31 Week Appointment

Just got back from the doctor's office. We discussed the ultrasound that we had last week. My doctor says everything in terms of development, placenta, and amniotic fluid all look completely normal! Yay! She said in terms of weight, length, and body measurements, Emily is measuring a week ahead. This puts my co-worker, Jeanette's, estimation right on. She has "forseen" that Emily will be born on March 24th. :) We'll just have to wait and see! This is a short post, but there's really not much new to report. Her heartbeat was good and strong. She's still moving a lot. Everything is going well!

8 weeks, 5 days and counting down!

Emily's New Pictures!

We had an ultrasound at the hospital's imaging center yesterday evening. It was so neat to get to see her in all her beauty wiggling and smiling and sucking away. She looked very content in there! :) The ultrasound tech said I have a "very nice placenta for this stage of pregnancy"...whatever that means, but hey, I'll take it! Emily is head down and at an estimated weight of 3lbs., 13 oz.! An average baby at 30 weeks is around 3 lbs. She's in the 72nd percentile in size! She's got her momma's chubby cheeks and possibly her daddy's nose.
Take a look...you can click on the pictures to make them bigger!

I often sit and wonder what God has planned for our little one. Just like every mom, I hope it's great things! We are headed to San Antonio this evening for the 1st of 3 showers. We are extremely blessed by our friends, family, and church family!

We are so excited about meeting our little chunk! 9 weeks, 4 days and still counting down!

Tummy Tracker at 29 Weeks

Here are a few pictures of the ever growing belly at 29 weeks, 2 days pregnant.

My appointment today went well. Her heartbeat was going strong at 164bpm! There was a little miscommunication about the ultrasound. My doctor told me at my last visit that she would send me to the hospital today for an ultrasound. What she meant to say was that she would send me to to the hospital to register for an ultrasound. So, we didn't get to see Emily today. Our ultrasound is scheduled for next Thursday, the 21st. My next doctor visit is in 2 weeks, on the 28th. I've entered the third trimester! Home stretch, here we come!

Nursery Furniture

We received the dresser and glider last week! The crib is on backorder until January 29, so we'll have to wait a few weeks for the room to be complete, but that's ok. Here are pictures of the two pieces we have so far...as you can see, Duncan is rather curious! :)

I have my 29 week check up this coming Thursday. We will have an ultrasound done, so maybe I'll have new pictures of Emily to post! Even if we don't, I'll be posting updated belly pictures at the end of the week.

Ben and I braved our first session of a childbirth class this past Saturday. Yikes! It was rather intense. Let's just pray I can have an epidural!!! We have another and last session this coming Saturday. We'll get to tour the Family Birthing Center at the hospital, so we'll know exactly where to go once the time comes! 11 weeks, 1 day and counting down!

We Have Yellow Walls!

Ben started on the nursery yesterday! Well, actually, we started on the nursery several weeks ago by cleaning the room out, but the actual decorating began yesterday. Here are pictures of the yellow walls. I will post more pics as the furniture arrives and decorations are put up.

25 Week Check-Up

My appointment today went really well!!! My blood pressure was completely normal...122/77! Praise the Lord! My doctor was elated! I had a glucose test done. I was not looking forward to drinking the sugary stuff, but it really wasn't that bad, and since I had not eaten in the 12 hours prior to that, it really woke Emily up! I was sitting in the exam room waiting on the doctor, and I leaned back and just watched my stomach move and twitch and jump in every direction. She was bouncing off the walls! When the doctor came in, we listened to her heart and boy was it beating loud and fast! The doctor said, "Yep, that's the sugar!" Emily and I are doing perfectly fine. Everything looks normal. We should get the results for the glucose test in the next 2 weeks. I see my doctor again in 4 weeks. We'll have another ultrasound done this time at the hospital's imaging center, so hopefully, we'll get some good pictures of Emily! Then after that visit I start going every 2 weeks! I can't believe how fast the time is passing by! As I was setting up my next appointment, one of the nurses asked me if I had registered with the hospital. I of course said no, and she instructed me that I needed to do this soon. So, before I left, I went downstairs and registered for labor & delivery! The hospital has our names and is expecting us in March! It's going to be here so soon, and I get more and more excited every day! Anyway, just wanted to share that my appointment was great...14 weeks, 5 days and counting down!!!

Emily Bly Posson

Well, we've decided on a name! Emily Bly Posson. I think it's quite lovely. Emily is a name that Ben has liked since day 1 and one I wasn't ecstatic about at first but has since grown on me. Bly is Ben's Grandma's middle name. My mother-in-law (soon to be called Grams) gave me a book of Ben's family geneology to look at while we were there at Thanksgiving. We saw Ben's Grandma's name and fell in love with Bly immediately. It's not a name you hear every day and some people look at us weird when we say it, but I absolutely adore it and think it goes really well with Emily.

It's been almost 8 weeks since I last posted pictures of the growing belly. So, it's overdue and here we go...these are at 24 weeks, 5 days pregnant!

As you can see, a lot of growing has happened in 8 weeks time! :) When people ask me how far along I am and I tell them, most say I don't look big enough to be that far along. My reply is "That's funny, 'cause I feel like Shamu!" I have been struggling a bit with the body image. I've put on about 20 pounds so far which is about normal I think, but it doesn't make you feel very good when you see a girl standing in line at Freebird's who is probably farther along than you and she looks like a supermodel except for her protuding stomach. I literally came close to crying...I felt so big compared to her!

Anyway, enough about that. Ben finally moved the desk that was in Emily's room into our formal living area a few weeks ago with the help of our friend, Kevin. I've got a few more small things to get out of the room, and I still have to clean out her closet. Once that's done, Ben will get started painting...hopefully the week after Christmas! I'm very excited about getting her room in order! I think I'll be spending my quiet times in there once it's put together! :)

We registered at Babies-R-Us this past Saturday. THAT was an adventure! I've never seen so much stuff in all my life. While searching the aisles for cloth diapers, Ben said, "For someone so small, she sure does need a lot of crap!" It took us 4 hours to find and scan everything, but now we can say it's done! It was intimidating and kind of scary since it made me realize even more how much I don't know what I'm doing, but I know I'll have a lot of help from Mem, Grams, and Grannon (my mom, my mother-in-law, and our pastor's wife)!

My next appointment is this coming Thursday, the 17th. I will be tested for gestational diabetes at this one...let's pray I don't have that! I really don't think I do, but still, let's pray! :) I think that's all that's been going on in the past 4 weeks. Time has been flying by and our sweet Emily will be here before we know it! I can't hardly wait!