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So - here's our sweet little baby! I just couldn't take not knowing anymore. There is a HUGE consignment sale here at the fairgrounds on March 6-7 and I just needed to know before I go there so I know what to buy.....and I was gettting way too attached to the sweet little girl clothes at Carter's and I wanted to buy them so bad! But I didn't.
Anyway - I called one of those 3/4-D Fetal imaging places and after a long drive in heavy rains into San Francisco yesterday this is the result! We are due in August with a bouncing (and I mean bouncing that kid doesn't quite moving) baby boy!! You can see in the pictures where he is playing peek-a-boo, sleeping like his daddy with his arm on the back of his neck and already sucking his thumb!
We are very very excited and are looking forward to meeting this little guy! We are going to name him Erik George Michael Mooers. Erik (Mike's middle name) George (Mike's dad and my Uncle George) Michael (My Dad and Mike). So, he will have lots of strong men to live up to!
Hope you enjoy the photos!
Becky

14 weeks!

Well, we are now well into the second trimester and doing fine so far! It's hard to really know I'm pregnant. The nausea has faded away, I can't feel the baby yet and basically the only way I know is to go to the Dr. and see it on the ultrasound.....so I'm not feeling very pregnant right now.
But just wanted to say Hi and let everyone know things are going well!!
Mike and I have a few classes to sign up for in the next month, that hopefully will put us more at ease for a few things.
Our sex determination appointment got switched from March 5th to March 16th ;( which bummed me out because I wanted to go to this huge children's consignment sale on the 6th knowing what I was going to have. Maybe I can get a 3-D before then and know anyway, we'll keep you posted!
Becky and Mike

The Wave

We have officially made it into the 2nd trimester and things are going great! We had our first trimester screening test yesterday which screened for our chances of a Down's or Trisomy baby. Before the test my chances were 1 in 99 for a Down's based on my age - and my chances for a Trisomy were 1 in 1,000. After the test (the Doctor has to measure the fat on the back of the baby's neck, compare it with my age and blood sample and the numbers are now a 1 in 300 chance for Down's and a 1 in 3,000 chance for Trisomy. She said it wasn't a guarantee but it looked normal to her. My pregnancy age went from 40 to 35 after the tests...so that was good!

The worst part was when you're a thick girl it's hard to get that ultrasound through the fat enough to see the baby so they have to push REALLY hard.....it still hurts today, but the mortifying part is that I had to reach down, grab my belly and LIFT it up so the Dr. could put the ultrasound under it. This test was an hour long and I had to hold my belly up forever!! The whole time I kept thinking - I am NEVER doing this again - this belly has to go away. Mike, however, sweet man that he is offered to hold the belly (it seems to be it's own entity) when my arms got tired. Super sweet .... and never gonna happen...but thanks honey!

12 weeks!!

I don't have much to say except tpday we have officially made it to 12 weeks!!!! We have our first OBGYN appointment on Friday so I'll update everyone then....but until then. 12 Weeks! 12 Weeks! 12 Weeks!

11 weeks and counting!

Well, we are officially only 1 weeks away from getting into that 2nd trimester. it's been a crazy ride. I'm still so anxious about everything. Even though things are going really well and we've had nothing but good news - I have had so many friends in the last few months lost their babies much later into their 2nd trimester and it really scares me. I don't think we'll be out of the woods until I'm in labor and that baby is screaming in my arms.
Yesterday right before our 11 week ultrasound my boss told me that a co-worker who had been trying to get pregnant as long as I had and was finally there and 18 weeks along had lost her baby over the weekend. A few months ago another co-worker lost twins at 16 weeks. I guess you just have to take the pregnancy in stride and hope to make it through until that baby can survive on it's own outside the womb.
Yesterday was our last appointment at the fertility clinic - we have now officially graduated to a regular OB who we will see on the 30th.
Yesterday Mom and Mike both got to join me at the ultrasound and I was hoping they would see that baby moving around but it was so asleep (but that heart was going strong!) the doctor even tried to wake it up but it was not having any of that.
Here's the latest picture....it's starting to look like an actual baby now! when I told the Dr. about my anxiety over still losing this baby she said she understood and it was natural because of my past experiences so she told me to make up that I had bad cramps and ask for an ultrasound every couple of weeks to watch the progress. We'll see how far my mind can go without freaking out before I resort to that.
The baby is now 45mm long and is measuring at 11 weeks and 5 days even though I was only 11 weeks.....a big baby!

The Gender Predictor Prediction

I bought this test two pregnancies ago but never made it past 10 weeks to take it. Well, on Tuesday we will be at 11 weeks so we took the test today. This consisted of peeing in a cup and then transferring it to another cup with some powder in the bottom. We had to swirl it around for ten seconds and then wait for 10 minutes. If it stayed yellow/orange it's a girl light green to dark green a boy. Well ours quickly turned to the darkest green as you can see. Which they say is boy!! However, this test is only 80% accurate - and the high heart rate suggests a girl....so who really knows! We don't have the gender ultrasound until March 5th.

The dancing one

I don't have a scanner at home so I had to wait until this morning - but here is the picture of the baby from yesterday's ultrasound.
Look at that big head full of brains I'm sure ;)
No longer a shrimp! We have another ultrasound next Tuesday. This Saturday I'm going to take the pee gender test and we'll see what it says. Most signs are pointing towards a girl right now so who knows!