13 wk NT test....not awesome!

Well, we had our first medical screening. Walking out it was odd to think that used to be all there was. We wonder if it really was as bad as we thought or if we would have thought it was awesome years before. The lady was pretty crabby, and had a hard time getting the shot for the NT. It was right there...I could see it...I wanted to help her, but I sat silent. Finally she got the shots, confirmed that it was great (we already knew that).

The room was set up so it was hard to see, they had an extra screen but it was small and across the room. The grainy pictures that were on the heat roller paper were hardly worth looking at. She probably thought we didn't care, because we hardly glanced at them. I asked a couple questions and the lady got super defensive and asked if I worked in the medical field since I knew the terms. I said yes, and then she quickly ended the scan.

It was cool to see the baby, but wow what a difference from what we do, to what gets done there. We'll post some pictures from our medical scan just for reference but we have to find time scan them into our computer since we didn't get a CD of jpg images. Oh, and we're going to get a bill for $1,500 for this, what a kicker. I was going to ask if she could look at the gender tubercle, for an early gender screening but the lady was way too crabby for that. I was curious if she would find what I found.

Heart rate 155 (has nothing to do with gender, just gestational age) it will decrease as this baby grows. We are happy that everything checked out well, and I fully understand the pressure diagnostic techs have. At the same time I think this makes us even more determined to make sure people's visit with us the polar opposite of that. As we walked out Sheri, commented...wow they sure don't tell you much. I had also forgotten that when we did some scans at our office I was teasing her and said she had placenta previa and would probably need a C-section, so she swatted me for making her worry. I can't even blame that on pregnancy brain, I'm sure Sheri will get me back.

Time to Share...12wks and counting.

So today we are inviting people to our baby site. Many of you have shared your pregnancy with us, so we thought it would only be fair to share ours with you. This is Number five for our household. We have Adryan 17, Ryan 16, Taylor 13, Riley 1....and a yet to be determined little one. We are currently just over 12 wks and anxiously waiting (like many of you) to figure out gender. I think I've got it already, but I'm still going to wait till we are sure before disclosing that.

I'll probably post some gender shots later, and let people see if they learned anything from visiting us and make guesses what they think. We are also very stuck with regard to a name, so we listed some choices and welcome your votes. Things can change and the wining vote doesn't mean that is what we'll go with, but right now sheri and I each have our favorites so maybe your votes will help break the stalemate.

Welcome everyone, thanks for stopping by (even if for nothing more then voyeuristic curiosity). :-)

p.s. Just because we have 3d scans at early ages, I don't want people to start booking appointments at 12wks. Please wait until at least 16 for gender, and preferably 23 for 3D/4D. As you'll see right now the babies look more like a mouse then a cute baby, but it gets way cooler as we go along. This is for us to share, I hope it's informative and interesting to others.

You can see now the babies legs are officially longer then the arms. Some of the earlier pictures they weren't, we'll point out more developmental markers as we go along.

10 wks, 9wks, 7wks!!

The other day we saw the babies hands, feet, and listen to the heartbeat. We also saw our baby moving around for the first time. Hands punching, legs kicking...It was so cool, even for me who does this everyday. It's so different when it's your own. We got some really neat 3D pictures as well. I'll post some, but figured I should write something for an update.