With so much going on the time has flown by and this week marked the long awaited halfway point in our pregnancy. At our official 20 week mark, we finally went public and revealed our pregnancy to friends, family and facebook.
E and I had been anticipating this moment since we got our positive, had planned out the announcement photo and carefully selected the perfect pair of tiny vans. We probably looked at over a hundred pairs before we found these Crayola rainbow checkers on eBay and immediately fell in love. With so much planning and anticipation you'd think that the announcement would be full of excitement but I have to admit, it was more nerve-wrecking than anything. Going public can't be taken back, it makes everything so real that we sat there with our finger hovering over the post button for a good few minutes before we could bring ourselves to click.
The main condition for going public with this little bean was a clean bill of health via the anatomy scan. We had ours the morning of our 20 week prenatal appointment on Monday and little bean was anything but cooperative. They wiggled and turned and made it nearly impossible for the tech to take all the necessary measurements, so much so that our scan ran over almost 35-45 minutes. We ended up late for our prenatal appointment and with several people ahead of us to see the midwife, E was almost late to work. The tech of course couldn't tell me anything about the baby at the actual scan, but we got an email a couple days later giving us the all clear and my prenatal appointment with our midwife went really well too.
As of 20 weeks I am DOWN a pound in weight, don't ask me how that happened since I had Bob's Big Boy with a chocolate malt the day before, normal blood pressure and my urine was all clear for protein and glucose. Baby is growing right on time, they measured a few days ahead again, and their sex matches their chromosomes from our PGD/PGS testing. The one bummer thus far is that I still can't feel the baby move. I thought for sure I'd be feeling some kicks or little flutters but unless I'm mistaking them for something else, baby's acrobatics are still a mystery.
Hopefully in the next few days I'll have good house news to share too. It's been a beast but we're so close to having a place that's really ours to bring baby home to, a place for them to take their first steps and mark their height on the door frame. We're almost there!
