrong.
