i feel like this poor baby is already getting the short end of the stick. i haven’t taken photos of my expanding waist line (which is expanding!!); i haven’t blogged every day with updates on what the tummy dweller is doing; i haven’t started the buying frenzy (which will surely come with time). in short, i have been living my normal life, but as a pregnant person.
i try not to feel guilty about this. after all, my lack of doing all of this is, in part, due to the fact that, this time around, i have different ideas about what is important and what isn’t. this baby is loved. so loved! already. i guess i don’t need to blog and photograph and record and be obsessive and etc etc in order to show that. right?
in any event, here is a quick snippet of tummy-dweller updates for you. i started feeling this little one kicking around at about 15 weeks of pregnancy. Early! – much earlier than I did with Lillian for sure. i also started to “show” much earlier this time around (which, i hear, is normal). we have started to kick around names, but haven’t decided on anything. and, we might just keep the name a secret this time around. we will not, however, be keeping the gender a secret this time. in fact, i will find out this week whether this baby is a girl or a boy. i just couldn’t wait this time around. i need to know!!! (no, i don’t have any “feeling” about what it is yet). what else? with this pregnancy, we did have the first trimester screening done. we did not have this done with lillian. you will be pleased to hear that the tummy dweller passed this test with flying colors (they say its not a “test” – but, whatever – A+ to the tummy dweller).
i will, i am sure, give you more updates in the future. but, that will be it for now.
oh, i must say that lillian is obsessed with the ultrasound and doppler process at the doctor’s office. she always lies down and asks that we put “jelly” on her belly. of course, we don’t. she then proceeds to rub things across her belly to simulate the ultrasound process. pretty funny.
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