IT'S A BOY!

So it's a boy as you can see! We are really excited. I am 20 weeks as well so I am half way. But I don't really feel pregnant until I look at my reflection or a I feel the baby kick. Well I guess depending on how I sit too but my energy has been up and I have been super happy and what not. Perry and I have been working out every morning and I love it. I think it really helps with not getting exhausted as a pregnant lady. So we had our appointment today at 1:30. We got back early and did the ultrasound. We were in there for a while because the tech was examining all the different parts such as the organs, the brain, the mouth for cleft lip or pallet, the feet for club feet, the neck for down syndrome, and so on... She asked us if we could tell if it was a boy or a girl. I didn't know what I was looking at so I had no idea but then she pointed out the two legs and that there was something poking out in between lol. So it was a cool experience. We enjoyed ourselves. We are happy and the anticipation built up and we aren't all excited and stuff but just really happy and I guess excited to have a baby boy. His name will be Grant but we haven't picked out a middle name yet. It will take some time to figure that out. We are going to go celebrate tonight and go out to dinner and a movie. We haven't done a date this month that costed any money so we think this is a good reason to celebrate. It's funny because we would celebrate anyway but I'm really happy.
Oh and the baby is normal. Everything looks really great and we have another visit scheduled for a month from now which is fine. The visits with the just the doctor are rather boring anyway because he says "Do you have any questions?" and we never do because everything is going hunky dory. So anyway we are lovin life. I am going to register at target now for all the fun things I probably won't get but it's fun to look anyway and fantasize about our little boy. He has a cute little face. We could see it pretty well with a front view of the ultra sound. Oh and about 3 weeks ago I went major maternity shopping and bought the most comfy khakis and jeans with the stretchy stuff that goes up to my boobs. It's soo comfy. And I bought a couple long sleeve shirts and 3 sweaters since I will be really big as winter approaches. Good stuff! Feel free to buy me something. Just kidding. I mean it's fine if you want to but no pressure. Oh and the baby weighs 12 oz and is in the average percentile for stuff like that. He is almost a pound. So that's all. Hopefully I can post some more pregnancy pictures. I'm a little bigger than the last one I put on.

16 weeks and 4 days

Sorry for not posting everyone. I have been busy with family and haven't had much time to blog. So there have been a few highlights... I felt a tiny bit of movement a few days ago. It just felt like baby poking out really quick and brief and a couple times per side and it was over. I have been waiting for more feeling. It happened as I was trying to fall asleep so lately I haven't been paying attention to it but if I concentrate enough I'm sure I will feel something. The baby apparently is doing sommersaults and kicking and sucking and what not. The baby also sleeps and dreams. Me and either my mom or Meg were trying to figure out what a baby in the womb dreams about because there isn't much to see to trigger anything because I know that adult's dreams are things that they have thought about lately or something that happened a couple days before or things coming up trigger the random stuff in a dream. The baby is the size of a small melon about 5 inches long and 5 oz. and that is just from their head to their bum so the legs aren't even accounted for in the length, so the baby would be about 9 inches long including the legs. I have been feeling fine. My belly is just getting bigger.. as you can kind of see in this picture Perry took of me. Oh and another cool highlight is that the baby is able to hear external voices. So Perry has started to sing to the baby at night and talk to it in swedish lol. He loves the baby so much already and it so excited that I'm pregnant. He keeps saying that I am such a cute pregnant woman. He's sweet.

A couple other developments include the umbilical cord is getting stronger and thicker and the baby is swallowing a liter of amniotic fluid a day.

Week 14

So I have made it to the 2nd Trimester! Yay! I'm excited to soon feel even more stretching in my uterus and maybe the baby kicking or something.  I heard that you can feel the baby as early as 14 weeks, although that usually doesn't happen for a first pregnancy but I'm still crossing my fingers. The baby is starting to pee thus making the amniotic fluid. The baby is also making Lenugo, the fur the baby will be in until it is born to keep it warm and to protect it from all of the fluid that it will live in for a while. The baby is the size of a lemon and the 3.5 inches long and 1.5 oz. It is making breathing movements which is cool but it still remains a mystery on how the little suction they do after the birth prepares the baby to breath. It's like we are fishes that can handle water in our lungs until we are born. As well as the lenugo the hair on the babies head and eyebrows are developing. I bet my baby will have a ton of dark thick hair like I did when I was a baby. But there is a chance that the baby will be bald because the Stotts babies all have been bald lol.  My uterus weighs 8.75 oz, 7.5 oz of fluid,  and I can feel my uterus about 3 inches below my belly button. :). Today I had a doctors appointment and it was pretty short. They took a urine sample to test the protein and sugar in it, weighed me, and we heard the heartbeat through my belly with this little device. My next check up is Sept 12 and we find out the gender 2 weeks later! Lately my body has been really tired as usual and I get dizzy a lot and headaches. Fun stuff! All for the baby!

13 weeks continued..

