Hyrum has started to joke that the sign is getting to be too small to cover my butt. Thanks babe. Maybe I need a bigger sign.
My latest prenatal appt was yesterday, and I am now measuring about 2 weeks ahead. Does that mean anything? No idea, I doubt it. If I'm like Hyrum's family though, this will be one big baby (we welcome new nephew baby Amos, coming in at 10 pounds!).
Breaking for a story about my appt that doesn't relate to me at all- There was a lady that was in the waiting room with us that, by the looks of her belly size, I assumed was a lot further along than me. Turns out she's 25 weeks and found out while I was there that she's having twins. Her second set. And apparently at her last birth, she was sitting on the couch at home talking to the midwife and not in labor at all, and suddenly jumped off the couch with a contraction and had baby A 10 minutes later. TEN MINUTES. Pure luck that the midwife was doing a home visit that day, that hour. Oh, and she was full term and they were both 8 1/2 pounds. Wow.
Back to me and DB, but maybe I should have saved that story for the end of my post because now nothing is going to be so exciting. Oh well. Yesterday was the first anyone has heard our little one's heart beat! We are not using a doppler, so they haven't been able to hear it with the fetascope until now. Hyrum gave it a shot but couldn't make it out (they said it was really quiet still and my placenta was really loud). It's measuring in the 140s, so that means we're having a girl right? Right? I know that's a really reliable way to tell what you're having.
It also seems that this baby is a little extrovert. Or he's gone into a deep depression from missing Liam and Evan so much. Starting the day after my last day of work, I was hardly feeling him move at all. After weeks of feeling that thumping and rolling all day long, I would feel maybe one or two kicks each day, but it was so little and so faint I was back to questioning if I was really feeling it or if it was my imagination. After about 4 days of this I was starting to freak out. So on wednesday, it hit me that this started when I stopped working, and maybe it had something to do with the noise level. It's a LOT quieter around here without a screeching 4 month old and an independent toddler that doesn't understand inside voices. So that morning I started singing and talking to the baby. Literally, I spent 30 minutes straight singing songs and since no one but Milo is here to hear me, I didn't really care. Finally, I started singing one that was my favorite song for my dad to sing to me when I was little. Kelli and I called it "The dead bird song." Lovely, I know, but really it was this. By the time I got to the second verse, DB was kicking like crazy and hasn't really stopped since then. I was so relieved I got teary eyed (and if you know me really well, you know I don't cry much). So it seems that DB likes that dead bird song too! And since it's almost 7 am, I'm going to try to go back to bed. I hope I'm successful.
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Fun! Finally, some posts :). It looks like you popped out between 21 and 22 weeks (unless you had just eaten something or I'm seeing things). Crazy story about those twins, wow! I wonder how fast these next ones will come! And I know we have plenty of time to do all the guessing stuff, but at some point we need a post where we all guess sex and birthday, etc. Glad DB loves music! If you get teary eyed while pregnant I probably won't be able to leave the house. Maybe you should just have all my babies...
I love the dead bird song story. You and Kelli were such calm babies in-utero (how do you spell or say that?)that. I used to be nervous all the time for the lack of movement. You DID pop between 21 and 22 weeks. You are definitely getting a belly. Cute belly. Can't wait to see you in real life.
Cool belly pics! I'm still WAY bigger than you. I'll try to get a pick up soon. I'm seriously jealous of all your free time for the next 4 months. I can't even wrap my head around all the things I need to do in the next 3 months PLUS I have 2 kids (and one of them is rather needy). It's just not fair:)
Maybe we felt calm to you because we were kicking each other instead. Or maybe we just didn't have enough room.
oh brie, you are have just the cutest belly! claire's heart rate was always about 140. but my friend's girl was always about 165. so i guess you just never know. i can't BELIEVE that lady's story!!! that is NUTS!! amazing amazing! i guess she was made to have kids, huh! good luck and keep up the post and most of all photos! this is so much fun to see you go through all of this!
You have an adorable belly!!! And you know, you could still have another little bean in there hiding too ;o) Glad you are feeling good, I too am jealous of all your time off ;o) though compared to what kristin has to do in the next 3 months, my life seems like a cake walk...sorry kristin!
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