For those of you who are unschooled in the deciphering of the amorphous, black and white blobs that are ultrasound photos, that first one is the profile of baby's face, nuzzling up against the placenta.
Legs:
Arm:
Healthily beating heart:
The doctor says everything looks great. In fact, he said that if everyone were as healthy as me and the baby, he would be out of a job. So kudos to us, contributing to physician unemployment everywhere. Just kidding. That was nice of him to say.
Maybe I appreciated it extra because the ultrasound technician was not very friendly. I felt like she was quizzing me on all the information I'd just filled out in the paperwork. And I got one wrong. But anyway.
The baby was moving around too much to get any really good profile or face shots. But that's okay. They even gave us a DVD of the entire ultrasound! Now that's entertainment! If anyone wants to come check out the 9 minute video of my innards, come on over!
We are really excited. It is nice to see that baby is developing normally and that all is well. I've been feeling the baby move more in the past few days, but I hadn't been feeling much before that, so I kept worrying that maybe something was wrong. But I feel more reassured now. I know there is always some risk, but I'm feeling pretty good about things at this point.
We decided not to find out the baby's sex. And I'd like to get on my soapbox for a moment about it, if you don't mind:
I totally understand why people find out. I think it's cool that they find out. If I were to accidentally find out what I was having, I wouldn't be upset. For me, personally, I really like surprises, and I think waiting until the end is fun. I realize not everyone shares this opinion, but that is mine. Again, I totally get that people like to find out.
What I do not get is how people will tell me to my face that they think I am an idiot (in so many words) for not finding out. I've had people make faces, question my sanity, or get upset with me. Also confusing to me are people who tell me something like, "How could you possibly plan for anything?" Um...do you really think I'm sitting around ignoring my growing belly and waiting to prepare anything until after I bring the baby home? I'm pretty sure that anything you plan for while knowing the baby's sex can be planned for without knowing it.
Colors for a quilt: check (light blue and red, like a red kite in the sky, not like patriotic. And I'm excited because once you decide on the colors, you find examples everywhere, and there are lots of cute things! Red wagons; birds; fun swirls, stripes, and dots. And then once the baby's born, if I really feel like genderizing things, I can use the same colors with flowers, cars/trucks, etc. Heehee!)
Decorations for room: check (see above motif, in wall vinyl!)
Clothes for the newborn: check (all the neutral stuff from Dane, plus any other cute things I might find)
Names: check (okay, I don't actually have that decided, but I'm just saying I will narrow it down to two instead of down to one.)
Those seem like the essentials to me. Plus diapers. I don't mean to sound like a jerk. Again, I don't question anyone's decision to find out. I just don't want people to question my decision not to. Well, you can question it if you want, just don't accuse me of being an idiot or disorganized or something.
Okay, I'm done now. I hope I didn't scare anyone off.
And the big day is officially confirmed to be August 15, 2011! Wahoo for being pregnant all summer! So baby and Dane will be a month shy of being 4 years apart. And I think it will be nice to have a few more weeks of warm weather for when the baby is tiny. Maybe it will be able to see some sun before the forever long months of winter.
Speaking of siblings, I never blogged about our awesome visit from Rika.
Since we missed each other at Christmas, Rika came out for a visit, where we hung out, ate yummy food, played with Dane, laughed a lot, and made baby shoes!
Rika got these baby shoe patterns, and we decided they were perfect baby shower gifts, so we had a lot of fun shopping and creating all the little shoes. My favorite are the sandals.
I gave Rika the Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook for her birthday, and we made an extravagant Harry Potter Dinner, completed with Kreacher's French Onion Soup, Bangers & Mash, Yorkshire Puddings, Glazed Carrots made with Golden Syrup, Butterbeer, and Treacle Tart.
Oh, and the treacle tart.
One day we also went on a picnic in Murray Park. After a little incident involving crushing a styrofoam cup with a bare hand and dropping the food in the parking lot, all went pretty smoothly.
Rika taught Dane how to go down the slide head first:
Which he thoroughly enjoyed
Then they had these weird, spinning egg cup things that would start spinning out of control and render the rider unable to stop. Scroll to the end for some video.
