And the beat goes on...

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

For those of you who have been following along, today was my 2nd ultrasound to make sure that everything is going ok. All is good! fffeeewww! That is a huge relief. I guess we kind of knew everything would be ok going into today because I haven't had any problems in over a week. Scott's summer camp got canceled today due to the rain and he came along with us to the doctor's office. Unfortunatly he couldn't actually come in with us for the ultrasound because they were doing an internal one, a little too graphic for a 10 year old boy, I think. He was, however, the first to see the new pictures, besides Ian and myself. The baby is so incredibly small!!! We saw the heartbeat but were unable to actually hear it because it was just too small. The cursor that the doctor puts over the heart beat to get the sound was bigger than the actual beat we could see so you really couldn't hear anything. We should be able to hear it in the next one, you could definatly see it though!
The pictures really don't look like anything. You can see the sack and everything but the baby is just a pole. It looks like a little blinking piece of rice. Ian and I were very excited to see our little bean though. It was awesome to actually see something this time. The sack size has more than tripled just since last Tuesday when I was there. It's amazing to see how fast it grew. You can imagine what the 1st pictures looked like if this one is 3 time bigger. The first picture was really nothing but a black circle, like an m&m in there. Now you can actually see the little bean. Ian took the pictures to work right after the appointment but when he gets home tonight I'll scan them and add them to the site.
Have any of you mom's out there heard of this Lipil pill by Enfamil? They have coupons and free samples at my doctor's so I've started taking it along with my prenatal vitamin. It's supposed to promote brain and eye development, and you take it through-out your pregnancy and while breast feeding. The problem is that it seems really expensive. It cost $11 at WalMart and it's only a 30 day supply. Isn't that a bit much? I'm not really sure. I know I bought my prenatal vitamins in like April for about 8 bucks and I'm still on the same bottle!

Oh Yeah I almost forgot! My approximate due date has been changed! Judging by the size of the baby the doctor now thinks it will be February 20th instead of the 14th. Plus, she thinks she may have over calculated the actual size of the baby, since it's very hard to measure when it's this small, so when I go again on the 8th it will probably change again...we're getting closer and closer to March! We'll see what happens, I'll keep everyone updated I'm sure.

Kari daydreamed @ 4:09 PM
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