Big boy

Had another visit with the midwife today! She measured the fundal height (the distance between the pubic bone and the top of the uterus) and said I'm measuring in at 24 weeks - one week ahead. Which would make my due date more like August 13th. So we'll see what happens...I'd be happy if he came early but I'm not holding my breath. My blood pressure was 100/58 which seems really low to me but they said it was normal. At least it's not high! Also while she was trying to find his heartbeat with Doppler he kicked her. Funny.

Gifts from Mimi Judy!

Thank you mom! Here are the pics:

Graco MetroLite Birkshire

Graco SafeSeat Birkshire

Brian put the stroller together while Midas ran around the house freaking out. He thinks we're gonna put him in it! Anyhow, I'm very happy with both items and can't wait to see Noah in them :-)

23ish weeks

Noah's been flipping around a lot lately...I still get kicked really low but I'm also feeling them up above my belly button now, too. Brian got to feel a big kick earlier and that was cute :-) Right now I'm sitting on the couch with headphones on my belly. He's listening to some classical music for babies that I checked out from the library. Hope he likes it! Also, here's a current pic of the belly:


I have another prenatal appt on Thursday so we'll see how much weight I've gained...oh lawd!

Noah weighs a whole pound!

I headed out to my anatomy scan this morning by myself. Poor Brian had a stomach bug and couldn't leave the house :-( It went really well, though. We saw the four chambers in the heart, the diaphragm, two kidneys, his bladder, the boy parts, his brain, etc. He was moving a lot, throwing his arms up by his head and bouncing around as usual. Heart beat still going strong at 151 bpm. He was in a breech position, which explains why I've been feeling kicks lower in my belly. Apparently a lot of babies are breech at this point since they still have so much room to move around.

I also found out I have an anterior placenta, which means it's attached to the front wall of the uterus. This is probably helping to buffer a lot of his kicks, but I still feel them pretty regularly. I know ultrasounds aren't too accurate in predicting the due date once you get farther along in the pregnancy, but according to today's scan he's measuring 21 weeks 4 days which would make the due date August 16th. He'll probably come on August 22nd (Mark's wedding day) just because that's how life is, right? ;-)

Here are the pics from today:

Face

Boy parts (on the right hand side)

Feet

Hand

19 weeks 1 day

We had a prenatal appt today. They weighed me (I've gained 12 lbs so far...can you tell I got my appetite back?!), took my blood pressure (110/60), and listened for the heartbeat. The little guy was busy moving all around as usual. She found it for a second, it was 151 bpm, but then she said he "went off to play again." lol. We're going back on April 9th for an anatomy scan to check out the heart and all that.

While we were at the appt, JCPenney called to say our crib had arrived. So we swung by there afterwards and picked it up. Brian assembled it in no time and it looks so good! I'm super happy with it. Just need to buy the bedding now.

18 weeks 5 days

Nursery

This is my favorite bedding so far for the nursery...can't resist blue, brown, and polka dots! It's from Restoration Hardware's baby line. Think I'm gonna have to register there..