Although our current Belly Baby isn’t displaying his or her development as obviously as Lucy, there are still a few interesting things going on.
* I’ve been feeling fetal movement for a couple of weeks now, probably starting around 16 weeks. It is so different this time around! Between not being as anxious about this pregnancy and chasing a toddler around the house, I often only feel the kicking in the evenings, once I’m sitting down and quiet.
* I’m developing a cute little belly bump (if I do say so myself; see photo) and am fully into maternity clothes these days. I bought a whole stash of clothes on “craigslist”:http://chicago.craigslist.org/ and am having fun with my new-used wardrobe!
* I just read that, at this point in my pregnancy (18 weeks), my uterus is the size of a cantaloupe. Mmm, cantaloupe….
* We have a mid-term ultrasound scheduled for Saturday, November 10. Hopefully we’ll be able to discern boy or girl parts, as we had in “Lucy’s ultrasound”:http://www.annagram.org/extras/picture-0511.html! (And naturally you’ll hear about the results right away.) We’ll take either kind. :)
* Lucy has a new “baby doll”:http://www.fao.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=8073&categoryId=142&parentCategoryId=93 (thanks, Grandma!) that she is enjoying thoroughly. Her current favorite activities are taking off the doll’s shoes and socks, poking her in the eye, pointing out her nose, sticking her finger in her mouth, and occasionally picking her up by her hair. I figure it’s a good sign that she thinks the doll is fun. Maybe when we get closer to March, I’ll whip up a little baby doll “sling”:/news/2006/babywearing/ for her to use!
* The baby’s heart rate seems to be sticking right around “150 bpm”:/news/2007/150-bpm/, according to my last midwife visit.
* We have officially engaged our fabulous friend Dora to be “our doula again”:/news/2007/the-labor-story/ this time around.
I know there’s a lot more going on in there, but it’s a mystery to us! But I’m sure we’ll have more juicy details in a couple of weeks, after the ultrasound. Stay tuned!
It is so fun to have a bump!
Does it feel different with this one? For me it seems so completely different. This one is constantly moving and I have felt her since 14 weeks (now 26). Every thing is so bland tasting, I hate eating because their is no satisfaction. Yet it is nice not to be throwing still (I did for all 9 months with Maddy).
We look forward to hearing baby gender news. We are having a second girl (yeay, this is what I really want, although boys are okay too) …but something inside wonders if it really is a girl?? I guess we will wait and see.
I wondered if Ella was really a girl until she came out! I guess it’s just hard to believe until you see the parts, so to speak.
This pregnancy has been a *little* different for me, but not a ton. The biggest difference was the longer and more intense morning sickness. I’ve heard that having a girl can make you feel sicker, but we already had a girl, so who knows? I really have no hunches about this one — I figure it will be one or the other!
Hooray for a little sister for Maddy!
Throw all the wives tales out. I was so much sicker with Mo than with Kaia. His heart beat also was borderline on the girl side. But at the 18 week u/s he was definitely all boy and refused to stop showing off his appendage to the technician and us. I’m so thrilled for you! After the very scary week at the hospital with Mo, I realized just how precious their little lives are to me. When we have more children I think our love just grows more to accomodate the size of our family.