Hearing the heartbeat

Got a nice recording of the heartbeat on the dopler at the appointment this morning. You can hear it too: start around the 18 second mark.

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September 24, 2013: 19 weeks, 5 days

It's my birthday, I've got my new sweater on, and my belly just really popped out over the last few days. It also seemed like a good time to go ahead and share more widely:

I've got a doctor's appointment this week (check up) and the anatomy scan next week - which i imagine will give us some really great photos of the not-so-little-anymore-mini-Lee.

September 19, 2013: 19 Weeks

The numbers for today are fun. It is September 19, I'm 19 weeks pregnant, and it's our fourth wedding anniversary. I started to feel the baby move and kick maybe last week sometime, but wasn't sure what if that's what I was feeling until yesterday. Starting about 10:30, baby was kicking and thumping and it was... well just really neat and reassuring. I couldn't ask for a better way to celebrate being married to Jacob.

So here's what I looked like yesterday (the bump grows little by little):

September 11, 2013: 17 Weeks, 6 days

The doctor's appointment went well today. We heard the heartbeat again (150 BPM) and that's always reassuring. The results from the ultra-sound two weeks ago were good, everything looked like it was supposed to (although due to fetal age and position they weren't able to check on some things). They didn't see anything alarming or off though. Also my second trimester screening came back just fine.

I do have to do a glucose test next week to check for gestational diabetes. It's a three hour blood test and you can't eat for 10 hours before hand (OMG, how will I survive?) While I'm not really looking forward to the test, it is encouraging to be taking a test that I haven't had before - because I never got far enough along to take it.

The following week we have a check up, and the third week out is the 20-week anatomy scan at UC Davis Medical center in Sacramento. I'm very much looking forward to that milestone. No pictures to share today, but that's the update.