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March 26, 2003
3-26-03
Hi everyone. I'll start off with the more exciting news. Today I had my 12 week ultrasound and it was nice to know that we have a living, kicking baby inside me. Although it was hard to see anything other than where the head was and the spine, it was nice to know that things are progressing on track. She (hopeful thinking) measured right on scale with the 12 week old date. The heart beat with about 156. I had a physical and the doctor spent about an hour at least over all asking and answering questions. The best news of all is that since I had a level 2 U/S with G she decided to write me up for another one for this one. I can't say how much we enjoyed that ultrasound with G. It was so detailed and when we saw he was a boy, it brought tears to our eyes.
DH and I always opt out of doing any blood tests to determine the probability of any problems. We decided that with such a high false negative rates and the risks some tests can pose, we'd rather not worry about something that might not even exist. And if there is something, the level 2 U/S would show it. For example, my SIL's friend lost a baby after an amnio (tests showed a high probability for something, amnio proved healthy) and another person I know went in for an U/S and they found the baby had no brain. In the latter case, the baby was aborted because it has no chance of living. It would be hard to do it but with no chance, why continue a pregnancy knowing? If our baby has downs, we'll see it in the U/S and prepare for it and love it like any other child.
I have a sister who has two children with birth defects and that's how I got the level 2 the first time. My one nephew has a cleft lip and pallet and my niece has a chromosomal deficiency.
I have continued bouts of sickness. I have throw up 5 times. Come have it so much worse than I do so I don't want to complain much because I know it could be worse. It should get better in the next two weeks. So, I'm hoping.
The other good news is that I've lost 7 pounds. Yeah!
As far as G goes, he's a cute as ever. I took him to get his curls cut off over the weekend. He still looks like a baby but he's such a young man now. He has learned not to jump on my belly or kick me and when accidents do happen he'll say he's sorry. He's such a polite child. He knows "sorry," "thank you," "your welcome," "please." The other day he begged to watch a video. We told him no, that it's mommy and daddy's turn to watch something (the war news) and he stood in front of the tv oh so pitifully and said "peeas?" It was so cute.
We went to lunch with my parents over the weekend and my dad is pretty old and sick and he lives in a nursing home. So, we went to one of his favorite sandwich places. We were all eating in a booth and dad started to say something. We couldn't hear what he was saying and G looked at him and said "no papa." I guess he didn't think papa was allowed to talk. The next day my parents came to our house for lunch and my mom told my dad that his soup was hot. When G saw dad start to eat it, he yelled "hot, papa, hot." Because of my dad's illness we kind of treat him like a child and I think G has picked up on that. My dad has lost about 40 lbs in since last fall and we all believe he'll pass in the next year. Dad's quality of life is so bad that it would be a blessing.
That brings me to baby names...I knew exactly what I wanted with my first child, this time, it's very tough. Although Ron has mixed feelings about it, I've decided if my dad does pass, I'd like to name a boy Howard and call him Howie. My dad's name is william howard. Mom thinks it sounds jewish. Why do mom's always have to tell you what they think - who cares. For girls names we don't want anything trendy but maybe not so off the wall either. Some of the names we've come up with are Jeanine, Suzanne, Alice. Nothing has a ring to our ear yet and we know the right name with prevail.
The other day I was thinking about it and I know this sounds weird but when I say a name, a certain color appears in my head and I noticed that I like purple names like Frank, Steven, George. For girls names, I don't particularly like yellow names although Suzanne and Alice are. I don't like brown names for men and and orange names for women. How odd is that? For girls names, light purple or blue are OK.
Anne
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