Countdown!

No more how-far-along posts, its time to countdown the days until Owen arrives :) So 5 weeks give or take.

All this last week the baby has been hiccuping every day and almost every night, so we thought we pretty much knew where the head was-the left side. (It's funny because I told Kent the baby is already keeping me up at night and it was such persistant thumps that I got up and tried to burp him ;) by walking back and forth rubbing my tummy!) Well come to find out at my appointment last week the doctor recorded the baby as turned, this is what the nurse told me today on the phone when I asked about an ultrasound. She said I was so far along that the ultrasound was pointless.

So when I asked the doctor what the difference between turned and dropped was he said the baby is head down and even though I have to go to the bathroom all the time now, I haven't dropped. Anyway, he did an ultrasound and he said it's for sure a boy and he is still head down. The hiccups are just the diaphram involuntarily contacting as the baby practices breathing. This past week I have felt alot of changes and I definitely feel big and ready!

7 months!

7 months today and four more pounds this month. Everything is looking good. Hearbeat has slowed from 155 bpm to 141 bpm (not that I know what that means but maybe that his heart and lungs are more developed?) I took the gestational diabetes drink the hour before my doctors appointment and then fell asleep and was twenty minutes late. But the doctor hasn't called back with high blood sugar readings or whatever so the test wasn't too messed up although I had a sugar headache on the drive their and thought great, something is wrong with my insulin. And now I have appointments every two weeks instead of every month! I am super excited. Of course he is kicking more and more and rolling and reaching out into my ribs. I haven't studied anything about birthing or breathing and I don't want to to take the 55 dollar birthing class with Kent. I would much rather just read about it. Or something.

So we have decided on the name Owen Daniel Stringam. Perfect, huh.

And I substantially look more pregnant in this months picture compared to last months picture.

6 months!

Yeah! only 92 days more to go! Yesterday was a check-up and little Owen's heart rate is 155 beats per minute. I have gained a total of twenty-two lbs (8 since last months check-up). So everything is going great! Dr. Z (who delivered me and seven of my sisters) said that every pregnant women's ankles are swelling right now and that I should just cut down on salt. He also said for me to do a fetal kick count everyday. Next check-up I will do the gestational diabetes test.

My aunt recommended the book, A Child is Born, by Lennart Nilsson because it has photos of babies while in the womb. Kent thinks its weird, but I love seeing pictures of a baby's development each week. So I thought I would include the six month picture.

Now we need Kamilla and Kelsey to post a belly photo!!!

21 Weeks or Over Halfway There :)

Friday, May 22nd marked 21 weeks, yea!!

3 months