The weeks keep flying by. This week we’re really starting to work on nursery organization and decoration, but nothing to report on that front just yet. Instead, some new belly photos and an audio recording of the baby’s heartbeat! The heartbeat sounds, below, were recorded via our Sonoline B Fetal Prenatal Doppler, which has been [...]
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Jun 10
Jun 10
It’s Already the Third Trimester
And I can’t believe it has gone by this quickly! I’m at 29 weeks now, just about as big as a house, and August 15th is right around the corner. We’ve also been awfully busy lately (isn’t everyone?) so there’s a lot to catch you up on. I’ll do most of it with photos: And [...]
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Mar 10
Mar 10
It’s a BOY!
Can you believe it? We were all convinced it was going to be a girl, but then there it was on the sonogram, clear as day. “Look how bright and sticking-out it is,” said the sonogram tech. Yup, that is a baby boy in there. Because we’d somehow convinced ourselves it would be a girl, [...]
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Feb 10
Feb 10
April’s Pregnancy Dreams
April’s been having some pretty vivid and strange dreams lately. This morning’s was a doozy: The ultrasound at 20 weeks (coming up on March 22!) revealed a zaftig, curly-haired female baby named Margot. (I’m not sure if the wee one was wearing a name tag…). (This virtually guarantees we will be having a bald svelte [...]
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Feb 10
Feb 10
The Belly at 14 Weeks
In recent weeks, some of you have asked for pictures of my belly. Since we haven’t had any real baby news lately (no doc appointments in the past couple of weeks), I thought I’d oblige and share some snapshots of my growing frame. It was either that or a detailed account of all my symptoms. [...]
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Feb 10
Feb 10
It has a FACE!!
Today the baby is officially at 12 weeks, which is quite a milestone. At this point, many of the really serious risks a normal pregnancy faces are downgraded from up-all-night-worrying to almost negligible. We are also entering the second trimester, where my symptoms are predicted to shift from nausea and vomiting to dizziness and headaches. [...]
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Dec 09
Dec 09
Confirming the Pregnancy
So a few weeks ago I took a pregnancy test and it said “Pregnant.” Actually I took somewhere between 9 and 11 tests during an eight-day stretch where I was SO SURE it was true but the tests weren’t with me. Eventually, I got the response I was waiting for. It was pretty exciting to [...]
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