Sugar & Spice & Everything Nice

Well, we had our level II ultrasound done today. Everything looks great, baby measuring slightly ahead of schedule and everything looked fine. It even looked like the baby was flipping us off at one point! I didn't think I wanted to know the baby's gender but once we got in there the suspense got the best of me. We are having a little girl! I'm in shock because I was quite certain I was having a boy. I guess I don't know anything. A girl will be nice though, expensive, but nice.

It's Been A While

Yes, it certainly has been a while. I'm still pregnant and everything is going fine. I'm blaming my absence on first trimester fatigue. That first trimester really wiped me out. I felt fine as far as morning sickness goes. Hardly any at all. Only if I needed to eat and it went away right after I ate. The fatigue though is what I really struggled with. It wasn't just being sleepy either. Sometimes just walking up the stairs exhausted me. So I spent a lot of time sleeping and lounging around. Now that I'm in my second trimester I have no excuse. I've actually been feeling great the last couple of weeks. I have a day now and then when I'm tired but nothing like I was.

Everything is going great with the pregnancy. My first trimester screen gave me a low risk factor for both Down's syndrome and Trisomy 18. My Quad screen done a couple of weeks ago was negative for neural tube defects and chromosomal abnormalities. Of course these are just screening tests and the only way to know for sure is with an amniocentesis which we are not going to do. I don't want to take the risk of miscarriage. If the results of the screening tests weren't good I'd probably do it and that would just be to prepare myself in the event that we would have a disabled child.

We have taken to calling the baby "Rocco". We probably won't be finding out the sex, so it's possible Rocco is actually a Rockette but I think it's better than refering to the baby as "it". Little Rocco is starting to cause flutters in my belly. I only feel it on occasion when I'm laying down and quiet. It's only been a handful of times in the last week.

I'm almost half way there now and I'm hoping the next half goes just as well!