June 23- Doctor's Appointment

I successfully convinced my mom to come to Georgia for a couple of days! I felt like it was such a huge accomplishment that I rearranged my doctor's appointment so that she and Karah would be able to go and if nothing else, hear Brock's heartbeat through the monitor. When we got into the room, we saw Dr. D and before she started doing what she does, I said "what is the liklihood that you'd do an ultrasound today since my mom is visiting from FL?" She smiled and said "we can take a quick peek!" I was so thrilled....

So, after we heard his heart beating through the monitor, she turned on the ultrasound machine and we got to see him moving around, sucking his mouth (not his thumb, thankfully!) and got to witness the very strange position that my little man had twisted himself into! :)

She did print one picture for us of his face, head on- I'll post it later when I've taken a picture of it and uploaded it to my computer. I know my mom and Karah were so thrilled to see the newest member of our family and I was thrilled that I could share that moment with them.

Dr. D said that when I went for my 19 week ultrasound in Jacksonville, that the tech wasn't able to get a picture of his heart because of the position that he was in. She said it's a common thing to not get, but she's picky about getting pictures of all vital parts, so she wants to send me back to have another ultrasound!! She doesn't anticipate anything wrong, but I'm excited about getting to see our precious baby again before he's born. My ultrasound is scheduled for July 14th at 9:45 am!!

Will post more later.

Jessica

Week 25 News

This week I'm 25 weeks pregnant with my little man! I can't believe I only have 15 weeks to go before his due date....I couldn't be mor excited! Although my focus right now is on my school classes, I only have 5.5 more weeks of those until I'll be finished for the Summer and will have about 2 months to relax before the baby makes it into the world!

My weekly update says that the baby weighs about as much as a rutabaga.....who even knows what that is?? Apparently that's about 1.5 pounds. I've learned from these updates (and compared with the measurements/weight of the baby when we had our ultrasound at 19 weeks) that our baby measures and weighs a bit more than this "average", so I imagine he probably weighs closer to the 2 pound marker now. He is about 13 inches long too according to that same estimation.

If you saw my last post, you'll see that this week Lucas was able to feel the baby!! We are so excited that Lucas can take part in enjoying our son now too!!

Other big news this week- Baby Landreth has a name!! Before we knew that the baby was a boy, we had narrowed down our name preferences for a boy, but were still undecided about a name if it were to be a girl. God knew what He was doing because we didn't want to make that decision. :) Since we had narrowed it down, I told Lucas that he should make the final decision. The baby was either going to have Lucas' middle name or not, but since it wasn't my name, I didn't want to give an opinion either way. So, Lucas took some time (alot of time!) to think about it and decided that we would tell our parents on Father's Day what Baby Landreth's name will be. Our little man's name will be Brock Michael Landreth!! We are so thrilled that he will share a middle name with his daddy and Gpa Landreth (they haven't decided what they want to be called yet- hint, hint!). I can't wait to meet my handsome son! :)

Flick or foot?

After going to bed pretty late last night, I was exhausted this morning when the friendly alarm sounded for me to get up for work (dreaded event of the day). I layed there for a few minutes and then grudgingly got up, took a shower and started to get ready. As my daily routine unfolded, I got back in bed to wake Lucas up to get ready and as I was laying there very still in the bed, I started feeling a bit of movement in my abdomen. Since Lucas wasn't quite awake yet, I whispered "do you want to feel the baby move?" He has been trying to hard to feel him move, but it just hadn't happened yet! So, Lucas put his hand on my stomach and I layed very still. I felt him move a couple of times and I would ask Lucas if he felt it and he'd say 'no'. Then the baby did something (not sure what it was)...maybe a kick, a punch or a harsh movement...? Whatever it was, Lucas felt it!! I was so excited that he was FINALLY able to feel the baby move inside of me. He got to feel him a couple more times before he stopped moving for the time... What a wonderful day event to start off my day!

Week 23-update

Well, week 23 is almost over, but I thought I'd post about something the things going on lately. According to www.babycenter.com, the baby is around 11 inches long and weighs in at a little over 1 pound. I believe that he is bigger than that because when we found out that "it" was indeed a HE, he was 11 ounches...that was 4 weeks ago! Anyway, he's getting big and strong.

The highlight of the last week and a half is that I can now feel him moving a little bit. It feels like something is flicking me from the inside of my uterus....not so much the "flutter" that everyone has always told me it would feel like, but as my midwife described it....more of that of gas bubbles! :)

I am loving being pregnant....haven't been sick and have only gained around 10-11 pounds, which to me is awesome, but we'll see what happens from here on out. "They" (whoever that is) say that after 20 weeks that I'd gain a pound a week and that hasn't proved to be true, so maybe the rest of the pregnancy will go as unpredicted as the rest has and I'll stay within my 15-20 pounds range. Let's keep those prayers going! hehe.

I don't have any new pictures to post, but I'll try to get some taken for an update next week. 24 weeks tomorrow (Saturday, June 12th).

Until next time....