YAY!
We made it through some MAJOR milestones this week!
If you follow this blog, you know that the past 7 days were on track to be very emotional in my life, both pregnancy and otherwise.
1st & foremost-TODAY was to be 20 weeks and 2 days. Again, if you follow my blog, or know me personally, you know how significant that is to me in this pregnancy. THat is the time in which Ian & Owen decided to be born. When we went in for our routine ultrasound on Friday, it was just to check everything out and make sure we were on track and that this baby was healthy. We found out that we are measuring a little ahead of schedule-and that FRIDAY was 20 weeks and 2 days. So, this was a BIG milestone for me personally-because this means I successfully carried to that point in the pregnancy.
After a LOT of discussion, Cris and I decided that we did want to know the sex of this baby. We already have 4 boys, so we were EXPECTING a boy but naturally hoping for a little pink. Regardless of what this babies gender was, we knew that for our peace of mind, we needed to know so that we could prepare to the best of our ability for WHATEVER might come in the next 16-20 weeks. I know that sounds morbid and awful, but we wanted to be thinking of names and all of that stuff so that IF we were presented in the same situation as before we were able to put THAT stress behind us and focus on all that was happening. Of course, no one wants that to happen, but if we've learned anything, it's that we need to be prepared for A N Y T H I N G.
We were given the "all clear" from Vicki (our sonographer that we now know very very well). We do have to go back in 4 weeks for another ultrasound because the baby did NOT want to cooperate for a "proof picture" that he is a boy. Vicki has never been wrong on her guesses, so we believe in her 99.9% belief that this baby is a boy. He did not want to scoot off of his behind! She also wasn't able to look up his nose or look @ some part of his outer heart valves. She assured us that at this stage, that wasn't abnormal.
The milestone might not really mean much to anyone else, but for me, it was a GIANT leap in the world of baby # 5 and pregnancy # 4.
I've been told-which brings SOME comfort to me, that since I have carried 2 healthy singleton pregnancies that we have no reason to believe this one will be any different. My doctors feel that what happened with Ian & Owen happened ONLY because there were 2 of them and that pregnancy womans bodies trick them sometimes to believing they are full term just because of the growth process. I also learned that because we got pregnant SO SOON after having the twins, that my uterus did not quit go back to normal size so that is another "risk" of this pregnancy. Things are already stretched out so it is making my body react a little different.
Anyway-so far, things are going just fine-and we've reached several milestones-so we just have to keep pushing on!
We made it through some MAJOR milestones this week!
If you follow this blog, you know that the past 7 days were on track to be very emotional in my life, both pregnancy and otherwise.
1st & foremost-TODAY was to be 20 weeks and 2 days. Again, if you follow my blog, or know me personally, you know how significant that is to me in this pregnancy. THat is the time in which Ian & Owen decided to be born. When we went in for our routine ultrasound on Friday, it was just to check everything out and make sure we were on track and that this baby was healthy. We found out that we are measuring a little ahead of schedule-and that FRIDAY was 20 weeks and 2 days. So, this was a BIG milestone for me personally-because this means I successfully carried to that point in the pregnancy.
After a LOT of discussion, Cris and I decided that we did want to know the sex of this baby. We already have 4 boys, so we were EXPECTING a boy but naturally hoping for a little pink. Regardless of what this babies gender was, we knew that for our peace of mind, we needed to know so that we could prepare to the best of our ability for WHATEVER might come in the next 16-20 weeks. I know that sounds morbid and awful, but we wanted to be thinking of names and all of that stuff so that IF we were presented in the same situation as before we were able to put THAT stress behind us and focus on all that was happening. Of course, no one wants that to happen, but if we've learned anything, it's that we need to be prepared for A N Y T H I N G.
We were given the "all clear" from Vicki (our sonographer that we now know very very well). We do have to go back in 4 weeks for another ultrasound because the baby did NOT want to cooperate for a "proof picture" that he is a boy. Vicki has never been wrong on her guesses, so we believe in her 99.9% belief that this baby is a boy. He did not want to scoot off of his behind! She also wasn't able to look up his nose or look @ some part of his outer heart valves. She assured us that at this stage, that wasn't abnormal.
The milestone might not really mean much to anyone else, but for me, it was a GIANT leap in the world of baby # 5 and pregnancy # 4.
I've been told-which brings SOME comfort to me, that since I have carried 2 healthy singleton pregnancies that we have no reason to believe this one will be any different. My doctors feel that what happened with Ian & Owen happened ONLY because there were 2 of them and that pregnancy womans bodies trick them sometimes to believing they are full term just because of the growth process. I also learned that because we got pregnant SO SOON after having the twins, that my uterus did not quit go back to normal size so that is another "risk" of this pregnancy. Things are already stretched out so it is making my body react a little different.
Anyway-so far, things are going just fine-and we've reached several milestones-so we just have to keep pushing on!
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