Ryan came with me as he hadn't seen Bun-Bun since the first ultrasound. The ultrasound tech calls us back and has me hop on the table. This time will be an external ultrasound on my belly so I pull my fancy new maternity jeans down to the hipbones and she slathers on the goop (icky!) and we're ready to go.
First off, the tech isn't in a very playful mood. The moment we see BB pop up on the screen, Ryan and I both get the giggles. Not sure why, it was just so cute and BB would move around kinda like a sea monkey and we were just in awe and well, I know the tech was trying to get measurements so I had to calm down. But yeah...just amazing to see a really baby-looking entity in there! Just amazing!
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Then on the way to the next exam room to meet with the Dr., they have me weigh-in. I am down 3 lbs since this whole thing started. She said it's nothing to be worried about since I am starting out overweight and that I will gradually start gaining into the 2nd trimester.
The Dr. comes in and says that from the ultrasound side of things everything looks great! Heartrate of 170 bpm is healthy, too.
The next appt is Nov. 7 and I don't think I get an u/s then, I think just the usual pee in a cup, weigh-in and then maybe meet with the Dr. so she can see how I'm doing. The next ultrasound is around 18 weeks (Thanksgiving!) and if Bun-Bun cooperates we should be able to find out the gender, which I will share with everyone if it looks pretty definitive haha.
Mom took me shopping on Friday and we found a few things...my first pair of maternity jeans from Motherhood. VERY comfortable! Got a few tops and cute cardigan deals so I can do a lot of layering. But yeah it's getting harder to hide what's going on down there ;) I actually am planning to tell my office at our morning meeting on Friday! It's getting very real now!
One thing that is bizarre to me...in the morning when I wake up, I barely look pregnant at all. But by 8pm I swear I look 6 mos pregnant! It's kinda disturbing. Then in the morning...back to smaller me again. Apparently when you're pregnant you can just get super-bloated as the day goes on and it is just insane! So there's that.
So glad that things are going well! I loved that scan...it was really the first time that the little one looked like a little one! :)
ReplyDeleteI lived in Motherhood things! Loved their stuff!
Thanks Kelly! It really just blew our minds...amazing how real it starts to feel now!
ReplyDeleteSo adorable! Bun Bun is so cute already :-) Good luck on telling the office. That is going to be exciting :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks Heather! It is definitely gonna be fun on Friday...I can't wait to see the reactions :)
ReplyDeleteSo exciting!!! :-) I do the same thing with being small in the a.m. and bloated in the p.m. I'm so glad things are going well!
ReplyDeleteI am so glad I'm not alone with the bloating craziness! I thought I was out of my mind haha. And yes I hope we both have wonderful, uneventful, healthy journeys ahead of us :)
ReplyDeleteYay! Look at the little bebe! So sweet :) And yay for maternity clothes...I am still rocking some of mine 6 months post partum LOL!
ReplyDeleteYeah the thing I'm wearing today is something I would like normally...very flattering and doesn't scream "MOMMY!" :)
ReplyDeleteSorry Mandy, just getting caught up after my honeymoon! Ah the pictures, so wonderful! wow... things are getting more real!
ReplyDeleteI know, right??? Crazy! I'm so anxious for the next one which isn't until Nov 28!?! Feel like it's never gonna get here haha.
ReplyDeleteThis was really an interesting topic and I kinda agree with what you have mentioned here! Ultrasound specialist
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