At about 22 seconds in, look ~11 o’clock. You can see my blue shirt jump out. The baby will kick a few more times in that same spot.
(Sorry you have to mostly watch the heaving of my big tummy while I breathe – it’s hard to hold my breath these days!)
Oh, and I was thinking on my drive in to work today “hmmm, the baby is quiet this morning” and then I started playing Amy Winehouse and now the baby hasn’t stopped moving for an hour. Either Arlo hates or loves Amy Winehouse!
Oh.
My.
GOD.
This baby of mine in my tummy is doing some Olympic gymnastics or something and it is KILLING me. It doesn’t hurt but it is way annoying! Doesn’t s/he know that this is quiet time in our house? It isn’t “play quiet” (ie, the code word for roughhousing back when I was little) time.
The baby is 21w3d today and we have our next doctor’s appointment tomorrow morning! Time is going really fast overall but it seems as though each day slowly crawls along. At my last appointment, the Great Dr B told me I could have another big ultrasound …
Rick felt Baby Arlo move today!!
Holy fast – I can’t believe we are 20 weeks already – and since pregnancy is 40 weeks, that means that we are halfway through this pregnancy. And since Mallory was a week late, today we are 20.5-ish weeks along, I really am halfway through :-) We have our next appointment next Tuesday – stay tuned for that update.
Here are my 20-week belly pictures and the belly progress pictures!
I don’t know for sure that I had the most horrible heartburn ever last night. But I was rolling around in bed moaning & crying from 11p-2a, feeling like I was going to throw up in my mouth. And then I threw up in the toilet for the next five hours. Good times.
The doctor’s diagnosis over the phone is that I have a bug unrelated to pregnancy and heartburn. Blah. What does she know.
Either way, I spent today on the couch and Mallory still went to daycare (even though she told me she wanted to stay home with me on …
So the cuteness of the week comes in the form of an almost-2-year-old, blond, curly haired, sweet little cutie named Mallory.
I was sitting in the chair at Rick’s work yesterday, and Mallory came over and lifted up my shirt, and pulled down the big over-the-belly panel of my maternity pants to reveal my growing tummy.
She said “Hi baby Arlo!” and proceeded to place her cheek on my belly. Then she stood back and then leaned in and gave my belly button a kiss.
After that, she pulled up my elastic waist, and pulled down my shirt, only to repeat the process …
So the cuteness of the week comes in the form of an almost-2-year-old, blond, curly haired, sweet little cutie named Mallory.
I was sitting in the chair at Rick’s work yesterday, and Mallory came over and lifted up my shirt, and pulled down the big over-the-belly panel of my maternity pants to reveal my growing tummy.
She said “Hi baby Arlo!” and proceeded to place her cheek on my belly. Then she stood back and then leaned in and gave my belly button a kiss.
After that, she pulled up my elastic waist, and pulled down my shirt, only to repeat the process …
Here are the scans from Monday’s ultrasound.
The face, front on; top of head is to the left, sort of tilted down. You can make out the eye sockets.
this is a foot
Side view of the head & torso. You can see the profile of the face, plus the white dotted line is the spine or ribs and then dark circle in the middle (towards the top of the torso) is the heart!
more feet.
Hard to believe it was time already, but we had our “big” ultrasound yesterday.
My favorite doctor, Dr B, actually did my ultrasound. Because she is doing a fellowship, she isn’t supposed to be actually seeing patients but it seems as though she is keeping up with me from behind the scenes and is looking out for me, which makes me happy!
Anyway, on to important stuff – the baby was SUPER active and according to the doctor, has BEAUTIFUL scapulas. I don’t remember our big scan with Mallory being this thorough so it was sort of interesting to see all the …
Here are the 16+ week belly pictures. In my 12w pictures I was wearing a non-maternity top, so that is why my belly is showing. But now I am exclusively in maternity clothes, with the exception of my baggy t-shirts & sweats. The bump is growing!