22 Weeks!

Today marks a really important date in my pregnancy, the magic 22 weeks. At this point if something were to go wrong James would be viable outside of the womb (did I mention we are naming the baby James Martin?). It would be far from ideal if our little guy decided to make an appearance this early but it is somewhat comforting to know that if he did there is at least a possibility with some serious medical intervention he'd be okay. So needless to say we've been waiting for this magic date for, I don't know, say the 18 weeks I've known I was pregnant!

In other news we got a TON OF STUFF from some wonderful friends of ours (thanks Jim and Inge-Marie). We have a great crib to setup, a huge amount of clothing, a jumperoo and some other miscellaneous items. We are so excited to be well on our way to being ready (as ready as one can be I guess) for this little guy!

I promise to post pictures soon...

WE'RE HAVING A BOY!!

I'm sorry it's taken me many days to post this exciting news but we've been so insanely busy. My ultrasound was changed from 9/5 to 8/29 which was soooo exciting. Rob, mom and I packed into the little ultrasound room at the OB's office and it was AMAZING to see. We got to see cute little fingers, the brain, arm and leg bones, kidneys and a really awesome view of the baby's spine (I know it sounds so bizarre but the spine really was so cool to see). All of those things were very easy to see and it only took about 5 minutes to get nice pictures of them all, and then the big question...is it a boy or a girl? Sadly our little man was butt out and not moving much. The poor woman doing the ultrasound patiently tried to get some movement, shifted where she was looking and took lots of pictures to occupy our time. Then my question came "when is the next ultrasound if you can't tell the gender today" and she replied "there isn't one." To which I nearly lost it, this baby is as stubborn as me already! Anyway, she asked if I could do some Yoga-like move and poof perfect view that we are having a little boy! Mom and I headed right out to Baby Gap where she got the cutest outfits for her first grandchild and off to Mimi Maternity where she got me some wonderful pregnancy clothes. I will post pictures of Baby Boncoddo's first present soon!

18 week appointment...check!

So Rob and I headed off to the OB this morning and were happy to find out all is well. The baby's heart-rate was 162 and the baby is now sitting in a much more normal and more comfortable place than near my intestines which I am very thankful for. We scheduled our next ultrasound appointment for Friday September 5th so hopefully in just over 2 weeks we will know if we are having a boy or a girl...woohoo!

Still sleepy!

What a weekend (I know it's wednesday already, good lord). Rob and I headed up to the Cape on Friday for my cousin Patrice's wedding Saturday morning. We met up with Big Mike and my mother for some great seafood right on the beach Friday night but called it an early night so we could get up early to head to the wedding. Saturday morning we got stuck in crazy traffic trying to get to the wedding but luckily the ceremony started late so we made it. They got married right on the beach at this very cute little inn, it was a great day. Sadly Rob and I had to leave less than an hour after the ceremony to start the drive to North Providence, RI for our college friend Laura's wedding. We made it in time for that wedding, had a few hours between the wedding and the reception to relax and then it was off to a 5 hour reception! She planned her reception so well, there was a dance off, gags during the garter toss and lots of other little details you know she put tons of hours of work into! It was nice seeing the old UCONN gang and it was the first time everyone had a chance to see my now growing belly. Sunday we got up, went out for breakfast, headed to a PawSox game, and then finally got home a little after 5pm! I passed out for 2 hours as soon as we got home, Rob made me some pasta for dinner, and then back to sleep I went. I had to get up early Monday morning to head to New Haven for a stats workshop (with J.). It has been an insane last few days and we are really looking forward to Rob taking a few days off next week so we can start on the nursery!

Thanks about all for now!

No news is good news =)

Not too much to report on lately. I had to change my OB appointment because it was scheduled for Friday but Rob and I will be on our way to Cape Cod for wedding #1 and then quickly heading down to RI for wedding #2 the same day! The appointment is now scheduled for August 18th and hopefully then we'll schedule the anatomy scan (which is when we should be able to find out if we are having a boy or a girl!). I am officially into the 2nd trimester which comes with it the allowance for *some* caffeine which is nice. Hopefully we'll have some pictures of my growing belly and us from this weekend to post next week.

Long awaited 2nd ultrasound pictures!

So here is our little guy (or little girl). Looks far more like a baby now, which is very exciting (at least it does for me although I have looked at many an ultrasound picture and just smiled because it looked like a lot of nothing to me!).

Edit: I know that a good portion of the right pictures is cut off but I don't know how to fix it. If you double click on the picture it'll open it up in a separate and much larger window!

Sorry for the delay!

It has been a pretty uneventful month as far as the baby is concerned. My belly is starting to get a little bigger even though I've lost about 10 pounds since the start of the pregnancy. Yesterday we went to Hartford Hospital for a whole bunch of tests including the genetic tests for Downs Syndrome and Cystic Fibrosis and the ultrasound that goes with the blood work. We got to see the baby actually look like a baby for the first time which was AMAZING! I'll post the ultrasound pictures as soon as Rob scans them in so you can see how human like the baby is now compared to the first ultrasound. Sadly, we are still going to have to wait at least a few more weeks to find out whether the baby is a boy or a girl.

I have another appointment at my OB's office on Friday. I'll let you know if anything exciting happens there.