18w4d
GIRL!! I can’t believe it has taken me this long to post
about it, but we recently found out that we are having a beautiful baby
girl! Everything still looks good in the
ultrasound/heartbeat areas. (Heartbeat today was 164bpm.) We’ve had a few more
genetic screens done and so far so good.
We had an appointment today and got to see our daughter’s hands, feet,
brain, heart, bladder, kidneys, spine, umbilical cord, belly, diaphragm, nose,
lips, and maybe even more. It was a lot
to take in, in a short amount of time. Luckily,
the ultrasound tech made a DVD for us, so we can re-watch and see all of her
again and again and again :-)!
Another
exciting development in baby world: I have been able to feel teeny, tiny
kicks! From what I’ve read, I am
probably only feeling when she does somersaults not really kicks yet, but it’s
cool just the same! I don’t feel them
often, and she almost always catches me off guard. I have started to notice that she likes to be
active around 7:30-8:30pm. Maybe I am
just paying more attention as we sit down after dinner.
One last
thing, I have finally, officially gained 4 pounds from my starting weight!
The first trimester was pretty tough on me,
so I had to gain back quite a bit once I could eat again.
I am quite positive that this will be the
ONLY time in my life I will be happy to see the scale increase, so I thought it
was blog-worthy.
