IT'S A BOY!!!
pictures to follow

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KCH

By far my favorite of Evy. Totally captures her personality. Tie-dye tongue and all.

I promise! This wasn't posed. She's really just that perfect! Simple but Perfect!!

20 weeks

So i was reading today on a baby website that not only were other mommies to be feeling the flutters and kicks of the baby, but they where also able to lay on the back or side and press against their bellies and feel the baby puch back....Yeah, I'll be trying that TONIGHT!

In the mean time here are some pictures of our biggest babies...The Girls.

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KCH

This last one is of the baby's hand.

Baby Pictures

This one is of the legs. They are stretched out straight with the toes pointing up. Looks like it is for sure taking after Mion in the long leg department.

Baby Pictures

This one is a picture of the baby's profile close up. You can really see the features of the face.

Baby Pictures

Here's a picture from our recent ER trip. This picture shows the baby's profile. You can also see the little knees and legs

18 weeks 3 days

Just checking in to let you all know that we are doing really well! I haven't had any more pain for the last couple of days and that is a huge relief.

We had another appointment w/ Dr. Parker last Friday and everything went really well. My nurse did a Doppler to hear the baby's heartbeat and it was back up to 156 (it had fallen a little bit while we were in the ER, I'm pretty sure that was due to the morphine). Dr. Parker is very pleased with everything so far. I have only gained 1.5 pounds! WOOHOO! But I can feel the changes happening in my belly.

We are scheduled for an u/s on the 27th to determine the gender! I say Boy. Mion says Girl. Only time will tell.

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KCH +1

Discomforts of Pregnancy...

So yesterday on my lunch hour I had some pretty severe abdominal pain that actually caused me not to be able to walk or stand up straight. After a minute or so the pain eased up and so I loaded up and headed back to work, only to have the pain happen again in the parking lot of the bank. After crawling for a few feet, Afton, one of the tellers came upon me and went inside to get some help. After causing a huge scene on the curb of the bank Laila took me to the emergency room. Joe Thompson, our teller Operations Manager followed us in his car just to make sure everything worked out okay. They checked me in and wheeled me back to my room. After the drew blood, set up the Foley catheter, hit me with a dose of morphine for the pain, Mion arrived. With the help of the morphine, things where a lot less intense by now, and I was a lot less scared. I knew that I would be just fine but I was horrible scared for the baby.

We had an a very in depth u/s that lasted for about an hour. We got to see absolutely every aspect of our little guy....No we didn't find out the sex - Boo. Our u/s tech measured every single thing in order to make sure that the baby was developing and not under any stress. The most interesting thing was that we found out that the according to the babies development we are at 17 weeks 2 days. That's one week further along than we thought. 6 ounces, 143 bpm, perfect.

In the end we where discharged with the heading "Discomforts of Pregnancy", Mion and I say more like the Death Throws of Pregnancy...but that's just semantics. We are home now and under doctors orders for lots of rest and fluid.

Baby is great, I'm doing better.
XO!
KCH

P.S. I have some great pictures from the u/s I will be posting tomorrow.

Pictures

Here is a picture from our first u/s. This u/s was at 6 weeks and considering our history was just to make sure everything was going well. We got an A+. (Note: The baby/embryo was 2.2 centimeters long then)