Our Beautiful Baby

We are having a....

A-ha! Gotcha! It's still too soon to tell, although our doctor did try to find out for us.

Seriously though, we went to the doctor this morning and got to see our baby. People, our baby is just as fidgety as Kim is! He/she was moving all over the place! The doctor showed us our baby's heart, it's toes, it's body and it's face. Here's a picture of our baby's face. The first one shows you where to look and the second one is the unlabeled picture.

And...

Isn't our baby just beautiful? (Ok, you can say it...right now it kind of looks like the alien babies you see in tabloids like the Weekly World News...we kind of think so too). But seriously, don't we have the best looking baby ever??

Also...some of you have told me that you are having trouble posting comments. When you click on comments, if you don't have a Google email account, make sure you click on the "anonymous" button and just include your name in the comment itself. Then you can make yourself heard, well, read actually.

Love to all!

Kim, Stephen & Baby B

T Minus Thirteen Hours (Week 14)

Yep folks, in thirteen hours Stephen and I get to see our baby. Basically we are talking about a quick date with a black and white ultrasound machine and the nicest OB/GYN on the planet. We can't wait!! Whoo hoo for technology! We'll report back tomorrow with the results.

In the meantime, here's the Week 14 update from BabyCenter.com...

"This week's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him — a process he'll keep up until birth. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb.In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces. His body's growing faster than his head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, his arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of his body. (His legs still have some lengthening to do.) He's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over his body. Your baby's liver starts making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and his spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you can't feel his tiny punches and kicks yet, your little pugilist's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active."

Tomorrow the doctor will measure our baby and we'll have a better idea if our baby has the Baldwin growth gene or the Horn one ... we're rooting for the Baldwin growth gene and average height (well, length at this point). We'll keep you posted!

Oh and thanks for all the comments! Muah! Love to all!

Feedback...

Out of curiousity, is anyone reading this thing? I'm hormonal and I need feedback! Please leave us some comments, if you don't mind.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving in the country. Stephen's family outdid themselves on Thanksgiving and all weekend long Crystal slaved in the kitchen and cooked wonderful things for us! I weighed myself this morning and although I ate and ate and ate, I didn't gain a pound!

Last Saturday, I started the second trimester. Baby and I celebrated it together with a nice bout of morning sickness (after having four days off from being sick). We go to the doctor on Thursday and Stephen and I are looking forward to seeing our baby again and hearing his or her heartbeat. We have the best OB doctor in the world (our fertility doctor was great too!). We hope to be so lucky later on with Baby's pediatrician.

That's about all that's new. I'll post more about what's going on with me in Week 14 later this week.

Love to all and remember to comment!

Week 13

YEAY!! This is the last week of my first trimester! "They" say that the second trimester is the best of the three and I am definitely looking forward to it! Here's what BabyCenter.com has to say about what our baby's doing this week...

"Fingerprints have formed on your baby's tiny fingertips, her veins and organs are clearly visible through her still-thin skin, and her body is starting to catch up with her head — which makes up just a third of her body size now. If you're having a girl, she now has more than 2 million eggs in her ovaries. Your baby is almost 3 inches long (the size of a medium shrimp) and weighs nearly an ounce. As you start your second trimester, most of your baby's critical development will be completed and your odds of miscarriage drop considerably."

I do wish they would stop comparing the size of our baby to food, with the return of my appetite, it just makes me think about eating!

I had a dream the other night, I dreamed I was holding my son and feeding him. He was BEAUTIFUL! I wanted to go right back to sleep and see him some more. Only about 5 more weeks until we can find out if we are having a son or a daughter. We can't wait!!

Hope all of you have a Happy Thanksgiving. We're going to "the country" (a.k.a. rural central Texas) to see Stephen's family and share our good news!

Love and blessings to all!

Reading Material

We have read that babies in utero have the capability to hear. So, Stephen has started to read to our baby. Here's our baby's first book...


You can never go wrong with Dr. Seuss!

Week 12

Here's what BabyCenter.com says is going on in my belly this week...

"How your baby's growing:The most dramatic development this week: Reflexes. Your baby's fingers will soon begin to open and close, his toes will curl, his eye muscles will clench, and his mouth will make sucking movements. In fact, if you prod your abdomen, your baby will squirm in response, although you won't be able to feel it. His intestines, which have grown so fast that they protrude into the umbilical cord, will start to move into his abdominal cavity about now, and his kidneys will begin excreting urine into his bladder. Meanwhile, nerve cells are multiplying rapidly, and in your baby's brain, synapses are forming furiously. His face looks unquestionably human: His eyes have moved from the sides to the front of his head, and his ears are right where they should be. From crown to rump, your baby-to-be is just over two inches long (about the size of a lime) and weighs half an ounce."

I am so glad that my baby is starting to look human! One less thing for me to worry about, and trust me, that list of worries is getting rather long! And those of you who know me well, know that I have been "proding my abdomen" frequently to make my baby squirm. It's good for my baby to know just what kind of mommy I am going to be, right?

Make sure you catch the blog right underneath this one...it will keep you updated on what is really going on with me!

Love to all!

I have an appetite!!!

For the first time since I've been pregnant, I have an appetite (and so far, no morning/noon/night sickness!). Here's what I have eaten today, so far (please keep in mind that I am eating stuff that I think will stay down should said morning sickness reemerge!)

6:30 a.m.- a handful of Lays Potato Chips (in bed, no less) I told Stephen (when he started laughing at me) that he was lucky I didn't break out the ranch dip!
7:45 a.m.- 2 pieces of toast with margarine and seedless blackberry jelly
8:45 a.m.- 1 sausage biscuit (only ate two bites of the biscuit since I overcooked it in the microwave at work, so I just ate the sausage)
10:45 a.m.- Cup O' Noodles (chicken flavor)
11:17 a.m. - a handful of Fritos (thanks to my good buddy Melissa for always having chips around!)

It's almost lunch time and I am looking forward to my leftovers from our anniversary dinner!
If I keep this up, I am going to regain (today) the 15 pounds I have lost so far in the first trimester!

...to be continued

Week 11

Here's what's going on this week with my pregnancy (taken from BabyCenter.com)

Your baby, just over 1 1/2 inches long and about the size of a fig, is now almost fully formed. Her/his hands will soon open and close into fists, tiny tooth buds are beginning to appear under her gums, and some of her bones are beginning to harden.She/he's already busy kicking and stretching, and her tiny movements are so effortless they look like water ballet. These movements will become more frequent as her body grows and becomes more developed and functional. You won't feel your baby's acrobatics for another month or two — nor will you notice the hiccupping that may be happening now that her diaphragm is forming.

This growing a baby from scratch is so cool!!!

Hi folks.

This is just a blog we created to share our lives with our family and friends. We'll try to be good about updating it weekly and sharing lots of pictures once our baby gets here in May. Thanks to Troy and Johnna for giving us this idea and keeping their site updated frequently!!

Love to all of you.