Xan and I are so excited. We found out back in January but only told a few friends and family. But now it's been 3 months and so it's time for the world to know!!
Xan is doing wonderfully and has only had a small bit of nausea and discomfort. She's just beginning to show (although she'll tell you she has felt huge for a long time) and looks adorable. People are definitely correct when they say pregnant women have a "glow" about them. Xan's got it!! (No, I'm definitely not biased.)
It's obviously much too soon for knowing the sex of the baby (another debate we have to settle by the way) and so we've taken to calling our bundle of joy "Little Buddy" after our friend Michelle that we refer to as "buddy".
We have a few additional screen shots from the first Ultrasound DVD on our Picasa site (link here) but it's pretty tough to grab and they are a bit grainy still. But let me just say that was probably the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life. We had just heard the heartbeat on Tuesday and then had the first ultrasound on Wednesday. I couldn't think anything would have beaten how I felt on Tuesday after hearing that heartbeat but I was wrong.
I'm sure that the wonderful technician who did the ultrasound has seen it a thousand times, but we didn't care. We were like little kids on Christmas morning watching the monitor as she pointed out Little Buddy's arms and legs and then even the heartbeat. We could see the heart beating in there and then she was even able to measure it with the machine and confirmed that it was a good strong heart beat.
Our due date is October 9th and everything seems well on track. Xan is excited that she'll be able to wear cute maternity dresses during the summer, but I'm still knowing that the "damn humidity" will rear it's ugly head during the summer and make things "interesting" for me and the dogs. But that's fine with me. Whatever I gotta do to help out and get to my baby.
Stay tuned to the blog for more updates soon!!
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-Kent
