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Did you figure it out?
I am almost 10 weeks pregnant! I'm due in mid-January.
This is our baby!
It's kind of hard to tell what you're looking at. Our baby is still very tiny. 2.28 cm to be exact. About the size of a grape. In about 4 more days the baby will be the size of a kumquat. The ultrasound technician flipped the probe to 3-D for a couple of seconds. There was much more detail and it was very cool looking, but she didn't take any pictures like that. It's probably a stupid insurance thing. Anyway, I circled the pertinent parts.
That ultrasound picture was taken at 8 weeks 6 days. We'll have another ultrasound in mid-August when we'll find out if it is a Michael Jr. or a Natalie Jr.
The heart rate was 178 beats/minute. A hummingbird's heart rate is 250 beats/minute. A sloth's is 45 beats/minute.
My official due date is January 18th, but I know better than anyone that the due date means nothing.
With my prior birth history (of one baby) I'll deliver on December 19th and have a Christmas Baby.
I'll be full-term on December 28th.
That would make for an after-Christmas baby, which is fine and great, but our 10th anniversary is the 29th. I'd like to be doing something fun, a.k.a. not being in labor. I already did that on my 28th birthday.
January 1st might be fun. We'd get to be on the 10:00 news and the hospital would give us an edible arrangement (hopefully a chocolate dipped one).
January 6th would be convenient because then I would only have to remember one day of the month when taking monthly pictures.
January 20th was my grandfather's birthday. He would have turned 94 in 2012.
If this is a boy in my belly, his middle name will be Stephen, after my grandfather (and my dad and my older brother). And no, we won't tell you first names until he/she is born. Sorry.
Whenever this little baby decides to come (full-term, hopefully) is fine by me. I'm just looking forward to bringing a baby home from the hospital and nursing a newborn when it's NOT 112 degrees.
P.S. If you are reading this because I texted you about my posting a picture of you, don't worry, that obviously wasn't true. I just needed a way to get you to look at the blog asap. Tricky huh?
9 comments:
OMG, congrats! Um, is this going to complicate the Feb visit? :-p Also, I need to get back to blogging. Vaca starts next week so I should be able to get back in the groove then.
Yay! Huge congrats. Hope you are feeling great!
Congratulations!!!!! This is so exciting! We love new babies around here ;) What does spencer think?
Yay, congratulations!! I hope double the kids = double the blog posts.
-Megan
Yay! Yay! Yay! Literally a few weeks ago on our trip to CA my mom and I were talking about you and wondering if you were going to have another baby because you seem to love being a Mommy SO much! We are so happy for you and I love the post! Very clever!
I am public ally declaring that I think you are having a Girl...Congrats!
OMG!! Yayyyyyyy!!!!
That is amazing news!! Can't wait to see you with a baby belly! Ahhhh!!!!!
I just knew it when I saw a picture of you drinking sparkling cider when the rest of your crazy buddies were...not! That, and what Kendra said above! Congratulations to a couple who really should be parents more than just once!
Natalie!!!! Congratulations!!!! This is beyond exciting!
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