Baby Update

I haven't posted much, if any, updates or news about baby #2. Most likely, this is because of the troubles we went through last October and we are both hesitant about getting our hopes up. I just saw a picture of a mom who gave birth to a beautiful baby boy and I said to myself, "Wow, that baby is normal, it CAN happen. I CAN have a healthy pregnancy from this point on and deliver a healthy baby". My husband and I are just a bit skeptical that that can happen to us again, after having a healthy daughter 3.5 years ago. But, babies are born healthy every day, right?

Here's some pictures of our little one growing:

Can you see the head there on the far left, with it's hands together above the nose?

Here's a little foot picture.

Everything at my ultrasound was good -- all the measurements were right on track and the baby was moving around a bit, although I couldn't feel it. I feel the baby off and on, nothing consistent yet.

And in case you were wondering, NO, we didn't find out the sex of the baby and we won't find out until it's born -- early March. People are shocked beyond belief that we don't want to find out the sex of the baby, "don't you want to plan?", "Don't you want to know so you know what to buy?", "doesn't your daughter want to know?"

No, no, and no.

A baby is a baby, they have uni-sexual needs when they are born. Boys may need a little more care in the genital area, but a baby is a baby. A baby needs clothes, food, a place to sleep and lots of love -- no matter if it's a girl or a boy. We have unisex clothes from when my daughter was born -- we didn't find out with her either, so we're covered for the first month. My daughter doesn't want to know, because we haven't told her there was an option of finding out the sex. She thinks it's a girl, but she also thinks there's a girl baby in her tummy...so, I'm not relying on her intuition at this point!

I asked my doctor how many of his patients usually DON'T find out the sex of the baby. (he too was a bit shocked that I didn't want to find out). He said "very low, probably less than 5%". LESS THAN 5% of pregnant women DON'T find out the sex of the baby!! That shocked me!

I guess my husband and I are of the philosophy of that there are not many surprises in life. Yes we are having a baby, that's not a surprise, but after 40 weeks of aches, pains, growing, eating, heartburn, hip joints coming out of whack, not sleeping well, irritability, tiredness, moodiness, restlessness and worrying there's a little something waiting for us that we don't even know about yet -- that makes it all worth while.

(****DISCLAIMER: for those of you reading this who haven't had children yet, please know that the above list of 'nuances' of being pregnant are far less than the list of wonderful things about being pregnant, including: eating whatever you want, sleeping LOTS, not having to clean the cat's litter box, not having to carry laundry down the stairs, extra help around the house, people oogling over your growing belly, gaining weight and not really caring what your body looks like, thicker/fuller hair and finger nails, feeling the baby move inside you and knowing that you are the only one feeling that and connecting in such a way: PRICELESS)