Posts Tagged ‘baby’

Our Little Guy

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

July 29, 2008
We had our 13 week (3 month) ultrasound today. The tech and ultrasound doctor were both quite confident that its a boy. Apparently our little guy is quite active, kicking and waving his arms around constantly. He even flipped over once. It was amazing to see that there is not only a baby in there, but that he’s alive and moving! I’ve nearly forgotten all the sickness and puking.

In order to get a good measurement of the back of his neck, looking for a down syndrome indicator, the tech jabbed at him numerous times trying to get him to change positions. Judging from the way his arms and legs started flailing with each prod–we don’t think he like being poked. I’ll have to stop the cats from walking across my stomach. We also got to see both hemispheres of the brain, the heart, the stomach and, of course, the limbs.

The doctor was very pleased with how everything looked–as were we! My OBGYN outsources all but the first imaging appointment, which is so smart because not only are they all specialists in natal imaging, but because they also give you a cd of images/pictures AND a video so you can see movement. I’ve already watched the video twice!

Like Father Like Son?

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

June 18, 2008
The general consensus already seems to be that we are having a boy. These predictions are of course based upon hunches, “I just think its a boy”, and other strong scientific evidence on the topic like: you have morning sickness all day so it must be a boy, and I couldn’t stand to eat sweet things either so you must be having a boy too. It seems that every pregnancy symptom or preference has some sort of meaning in the magical world of determining baby gender.

Now I’m not complaining or being skeptical about the power of hunches. And, of course, as a brand new, first time, soon-to-be parent, we relish all discussion on the topic. No opportunity to talk about this miracle that has the magical power to change every eating preference I’ve had for 34 years will be turned down. Which leads me to how Chris and I already determined that our baby, which is currently the size of a peanut, is already just like him.

Our first week in Japan is when the “this food I used to love is now disgusting” started. And right about the same time that all day I feel like throwing up feeling started. (Yes, I eat small frequent meals and have saltine crackers with me at all times so no need to e-mail that suggestion. But thanks anyway.) At one point I was remarking after chowing down on a breakfast of watermelon (I normally don’t like watermelon) and Chris responded “I LOVE watermelon.” Then I commented on how strange it is that I now must have cornflakes every morning, it used to be raisin bran. Chris said, “Cornflakes are good, raisin bran disgusting.” I think my final reflection was how my rather large sweet tooth must have finally decayed and fallen out because I’d rather have my toe nails pulled out one by one then eat candy. Chris said, “I don’t like sweets.” Chris then smiled what I think might have been one of his first proud papa smiles and said, “The baby is just like me!” I think he’s right.

Where’s the Stork?!?!

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

July 10, 2008
This is about week seven of morning or shall I say all-day-sickness.  Yes, I’ve now started a count day until week 13 when so many assure me that feeling like I’m being poisoned will magically disappear.  And at this point I’ve decide it is time to sign up to have the stork drop off the baby.  I’m not sure why I didn’t think of this sooner, but the idea came to me last night as I was bounded out of bed dodging cats and piles of unfolded laundry to get to the bathroom to throw up.  Though I’ve tried, I can’t convince Chris, my husband, to swap duties, I’ll clean the cat litter box and he can make the baby.  So I’ve decided that instead I’ll sign up for stork delivery.  I’ll take the window of January 30 – February 8, 2009.