Ultrasound news!

Here are pictures from our ultrasound this morning. If you can’t tell by looking…it’s a boy! If you are interested in seeing the whole ultrasound let us know and we will send you the link to the video!

great baby website

So, I’ve discovered a great baby website. Not because it has great tips or info or anything important like that, but because it has this photo gallery of women who are at the same point in their pregnancy as me. The comforting thing about this is that even though there is always someone skinnier, there is also always someone who is way (I mean waaayyy) bigger than me. I don’t know why this site comforts me so much, but I find myself scrolling through the pics looking for someone who makes me feel like I’m not a whale. It’s probably not the point of the gallery, but what can I say…it makes me happy.
I’ve included a few sample pics (i’ve removed their heads for anonymity). These women are both 17 weeks pregnant. I’ll add one of me soon…I can’t figure out how to get the darn pictures off of the camera.

17 week update

Baby’s skeleton is hardening, changing from rubbery cartilage to bone, and fat is finally accumulating around it. The umbilical cord is getting thicker and stronger, and those little fingers and toes are now topped by one-of-a-kind prints.

just the beginning…

tyler called me shamu today…i guess this is just the beginning of the fat jokes. hooray. ain’t pregnancy grand?

Strollers and Car Seats

Yesterday was a funny day as Paige and I made a quick trip to the store to get pregnancy necessities – candy and corndogs (this one is recent and I’m not quite sure where it came from). Anyways, during this trip we decided to drop by the baby section of wal-mart and look at strollers and car seats. We have determined that we REALLY want the kind that you can just pop into the stroller. After reading articles and thousands of baby magazines it was suggested that we pull the stroller down and actually see how it feels (right height, good wheels, light weight). After pulling the stroller down the fun began as Paige and I looked like cave men trying to figure out a stove or a car for the first time. We pushed on buttons trying to figure out what they did, tried to collapse the stroller, and then spent almost 5-10 minutes trying to figure out how to unlock the stroller after we collapsed it. Needless to say, Paige and I left the store very encouraged that we still have about 5 months to still figure all this stuff out.

baby update – 116 days pregnant

Your baby is adding to its list of reflex behaviors: blinking helps keep foreign objects out of their eyes and keeps their eyes moist, sucking and swallowing provide for the ingestion of nutrients. Right now, your baby is practicing all three of these reflex behaviors. It is also working on incorporating some additional reflexes, so that by the time it is born, the average full-term baby will display more than seventy different reflex behaviors.

16 weeks!

Watch what you say… tiny bones forming in baby’s ears mean the little one can now pick up your voice. Eyebrows, lashes and hair are starting to fill in, and taste buds are forming.

baby update – 112 days pregnant

Your baby measures 4 3/4 inches long (120 mm) crown to rump and weighs 3 3/4 ounces (104.5 g), having more than doubled its dimensions in a mere two weeks.

baby update – 111 days pregnant

• Your baby’s head now appears upright—the chin no longer seems to rest on the chest.
• You’ll probably feel most comfortable now that you’re in your second trimester. With any luck, morning sickness (if you had it) may be past and your energy level is likely to be up.

baby update – 105 days pregnant

At this point in development, your baby has a considerable range of foot and leg movements: It can kick, turn its feet outward and inward, curl its toes, and fan its toes.