They also had this spinning ring thing that was quite fun. This picture captures the moment just before Dane and I fall off.
Rika had the most exciting turn on the egg cups. I hope you enjoy it.
And here are the results:
Those are all the pictures I had. It was a great visit and just made us miss Rika all the more. Thanks for coming out; come back again soon!
9 comments:
That playground at Murray Park is very fun. When I taught in the lower grades my students would beg to go play there. Occasionally we would as my school is very close boy.
I don't blame you one bit for not finding out the gender!
my leg looks gigantic in the one where dane and i are on the spinny ring.
also just watching myself on the egg cup makes me remember how i felt sick to my stomach for the rest of the day.
also kevin.
Wow, sometimes I forget that other people update their blogs fairly regularly.
I'm definitely in the crowd of people who can't wait until the due date to find out, but the people who really crack me up are the ones who try and convince their expecting friends to find out the gender of their babies so that they (the person who isn't even expecting) don't have to wait to know the baby's gender.
I'm glad everything looks good!
I'm right on that soapbox with you. My own MOTHER gets angry with me for not finding out ("How am I supposed to know whether or not I need to start making a blessing dress?????"....even though she didn't buy a single thing for the blessing dress until Abby was 2 weeks old...grrr). But I digress. You aren't being "difficult" or "stupid" or "irresponsible" for not finding out. And, yes, it is a surprise whether you find out at 20 wks or 40 wks, but honestly - I'd rather smoosh all the surprises together to make ONE GIANT BIG SURPRISE!!! So that was the really long-winded way of saying that I wholeheartedly approve of and support your decision to wait. Just make sure that Joel is familiar with the difference between a dangling umbilical chord and little boy parts, lest there be any confusion during the immediate, post-birth gender announcement :)
And is it possible to get motion sickness from looking at photos? Because I think I just did.
Okay, so why don't we ever get together when your family is here. I know Evan misses them.
Why aren't you finding out the sex of the baby? Seriously? Do you not care??? I mean, about me. I can't wait for anything, how am I to wait??? :) Just teasing. I do wonder how you have that kind of self control. However, those red, blue elephants. Oh my goodness are they cute.
I love those sandals. I have this pattern for baby shoes that I really want to make. But I don't know how you find time, space, or money to do any of those things. Next time I'm pregnant, I'm going to employ you to get my nursery cute. I've never had a cute nursery before.
I'll come see your ultrasound and where is that park?
Ah, I love all those people who make you feel stupid for not finding out. Just makes you want to slap them in the face. Yeah, it's pretty frustrating but luckily, most of our friends were good about it for us. Maybe when they tell you that, you can tell them to lose some weight because it really bothers you or something to that effect. I think they would get off your case then, assuming they needed to lose the weight. I guess that's not turning the other cheek but I bet it's pretty gratifying after all is said and done.
Ami, that is AWESOME!! Congratulations x a million!!!
I am really excited that our due dates are so close--that's incredible.
Is Dane pretty excited?
(I have to say that I have no idea how you have enough patience to let the gender be a surprise--I have a hard enough time waiting half a pregnancy!)
Congrats again, Ami--and I do think this calls for a phone call. :)
Yay! I love the baby pictures! I totally support you in your need to not know ;) Also, there is a HARRY POTTER cookbook? How great is that? Were the recipes any good?
Where did you guys find the pattern for the baby shoes? They are amazingly cute.
(BTW, the blessing outfit for Hyrum was spectacular!)
Wow, I somehow missed this one earlier. Yeah, we're due the same month, in fact we're due the same day! That is really crazy. :)
So, August 15th is kind of nice. Because then when people ask when she's coming (ours is a girl), I can say "should be sometime in August." 38-42 weeks - all fits in the month. :)
As for your soapbox - I'm sorry you've had to deal with that! I think people forget that the whole "finding out the gender" thing is fairly recent - and parents were plenty able to plan for the babies before ultrasound was common, or even invented... anyway... :)
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