So freaking fast. These past few weeks have been FLYING BY SO FAST I can’t even believe it! Life other than ‘baby life’ has been pretty busy so it makes sense that it’s flying by but I can’t believe it — that means this baby will be here before we even know it!

At 25 weeks we got another ultrasound done. Baby S wasn’t cooperating at the 20 week ultrasound but he/she cooperated this time! We got to see a 3D image of the heart; probably one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen! Technology is amazing! They said they can detect like 85% of heart defects with those ultrasounds. Obviously they can’t detect everything, but they can see so much with those scans. Everything looks great which makes us both breathe a sigh of relief!

And can you believe that this was our ‘little embryo that could’ 23 weeks ago? ~~~~~>
Yep, one of those little puffs of air that was holding our embryo to its new ‘womb sweet womb.’ And now — that little embie has a button nose, eyes, lips, arms, legs, brain, heart pumping…etc etc. WOW. Just so much amazing-ness I can’t even wrap my mind around it. This truly is what miracles are made of!

I can’t even begin to describe how blessed this little baby already is.

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My mom and sister threw me an amazing shower in Colorado. It was Dr. Suess themed from its head to its toe! So many cute sayings, poems, food, games, the list goes on and on. I am still in shock with how full of joy my heart is from all our friends and family who came and gave so much love to Baby S. It was so surreal. I had always thought about our baby shower, but at times didn’t know if we’d actually have one. When you go through infertility these are things that cross your mind — it’s not a bad thing, just part of the reality of infertility. I was almost in a haze the whole time feeling like I needed to pinch myself. This is real. This is happening. We are having a baby! (and pretty soon!!) We know how many people have hoped and prayed for this for us for so long and we can’t even begin to describe how much we appreciate the love and support for everyone! (ok, prego hormones are getting to the best of me now).

 

 

Oh and check out my Halloween costume: “Magic 8 Ball” baby can answer any question you have (expect if it’s a boy or a girl) haha!

 

 

I think my belly is shrinking. That’s what I told my friend Allison, which she kindly responded while looking down at my belly (and probably thinking this girl is crazy) “no it’s not, it’s growing!” And it definitely is (as you can see from the pics)! It is weird though…sometimes I feel like it gets smaller, especially if I’m not as hungry as usual. Probably just me being worried, which I’ve learned is a common trait between pregnant women and parents. I guess the worrying just never ends! But that’s ok with me– I’m so excited to have a little love muffin to worry about!!

Still can’t believe we’re at 24 weeks!! That means there’s only 16 weeks left until we meet our little miss or mister. Speaking of which, what do you think it is? I keep going back and forth but lately have been feeling girl. When I first got pregnant I thought boy. Laryen thinks boy and then thinks girl. But we both go back and forth. It’s fun to hear everybody’s reasons as to what they think it is and why. We did do some old wives tales gender things the other day:

– heartbeat (145-150) : girl

– morning sickness/nausea (felt like crap until about 18/19 weeks): girl

– ring on a string (spun in a circle): girl

– Chinese gender chart: girl

– moody vs mellow (mellow): boy

– cravings (both sweet and salty): guess that means I’m just prego! 🙂

So….I guess the tests reveal that it’s still a 50/50 chance on what we’re having! It’s still a fun game to play! And we’re still really happy with our decision to wait and find out when the baby decides to make its debut! There are a couple tough things with it though: it’s VERY hard to find clothes. Our baby is just going to live in white onesies for its first couple of weeks of life which is fine because it’ll be pooping and spitting up left and right anyways. But you can’t really get organized in the clothing department beforehand. And also you can’t really decide on a name. We have a handful of boy names we like and a handful of girl names we like – then I guess when it’s here we’ll just narrow it down to one. But that just means indecisive people like myself keep adding more names to the list which Laryen just doesn’t understand, lol.