23 Weeks

Hello Everyone,

We had our first doctor’s appointment and ultrasound of the New Year this morning. The baby is still a girl! Thank God…I had a dream the other night that they made a mistake and I wasn’t having a precious little girl anymore. She has plenty of surrounding fluid to perform her numerous acrobatic feats and is now a whopping 1 pound 5 ounces. That is more than 2 ½ times larger from the last ultrasound, less than 6 weeks ago. Her weight is charted right on the average line. She is moving all the time. I can’t seem to calculate when her naps are. It really makes it hard to sit still at work. Tim has now felt the baby movements…for a while there I didn’t think he believed me when I told him the baby was kicking.

It seems however, that my weight gain has been extraordinary as well. At 23 ½ weeks I have gained a whopping 20 pounds; 8 pounds in 4 weeks! It could have something to do with all the Holiday snacking and treats. I need to get back into my routine. I read this is the time when most women gain the most weight and that it starts to slow down in the 8th month and you really don’t gain much at all in the 9th month. Hopefully that is true or I will have to be rolled into the Hospital in April.

Here are some snap shots during the ultrasound. It’s a little hard to see exactly what you are looking at, but give it a try. She was positioned with her back against my back, facing towards my belly button, an laying across my abdomen. She was moving around a lot and seemed to be ticklish.

This is a head shot (upper right). She is looking at us and has her right arm next to her face.

Here is a profile shot. Her mouth is open.
This is a butt shot. Her legs are across the top and bottom/middle of the picture. The 3 white lines means it is still a girl. You might have to double click on the picutre to see it.

Okay, here is one more that I think I can describe... Here is a picutre of her hand in front of her face. The technician thought she was sying no more picutres please. We probably will not have anymore pictures of the baby until she is born. We hope you all had a great Christmas and wish you a Happy New Year.
Love,