Week Fourteen!

Well, it's been a little while. Sorry 'bout that! So much has happened it's getting hard to keep up anymore.  We had our appointment with the high risk OB aka Maternal Fetal Medicine Dr.  AND...we have officially been ruled OUT as a high risk!  Whoo HOO! Our genetic testing was done via mother finger stick and the results came back.  Our chances of having a child with trisomy 13, 18,or 21 (aka down syndrome) is 1:10,000, but our favorite part of this visit...the 20 minute sonogram viewed on a ginormous TV screen!  We got to see the baby have the hiccups, do somersaults and suck it's thumb.  We are SO in love!

Morning sickness... :/   I'd love to tell you that now that I'm sporting a baby bump that the morning sickness got it's pink slip and rode off into the sunset.  NOT EVEN CLOSE!  And now, the "all day" sickness has a new companion...introducing....INSOMNIA!  I'm hoping that once Charlotte makes it back from Philadelphia, she'll be able to kick both of my undesired house mates to the curb!

Our next step will be our 17 week appointment.  Dr. Kurian said that she would bust out the sono machine and try to determine if baby "Z" is a boy or a girl.  She did warn us though, she's a terrible judge of gender and NOT to start painting the nursery based on her guess.  We ARE hopeful that it will be an easy guess.  If not, our next opportunity for a "gender shot" will be at 20 weeks by the sonographer.  We will keep all of you posted.  Love you all and thank you again for all the prayers and well wishes.

Got Limes?



Are we trying to scare away scurvy? Not exactly...the little bean is no longer a bean! It's now the size of a lime!! Though I think it's safe to say that we will not be refering to the baby as our little "lime".

What's going on this week you ask.  Well, not a whole lot.  I'm still pretty sick.  On the bright side it usually doesn't last ALL day, just most of it.  If I'm sick in the morning I usually get the afternoon off and vice versa. Another high side, which Charlotte had to remind me to add, is that the progesterone shots in the rear, we can happily tell you are a thing of  the past!! YIPPEE!!!

We have our next appointment with our Maternal/Fetal Medicine doctor next week.  This doctor is often refered to as the "high risk" OB.  Hopefully, God willing, we will only have one meeting with this doctor so he can rule us out as being a high risk pregnancy.  The only reason I would qualify for this category is that at the time of delivery, I will be the ripe old age of 35! AS IF!! Don't they realize women are waiting longer to have kids and still do it like a CHAMP!  ANYWAY...I digress.  We will keep you updated with the goings on of our next appointment.  Love and miss you all and hope the week finds you well.