16 Week Update

Thank you all for the sweet emails, cards, and even more gifts!! We are so blessed and the little one hasn't even arrived yet!!  I am so amazed by the development that goes on unless you are conscience of it.  Chip was just asking me last night if the baby can hear us yet?  To my surprise, I learned today that the hearing is just developing!   "It" also has eyebrows, eyelashes, blood vessels, and is about 5 inches long!!

I hope you'll get a kick out of the pictures below!  Trysta gave us our first pack of diapers!!  Wow, that made things become more real!!  Thanks Trys.  My friend Mary gave us the cute bear with the stork charm!  I love it!



Look for another post soon.  We have our 17 week appointment next week, then the count down to Chip's birthday begins!!!  That's when we'll find out if we are having a girl or a boy!

15 weeks along!

It's been an exciting week since we spread the news to the Baber's in Cartersville, VA.  I have enjoyed calling, emailing, FBing, and seeing extended family and friends to share the news.  We continue to do so today and the weeks to come!  Thank you for being apart of this with us and thank you for all the love and support!  I received my first baby card (thank you Roy Family) in the mail and my first gift!  The gift was the book titled:  Baby 411.  I love it!!  It has so much useful information Chip even picked it up and thumbed through the first night/s we've had it!  Thank you Hallberg Family!  Its reassuring to have many friends to experience this with (2 due in June and 4 due in July, not including me)! I continue to fit into my regular clothes, though I am trying to push the belly out in the "belly" picture hoping I gained a couple of pounds! Our next appointment is February 3rd.  I'll post some pictures of us "growing" in the meantime!

Our Family

Spreading the news!!

We are so thankful for the good report last week from the doctors!  The baby is very healthy!  We drove to Chip's parents January 8th and gave them the wonderful news!!  We arrived Friday night and not 5 minutes went by before Chip had them open a "late" Christmas present (the picture/poem).  They were very excited with tears in their eyes!!  We passed on the news to Chip's siblings that night by phone and visited his grandparents, Bumble B and Popa B, the very next morning!  They will be the baby's great-grandparents!!

Fourth prenatal appointment

I am 13wks1day along today, January 4, 2010! I was very excited for this appointment with the specialist to have another ultrasound because I had been worried of the "normal" discomfort I was experiencing. As you can see the pictures turned out fantastic!! Check out that prominent "Baber" nose!! The doctor said everything looks terrific! I was just so thankful to see it jumping around on the screen that all that I was feeling the weeks before left my mind! The baby started out belly down in the first couple pictures. The nurse jiggled around a bit on my abdomen to try to get the baby to turn so she could see and measure things accurately. Even though I went to the restroom before the exam she asked me to go again to help the baby corporate with what she needed. It worked!!! The baby turned over to its back as well as from left to right! Wow!! Its a good thing I can't feel anything yet!! Heart rate 160 and it is 6.82 cm long!!

The 13wk2day January 6th ob-gyn appointment went very well too!! Heart rate went down to 151 in two days! I haven't gained a pound yet and am still in my regular clothes!! I am still feeling great!! Fatigue has subsided, though I limit myself to 1-2 outings per day. I have been approved to go to the gym to swim, take classes geared toward women that are expecting, walk on the treadmill, use elliptical machine at low impact, and the stationary bike. Can't wait to head there this week!