22 weeks

Okay, after MUCH anticipation (let's be honest, Sara you're the only one that reads this blog), I am posting an update. I have been out of town for the past 2 weeks and unable to update, so here it is!

This past Sunday was July 29th...exactly four months until the due date. AHHH! I have a sneaky feeling this time is going to fly. 

The "nursery" currently looks like a storage closet, and I'm hoping in the next few weeks to start to make a change in that. 

Okay, so let's see, the past two weeks...

Two weeks ago I was out of town on business in Florida, and one night when I laid down to relax, I pulled up my shirt to look at my belly and HOLY COW! The baby must have been sitting on the right hand side because I looked rather deformed! haha. It was pretty awesome, 'cause I thought that didn't happen until I was a little further along and showing more. 

Let's see, no major milestones while I was in Fl, although I felt his jabs occasionally. However this past week I was at the beach with Chris and some of our friends, and now the baby is jabbing me on a daily basis. I'm really enjoying the daily kicks that are more obviously kicks. 

On Monday we have our next ultrasound appointment, and I'm excited to see more pictures of our baby and maybe he'll be more active this time! 

I got some pictures up, so below are weeks 20-22. My belly is definately that of a pregnant woman's, and I even have a pregnant profile! I took a profile picture earlier this week, so I'll try to remember to load it up and put it on here tomorrow. 

20 weeks- size of a small canteloupe

21 weeks- size of a banana

22 Weeks- size of a spaghetti Squash

Team Blue!

He's a boy!

We had our anatomy scan on Friday, 7/13/12 and our boy wasn't shy! We got a good shot right away. Chris was pretty surprised because he had a pretty strong feeling it was a girl. I started crying like a baby (I was never really a "happy cryer" until pregnancy). The whole ultrasound took about 45 minutes. Our little boy was in a funny position the whole time, he was lying "Frank breech", that just means  that his butt is facing down and his legs were sticking straight up in front of his body and the feet near the head. This doesn't really mean anything yet in terms of delivery, however it made it difficult for them to get a good picture of the spine, so we'll get another ultrasound in a month. I won't complain about that.

I also learned that I have "anterior placenta" which simply refers to the positioning of the placenta within the uterus. Most of the baby will be hidden behind it. Again, this shouldn't have any impact on delivery or pregnancy, but it may mean that I can have a harder time feeling the kicks of the baby.

Now I get to start planning the nursery. The theme would have stayed the same whether it was a girl or boy, but the colors would have changed slightly.

I was going to include a 20 week picture, a picture of chris and I celebrating, and an ultrasound pic or two, but I'm having a hard time rotating them an dthey're sideways or upside down. So i'll have to include some of those in next weeks post if i'm able to.

Pictures to bring you up to speed

Here are the "bump" pictures! As you can see, at week 14 I started getting good about weekly documenting.




You can tell I'm pregnant from the front now!! (19 weeks 5 days)



19 weeks 5 days










19 weeks- size of an heirloom tomato

18 weeks- size of a sweet potato

17 weeks- size of an onion

16 weeks- size of an avacodo

15 weeks- Size of a navel orange



14 weeks- Size of a lemon



4 weeks- Size of  a poppyseed

19 weeks and introductions

This is my journey through pregnancy. To say that we're excited to be going through this is an understatement. So far this has been such an exciting and new time, filled with hopes, dreams, tears, nausea, hormones, and so much more!
I have gone back and forth about creating a blog, but have finally decided that I will so that my family and friends that don't live near me can follow my pregancy. I can't make any promises that I'll keep up for it, but for today, I'll do my best. :)

I'm going to do 2 posts today, one with information just to summarize my pregnancy so far, the next will be pictures through the journey thus far.

Here we go:

• Chris and I found out we were pregnant on Monday, March 19th with a positive digital pregnancy test. We suspected we were the day before, but the line test wasn't really helpful yet. I told chris by getting him a card with baby feet on it, and giving him a onesie and the positive test (gross, I know, but i think i had it covered somehow).
• We had our confirmation appointment from our doctor a week and a half later, where all they did was  a pregnancy test as well.  
• We told our families when we were 10/11 weeks pregnant. We told my parent's by sending them a box with a joint mothers day/fathers day gift and they each got some snacks, drinks, and then mugs that said "new grandma" and "new grandpa" on it. We told Chris's family by buying each of his parents a Phillies shirt, on the back it said either "grandma" or "grandpa" and then for the number it had 2 (since this will be the 2nd grandchild on the way). It was so fun to watch their reactions, sharing this with our famies has been such a  special joy to me.
• Between week 8-10 (wish I could remember this) we had our first "real" appointment, where they did bloodwork, talked to us for awhile, and we got to hear the heartbeat. At first they weren't going to because they said that it's not likely that we'll hear one..but there it was, "wooshing" away! There was nothing like that experience!!!
• We got our first ultrasound at about 13 weeks, though we measured at 12 weeks and 4 days. At first the baby was asleep, but then by the end he/she was a little jumping bean! I can't even put words on what that experience was like.
• Saturday June 23- I felt the first "flutters" while I was at dinner with my sister and Chris. Sooo amazing.
• July 5 (on exactly 19 weeks pregnant) the first person asked me if I was pregnant! Yay! that must mean I'm actually starting to look pregnant and not just chubby! I've been noticing a lot of people look at my stomach and wonder, and I just chuckle to myself
• Sunday, July 8th- Chris felt the baby move for the first time! It was still flutters, so it wasn't a distinct kick but he said "I definately feel something".

So that's where we are as of right now! Thursday will mark the 20 week mark (halfway there! holy cow!) and Friday we will get an ultrasound and, if the baby cooperates, find out what it is!

Most of my posts won't be this long, but that should basically catch you up. :)

                                                  4 weeks pregnant - Size of a poppyseed