Ultrasound Pictures

Below is the picture that Darrell is most proud of. The view is looking directly at the butt. Two little folded up legs on either side, and right beneath the little arrow you'll see the little appendage. Yup, those are the goods.

This is my favorite. A little tiny hand with five perfect fingers. It's kind of hard to see where the rest of the baby is. I think he's kind of in the fetal position with the hand near his face, but I'm no expert. I just know that he's mine, and that little hand makes the fact even more real.

A perfect spine shot. Baby is face down, and his spine is the horizontal snake looking thing.

He's looking right at you in this picture. (If you imagine a skull it kind of helps.) Darrell says he looks like me here. LOL

This is the little butt, the white lines are his femurs (lower leg bones) so we can tell he has his legs folded up. (The better to kick mommy with...)

So, the verdict is that everything is good. As far as we can tell, Baby Bean has all the right parts and they're all put together correctly.

My weight at the appointment was 146, which I'm not totally happy with but it's not completely out of the normal range either. I need to watch my nutrition a little better in the coming weeks.

The beginning

These are the diaries of one, Baby Hafer. This yet unnamed child of ours who deserves to have his life chronicled simply because.

I am 19 weeks 2 days pregnant. I'll try come back to the beginning and make a list of the events starting from the beginning.

Okay...

Since this journal is a little late beginning, I'll list the milestones in order:

March 1 - After nearly 8 months of negatives, I got up early on Saturday to take a pregnancy test. It was several days early but I didn't want to wait. I could never wait. I was so shocked to see the very faint pink line that I didn't even say anything to Darrell for a couple of hours - I wasn't sure how to approach it. We went to the track and on the way home he asked me when I was supposed to take a test. I told him about the positive, and he was in disbelief as well. It took two more home tests and a blood test from the doctor on Monday to really convince us. We were pregnant!

The Test...it's kind of dark but you can see the faint double lines:

March 31 - My first doctor's appointment at almost exactly 8 weeks pregnant. An internal ultrasound clearly showed our little Bean growing, alive and well.

Weight - 130 lbs

April 28th - 12 Week appointment.

We heard the baby's heartbeat for the first time. It was 164 bpm.

May 30th - 16 week appointment

Another standard visit, all vitals good. Baby's heartbeat 154 bpm. We set the appointment for the anatomical ultrasound for June 26th @ 3:45 pm This is what Darrell has been waiting for. Will we get a son, or a daughter?