Ultrasound Pictures

He looks so sweet!

He looks like he has Aaron's lips, to me.

Hand up by his nose.

Getting ready to punch me!

0.06%.....

That is the chance the baby has of having a neural tube defect. So basically, we got the all clear that he is a healthy baby boy! She did not say anything about his legs being short this time, but I saw that they were measuring 20w, so a week behind. Everything else was right on target. He weighed 13 ozs. After she got done measuring his legs and moved on, he kicked or punched me several times in a row! I guess he didn't want us looking at his legs! She commented on how active he was also. They did the ultrasound with a new machine, so she practiced 4d on me, which I am very happy about! We got 2 shots of his face, but he did not want to cooperate very well. I will have to scan the pictures in later. In one of them, it looks like he is picking his nose!

After seeing the dr., we meet with a genetic counselor. She explained exactly what everything meant and what the chances of him having down syndrome and trisomy 18, which were both very low. The AFP level was very slightly elevated. The high end of normal is 2.5 and his level was 2.67. She said that it could be an indicator of other future problems, such as hypertension and the baby being small at birth. Hopefully, my blood pressure will stay where it is and this is not an indicator that it will keep going up. I am really glad we met with her, because she was very informative.

Oh yeah, we got a brochure in the mail yesterday about ADHD in children! Is it a sign that we are in for a hyper little boy?!?!

One appointment down, 3 to go....

I had my regular OB appt. this morning. Everything went well. My uterus is measuring 22w, which is right on, I have gained 6 lbs, woohoo, and his heartbeat was 150. It took her a few minutes to find it because he was moving so much, but he was kicking her the whole time! I think we are in trouble when he gets here! Hopefully he will take a nap when we have the ultrasound this afternoon. The only concern is that my blood pressure is creeping up. It was around 134/76 today and I have always had a low bp, like 115/60. I had to leave a urine sample so they will be checking for protein in it. If protein is present, I will probably have to cut back my hours at work to help control my bp, and relax more. I sure hope this is not the case, b/c I get bored sitting at home by myself.

I will update again later, hopefully with ultrasound pictures!

A name change.....

The baby may be named something other than Henry. We both like Henry, but there is another name that I really like too. Also, like Aaron said, Henry might be to traditional for us, because we all know we are not traditional! We will announce his name at his birth, because that is probably when we will decided. I want to see if the name fits him or not before it is set in stone.

I am feeling him more and more each day now. I usually don't feel him much at work, but he has been playing this morning! On Monday's he seems to be calm all day. I guess he is getting back on schedule after the weekend. Who knows.

We have lots of appointments tomorrow. One with my regular OB, which I have alot of questions for. She will probably wonder what is wrong with me b/c I have never really had any questions. We also have an ultrasound and appointment with the specialist and following that an appt. with the genetic counselor.

Lastly, keep my grandfather in your thoughts. He is having a really hard time right now.

Pictures

Here are pictures of his nursery. We, aka Aaron, finished it a week or so ago. I love it and I am sure Henry will too!
The dresser will go in between the 2 animals on this wall and we are going to paint his name above it.


Aaron is going to paint another bug on this wall. The glider will go in the corner (to the left).



20weeks 3 days. I think it is time to retire this shirt!

Party in mommy's belly.....2am

I guess that Henry thought he could have a party in my belly last night! I got up to go to the bathroom around 2, when I got back in bed, I couldn't go right back to sleep, nothing new. When I finally got comfortable, I felt this little kick, and then another, another, another..... I bet he kicked me 10 or more times! It is so exciting that I am feeling him more and more, just maybe not when I am trying to go back to sleep! Looks like I am in trouble when those kicks get harder.

Half way there!

Today marks 20 weeks! Time has flown by, hopefully it will go by as quick for the next half! I am so excited to meet my little boy! He weighs around 10 1/2 ounces, is 6 1/2 inches long from head to rump or 10 inches from head to heal.
We didn't do much of anything this weekend. It was cool and rainy. I love that it is fall now, even though that means winter is right around the corner. I love fall baking, long sleeve t-shirts, mums, pumpkins, the leaves, shall I go on! I can't wait until next fall when we can take Henry to the pumpkin patch to pick out his own pumpkin, to the apple orchards, and halloween of course!
I felt him multiple times on Friday! We got taco bell for dinner and soon after I ate it, I felt him do a flip or something, it wasn't a kick, and soon afterwards I felt a kick. I guess he didn't like the spicy food to much, but his mommy sure did!