Baby Update

I don't know if we have many blog readers still out there since my updates have been very infrequent. I decided to hold off on the first set of ultrasound pics from my 9 week appointments since the images require a lot of explaining so you know what you're seeing. I am now 16 weeks pregnant and have another check-up coming up this week. All is going pretty well. Morning sickness ended right on time at the end of the first trimester and we are watching my tummy start to grow. I just started feeling the little one move around at least once a day this past week, so that has been an exciting development in this pregnancy. We told Luke the other day that we would find out what we're having in a couple of weeks. He said, "A Baby!!!" You're exactly right Luke! We will find out the gender on June 23. We debated on that one, but decided on finding out since we need to know what exactly to bring back here from KY since our space here is extremely limited.

I never gave a lot of details of our first appointment, but the short of it is before conceiving there was a concern that my pregnancy would be high-risk due to the brain malformation I was diagnosed with in '07. We were told then that any future delivery may have to be a C-section. However, at my appointments thus far (and I've only seen NP's so far) there has been no concern about this whatsoever. I'm considered a normal pregnancy which was a huge praise for us. I will still double-check this when we begin seeing doctors, but we're trusting God completely on this and believe all is just fine. I don't anticipate it causing any problems since I had this with Luke and we just didn't know at that time. In case you're wondering, the reason we haven't seen doctors yet is due to personal choice. The office we visit is the closer of 2 offices and doctors are usually there in afternoon hours and we've only done morning visits. Don't worry...we will see the doctors!

I'll post more updates as we have our appointments this month. Life has been tough this semester with classes for both John and I as well as a PT babysitting job for me. Updating the blog has not been at the top of my priority list, but I'll try to do more updates while we have more time this summer.