I'm 32 weeks now, and I finally have an obvious baby belly. I bought a couple sun dresses to wear so my belly will show a bit more. This one is floor length and actually has bright flowers up to about mid-calf, but they didn't get in the picture. Me and a fat cat. Look at how much snow we still have, even though it's April! It's a very nice day, though. Notice the grill? Michael grilled some chicken for our Easter dinner. I should have taken a picture of Michael, but I didn't think about it at the time. This is what the temperature has been like for the past week or so. Our snow won't last too much longer. Come on Spring!
So I had Michael take some pictures about a week after my last post. He took them with his camera, though, which only downloads to his computer. Unfortunately, his computer crashed before we could transfer the pictures to my computer. Then we just never got around to taking more pictures. We just today finally took some pictures.
For comparison's sake, the first picture is when I am seven weeks pregnant, and the second is today, at 28 weeks. I'm in my third trimester!
I had an ultrasound on the 18th, and we found out the baby is a girl! She wasn't wanting to cooperate with the ultrasound tech, though, and didn't want to roll over to let us see anything. One time when the lady moved her thing(don't know what it's called) down to look for little girl or boy parts, baby had a hand down between her legs. As for a name, we're pretty much settled on Hadassah Ruth.
I also am starting to round out, finally, and am gaining weight. I'll get Michael to take some pictures of me soon, and I'll post them.
I went to the doctor today for a checkup. He brought in the ultrasound machine and I got to see my baby! Baby was dancing and moving all over, so the doctor couldn't pick up the sound of the heartbeat very well, but he said it was around 170. He gave me two pictures from the ultra sound to take home. The second one is sort of fuzzy, but the first one has a clear profile of baby. It was so amazing to watch baby moving around inside my womb.
Well, we should probably update people on how the adoption process is going...
At the moment, it is postponed. One reason is that I recently updated my reading list. The book I'm reading is What to Expect when You're Expecting. Yes. I'm pregnant! The adoption has to be put on hold until the baby is six months old. This baby is definitely a deployment baby, (appearing nine months after a person gets back from deployment). I found out I was pregnant on 2 Oct. At the time the Dr. estimated I was about five weeks. I'm about eight weeks now. Michael and I are very excited and are looking forward to this baby.
