I know it is a little bit late but I decided to write about our newest adventure! We are having a
BABY! About the first week in December we found out I was pregnant. It was seriously like the most amazing feeling! Especially since the month before I got a no...While I was so excited and couldn't stop smiling, Spencer was struggling a little bit more. Pretty much every scary thought he could have hit him within 5 minutes and he was less than "jumping up and down excited". It was a really hard week for us as we struggled to come to terms with the reality that we are actually having a baby and what this meant for us in our upcoming lives and decisions.
Spencer We decided not to tell anybody (even my mother...) until Christmas. I'm not really sure why, but I made it!! I went to the doctor and they confirmed that I was pregnant! When we found out, I thought that I was 5 weeks along...I went into my first actual doctor's appointment thinking I was 8 weeks and was having an ultrasound. They measured the baby and they said that I was only 7 weeks. HOW DISAPPOINTING!! I thought my baby already had the startings of hands and feet and now I had to go through week 7 all over again!
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| Back when baby was just a peanut |
Oh well. On Christmas day (I was just a day shy of 8 weeks) we told our families. We had made T-Shirts that said #1 Grandma and #1 Grandpa for both of our parents. During the process of opening presents, we handed them their wrapped shirts and got to watch their excited expressions as they realized what the shirts meant. My father ran into the kitchen and started bawling (anybody surprised??), my mother ran in and hugged me (skipped completely over Spencer), his mother said, "What does this mean?? What does this mean?? Oh my gosh!" (I think she really knew what it meant), and Spencer's father said, "Coo-ool". It was so fun to have the news out there to our families.
We told them they couldn't tell though, until I was farther along. I think it was like torture for them...especially to my dad. I continued to be sick and tired for weeks until I had a doctor's appointment when I was 11 weeks. I heard the heartbeat on the doppler (this was really exciting because I had started feeling better and got really nervous that something had happened). We set an appointment for the next week to do the NT Ultrasound to check for Downs syndrome. Friday of the next week came and Spencer and I headed off to the doctor. We got to see the baby for almost half an hour!! This was a big change because the first time it was about 3 minutes and there was nothing to see except a little peanut shaped blob. Our little baby was moving around like crazy, stretching its arms and legs, opening and closing its mouth, and so much more! It was unbelievable. It was one of the happiest moments in my entire life. Spencer couldn't take his eyes off of the screen. He kept asking me how I didn't feel any of it because the baby was kicking me like crazy. He said the baby looked so big (really it's only 6 cm). It was really fun to watch him get so into it and to see him being happy looking at our little baby.
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| All 5 fingers! Can't believe all of that happened in just 5 short weeks! |
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| Such a cute little profile, don't you think?? |
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| 4D The part going across is the arm and the big thing at the top is the head :) |
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| Baby Hon stretching! |
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| 1.12 cm from toe to heel! That is so tiny! |
They did this thing where they measure the "angle of the dangle" which measures the angle of the little nub that turns into a boy part or a girl part against the spine. If the angle is 30* or below, it's a girl. If the angle is 30* or above it is a boy.
Our little baby measured at 17*!! I was so excited! The ultrasound technician said that it's not 100% positive but with a good machine and a good technician they are right 98% of the time! There is over a 75 % chance that we are having a girl :)! I'm trying not to get too excited or get my hopes up too high but it's really difficult! I can just picture this little girl inside of me :). I have an appointment on the 22 of February and then 2 weeks after that I have the ultrasound to find out the gender for sure. I am so excited! We are seriously both so excited to be parents and we are dying to have our little baby with us already. I don't know how I'm going to make it through the next 6 months...I am already going crazy and it's only been 3! I am 13 weeks tomorrow and just dying for time to move quicker. We feel so blessed to so far have moved through this without complications. I have a friend due a month before me that had to be on progesterone pills the first trimester and a friend that just lost her baby at like 6 weeks. I count that blessing every day. I hope that our baby continues to grow healthy and strong and that we will be able to have a peaceful (well....as peaceful as a crazy, hormonal, pregnant lady can get) pregnancy.
