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7.24.2009

35w 3d ultrasound

i appologize for not getting this posted sooner! its just been one of those weeks :)

ok, so last dr's appt, she mentioned that she was concerned about the baby's size and waiting till 40 weeks. i see her again on tues (28th) but she wanted me to have another u/s before then. so this past monday afternoon i went in to have that done.

brandt had worked late that morning and was sleeping, so i asked my mom to come! she hadn't ever seen an ultrasound before, so i thought it would be pretty cool for her to see her grandbaby.

i'd like to mention that i think the best u/s are from 20ish weeks, when you can see the whol baby at once. now, the baby is so big you only can see like one part of the baby at a time.

here's the face:

and another shot, mouth, cheeks and nose

look at those chubby cheeks! brandt is still concerned that we will have an obese baby, but i'm sure he or she will be fine. and then i found a picture on google of this baby with rolls on top of rolls, but i keep telling him that's not what our baby will look like. after all, we were both over 8 pounds when we were born!

as of monday, they were estimating that the baby weighed 7lbs 9oz! so now i can't wait till tues when we find out what the dr has to say!

7.02.2009

32w 4d ultrasound

on tuesday i had another ultrasound! not my last though, i should be getting one more around 36 weeks. its not as exciting anymore, its harder to see things since the baby is getting so big!

profile view

waving hi!

the face!

the u/s tech said that our baby has chubby cheeks! you can kind of tell in that last pic. also, baby has a full head of hair. (i couldn't tell what she was pointing at, but i guess she knows her stuff) not that we didn't see that coming, just look at both me and brandt lol!

the head is measuring 6 days ahead, as has been pretty much the whole time. but the belly! that's measuring 3 WEEKS ahead! the tech was like, "this kid hasn't missed a meal!" wow... so we will be having a chubby baby! but chubby babies are cuter than skinny ones, right? they are estimating the baby to be 5 lbs already! brandt had a ton of questions... esp about the baby potentially coming early. they said they prob wouldn't change my due date, but if the baby stays on the same track, i will probably be induced early. so much for making it 40 weeks!

(my in-laws, who, of course, all moonlight as doctors, don't think i'll make it to the end of july! and my sister, Dr Barron OB is worried it will just be 2 weeks or so till the baby is here!
i'm just picking on them though, i love them!)

when i went in tues for my regular appt, the measured my belly with a tape measure, and i am measuring 35 weeks. 4 weeks ago, they were concerned that i had alot of amniotic fluid, but my levels are normal now. so they are concerned that i may have gestational diabetes, which causes the baby to grow quickly.

now, i already took a test for that, and i passed. the results were "questionable," whatever that means, but they weren't worried. but now, since the baby is so big, they wanted me to take the 3 hr test.

so yesterday, i missed yet more time at work, and got to go sit at the dr's office for 3 hrs and get my blood drawn 4 times! (one before i drank the glucose drink, and then once every hour of the test.) thankfully, there was an internet signal, and i had brought my laptop, so i played online for the 3 hrs.

the worst part though was that you have to fast. sometimes, i skip breakfast, so waiting till noon to eat wasn't a big deal. the no water part was the difficult part. but its sort of a mental thing, i *can't* have anything to eat or drink, so of course, i was starving and dying of thirst!

they reassured me that if the results come back the same way they did 6 weeks ago, that everything will be fine, and no gestational diabetes. if i do fail the test, i will have to change up my diet some... less sugar. so no white bread and sadly *sniff* no dr peppers! brandt's been very supportive though, and keeps reminding me that, worst case, it will be for just under 7 weeks that i will have to change up my diet.

i feel like i've spent more time at the doctor's this week than at work... with 2 appts and the diabetes test! but now everyone is up to date :)

5.18.2009

houston, we have a face

this morning was another ultrasound, and our baby's face is no longer just bones, we have a definite face! so exciting!

at the last u/s we got a face shot, but it was creepy. well, it was a skull! so it was fun this time to see lips, nose, etc. we even got to see him (this week, boy) open his mouth a few times. we saw his tiny bladder, his heart beating (140 bpm) and a few other things. but no money shot, we looked away when she did measurements of the legs :)

the head though, big! 7 cm already! based on the tech's measurements, he is a little big, i believe he's measuring 9 days ahead. at the last u/s it was just 3 days. so we may not be making it till aug 23rd!

3.31.2009

the BIG ultrasound!

its referred to as the "big one" for several reasons, most importantly to majority of people, it's when you find out the sex of the baby! also, they check for all of the chambers of the heart, take lots of measurements, and count all the fingers and toes!

so last tuesday, we got about a 30 minute long ultrasound with our rolly polly baby! as soon as the screen came up, the first thing we saw was the spine. creepy sounding, yeah, but it was SO COOL! it's amazing that you can see all the bones and stuff. the baby had its back to us for majority of the time... but did flip around while we were watching. it was hard to believe how active babies are already, the tech had a hard time getting the speed of the heart beat b/c of all the movement.

the baby is weighing in at 8 oz and is measuring a few days ahead. but my due date is still the same. (from what i understand, they don't change that unless you are off by a week or more.)

since we didn't find out the sex of the baby, our dr won't know either. so the secret is safe! i do feel a little bad, b/c brandt *really* wants to know. but he agreed to wait. even though i know he isn't the happiest with that, i did promise that for #2 we would find out.

and here are a few of the pics,
labeled for your viewing pleasure!