21 Weeks...Cannonball!!!!!

This is what the baby looks like inside my womb at 21 weeks. She can hear voices, and her eyebrows and and eye lashes have started to grow! She is covered in a waxy substance and has hair all of her body. Fat is starting to develop on her body, and she's getting bigger and bigger everyday as am I! Nothing fits me in my closet. I have a friend who is about the same amount of pregnant as I am so it's nice that we can talk and vent to each other about things that are happening to our bodies and know that the other person truly understands what's going on!

20 Week Ultrasound...It's a girl!!

Jeff and I went to our 20 week ultrasound yesterday and we thought for sure we were having a boy. As the tech was doing the ultrasound, there was no sign of a turtle head. We were shocked and ecstatic to find out that we were having a baby girl! The Chinese calendar and the heart rate wives tales were correct! Also, after we told my parents that we were pregnant, my Dad drove by his office and in the freshly cut grass there was one tall pink flower in the middle of the yard!!! I should have known then I guess. The baby is in a breach position right now so hopefully in the next 20 weeks she cooperates and turns the right way!!! If she's anything like I was she won't :) (I was a breach baby)

My Belly at 18 weeks and 3 days

Here's a picture of my little bump.

Week 18 & Other recent updates!

We went to the doctor yesterday and I was 18 weeks along. The baby's heart rate was 153 bpm and we could hear the baby sloshing around in my stomach, it was pretty cool.
We thought that we were going to have another ultrasound done that day so we could find out the sex of our baby for sure, but we have to wait another 2 weeks. We are having a fetal anatomy ultrasound done which will tell us the sex of our baby and take it's measurements which is on December 18th! (it seems so far away!)
I had blood work done 2 weeks ago to test for any possible birth defects and everything came back good! The baby is healthy and growing strong!
I have felt it move which was so neat. It started last week whenever I was awake in the middle of the night and sitting very still for a long period of time, it felt like little flutters. I was like "OMG please happen again!!" Of course it didn't for the next few nights and then it happened again. It was so fast that I could not comprehend what was happening. This week it has become more frequent and strong and it's a great feeling!
My mom bought me the infamous book, "What to Expect When You're Expecting," and it is scaring the buhjesus out of me! It tells you so many things you can't do because it will harm the baby somehow. Like it says you can only take cold to medium baths and showers or the baby will overheat. Um whatever! I take like 3 hot baths a day (I'm not exaggerating) and everything is just fine! There's a lot more stuff they say you can't do or eat as well but it would be too long to list them all! I do follow the rules that my doctor gives me, I just don't take it overboard! And I can have seared Ahi Tuna cooked rare once a month YES! J Alexander's here I come once every 30 days for the next 5 months.