Week 11 - Thanksgiving

We are so ecstatic about Thanksgiving coming up!!  Our friends Karen, Dirk and my brother Manuel will be the first ones to arrive today here in a few hours, followed later by Ruth, Todd, Darlene, Andrew, Enrique, Felecia, and my in-laws.  Thomas and I have been getting the house ready and trying to organize our cooking plans for Thursday.

We have short days at work today so we can go home and start cooking whatever we can ahead of time.  Thomas got the turkeys ready last night, he will fry two of them for dinner.

The baby is doing excellent, no complaints from mom :)  By this week, all the organs are in place.  She will start the growing phase now.  From now to 20 weeks she will increase her weight by 30% and up to triple her length.  Some sites say that she is already kicking and moving her arms, but of course they are too small for me to feel.

By the way, according to most predictions and wife tales we are having a boy ;)  Who knows I guess.  A healthy baby is all we really ask for.

I have got the same advice from quite a few friends:  walk every day.  My friends who did this had a labor of about 5 or 6 hours total and that sounds good to me!  A few friends and I work out pretty regularly as it is, so I'll just have to make sure to take Reese out for a jog on those days where I don't.

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Week 10 - Not many changes

Week 10... time is flying by!  Almost done with the first trimester.  Being pregnant has been really easy for me so far.  Some days, I even forget when I wake up because life has not really changed for me other than maybe not going out so much and the bathroom thing :)  Thank God I have had no morning sickness at all and I really haven't gained that much weight so things are pretty much the way they were before the baby.  I got some maternity clothes but mine still fit.  Some mood swings but I don't think anything out of the ordinary, Thomas may think differently however he, he, he.

I'm not that tired anymore, this weekend we got around lots of projects with fewer naps in between.  We are getting ready for the visits in Thanksgiving and we are really excited about the holidays.  Ruth, Andrew, Todd, Manuel, Karen, Dirk, my in-laws, Enrique, and Felecia will come over for Thanksgiving.  I'm dieing to see my little nephew, it's been too long, like 3 weeks!

So what's the baby up to this week?  Sofia John (I'm even starting to like that name) is a fetus now.  Measuring at around 2.5 cm (1 inch), the size of a prune (ciruela pasa).  All the vital organs are formed and they will start working.  The teeth buds and eyelids are developing further.  Fingers and toes are being finalized, including nails and some peach fuzz hair.  The baby's limbs can bend and we should be able to see the bone structure clearly in the next ultrasound, which is on December 8th.  One amazing fact I read is that the brain development has really kicked in gear now, and every minute about 250,000 brain cells are produced... wow!

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First Picture

We had our first doctor's visit yesterday and we got to see our baby for the first time.  It was beyond great!  I can't even explain how special it was.  Sofia John (as we call her right now :), to cover both he he) is very healthy and has a strong heartbeat.

We were right on the money, the baby is now 8 weeks and 4 days so we are well into week 9.  The due date is June 19, right on time for father's day next year so Thomas could not be happier.  It's 1.9 centimetres long (3/4 of an inch) .

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Cravings are wonderful!

Specially when you get exactly what you want!

I have to give kudos to Thomas for the awesome meal last night!  I told him over messenger that I was craving those crab ravioli we had in Rome and little did I know, he took off work early to make them from scratch!!

This kiddo does not wait, when I feel hungry, I feel almost like she's pulling on the umbilical cord he, he, he.  Because by the way, I now refer to the baby as 'she' and Thomas refers to it as "he"... we'll see who's right he,he ;)

So thanks Thomas, you really are making this pregnancy easy going :)

Week 8 and the flu!

This past week was pretty rough.  I got the flu and had to stay home for a couple of days.  Every muscle in my body ached, I thought I had just played too much with Andrew last weekend but after a friend called, she thought it sounded like the flu and said I should go get swab tested.  So I did and it came out positive.  They gave me a couple of days off work and some medication.  I stayed home but didn't take anything, it did not seem all that safe for the baby being this small.  So I just slept it off.  By Thursday I was still feeling pretty bad but had to go into work for a few hours.  Friday same thing, and I had to give a presentation to the City that afternoon.  In the evening, Thomas and I helped out with Scary tales on the trail for the children in Victoria.  And then went home.  We missed a few Halloween parties for the first time in many years but oh well :)

This is another busy week for the baby, this week it will measure up to half an inch, about the size of a lima bean (haba en espannol).  The baby is developing fingers and toes now.  I have a doctor's appointment next week so hopefully they will do an ultrasound and I can see her/him for the first time :)




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