Since my last post we have had our morphology scan and another quick scan with our ob. Both concur that embie is doing well, and is within whats considered normal for this stage of pregnancy. They also both concur that it is a girl!
We have been calling her Ruby ever since!!!
With the morphology scan we got a cute lil 5min dvd that shows her moving around and all her lil body parts like still shots of both legs, feet, arms, hands etc.
I'm so excited to be having a little girl, although would have been just as excited to be told it was a boy! I love that it makes it seem more real, knowing the sex and I also think it is helping with the bonding of all three of us!
I've been feeling really healthy over the last few weeks. My belly feels like its grown heaps, but when I measure once a week, its not growing that quickly really. I have still only gained a total of 1.4 kgs so far, and I lost a lot more than that in the first trimester as well.
I expect to be gaining around 1/2kg a week for the rest of the 2nd trimester????
Ruby should be about 17 cm from head to rump right about now, and if she's anything like her parents, she'll probably have some long legs to boot!
I've bought lots of pink stuff to even out the blue clothing I already had from previous pregnancies and am now happy that she will be pretty in pink.
Within the last 2 weeks I am now confident of the movement she is making and some of her kicks are unmistakeably strong! My husband felt his first kick at 19 weeks 6 days. We seem to feel them the most in the late afternoons/evenings and the position I sit in on the couch seems to be ideal (that is where we have both felt the most and the strongest!).
Loving being pregnant and can see me wanting to be in this situation a lot more in my future, which is a big change to the first 12 weeks when I was so scared shitless that I didn't think I'd want to be pregnant ever again!
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
18 weeks, 6 days
Just two more sleeps until our morphology scan which will a) let us know that embie is still doing ok, b) let us know about any deformities c) determine the sex of our little one!
I am getting super scared about the scan day, as I know that if anything is wrong with embie, like its heart has stopped beating, that's when we will find out.
Since I last posted I have noticed that I have been snappier than usual (especially at my poor husband). I can relate to it feeling like PMS. I have put on 1kg which I am very proud of, and my tummy has gained another centimetre.
I still haven't felt anything that I'm confident about being embie moving around inside, and cannot wait until that happens.
I have notice a change in my bowel movements in that they have gone a little more towards the constipation end of the scale than in my first trimester. I'm not concerned really as I know this is very common, but I am wondering what has caused the change? Is it just my digestive system slowing down? Is the fibre I'm consuming in a different form due to change of seasons and change of fruit and veges etc?
My only real cravings so far have been boost juice (in the first trimester), twisties and then and now cheezels, and I feel one forming for fresh bun loaf! Notice no healthy ones!
Our collection of baby items is coming along nicely, with embie's nursery starting to fill slowly with bits and pieces. I have formed a list of outstanding items which I am going to try and stick to now, rather than just buying all the cute things I see. After the scan on Tuesday, when we know the sex and safety of the baby, we are going to decide on and order the nursery furniture. As well as buying some more sex specific clothing/blankets/towels etc.
We have decided on a sherbet/pastel orange colour for a feature wall in the nursery, as it goes well with two large toys and the main cot set we have bought for the room. We also wanted to go a unisex colour so that the nursery would be appropriate for all of our future children (fingers crossed) and not just whatever sex the first one was.
After Tuesday (all going well) I might post some pics of the little one, and an update on my tummy if it has grown any further.
I am getting super scared about the scan day, as I know that if anything is wrong with embie, like its heart has stopped beating, that's when we will find out.
Since I last posted I have noticed that I have been snappier than usual (especially at my poor husband). I can relate to it feeling like PMS. I have put on 1kg which I am very proud of, and my tummy has gained another centimetre.
I still haven't felt anything that I'm confident about being embie moving around inside, and cannot wait until that happens.
I have notice a change in my bowel movements in that they have gone a little more towards the constipation end of the scale than in my first trimester. I'm not concerned really as I know this is very common, but I am wondering what has caused the change? Is it just my digestive system slowing down? Is the fibre I'm consuming in a different form due to change of seasons and change of fruit and veges etc?
My only real cravings so far have been boost juice (in the first trimester), twisties and then and now cheezels, and I feel one forming for fresh bun loaf! Notice no healthy ones!
Our collection of baby items is coming along nicely, with embie's nursery starting to fill slowly with bits and pieces. I have formed a list of outstanding items which I am going to try and stick to now, rather than just buying all the cute things I see. After the scan on Tuesday, when we know the sex and safety of the baby, we are going to decide on and order the nursery furniture. As well as buying some more sex specific clothing/blankets/towels etc.
We have decided on a sherbet/pastel orange colour for a feature wall in the nursery, as it goes well with two large toys and the main cot set we have bought for the room. We also wanted to go a unisex colour so that the nursery would be appropriate for all of our future children (fingers crossed) and not just whatever sex the first one was.
After Tuesday (all going well) I might post some pics of the little one, and an update on my tummy if it has grown any further.
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