bumGenius 4.0

Last night I made a trip to the Cotton Babies store and purchased 12 more diapers made by bumGenius! Baby H will have the cutest fluffy butt on the block! Aren't the colors fun?! I have to get a few more diapers to complete our stash, but I can't decided which color(s) I should get more of...

P.S.
These can be used for any other kids that we may have, which is why we wanted to get some greens and blues. Also, a green bum will look adorable with a pink dress. ;)

Maternity Photo's at 34 Weeks

I've decided that I am really going to miss having this baby bump (and not having to suck in my gut), so Friday night I met up with a photographer friend and he took a few pictures of me. It was SO hot that I literally had sweat *dripping* off of me at the end of this hour session and my hair was drenched. I was a hot mess! But here are some pictures from the first half hour!

32 weeks and 5 days along!

Today was the first of my weekly fetal monitoring tests and little missy did not want to participate! I was hooked up to machines for over an hour when the test should have taken 20 minutes. The funny part - we still didn't get a good reading after that hour. My stomach was moving around like a water bed and her hard kicks kept knocking the monitor belt out of place. Honestly, this was the most active that she has ever been. As the nurse watched my stomach roll, she just kept saying "oh, my.... oh, my!". And wouldn't you know it, the baby slept through the entire ultrasound which was done immediately after the other test. They even had to jiggle my belly to get her to move to a new position. Silly kid!

After they got her in the right position, they were able to get all of her measurements and she was measuring almost a month ahead of schedule. The ultrasound tech was baffled that I passed my glucose test, because this kid is HUGE! Or not.... After they realized that they entered in the wrong due date (Oct 22nd instead of Oct 2nd), all of the measurements were perfect! She is now in the 57th percentile and is just 2oz shy of being 5lbs. Grow baby, grow!

Here are some pictures from this morning. The first one is a profile picture with her fist next to her chin, and the second picture is her face with that same hand next to the chin.

My next (and probably last) ultrasound will be on Friday, September 9th. I'll be 36 weeks and 5 days along.

3D Ultrasound

Today I am 27 weeks 5 days (3rd trimester - yay!) and Baby H is looking good! I had an ultrasound scheduled for today and I went in with my fingers crossed hoping to be in the "special" room with the 3D ultrasound machine... Jackpot! After all of the baby measurements were taken, the Tech gave us a sneak peek at a 3D image. She had a hard time getting one though, because the placenta and her arm was in the way. However, we still got to see a glimpse of her mouth, nose and the inner corners of her eyes. We have decided that she has Andrew's nose and Angelina Jolie's lips - What do you think? Ha, ha!

As for her measurements, she weighs 2 lbs and 9 oz and is in the forty first percentile. The doctor said that this means "she's average", but I disagree.  :)

Today's Appointment

Everything went well today and baby girl already weighs 1lb 7oz and her hear rate was 153 beats per minute. We couldn't really get a good profile picture though because she's in the breech position and thought it was a good idea to play peek-a-boo and keep her hands in front of her face. Silly girl! So this is the best shot that we have:

P.S.
They confirmed that she is still a she - LOL!

Team Pink!

Everyone reading this blog already knows that it's a girl! I just thought I would create a post for those who haven't seen the pictures from our "gender reveal". So here you go:

Ten Fingers & Ten Toes

Today we had our anatomy scan. Most people refer to this appointment as the "big" ultrasound because the gender is revealed. But more importantly, this appointment is when they measure every part of the baby to confirm that everything is growing properly and to make sure that there are no visible defects. I am so glad to say that Baby H is lookin' good! We counted 10 fingers, 10 toes, 4 chambers in the heart (with a heart rate of 153 beats per minute), 10 inches in length from head to toe and s/he weighs 11 oz! We are so excited that everything is going so well and we look forward to revealing the gender over Memorial weekend!

In other news, I'm starting to feel little movements in my stomach. It actually feels like a little fish swimming around in there. Check out the little creature that's getting cozy!

It's kind of hard to figure out what the legs are doing, but they are bent. So the long part is the thigh and the calves are pointing up and over to the left and the feet are blurred at the very top.The ultrasound tech had a hard time getting a good profile picture and said "if only we could take out a few of your ribs so that I can get a good angle". Ha! I told her to just keep poking my belly until we get the right view... I'd like to keep all of my ribs, thank you very much!

For my Detroit peeps:  Here's a picture of my "baby bump" at 19 weeks 4 days.

Upcoming appointments:
Monday, May 16th at 1:50pm with Dr. Hugge so that she can look at my anatomy scan results (we had today's ultrasound appointment at St. John's).

Wednesday, May 18th at 9:10am with the high risk doctor, Dr. Moore. She's still monitoring me to watch for signs of preeclampsia.

Friday, June 10th at 7:30am at St. John's for a follow-up ultrasound. Yay, more pictures!