I found another website that gave even more information about the baby right now so I thought I would share. I think I was wrong on some information I told people before but NOW the baby ways about 1 ounce or 25 grams. The bones are replacing cartilage now and the ribs are beginning to appear. The nose and chin are well defined, so that makes me think that baby has a shape that will be their shape of their face when they are born. The baby will begin to learn to suck it's thumb. And we could probably determine the gender of the baby with ultrasound, however who knows how accurate it is. I would rather wait a couple a months for a more accurate viewing. The baby is now producing insulin which controls the glucose, the muscles are becoming more organized. Right now my uterus is filling my pelvic area and growing upwards into my abdomen. My baby's weight will quadruple in the next month!! Cool huh!

13 Weeks

So I haven't posted in a while. Perry and I visited California last week and my parents were in town the week before. The only new things going on and are kind of not a bother anymore was that  my hips move a lot more like I can feel them shift and then move the wrong spot and cause me pain like in my left butt. It doesn't really happen anymore. I can also feel the uterus/baby if I push above my pelvic bone. it just feels like a hard bubble there. I don't think I have grown any but maybe look a little more bloated than I looked before. I'm supposed to start showing soon. So updates on the baby. The ears and eyes are now in their proper place. The babies intestines have moved from the umbilical cord to it's abdomen, the baby's vocal cords are being developed, and it is about 3 inches long, the size of a peach! So I have been feeling good, I'm still tired and sometimes really hungry but other times it hasn't really hit me and I feel like I should be hungry more often. Weird that I'm not. But whatever, it was annoying being constantly hungry no matter what I ate.  I usually feel sick to my stomach and then realize I am bloated with gas. I know gross, but it is such a common thing I have heard so I'm not afraid to share. And I'm constipated and have loose stools all at once. I feel like if I could just flush my colon I would feel so much better. That is really what makes me feel sick and then I also just can't drink enough water and I get headaches so fast from being "dehydrated".

Doctor's appointment

So I had my doctor's appointment today and we got there and they weren't sure why I was getting another ultrasound and neither did I but I wanted to because I was told we were going to and the baby is supposed to look like a baby too so it would be neat. Luckily we did do one. It was vaginal and the little baby was wiggling a lot and we could see all of it's fingers and the heart beating in it's chambers and the umbilical cord was pulsating the same rate as the babies heart. So that was kind of cool. The baby measure about 3.47 cm close to 1.5 inches so it is growing well. The yolk sac is still in the placenta but will soon go away. I guess the yolk sac is where the baby gets it's nutrients and then now that the liver is formed it will start working and there won't be a need for a yolk sac.  We also heard the heart beat. It was beating 173 beats per minute. So that was cool and the best part was seeing the little baby wiggling. I couldn't believe all of that was happening inside of me and I couldn't feel it! So weird! Then after the ultrasound we saw Dr. Evans. He was nice. At the last visit I asked if I was going to do my prenatal labs at this visit and they said no but I guess they figured why not! So they did a really intense pap smear, enough to make me bleed all day. It hurt! I won't lie. I had one done a couple months ago and I didn't feel anything with that one. Oh well. And the doctor stuck his finger up my butt! Not sure why but it was definitely a new experience for me! Yikes! Also they drew about four capsules of blood to do the whole shpeal of labs. I will finally know my blood type. I have always been curious. So the other tests they are running are my immunity to rubella, RH factor, anemia, HCG levels, white blood cell count, to detect Hep B, and blood sugar levels. The doctor told me I shouldn't do any high impact exercise and should keep my heart rate below 140 and no hot tubs. That pretty much sums it up. My next appointment is in 4 weeks on August 14th at 9am. We probably won't have another ultrasound yet. until another couple months. 

Week 10

So we are at week ten. My uterus is a little bigger than a grapefruit, where from the start it was the size of a fist. The baby is about 1 and 1/4 inches and 1 and 1/2 inches now. It has been described as being the size of a prune or a small strawberry. Next week it will be a lime! Big huh! So as far as physical development, the baby is starting to form it's teeth under it's gums. Also all the vital organs are formed, arm joints are working, bones and cartilage are forming now,  the stomach is producing digestive juices and the kidney's are producing greater quantities of urine. If the baby is a boy teststoterone will start being produced. Oh also the baby now has finger prints! crazy!!! So that is the developmental update. I have felt pretty good this week, except for Monday, or it might have been Tuesday. I just wasn't feeling good but I didn't throw up or anything. I just got nauseous. I know I'm a wimp. So many other women get way sicker than me, but I honestly don't know how I would handle it, emotionally especially. I would want everyone to feel sorry for me. So we will be having an ultra sound tomorrow morning so I hope I can figure out how to post it on here, but if not, I'm sorry. Above is a picture of what the fetus should look like. Again I don't think it has changed much in appearance from last week, but there are probably tiny details that have. When searching for pictures online, it's really sad because sometimes pictures of aborted babies come up and it is just heart breaking and disgusting that someone would feel okay killing a baby. Anyway. Enough. See you next week!