First things first, I am perfectly healthy. Second, the baby is perfectly healthy, actually a little ahead I do believe. Third my plan this month was to write a book, and well I started and I reached about 5,000 words in a span of two weeks and I knew that while I could defiantly write this book no problem I would not finish in the time I had wanted or that was required for "winning" NaNoWriMo, where the goal is write 50,000 words in the month of November. I think the main reason for that is because this is not the kind of thing that I normally write. This was and is geared toward an adult reader, and the whole conflict in the story is going to be in my main characters head. It has great potential but it's something that is going to take a long time to write and right now I'm worried about one thing or another so it's hard to focus.
My last OB appointment was the 7th, we heard the heart beat on the Doppler it was strong at 170 bpm. I had been terrified that we wouldn't find the heartbeat, and that I had lost the baby but hadn't started to miscarry yet. You know all the typical fears of an expectant mother who had lost babies to miscarriage and stillbirth. While we were there my doctor gave us the referral to get the NT scan at the hospital. And I scheduled it for the following Friday, the 16th.
The NT scan, as far as I know, went well. We got to see out little one, I have a few pictures that I'll put here at the end. We asked how big the baby was and the tech said "about 3 and 3/4 inches." of course the measurement is head to butt but that's a little big for be only being 12 weeks and 6 days at the time. We also got a gender guess, we asked if she could tell us and she said that she was 70% sure of the gender she told us. We're not telling anyone the gender tell the anatomy scan, we don't want people to get something gender specific and then the baby to be the other gender. Also my hubby's mother wants our baby to be a little girl so bad, as she had only boys. I don't want her to be disappointed if we say "girl" and it's really a boy, though she would really happy if we said "boy" and it was really a girl.
On the Job front, because I'm sure you all remember that neither my hubby or I have a job at the moment. Hubby should be getting a job in January if not before, I'm really excited for January now, we will finally be able to by something for this baby. And pay off bills that have piled up and get insurance on the car again. You know all that important stuff that you have to have money to do.
But any way hear are some pictures of our baby.
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| Face, this is our favorite picture. |
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| Legs! The left leg on the left and the right leg on the right. |
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| Profile! you can see the nose, legs and an arm. |
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| Hand, the right I think. |
