19 weeks

Sorry I'm a little wonky on when I post my weekly baby updates. Every Thursday marks a new week, baby-age-wise.

Anyway, sorry if these pictures are scary. I think they're kinda cool :) Here's one for a different perspective:

According to babycenter.com: Baby is the size of an heirloom tomatoYour baby equals a large heirloom tomato in size and weighs 8 1/2 ounces. (length: 6 inches, head to bottom)

Have a happy weekend!

I hope nobody's offended...

...by illustrated naked bums and proper terminology.

18 weeks! We're almost halfway through! It's amazing to think that I'm carrying around a little person with me. We have our 20 week ultrasound on March 31!! Woohoo! I'll be sure to put that picture up. Should look a little more like a recognizable baby :) And hopefully we'll be able to find out what we're having! And if any of you leave a comment saying that we'll obviously be having a baby as opposed to a giraffe or something, I'll disown you. No kidding. Anyway, thinking about names will be easier once fifty percent of them are automatically ruled out, not to mention we get to start buying more specific baby stuff. Yay :D

Tonight for our FHE activity, Chad and I are going to buy a stroller and car seat! Btw, if any of you are in the market, Babies R Us is having a 20% off sale of travel systems and strollers, and $20 off car seats that are $100 or more (-with coupons you print from their site). Plus lots of other coupons for lots of other things. So get to it! It goes 'til Thursday. Chad's Mom and G'ma Mc are being wonderful and going in together for our travel system. Thanks guys! :D

I think I've felt the baby move a few times now! I can't be positive because it's not very regular and I'm still learning what to feel for. But I'm pretty sure our little peanut is getting better at wiggling.

And now, just because this picture makes me smile inside and out:

pic from here

Have a lovely day!

13 week sonogram

So this is a little late coming; we're about 16 weeks along now (or will be on Thursday). But here's a picture of our little peanut. Who now has arms and legs and fingers! He/she even appears to be sucking his/her thumb in the pictures :) Look!

Isn't that so cool!? Anyway, it really looks like a little fist to the little mouth in the picture, but I could be wrong. The only reason we needed a sonogram was because the nurses couldn't find the heartbeat (which was a little nerve-racking) and so my doctor wanted to check it out and make sure everything was ok. Turned out the little bugger was wiggling around to much for the nurses to find the heartbeat with the Doppler thing. That was really cool to see. It's funny to think that the little guy/gal moves around so much and I still can't feel it yet. That's something I'm excited for.

So yes. On Thursday we'll be 16 weeks along. Which means that this picture is dated by about three weeks. Which ALSO means we get to find out whether we're having a boy or girl in about a month :D

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As far as normal pregnancy stuff, I've been feeling fine. It's getting harder to sleep at night, and although I'm not showing very much (just a little bump), I'm starting to appreciate sleeping with a pillow under my stomach when I'm on my side. Soooo much more comfortable. And today when I was greedily taking in the smell of fresh-baked brownies at work, I realized that what I was really smelling was freshly-cut wood. That was kind of weird. I guess we know what's on my mind :)

Running has also taken on some new dimensions. I only go about two miles, but holy moley does my bladder take a beating. It's like I swallowed a brick and with every step it squishes my bladder. With vehement. So that's been something to get used to :)

But all in all, I've had it extremely easy unpleasant-symptom wise. That is something I am definitely very grateful for. Especially after talking to a friend at church who said she threw up every three days in her first trimester. Good gracious. I've only felt nauseous a handful of times, and haven't thrown up once.

Anyway. More as it comes :)