Ultrasound

Since I couldn't get my editing program to save the ultrasound video I made, I instead saved a couple freeze frames from it of my favorite pictures. These were taken back at 18 weeks.

This one is my favorite of Baby's little hand and the top of her head, which is the portion to the right. I'm just amazed at how something so little can have such a perfect little hand.

This one is of her laying on her side with her little feet and legs curled up to her chest. It is like she is using the placenta as her bed. Her head is to the right, then you can see her bent knees and her little feet. She is just too cute.

I had another ultrasound recently, but I have to have Pete scan the images for me at work, so those will be coming later. Now that she is getting bigger you can't really see her whole body in one ultrasound picture, that is why I love those when she is little, so I can see all of my little bean.

Last Week of 1st Trimester!

Just got back from my Aunt Sally's Farm yesterday. It was so much fun to see the family and tell them all the exciting news. My mom was really happy too cause she didn't have to keep the secret anymore, since she had already known for a couple weeks. My brother took this picture of us while we were there, and I love it.

Can you tell that our little one is going to have blue eyes?! So today I had my Dr's check up as well as an ultrasound at the pregnancy clinic, which was great because Mom and Dad were able to come with me to it.

My Dr's visit went great. I got to hear the babies heartbeat, which was so amazing. It just makes you feel so much better when you can hear or see the baby. Then you know that all is going well since I can't feel the little bean yet.

The ultrasound was amazing. The little one was moving around all over the place. Jumping, turning, stretching the arms and legs. It is crazy to watch them doing all that movement, yet I can't feel a thing. Plus, at 12 weeks now the baby actually looks so much like a baby! Some of the pictures can be a bit scary or alien like, like this one:

Scary! I told Pete that it looks like the baby is wearing a motorcycle helmet. Definitely Pete's kid! It was cool to actually see all the parts of the baby. Like this one of the spine:

This one was the only decent one we got of the whole babies body since it was moving around so much. I think it is just precious, however, I might be biased. That little chubby belly is too cute.

My next check-up isn't for another month and hopefully sometime close to then we will be finding out the sex of the baby!!! We can't wait!

Ultrasound Training

So I got a call last week from the free pregnancy clinic saying that they were doing an ultrasound technician training and were wondering if I would be willing to come in as basically a guinea pig for them to train on. So of course I said yes! That sounded like fun.

There ended up being four girls that were receiving the training as well as the trainer there. It was awesome because I got to learn a little about what exactly it was that I was looking at. It is amazing what all they can see and tell based on slight variations in the color and texture of the grey blurry stuff.

So after the trainer, as well as all four of the trainees did their measurements of our little bean they gave me the due date of January 25th again. So many dates! Since my doctor is going by the 19th, that is what I think I am going to stick with though.

The ultrasound at 9 weeks looks even more like a little baby, with a giant Heikes noggin!!! I love this picture because the yolk sac looks like a halo. My little angel.

7 Weeks

I had my follow up appointment today and everything looked good. The ultrasound looked more like an actual baby this time and less like a paint blob. Based on the measurements from this ultrasound the Dr. said the due date was January 19th again. This is getting pretty crazy.

So the whole "morning" sickness thing has started to kick in these last few days, but for me, I feel the best in the morning. Then it slowly progresses into pretty much awful by the evening. Plus I have this overactive saliva thing going on, which is less than pleasant so I have spittoons around the house so I don't always have to run to the sink. It is pretty much the most disgusting thing ever. So, sorry for the details, but if reading about it is gross, imagine living it. I am just hopeful that this whole situation doesn't last for my entire pregnancy, because I would actually like to enjoy it.

Ultrasound at 6 Weeks

Down the street from our house is a free pregnancy clinic. I had always seen it since it was right across from the Starbucks that I frequent so when I found out I was pregnant, since I didn't have a regular gynocologist I thought maybe I would just go there.

They were great. It was so exciting to see the first pictures of my baby even though he or she just looked like a greyish blur. It was the most beautiful greyish blur I had ever seen!

The baby is the bright whitish/grey blur inside the black amniotic sac, and the greyish ring is the yolk sac, which will feed my baby until the placenta takes over in a few weeks.
After the ultrasound technician ran all of her measurements she gave me yet another due date of January 25th. So at this point I don't even know which date to go by, but I at least know it will be sometime around the end of January.

My follow up appointment at the doctors office is in a week, and I am guessing they are going to have yet another due date for me. As long as baby is healthy, I don't really care! Babies rarely come on their due date anyway. The ultrasound technician told me it is about 4% that do. Kind of crazy.

Momentary Scare

Yesterday I was doing some spring cleaning around the house and lifting and moving probably more things then I should have. This morning I woke up and had a bit of a scare when I noticed some spotting. I called the doctors office and made an appointment to come in. He performed an ultrasound to make sure everything looked okay, but since I was only five weeks along you couldn't really see much, just the amniotic sac and the yolk sac.

The Dr. was an older man and he was so cute cause he would humm while checking me. It was quite hilarious. Worked though, cause it definitely kept me at ease. He reassured me that everything looked fine and that the bleeding seemed to be external, and most likely caused from too much lifting. He told me to take it easy for the next couple weeks and not to worry. He gave me a new due date based on the ultrasound measurements of January 27th, which made Pete happy.