I hadn't known my husband for more than two months before he started in on me to have a baby. His constant pestering lead to progressively harsher responses from me, starting from"eventually", "someday", "not me, not now", "leave me alone", to "have your own damn baby".

Last Spring something in me started to shift and I became more and more serious about the possibility of having a baby. After months of internal dialog, I finally gathered the courage to share the news with my husband who was expectedly ecstatic. (I haven't told the dogs yet - they are going to be devastated!)

Sharing the news with Loren, my husband, opened the flood gates and I finally started researching what to expect, what to eat, what to do to prepare, and what the birthing process would look like....which at first was pretty anxiety provoking, as I started out by watching "The Business of Being Born" (not recommended as a place to start).

Here I plan to document interesting, perception changing information I come across in what will be a successful journey towards a positive pregnancy and childbirth.


Sunday, January 20, 2013

Lily at 32 weeks

Baby face or Aquatic Alien Baby? 

I had a routine doctor's appointment on December 18th, less than a week before leaving for NY for Christmas.   When I asked my doctor for a letter saying that it was ok for me to fly I found out I was over due for the second ultra sound I apparently should have schedule at least a few weeks prior.  It wouldn't have been so urgent to have the ultra sound done if we weren't going to be traveling, but because the first one showed that the placenta had implanted on the front of my uterus and was covering my cervix the doctor wanted to know what the situation was before I left.   Going in was a little nerve racking because a) I was afraid she wasn't going to let me travel and b) if the placenta was still covering my cervix we would have to schedule a c-section.  Even though I knew it was a possibility that the placenta would still be covering my cervix, I hadn't really spent much time worrying about it. From talking with the doctor and doing some research online I found out that as the uterus grows, in most cases, the placenta moves up with it....which just so happened to be the case for me and my placenta.  Crisis adverted.  Great news!!

The bummer of the situation was that because the doctor wanted the ultra sound scheduled immediately Loren couldn't be there.  I really wish he was because I think it would have reminded him of how real this is getting.  Lily actually looked like a real baby this time and, oh my, she was so cute.  Calling an ultra sound image "cute" is something I never anticipated saying, but I couldn't take my eyes off her.  I got to watch the video while the technician measured her.  The baby keep moving in and out of view with my breath.  She was moving her lips and her little hand was tucked up under her chin.  I think she already looks like Loren.  You can't see her button nose in the photo above, but it's there.  You can also tell she's going to have giant lips and eyes.  Like I said, "So cute"!

I wish the ultra sound tech took a few more pictures.  I sent this picture to Loren as it turns out, it's actually an optical illusion.  All he could see was a tail fin, bent legs, butt up in the air, arm down, and head with a long hat on.  It took a lot of explaining, pointing, and rotating for him to see her face.  It seemed like most men saw the fin and most women saw the face.  Either way she's cute.

Now I think of her as our little aquatic alien baby...which is actually what she feels like most of time, twisting and turning and kicking and punching me.  She's been battling with my ribs lately and does not like it when I sit down or bend over.  I think my ribs might be infringing on her space or is it the other way around.  Either way there is definitely not enough room in there for baby, ribs, lungs, stomach and all those other vital organs.  I'm hoping that her discomfort will be motivation for her to get out!!  I'm ready for her to be here already.  The anticipation is bringing time to a stand still.


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